Hydnora: A Parasite Straight Out of a Sci-fi Movie

The creepiest plant you've never heard of.
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CREDITS
Created by Dylan Dubeau
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Tasha the Amazon
Editor: Hayley Torio
Researcher, Producer: Andres Salazar
Writer: Lauren Greenwood
Camera Operator: Colin Cooper
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Exploring the World of Plants and Fungi

[@maxwirt921]

I once went to look for this plant, but I couldn’t find hydnora hair of it! 😂

[@crispian67]

Nice 🤣

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

😂

[@ShinHakumen]

Ba-dum-tsss

[@Platanov]

Ah, rats, I came down to the comments to post this.

[@aSipOfHemlocktea]

It was at 69 and then I liked it to turn it to 70, I am the villain

[@tree4318]

Floralogic needs it's own channel these plants are dope

[@eddie20307]

Agreed! FLORALOGIC RULES!!!

[@freddiestranger9783]

GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

​@@freddiestranger9783 I THINK HER NAME IS TASHA AND THAT SEEMS UNNECESSARY

[@freddiestranger9783]

@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@freddiestranger9783 No.

[@eomguel9017]

So interesting! I had some very comprehensive botany modules when I studied my undergrad in Biology, and yet this is a plant I had ever heard about. The natural world never ceases to impress us! You should talk about cycads next and how they outlived the dinosaurs that munched on their tough leathery leaves.

[@freddiestranger9783]

GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY

[@SorenAlba54]

Couldn’t agree more. The natural world still has many secrets that are worth knowing but at the same time, it’s best to leave them be because such things can be easily exploited if it ever falls into the wrong hands.

[@TotalDec]

You mean the T-Rex that never existed?

[@billpetersen298]

@@freddiestranger9783Ooops, you’re off topic.

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

@@TotalDec A science denier, how original

[@m33p0]

"My name is Hydrona. And I've never known defeat."

[@Dusxio]

Definitely a bizarre plant that would inspire all sorts of scifi lol

[@freddiestranger9783]

GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY

[@weaponizedlizardmen360]

​@freddiestranger9783 why would you willingly sign up for a cult?

[@RexDC]

@@freddiestranger9783 who's that?

[@eightcoins4401]

@freddiestranger9783 Does Jesus mew

[@lokiiago_x0x]

Topic idea: plants you cannot visit (plants in really extreme habitats, dangerous plants, sacred/protected plants, etc)

[@DeimosSaturn]

If anyone has ever seen the SciFi channel adaptation of The Langoliers, you'd know this bears a striking resemblance to the those creatures that eat the past.

[@splatter_proto]

Yeah this is 100% a langolier

[@ferretyluv]

Oh yeah, they look exactly like Langoliers.

[@mypal1990]

This reminds me of a Demogorgon from stranger things! Or an evolution of Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors.

[@rhondahuggins9542]

FEED ME, SEYMOUR 💚

[@OttawaOldFart]

Who know what inspired them. I don't really want to know myself, that was a messed up movie. Loved it though.

[@ThePrufessa]

Reminds me of your mom

[@johnburnside7828]

@@rhondahuggins9542 Feed me all night long! (Audrey II was the first thing that came to my mind!)

[@PsychoSavager289]

It most resembles a Langolier from the TV movie of Stephen King's novel, The Langoliers.

[@mistermatix8241]

Looks like a Graboid from Tremors or even more like a Sandworm from 1984 Dune

[@freddiestranger9783]

GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY

[@mistermatix8241]

@@freddiestranger9783 eh?

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@mistermatix8241 he’s spamming for christ

[@mistermatix8241]

@@kellydalstok8900 oh right, bit weird

[@kyrab7914]

My first thought was doom!

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

The emerging flower so reminds me of a stinkhorn mushroom. Great episode, interesting plant! Seems like an intermediate between a plant and a fungus. 😊

[@animalogic]

We’ve covered Stinkhorn! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGnZkniNiNqgac0si=56Xwj2t00JDjiWv9

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

@@animalogic Thanks!

[@sonicx059]

I wish I could like it twice, because of the bloopers

[@lokiiago_x0x]

Thank you for saying that omg I had no idea there were bloopers on these!!! Time to rewatch 💜

[@diseasedwombat5611]

This plant looks like something out of Vita Carnis, that’s really cool!

[@sassa82]

Really interesting! I had never heared about this plant.

[@pollyren6445]

me neither.

