Don't Touch This Plant

This plant is so invasive that it's illegal to plant it in the UK.
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Exploring the World of Plants and Fungi.
#Floralogic

[@moonmist9366]

There´s two types of people in the world: those who think plants are boring and those who know better.

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Yeah

[@Joe_Potts]

Hell yea!

[@batcat2338]

Yep, agree

[@StarryVoidDust]

Botany and what the shit 🌱

[@peika8324]

Every living thing is interesting if you research hard enough.

[@ProjectPhysX]

Even in Germany, these plants are everywhere. As children we played a lot with the explosive seeds. They are even edible.

[@klug_d]

Even in Austria 😁😋

[@daleop8rdkecko67]

I'm also German I loved to play with these to

[@edi9892]

I only saw them like a decade ago, though Europe has its own version since times immemorial.

[@kopiokaw1410]

Can i get the seed posted to me?

[@Bootysmoothie]

We usually call them jewel weed since they grow everywhere with much running water and it's quite wet in Michigan

[@elram2649]

My grandma had this plant in her garden and it was awesome to experience the bursting pods in person as a kid! 👌

[@marthabamang2910]

I'm from northeast India , State Arunachal Pradesh , here in our locality we name it parrot flower . They grow in river side and small stream 😊 it's very commonly seen everywhere . So we count it as wild plants .

[@drlogeshwarandrlogeshwaran5389]

🤝 👍

[@KhanindraDutta]

We grew up playing with these plants. Here in North East India, we consider this plant as a weed. These plants are available in abundance all around my area.

[@xixizizi6970]

Samee

[@krissyfabz5867]

Send seeds pls. Purple, pink and orange ones..

[@oishd6077]

Assam?

[@lordatum8139]

@@oishd6077 😀

[@mirishrataabid]

In Kashmir as well.

[@abysscallstoabyss55]

We have yellow and orange here. We always called them Touch-me-not or Jewel Weed. Never really seen it as a pest, though. Excellent for bees and butterflies. It has medicinal benefits, too. We have always crushed the stalks and leaves to rub on poison ivy to soothe and eliminate the rash or hive.

[@carolvandale5597]

Thank you for your positive feedback on this beautiful plant. Mother earth must like it too ... to fill vacuums of barrenness/lack WE allow!

[@jeffklaubo3168]

THOSE plants are native to North America. They are not a pest. Play away! My dad has them all through his property.

[@user-eh2jk6mf9s]

I once played with these in grandma's garden. I loved popping the seeds without knowing it is invasive. I got so addicted to popping it that I often didn't have the patience to wait and ruined many pods by squashing them. In a few years it was exterminated because I didn't let the seeds mature enough and often crushed them before they could do so. A few also popped up in front of aunt's apartment. Needless to say, it was also exterminated in 2 years by the kids popping its seeds before they mature.

[@caroswolf286]

That plant's plan backfired because of kids, heh.

[@user-eh2jk6mf9s]

@@caroswolf286 You'd be surprised how many plans can be ruined by meddling kids😏😉

[@krat5576]

I remember a smaller, broader leafed version of this with little yellow flowers ( I think) in the Netherlands. Those were fun aswell. I was told about the balsam but never conciously encountered it.

[@edwardtu79themixedcontentc56]

The yellow-flowered variety is called yellow jewelweed, which is native to Canada and the USA.

[@splintmeow4723]

I love nature’s engineering. It gets so creative.

[@daylinhesford3116]

Ikr

[@jesusmartinez5964]

Won't hurt if you gives our creator some credit 😉👍🏼

[@florencegonzales5917]

@@jesusmartinez5964 jesus stop with the self promotion 😔✌️

[@Salah.Ad-Din]

@@florencegonzales5917 -"Nonbinary"? ✔️ -Foaming anti-thiest? ✔️ -Name that means 'flower'? ✔️ -Sass? ✔️ Yup, I found the zealous nihilistic self-hating atheist.

[@florencegonzales5917]

@@Salah.Ad-Din oh i'm actually religious, it's just a funny play on words since his name was literally jesus. it's funny to think that jesus would be promoting his own religion in a youtube comment section 😂 but the casual transphobia ? ummm yikes. not it bestie

[@alaskawashington]

I really want to see a video explaining the physics behind the exploding seed pods!! I’m so curious about the transfer of kinetic energy and how the plant has developed that system!

