Lenticular clouds form over mountains and look so much like flying saucers that they are often mistaken for UFOs.

Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times every second.

The strangler fig germinates in the canopy and sends roots down — eventually enveloping and killing the host tree.

Bioluminescent forests — trees glowing in the dark — have been filmed in Brazil using extremely sensitive cameras.

A single lightning bolt contains about one billion joules of energy but lasts only a fraction of a second.

The baobab tree can store up to 120,000 liters of water in its trunk to survive droughts.

The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 sent a wave of molasses through Boston streets.

Some plants like the telegraph plant move their leaves visibly in response to light — observable without time-lapse.

Some trees can communicate with each other using underground fungal networks.