[@seanoreilly632]

That's just a Langolier

[@NSJonesy94]

Glad I’m not the only one that thought that hahaha

[@sethg6157]

Yes thank you!

[@freddiestranger9783]

GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY

[@The_RC_Guru]

@@freddiestranger9783what’s wrong with you?!

[@freddiestranger9783]

@@The_RC_Guru GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY. IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

[@footfault1941]

Yes, some images look like an egg of Alien. Photosynthesis ditched as a plant! A decisive parasitic lifestyle! Amazing!

[@drg9812]

"Used in traditional medicine" - You mean like Rhino Horn and Pangolin Scales?

[@eddie20307]

Exactly

[@terryt9833]

Hydnora is not endangered though. So no harm in harvesting it.

[@drg9812]

@@terryt9833 Point being that the "traditional medicines" which work are just called medicine

[@adreabrooks11]

@@drg9812 Not necessarily true. For example: the current year's shoots of many species of aspen contain salicylic acid - a less stable form of acetylsalicylic acid - the active ingredient/original source of aspirin. You can chew an aspen shoot to achieve the same effects as an aspirin tablet - though, of course, with less precise regulation of dosage. Another common traditional medicine is camomile - which is often used in tea as a muscle-relaxant and anti-nausea medication. "Traditional medicine" simply means obtained from a natural source, rather than lab-generated (as modern aspirin is). It's true that some traditional medicines are hokum, used because "it's what grandma always recommended," or unfounded mysticism etc. However, other traditional medicines have proven effectiveness; while many others still need a ton of research to determine their efficacy (or lack thereof). PS: I'm not nay-saying lab-made medicines either, simply pointing out that not all "traditional" medicine is bunk. :)

[@kellydalstok8900]

I wish these superstitious people would just eat their hair instead of keratin containing parts of endangered animals.

[@alexanderdeburdegala4609]

MOSS MOSS MOSS! Come on what Fairy Kingdom isn't complete without it?

[@arnaldorentes5371]

Thanks for the video! I suggest another family of strange parasites, Balanophoraceae. The genus Langsdorffia is almost common here in Brazil, in rainforests in the Amazon and in the Southeast. There are other genres, all weird. Greetings and CONGRATULATIONS on your work!

[@ericthompson3982]

I love these videos, but I mostly hang around to watch Tasha totally go bonkers during the outtakes.

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

I skip those, detracts from the overall presentation.

[@louisgridleywu7075]

Thanks for including the Afrikaans name, glad to hear it in a video. The pronunciation was also well done 👍

[@collinmichaelkahn3918]

Love you Amazon! You are handily one of the best of the Animal Logic luminaries. Such a chill/fun/playful style of hosting and presentation. Cheers.

[@tonydeluna8095]

Kind of reminds of Stranger Things Season 1

[@peterresetz1960]

Don't worry Helen. It's only a pod. Just don't fall asleep.

[@francesbernard2445]

This gives me a good idea. What a perfect shape for making lamps to put on the set for a movie. A horror movie which would be way more scarier than that movie called, "The Cactus Flower." Those lamps could be called their Alexa home system. Their Alexa home system where of course there is not enough to do.

[@toubi4316]

Hydnora may be the world’s strangest plants, but they are not the world’s strangest Archaeplastids. That honour must go to the Rhodophyta (Red Algae), which are uncannily similar to plants (but red instead of green), despite the fact that Glaucophytes (unicellular algae) are more closely related to plants than are Rhodophytes.

[@geronimo5537]

Didnt know it existed until some western scientist guys found it at a south African market. Sums up modern science quite well.

[@sergevtorino]

Great content as usual, thanks!

[@Blue-ny3ik]

Shai Hulud!!!

[@RXdash78]

Maybe do one about skunk cabbage. It's the only plant that can generate its own heat and melt through snow.

[@jekblom123]

LANGOLIERS ARE REAL!

[@CrunchySnacks]

A new Pokemon appears!

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Love odd plants like this. Great content.

[@OscarG787]

Looks like a vileplume from Pokémon. 😮

[@caramaale]

Love the outtakes

[@NexuJin]

When someone tells me that I smell. I just tell them that "I'm wildly misunderstood".

[@641mamaluigi]

Ah my favorite flower, it looks like a dragon cantaloupe XD

[@drewharrison6433]

I want an episode on goosefoots. From lambs quarters to quinoa.