[@ruvedita8412]

I GUESS that its like stretched elastic band. It contracts when touched slightly.

[@ilashah8159]

@@ruvedita8412 [[9

[@chaitraliparab9764]

I think it has something to do with turgidity and osmotic pressure.

[@michaelknapp677]

Smarter every day already made one

[@1.4142]

Traditionally, scientists thought that explosive seed pods used tension built passively by differential contraction of the pod walls as they dried. However, it still works with hydrated cells. The actual mechanism, as the 2016 article "Morphomechanical Innovation Drives Explosive Seed Dispersal" found, is that the outer layer of the pod walls uses their internal pressure in order to contract and generate tension. The cell walls in the seed pod are made of lignin, which is rigid but contains groves that act like hinges of a door, allowing it to open. At maturity, the wall of the seed pod wants to coil along its length to release tension, but it has a curved cross-section preventing this. This is similar to how a slap bracelet works. When the cells in the seed pod are pressurized, they expand in depth while contracting in Iength; like the way an air mattress expands in depth, when infIated, but contracts in width. When the seed pod is physically disturbed, the cross-section of the seed pod wall flattens, causing sudden mechanical failure of the structure and explosive coiling.

[@thealeks1]

These used to be on the front lawn of an abandoned house on the way to my elementary school. So, me and my unsuspecting sister ran into what looked like grass and totally got exploded on. I was fascinated and my sister was terrified as she has pollen allergies

[@katetoolate234]

Aww, I have always LOVED popping those seed pods, though! So conflicted to hear they're actually an invasive species!

[@heh2k]

All species are "invasive" and their territories will expand as possible. It's a nonsense term used for species humans find inconvenient (often introduced by other people).

[@Forever_Rayne]

Mom grew a variety of balsams and as a kid, I loved touching the seeds and watch them burst. She only has one variety now and it scatters its seed everywhere, growing in other flower pots and choking those plants. I'm the one who usually pull them out, because Mom likes the flowers.

[@huldu]

It's like the mother of thousands plant, which actually lives up to its name lol. The little sprouts end up *everywhere*.

[@BrendenWhitelaw]

@@huldu yep my grandma has them and she just won't ever get rid of them, they killed off all of her Aloe.

[@tasyarosenna88]

Wait you guys call it balsam? Its herb or..? As a kid i thought this is just random explosives seed weeds.

[@illusion9766]

@@tasyarosenna88 It is the wild variety. There is another cultivar which is ornamental and has round seeds.

[@artastic_friend]

Damn I remember seeing plants like these in some parks in Poland, they were always so fun to explode the seed pods 😅 I was a part of the problem 😔

[@daylinhesford3116]

Lmao you helped them spread

[@BigDictator5335]

There are 1,000 species in this genus and they live all over the world, so it's more likely you were helping a native Impatiens species.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

It's kind of like dandelions seem to cry "Blow me!"

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

They would've exploded either way eventually, so you didn't do too much harm lol

[@1922BluePhoenix]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@klangklang5249]

There's a native (to the US) impatien relative that looks fairly similar, but it's orange ☺️ it's called Jewelweed. Personally, I think it's prettier 😁

[@thisisachannel.9727]

I have flowers similar to this, but the seed explosions are a lot less aggressive. They come in white, pink, and purple in my yard, but they grow really fast and quick like the flowers in the video. But I love them, I once dropped a few seeds in my rocks, and they grew like wildfire! They didn't come back, but I'm excited to replant them again this year!

[@dailyhoms5223]

Yes, I have too. In indonesia we called them king kong. Because the flower look like a king kong.

[@lauriepenner350]

The winters here in Canada take care of most invasives. But I found that in Australia, saying "That's a pretty flower" will usually get the response "Oh, those are invasive. We hate them."

[@Joe_Potts]

If it's not tryin to kill ya it's not australian

[@thecallankids4718]

@@Joe_Potts This implies that the Australians are secretly used to everything trying to kill them, and bothered by the plants not because they are invasive, but because they are not dangerous and out competing more dangerous plants. Perhaps Australia is actually, like, the pro league human survival server, and the real reason it's so dangerous is the people are actively eliminating organisms that aren't dangerous enough.

