Leaf it to Us

By Leaf it to UsScience Life Sciences

Leaf it to Us episodes

July 10, 2025 Episode 7 - How do Plants Scream Without a Mouth?
Plants do not have mouths, but that doesn’t stop them from expressing themselves! This episode, Nora and Aly touch on the topic of plant communication and explore how plants signal distress.
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Read Roald Dahl's 'The Sound Machine'
https://fleurmach.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/rdahl_screamingtrees.pdf
Listen to a distressed plant:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhm-www/discover/plants-emit-sound-when-stressed/Sound-of-plant-under-stress.mp3
Our theme song is “Late Bloomer” by Devours. Find more from Devours at https://devours.bandcamp.com/
39 min
June 26, 2025 Episode 6 - Jurassic Salad
What if you traveled back in time to the Jurassic Period … and got hungry? Could you make a meal with the plants available at the time? This episode, Nora and Aly do some speculative cooking to see what they might include in a Jurassic Salad.
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36 min
June 12, 2025 Episode 5 - Plants and Fire
Since they first moved onto land, plants have had to adapt to world full of fire, and not only do they survive, they thrive! This episode, Nora and Aly explore how plants persist despite being some of the most flammable things around.
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45 min
May 29, 2025 Episode 4 – Brassica!
Did you know that dozens of our favorite vegetables are all the same species? How did that happen? This episode, Nora and Aly explore the science and history of Brassica.
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45 min
May 15, 2025 Episode 3 – What’s Inside a Pinecone?
Aly sent Nora a CT-scan of a pinecone, and it blew Nora’s mind so much that she had to get Aly on the podcast to explain what exactly is going on in there.
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Our theme song is “Late Bloomer” by Devours. Find more from Devours at https://devours.bandcamp.com/
44 min
May 01, 2025 Episode 2 - Houseplants vs Housepets
Why are so many of our favorite houseplants so dangerous to our pets? Nora and Aly investigate the antagonism between plants and animals and share some of their favorite stories of plants vs pets.
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Our theme song is “Late Bloomer” by Devours. Find more from Devours at https://devours.bandcamp.com/
43 min
May 01, 2025 Before We Leaf, Episode 1
After each episode of Leaf it to Us, we record a bonus discussion where Nora, Aly, and David chat some more about plants and podcasting.
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Our theme song is “Late Bloomer” by Devours. Find more from Devours at https://devours.bandcamp.com/
31 min
May 01, 2025 Episode 1 - Sex-Changing Plants
Nora brings along some surprising news about trees that spontaneously changed sex, and Aly explains how plant sex works and what makes a tree suddenly swap from male to female.
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33 min