[@adreabrooks11]

Having just learned from you that lamb's quarters (a favourite green of mine) are related to quinoa, I second this request! Thanks for the info!

[@RwnEsper]

Hi Tasha and the Animalogic crew! Love your work. I'd love to see written scientific names on screen, along with pronunciation guides!

[@MaoRatto]

It must be in the IPA. I ain't respecting phonics.

[@RwnEsper]

@@MaoRatto Is that a racist dig at Tasha?

[@MaoRatto]

@@RwnEsper O porquê você está falando sobre racismo em um vídeo de flores? Você é mudo ou não. Eu não dou uma merda isso "MEU RACISMO!" Só se tenha fazer bons vídeos! Não é concepto difícil?

[@MaoRatto]

​@@RwnEsper Como no mundo você se confundiu o ALPHABET DA INTERNAÇÃO FONÉTICA com RACISMO?

[@MaoRatto]

@@RwnEsper KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK MUDA!

[@Nefville]

It looks like it blooms out of the upside down. I'd eat one, they look pretty tasty.

[@tomdave42]

Goofy goofball, made me laugh, not only did I learn something new but i got the opportunity to laugh a bit. Thank you

[@willbrittain3046]

Traps the pollinators and lets them go, you say? Interesting.

[@nicolasgoulet4091]

Bruh just straight up revealed to me a New family of species

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

Wow. What a fascinating plant!

[@carthius]

I saw something like these when i was little kid in hawaii no idea what they were much less their name and i have not been able to find anything online to help me remember b/c i dont know how to describe them

[@terryt9833]

My best guess is something like the octopus stinkhorn fungus, which does occur in the pacific Islands and most of the world. I saw it for the first time in NZ and went "jesus what is THAT"

[@aruthorcarly]

Before watching video: ah sweet another nature-made horror After watching video: hydnora is awesome

[@courtneyjefferson6788]

Wow this is so cool

[@Nmethyltransferase]

1:45 When you don't want to say "ass fault!" 😭

[@shawbros]

I think I saw one of these growing under a bush once, about 30 years ago in Lake Worth, Florida, USA. Yes, I know she did not include USA as one of the places where these are found. But the plant I found looked similar to this, and it smelled pretty bad. That was the one and only time I have ever seen one of these in real life. Edit: What I saw may have been a Basket Stinkhorn. Wikipedia says these fungi can be introduced to parts of the world where they normally do not grow naturally, by the use of imported mulch. The city of Lake Worth did often use mulch throughout its parks, and also under the bush I was referring to at the beginning of my post.

[@AxelPoliti]

Very interesting and the finale is grrrrreeeaaaaat

[@heroastra8928]

PFFFF-- i was not expecting the maximum Scottish at the end!! i'm fucking deceased!

[@michelj.gaudet5048]

WOW! I have never seen your EYES done so beautifully!!! ✨😘✨

[@JonathanGilmer]

Another cool parasitic plant that lacks leaves (as far as I know at least) is the Louisiana Broomrape, Aphyllon ludovicianum. Really, any of the aphyllon genus would be cool to see on the show!

[@dernudel1615]

Glad to see you recovered from the peppers!

[@vernacularbarnarchitecture]

Hi Tasha!

[@fakekamui]

Please make a video about the Brazilian Ypê! It's gorgeous! Or about the Sapucaia! It's an amazonian tree with pink leaves!

[@Ghost-pr4fq]

Nature never fails to make me so curious

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

Oh look, it's the page image for SCP-3171. Y'know, I could totally believe that these plants talk to each other when they don't think anyone is around.

[@BigBlueDeep]

Thank you, I couldn’t remember the SCP number

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

@@BigBlueDeep I strongly suspect that if I'd said the article's official nickname instead, no one would believe me.

[@BigBlueDeep]

@@TwilitbeingReboot lol yes I remember telling my friend about that one and she thought I was crazy. It’s one of my favorite SCP stories just because of how ridiculous it is.

[@rickdaniel7341]

0:01 That’s a langolier

[@lokiiago_x0x]

This is so cool!!! 😱

[@zeroreyortsed3624]

I think Georgia O'Keefe would have a different opinion of what these flowers resemble.😂

[@earlyej3008]

Hydnora/euphorbia and rafflesia/tetrastigma are like, the two holy grails for me as an exotic plant collector. I have the Socotra dragon tree, but these parasitic ones are harder to grow. Luckily spotted spurge (a euphorbia) is a common weed around here, so finding hosts won't be as hard as getting the rafflesia/tetrastigma parasitic bond.