[@bb_lou]

@@thecallankids4718 so you saying Australia is just a Rust server

[@christiandanielcaballero1896]

@@bb_lou Lol

[@sabine3769]

They grow wild all over Ontario

[@Alopex1]

"Don't pop the seed pods to stop the plant spreading" -> proceed to pop 40+ pods for this video :-P I think the makers had too much fun popping them to resist :D

[@ooooneeee]

This species has several non invasive relatives that basically have the same seed pods, so they might have popped those.

[@pastelito33]

They might have done under controlled conditions.

[@Shared-Experiences]

Do it for the video

[@JoeGambitz]

haha

[@rafaelmoro9114]

The pods don't need touch to explode. I already had balsaminas.

[@deaconfetundes7888]

I remember having fun playing with the explosive seed a long time ago when I was a kid, I love how it explodes in touch and played these things like were in a war. Time sure flies

[@endeeray4295]

Theres also a type of clover that has tiny upright okra shaped seed pods about 1/2 an inch tall, when ripe and touched they fire off the tiny seeds like a mini machine gun. Its normally a weed in gardens and empty lots, sandy ish areas and usually overlooked by most people. They sure are fun!!

[@alexcarter8807]

And tasty, too!

[@mysterious7215]

@@alexcarter8807 yess

[@endeeray4295]

@@alexcarter8807 you'll need a LOT for a decent meal though, . Like a few hundred maybe?

[@bigboss-tl2xr]

It's actually an Oxalis. I have a cool maroon strain I found in the woods a few years ago, also comes in yellow.

[@lindawolffkashmir2768]

Sour dock, or sour clover. These were always fun.

[@MilnaAlen]

Interesting! I remember a plant recognition app recognized a plant in a forest near me as Himalayan Balsam. It had the same leaves, no flowers or seed pods at that time though. Didn't know it was an exploder like that.

[@LevineLawrence]

Hey, which is that plant recognition app?

[@Okoye1964]

@@LevineLawrence I have one, I haven't used it yet but it's called Yuka.

[@anothercomment3451]

an APP? I prefer books ... and actually Learn more, about more things, at the same time. :)

[@MilnaAlen]

@@anothercomment3451 My visual recognition and memory is abysmal, I did barely pass my species recognition exams (I'm a biology major). Neuroscience and biochemistry are my strengths lol.

[@7hrax]

@@anothercomment3451 you read a book while I point my camera at a plant and instantly get a full description about the plant

[@idraote]

when I hear about a species used to wipe out another species I always fear the worst: once the other species is wiped out the first species goes amock and kills everything else.

[@babyitsnatural]

and over the course of time that single species will naturally differentiate itself depending on climate and enviornment so you'll eventually have a diverse population again as far as geological time is concernred

[@moyetlicious]

There are multiple types of rust diseases affecting native British plants and non-native ornamental species, off the top of my head pretty much every plant family I can think of has a rust which prefers to attack them... so I think introducing another to the mix is likely to be low risk considering the problems created by simply leaving the plant to spread uncontrolled.

[@daylinhesford3116]

Humans basically

[@Salah.Ad-Din]

Can you English please?

[@sissyrayself7508]

Of course that has supposedly already happened on earth over the millenia time after time after time..survical of the fittest.

[@kirtsden]

Always knew it as “poor man’s orchid” was always a favorite at my great grandmothers farm. Somehow she kept it pretty contained.

[@keeperofkeys310]

When I was a tiny human, I went camping with my family. We came across this huge meadow filled with these flowers, and I loved popping them! But I never figured out what the flower was, until now! Thank you!

[@alexlex3913]

In Indonesia, we also have flower seeds that explode when exposed to water, the name is kencana ungu flower the Latin name Reulilia Turosa.

[@viralbos9370]

Or pacar banyu

[@GranRey-0]

Aha! My grandma loves her Himalayan Balsams...She says they're pretty easy to take out of her garden after they've germinated. So long as she keeps them semi-deadheaded and thinned out they're not very bad, but she keeps some of them around because the bees love them! As far as I know they're only in her garden in Ladner. We'll have to cull them if she passes, so they don't go wild, as they won't have anyone to control them.

[@killertruth186]

Imagine if someone brought up Farcry 5 quote out of context.

