Have you ever examined timber floorboards and pondered why they look the way they do? Perhaps you admired the super-fine grain, a stunning red hue or a swirling knot, and wondered how it came to be?

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The Secret Life of Trees (w.t.) has been commissioned by Channel 5 from Voltage TV and GroupM Motion Entertainment. The 3×60-minute series is filmed over a year and examines how trees communicate and ...

Trees in mind: simple questions with complicated answers -- Keeping track -- How trees became -- Wood -- Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- ...