Hello Friends

Can someone please tell me some of the adaptations of plants that grow in the shade (excluding the parasitic ones).

I remember long ago watching a Sir David Attenborough Documentary on Plants, and he showed us a shade plant that had Red colour for the underside of its leaves. It was a very small plant (not woody) and had wide leaves.

Anyways, I would greatly appreciate some information on these, I did try Google (obviously) .. but none of the Google sites mentioned that Red for the underside of the leaves !! Yet I distinctly remember the Documentary saying that the red colour underneath helped absorbed more of the light ! or something along those lines.

Thank You.

carotenoids
Some plants use these photosynthetic pigments, some of which are red in colour, to supplement the photosynthesis they get from the green pigment chlorophyll which is the most common photosynthetic pigment used in plants.
I guess that David Attenborough Documentary on Plants would have been explaining this. I am sure that I will have watched it but can't remember this sequence.