[@jimlassiter749]

I have seen these along a walking path near the seacoast science center in Rye NH a few year back. I also got me hands on quite a few Jimson weed seeds (i didn't know what they were at the time, just a cool looking plant) from a plant growing out of the sand close to the ocean waters edge.

[@ferdinandpangan6494]

These? The cultivated Touch-me-not Balsam is very much cultivated here in the Philippines, especially in the countrysides. They come in a wide range of colors and after the old plants die out you almost never need to reseed them, since the seeds they explode practically sprout a week after. . . .and yes. They spread quickly.

[@ealpaugh3461]

Can you get me some seeds lol I like colors and nectar

[@studymail5946]

Lol. Never knew it was invasive in other continents. Loved playing this plant during my childhood.

[@pandit-jee-bihar]

There are a lot of plants like these with varying degrees of seed explosion. We used to put these seeds inside our mouth until it exploded and we felt that shock. We explore more unusual things in childhood.

[@sophroniel]

I kept replaying and replaying the slow mos of the seed exploding. It's mesmerising!! It turns into these little curls, blasting the black seeds everywhere.... nature is so amazing!!!

[@hannersg8850]

Would you be able to do a video on Scotch Broom? It also has exploding seed pods and is a highly-invasive species. Keep up the good work with your awesome vids!

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

Who knew Pokemon moves had some accuracy?

[@Nazoto]

They do show how accurate the moves are

[@lobo5187]

Here in Brazil there's a plant with similar seeds! It's called Maria sem vergonha (which would be something like Shameless-Mary). Also, their flowers are edible and they taste sour/sweet. Love them :))

[@AreLp13]

Yess!! I used to play with the explosive seeds from this plant

[@BakingRecipesManisha]

I had this plant at my parents place, I used to touch it and loved to see the seeds explode. I was about 7 years old. Now I'm 34 years married woman. I'm extremely inspired by plants and I grew lots of edible plants and trees in my yards.

[@Keyboardje]

Years ago my neighbour planted these in his garden, noticed how they spread and had them removed within a year, but in the meantime it had invaded my garden and all his other neighbour's, without us knowing what it was or where it came from. It jumped over fences, meters far in our gardens. I'm disabled and can't work as much in the garden as I would like, so I'm still pulling them out now, years after, and almost feel like it's a lost battle as they come up EVERYWHERE, also in places in deep shadow where I normally never have to come, so they grow unnoticed, untill they spread into the actual garden again... If only *one* comes up, it has so much seed, it starts all over again... and again... :(

[@amypieterse4127]

Not gonna lie, as a kid I loved going around and watching them pop. It was fun.

[@robgraham5697]

Thanks for the info. I hadn't realized these were an invasive species, or how much damage they were doing.

[@Xalitis]

This plant grows in semi-shady wet meadows or on the banks. It can be eaten in small quantities, the flowers smell of honey and you can make meth from them. In this video, people are mocking something they don't know anything about. Its not invasive when its growing only in specific conditions.

[@wm-fm1ts]

We have a very similar relative to this that grows native around my house - _Impatiens capensis_ - its seed pods seem to be a bit smaller than this species', but they explode in the same way! Hummingbirds love the bright orange flowers!

[@kimronprotimphukan7359]

Nostalgia... How much we used to play with this popping seeds of Himalayan Balsam . Known as Demdeuka(As it flies off) in Assamese(Assam, India)

[@jessicablackman4866]

If you haven't already done an episode on them, I'd be very interested in learning about poison ivy or kudzu.

[@priscilladunn2448]

My boyfriend is originally from SC and he said kudzu is everywhere there. We live in Ohio and I had never heard of it until he told me about it. Well I guess he was in the woods the other day and said that he saw some out there, he said "damn how the hell did it make it up here?!"

[@Ramsita619]

Hhhh

[@XSemperIdem5]

Oh, definitely an episode on kudzu.

[@derherrvonhabenichts7462]

Kudzu leaves and roots are edible - so chow down!

[@MrGrombie]

The orchid tree also has seed pods that explode, has medicinal properties, and SUPER pretty purple flowers when in bloom, that take the tree over in color. The seeds can shoot like 20’ easy the seeds lol

[@sushmas1112]

Yes played with these during childhood..its still facinating!

