Natural World: The Queen of Trees

Series 24, episode 3

Ian Holm narrates the extraordinary story of the African sycamore fig tree and its symbiotic relationship with a tiny insect partner, the fig wasp. Neither could exist without the other, and in turn they support hundreds of other animals from ants to elephants. Each fig is a world in miniature - a stage for birth, sex and death as the tiny players battle against predators and parasites.