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NOVA: First Flower (2007) | Index |
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| 3:00 | Sun Ge >100-million year old fossil in Beipiao, China | 5:00 | David Dilcher University of Florida | 7:00 | Yin Kaipu, Dan Hinkley, Hengduan Mountains |
| 10:00 | Lilium lophophorum | 10:40 | Edelweiss | 12:00 | Tibetan Slipper Orchid |
| 16:00 | Archaefructus in Jurassic rock | 17:30 | Flowers all about sex | 19:00 | pollen tube -> seeds in fruit |
| 21:50 | Mandrake | 24:00 | British plant explorer Ernest H. Wilson | 25:00 | Regal Lily |
| 28:30 | Gentian collected by Darwin (Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew): "abominable mystery" how flowering plants evolved fully formed. | 31:30 | Else Marie Friis (Swedish Museum of Natural History) Archaefructus adapted to live in water | 33:00 | Ancient flowers in sediments; 150 million years old |
| 34:30 | PETER CRANE (University of Chicago) | 36:00 | Leo Hickey (Yale University) studies leave veins | 37:40 | Pollen grains under electron microscope in Cretaceuous (134 MYA). |
| 39:00 | Archaefructus dated to 124 MYA by C dating | 41:00 | > 500 species of Rhododendron in China: smaller leaves adapted to high altitude | 43:30 | DNA anaylsis (Doug and Pam Soltis of the University of Florida) |
| 46:30 | MARK CHASE: Lotus related to Londom Plane | 47:00 | ANDREW DARRAGH (Horticulturist, Kew Gardens) | 47:45 | Amborella at bottom of the family tree of living flowering plants, found in New Caledonia |
 10:00 Lilium lophophorum |
 10:40 Edelweiss |
 12:00 Tibetan Slipper Orchid |
 16:00 Archaefructus |
 21:50 Mandrake |
 25:00 Regal Lily |
 47:45 Amborella |
| Index | Oct 11, 2010 |  Peter Chen |