[@skylarfinch4393]

I think it's worth pointing out that there are native impatiens/ jewelweed plants in North America. Pale jewelweed and spotted jewelweed are native to the Midwest.

[@DelorienAz]

My backyard (in Canada) has lots of these in the summer, and they are pretty, but thankfully they don't root very deeply and you can pull them out really easily. Not too hard to keep under control.

[@beneckersley17]

Thank you for this video. I've seen lots of these plants where I work and I've been wondering what they are. It also makes me feel better about the fact that alot of them were removed recently.

[@stevebrucken1944]

Your video was very informative thank you for the information, too many nurseries do not give the downside of invasive plants there needs to be something done about it

[@wolfnerd4984]

I have a weed with a similar seed distribution strategy where I am. It’s a lot smaller and it doesn’t make flowers. The seed pods are arranged in a ladder pole pattern

[@puretestosterone2373]

Great episode! In my back garden we have a small version of them they have smaller white seeds though and are more like small plants not shrubs

[@sarahluchies1076]

We have the smaller ones where I grew up. I never knew what they were called, so I nicknamed them "seed-spitters". We have neither variety where I live now, but we do have many other invasive species.

[@yishaqdavid2029]

I just picked my habeneros today. I live in Canada and usually have a huge awesome garden but I was in a hit and run and got ran over last year. Crushed my femur to dust. I couldnt garden this year let alone walk so I grew a Habenro plant on window ledge with some Aloe and some vines. Im going to make hot sauce. I had no idea how much water pepper plants take. I have never had to water a plant as much as a hebenro. I mean it would droop and then id water it and bam its back baby. I had to water 5x more than my normal house plants. IMakes sense its growing fruit and they are very juicy. It only takes one spring and summer to destroy a garden. Its gone now. Its filled with so much weed. Those huge purple ones with burdocks on them.Next year ill have to rent tiny baackhoe and just tear it out and buy some redclay and topsoil.

[@tamarrajames3590]

I would love to know more about the plant Devil’s Claw. I saw it in an herb store, and understand it is used for Arthritis. Thanks, you do a great job.🖤🇨🇦

[@RJkansaraMohit]

Hello ma'am

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@RJkansaraMohit Hello back at you, I hope all is well.🖤🇨🇦

[@mochirmoboic594]

What part of Canada are you from?

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@mochirmoboic594 I’m from British Columbia…but I live in Toronto Ontario for many years now.🖤🇨🇦

[@alexcarter8807]

Devil's claw grows out in the Western plains like Colorado. You can eat the green ones.

[@joshuaa9513]

My great grandma used to have a lot of these around her house. As kids we would walk around popping all the seed pods. Super fun.

[@pmc2999]

This plant grew in patches all over my aunt's land. Beautiful flowers and so much fun to touch and watch them explode when I was a child. Didn't know they weren't native.

[@jaulrojas23]

Here in Costa Rica we have a similar seed-shooting plant called China and the pods are called "Chanchitos" and they are huuuge (don't know if it's related to the Balsam tho).

[@yishaqdavid2029]

Really they are called China? Or are you making a joke thats flying over my head?

[@dc5v529]

@@yishaqdavid2029 😂

[@drakesacrum8445]

@@yishaqdavid2029 probably the flower is not really called that way. At least in latinoamerica is normal that plants and animals have a nickname in some country 'cause of a joke I suppose, maybe the flower is Chinese or resemble something Chinese and' cause of that is China or it resembles the orange fruit 'cause in spanish 'china' is the way that is named in various countries of latinoamerica.

[@Joe_Potts]

@@drakesacrum8445 language is really weird at times

[@rodrigopirolo3839]

The same in South Brazil

[@tsirahxuan_R]

I dare Floral Logic to talk about Durian.. the tree and the fruit. How bizarre it is, even tigers seem to enjoy eating them.

[@thursoberwick1948]

But they also stink to high heaven. I know people eat them, but they have a reputation for being smelly.

[@OverlordShamala]

In my collection of carnivorous plants, there's a little plant that never grow beyond three inches tall with little heart shape leaves, in clusters of 3 leaves per petiole. They make long little seed pods, after they flower. But when I touch them, the pods explode! Never thought much about it other then I find them curious. They don't readily grow on my pots but some managed to flower & seed, so never thought of them as pest in my experience.