[@seanredmen2676]

It reminds me of that one movie where a group of people gets transferred to a different dimension.

[@TheWebhippo]

The Langoliers!!

[@Doctor-vn8es]

I'm a mean green mother from outer space, and I'm bad. Audrey 2, I welcome you as our new overlord. 😁👍

[@kimbratton9620]

Yes, it's the most unique plant!

[@jamiebray8532]

This thing reminds me of flower looking thing from Ego behind Dairy Queen in Missouri in Guardian of the Galaxy Vol 2.

[@camilogonzalez5576]

That's a fungus! :insert HIMYM meme:

[@jasondomican1991]

It's amazing what kinda life can happen when the mix is just right! We live on an awesome planet!

[@minibuns6220]

“Imprisonment” she wasn’t Impressed

[@AloisAgos]

This is a Pokemon just waiting to happen. Imagine a jailer themed Grass type of this.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

How have I never heard of this bizarre plant?

[@Nikki0417]

Tasha can do so many accents. 😂

[@squeegie]

Yay. Fun fact: Super Mario's Piranha plants are based on Hydnora. Another Fun fact: Popular TV show's One Piece, Ussop lived inside a giant Hydnora in the Boin Archipelago. What a weirdo.

[@chaosopher23]

I'm glad that little monster doesn't live around here.

[@SanteriViljakainen]

Very interesting

[@eewilson9835]

Thismia was another yet to be learned plant, like this one, its top is actively intelligent, like the parts of Hydrona. A muscle if you will.

[@willie9537]

Hydorna! Bless you.

[@nightmare348]

Oh god, it's an undead Vileplume

[@slayerdude18]

those plants look like they came from another planet XD

[@ceruelion815]

_Pokémon Gen X devs frantically taking notes_

[@t0mn8r35]

Totally alien and really interesting.

[@ewbrainwormies]

Reminds me of the plant that would end up in your animal crossing town if you forgot to take care of it😂

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

The langoliers are REAL!

[@thejudgmentalcat]

And I thought "Day of the Trifids" was scary

[@pietrosigismondodelvalenti6371]

Friend was bragging about his orchid collection, tried to one-up him with my hydnora collection. I just wish they had been in bloom, damn plants made me look like a fool. When I gestured to an ordinary field... Ungrateful parasites!

[@vinipx01]

Please talk about that legendary flying cow 😂

[@LosRiji]

Have you done a video on hemp yet?

[@SuLokify]

Neat I would have guessed it was like a stinkhorn cap rather than a plant

[@Slurgical_3D_Terrain_Channel]

Pretty cool

[@joiscara7191]

Please show me a plant that I should not mess with and even stand near. ❤❤❤

[@adreabrooks11]

While you're waiting for the vid, you might be interested in the Hippomane mancinella - a.k.a. the beach apple or death apple. The fruit is brutally toxic when eaten, and the latex sap causes terrible skin lesions when touched. Standing under it when it rains or being touched by/breathing the smoke cause similar issues. There was an old Burl Ives movie, where he called manchineel "the only tree that carves its initials into you." Funny enough, in looking up the proper scientific name for it, I just learned that black-spined iguanas live in them and eat their fruit without apparent issues.

[@the_newt_nest]

Magnoliids, my beloved

[@necro4005]

Fellas, hear me out

[@rymarz458]

Cease

[@D.H.1082]

🤔 📸 🤨

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Y'all are of impure thought and desperately need Jesus!

[@Fede_99]

NO!!!

[@eeee8489]

​@@the_once-and-future_king. No

[@1495978707]

The Future is Wild contains a plant inspired by this, although they don't mention the inspiration

[@jurassiccraft883]

I always wonder at what point do we stop considering something a plant, I mean we have the kingdoms of what Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera, how much does something have to not fit into those categories before getting their own

[@givemespace2742]

I'd like to suggest a weird plant from near me for a future video. Rhizanthella gardneri, the underground orchid.

[@TrixieTheGreat]

Can we take a moment to talk about Tashas voice acting skills?

[@yogiCJM152]

I can’t take her seriously with those puka shells 😂

[@MrSmriley]

If they were found in a market, they were not 'discovered for the first time'.

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

I had no idea this video was to be about a plant 😂

[@mirthenary]

I recently came across a voodoo lily growing in someone's yard. ...it smelled like rotting flesh as well.

[@6852660]

Please talk about phantom orchids next!