[@kylewaite6290]

Jewelweed is are native version of this in the US. Very similar but the flowers are orange.

[@08Sutapa]

Wow.. finally after 4 decades of my existence, I get to know the name of the plant I regularly played with during my childhood. I never got to learn it's name then, no one knew. There was no mention of it in my Biology books either. They would pop n make a child happy 😊

[@troyclayton]

I've always loved playing with our native orange species, Impatiens capensis (Jewel Weed). No need to feel guilty for tossing ripe seed pods at your friends. My daughter and I just popped a few on a walk on Sunday. edit: Though it may be noxious outside it's home range. I guess it's an Impatiens thing..

[@triceratops2653]

You’re super rad! I love your show!

[@asrafulhaque605]

Thanks for sharing such a beautiful video

[@Zoalde]

I love Tasha's whole energy lol

[@TashatheAmazon]

🥰

[@cloudstrife532220]

Kudzu needs to be the October Floralogic, it like a horror movie.

[@ElizabethDickinsonJournalist]

We really like the slow motion seed explosions. Maybe you can do an episode about all the plants that shoot their seeds !

[@DrakenSchwert]

In a tiny town in CT USA my gramma's house hugged the woods and lining the edge of her property was tons of jewel weed (spotted touch-me-nots) and all of us kids through 3 generations would gently touch all the pods and squeal when they pop.

[@magpiemagus]

I'd love to see a video on puffball mushrooms- their spore dispersal is a sight to see!

[@roderickwarjri1063]

OMG this brings back so many childhood memories when we used to burst these plants.

[@Katya-zj7ni]

Love your delivery 😂, I adore Nature in all her whimsical glory ❤️

[@LeendertCordemans]

We have a lot in the forest here. I love them. Very beautiful plant and flower.

[@kreechrr]

I had no idea how many fast plants there are and yet here we are

[@bobcharlie7982]

Weirdly i love the smell of this plant. Reminds me of being a kid, in the summer we used to jump off bridges to cool down. We were fearless. 20ft drops!

[@michaelmikes6574]

Touch me nots are one of my favorite plants, it has amazing properties that I've always used the yellow milk from stems on Warts and skin defects, a week of applying 3 times daily and Gone like magic!

[@christopherleubner6633]

One with a orange flower and likes wet lands is called Jewel weed. Has explosive pods too, but they can be used to make a remedy for poison ivy and mosquitoes bites.

[@mysonsadventures2001]

Tashas music is too dope as well! Real talent🙏🏿

[@TashatheAmazon]

🙏😘

[@queenieburgers50]

I have Impatiens capensis growing in my yard, I use it for my skin and eat the seeds once in a while. Spent a great amount of time pulling them up, only for chickweed to take over the area. We have too many invasives, it's overwhelming.

[@ARCtroNerd]

I loved these plants, they come in so many colors.... As kids me and my friends used it's leaves+other ingredients to color our palms for fun, like Mehendi/Henna. It gives an orangish tint. I think my grandma said that it had some medicinal properties... Was too busy playing, don't know the details haha

[@53NT1N3L__M]

I remember when I was younger in Bamberg Germany and there was plants like this in the woods. Some actually hurt when they explode.

[@1.4142]

Traditionally, scientists thought that explosive seed pods used tension built passively by differential contraction of the pod walls as they dried. However, it still works with hydrated cells. The actual mechanism, as the 2016 article "Morphomechanical Innovation Drives Explosive Seed Dispersal" found, is that the outer layer of the pod walls uses their internal pressure in order to contract and generate tension. The cell walls in the seed pod are made of lignin, which is rigid but contains groves that act like hinges of a door, allowing it to open. At maturity, the wall of the seed pod wants to coil along its length to release tension, but it has a curved cross-section preventing this. This is similar to how a slap bracelet works. When the cells in the seed pod are pressurized, they expand in depth while contracting in Iength; like the way an air mattress expands in depth, when infIated, but contracts in width. This flattens the cross-section of the seed pod wall, causing sudden mechanical failure of the structure and explosive coiling.

[@teenapittman4241]

Perfectly understandable with the slap bracelet and swim float analogy.

[@furqanziajutt8014]

I always love the way you people capture the photos and live motions of the nature.

[@doog.]

I renember some of these growing at my old art school in Vietnam, they were pretty fun to pop

[@sujisKitchen2020]

Informative video 👌 thanks 🙏🙏

[@ChaosMagnet]

I love Tasha as a host! You’re awesome!

[@yishaqdavid2029]

You have to do one on the Paw Paw fruit. It's Canada's only true tropical-like fruit. It tastes like Banana, Papaya, Mango, and hints of citrus.

[@HughesC]

It also grows in the midwest, I didnt know it could grow here as well

[@yishaqdavid2029]

@@HughesC Thats where it mainly grows the Ohio valley.

[@thebestevertherewas]

Oh , these tropical Indian plants in can grow everywhere. It even spread to eastern India, where it devasted every native species,( due to naive Britishers getting find of it😔).

[@lozoft9]

@@thebestevertherewas I think you might be confusing plants. The paw paw is extremely finicky and can't be easily grown outside of its native range in the Eastern US. It's never been cultivated. Any paw paws you find being sold are foraged.

[@tiborpurzsas2136]

I'm Canadia, yet I have never seen or heard of the "paw-paw"

[@tonyabresee7944]

We have orange and yellow ones all over upstate NY. I give them a spot in my flowers every year... The sap neutralizes poison ivy and poison oak.

[@jackfarrell4727]

great information thank you for the video

[@VxV631]

This is a fun series and Tasha is delightful xD

[@elhombredeoro955]

Last time I was this early the himalayan balsam was still confined to Himalayas.

[@SSMBukhari]

I had played so many times with this plant,they grow near fresh water river banks, feeling nostalgic 😊

[@rinthecat3113]

In Wisconsin we have a related native species that is orange or yellow. They have explosive seed pods too. I grew up calling them touch me nots but they are also called jewel weed.

[@watchdealer11]

This is an invasive species... Proceeds to spread seeds everywhere! 😂

[@watchdealer11]

Before I get complaining comments: Obviously, I know those seats won't have a major impact and they may have cleaned them up afterwards / maybe inside a private garden where they can't really spread, but I thought the irony was funny.

[@estervillafane]

how wonderful and incredible the things that nature gives us. Excellent work, congratulations

[@tomd8159]

We have them here all over Canada, we call them water weeds they look similar except they have dark yellow/orange flowers with red specs.

[@cattatron]

I used to find tons of those in the woods near where I lived, they were super pretty and kind of reminded me of bean plants

[@injunsun]

In the U.S., we have at least two Native species of balsam, one of which (the yellow) I used to have in my yard. Its leaves are known as useful when ground unto a poultice for dermatitis.

[@TheWildDeadHero]

We have both the yellow and orange varieties where I live (and I've never encountered the Himalayan species mentioned here). We typically call it jewelweed.

[@sissyrayself7508]

Yes these plants have MULTIPLE medicinal uses. A varirable cornucopia of natural pharmakia.

[@leechby4590]

In Brazil we have a plant with similar seeds (don't know if it is related to this one), we call it "Maria sem vergonha" (that can be translated to "shameless Maria"). Edit: I did some research and find out that the one we have in here is called "Impatiens walleriana", so it is indeed related to the one in the video.

[@moonkitties2155]

popping these pods is super satisfying.

[@putudewianjaninopitasari3666]

It's very similar (if not a family) with Bunga Pacah in Bali. We use them as offerings for daily use. ^^ I love to pop the seeds.

[@grapefruitpineapple7667]

Can you do one on creeping bellflower (campanula rapunculoides) ? It's an invasive species in Canada that is impossible to get rid of. It spreads by both seed and underground rhizomes

[@josiestime]

Luckily, they're really easy to pull out of the ground. I like snapping them, because their stems are hollow. It makes an awesome snapping sound

[@thursoberwick1948]

Doesn't really make a difference because they're so prolific that they pop up everywhere. A bit like these sinister new ID laws around the world they are trying to impose to create a two tier society.

[@scrcrw183]

Wow as i was in de Kindergarten we went alot in the forest and they were just growing everywhere besides the walking paths. I soon figured out which ones give the best pop and just went from plant to plant popping them only with a gentle touch with my fingertip and giggling about it every single time it went off. Never have done it again, i gotta get out now :-D

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

Until recently the seeds were sold in garden centers and also marketed to kids as the Mr Noisy Plant.