The Discovery of Nepenthes leonardoi by Stewart McPherson

A non-broadcast documentary (made just for fun) filmed during a 2010 expedition led by Stewart McPherson in search of new species of carnivorous pitcher plants (Nepenthes).
In this 23 minute film, Stewart McPherson travels to the island of Palawan in the Philippines, to climb a previously unexplored mountain. Along the journey, in uncharted territory, Stewart finds evidence of a little known tribe, a newly discovered carnivorous sundew (Drosera ultramafica) and a brand new species of carnivorous pitcher plant (which he later named Nepenthes leonardoi).
A full account of the discovery of Nepenthes leonardoi and many other spectacular new Nepenthes species is provided in the recently published book title New Nepenthes Volume 1 (available from Redfern Natural History).
Filmed by Greg Bourke.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

This guy is great, a true adventurer not afraid to tackle difficult conditions with minimum carbon footprint. Amazing how resilient he is wearing simple clothes in difficult terrain.

[@dlee.s]

Such a good informative video. Its so good because you’re not just talking about plants, it’s about everything. You shed light on the terrain you’re on and Alot more. It’s a well rounded video. Just imagine if you had a real documentary with high tech cameras! I mean well done.

[@michaelinelegant1289]

I absolutely love this KZbin page, it fuels my hunger for learning about plants

[@michaelmorris1093]

Wow, Fantastic video. Being able to explore terrains untouched by man and discovering new species????? One helluva adventure. Stewart McPherson, you are the man. My congratulations to you. Mike from Miami.

[@LexiLovesYouXO]

That crab 🦀 was adorable.

[@ApicalisHD]

These are probably vampire crabs "geosesarma". I keep Geosesarma black leg myself

[@gemmajess007]

I'm from Philippines and from that place I have never tried to go to unexplored area because my grandparents forbids me and many places with pitchers have tribal conflicts and arm conflicts (I'm surprised by that crab too) 😳😱☺️

[@humfyb2544]

That largest pitcher reminds me of a coffee tumbler. 😂😂😂

[@Michael-ko4ko]

Fascinating upload! Thank you for the adventure!

[@arcticmorning]

absolutely fantastic.. ive been to brookspoint which is about 50 miles from where u are in the video.. the palawan mountain tribal people would bring there produce they would grow down to a market near brooks point.. there were resturant owners from Manila present to purchase their goods.. 3 hour bus ride to puerto princesa. then an hour and 1/2 flight return to Manila

[@MrKmoconne]

Stewart, you have the chops to step into the shoes of Sir David Attenborough. Keep up the good work. Did you identify the orange crab? I like crustaceans so I was curious.

[@_cephalotus4187]

Thats what i thought! Brilliant videos, very well spoken, please keep up the work!

[@webfreezy]

I also thought of David Attenborough the moment he arrived at the large stone :)

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Here you are hun. Geosesarma aurantium

[@The_ZeroLine]

Congratulations on your amazing new discovery. L

[@FusionDeveloper]

Nice discovery. I'm glad you noticed a SunDew (my favorite carnivorous plant type). By the way, that hike looked miserable.

[@ohhi5237]

id love to hike it

[@riley_james6701]

Man I love your books, At school we do this thing called 'Reading For Pleasure' And I pick your books all the time now, With a buddy and he loves them too. You rock man!!!

[@riley_james6701]

Especially Incredible Earth that is the best one I have read do far.

[@collinmcneil5294]

Really appreciate your documentaries. I have been interested in carnivorous plants ever since I discovered my first Sarracenia purpurea here in Canada. I have worked as a naturalist/researcher since my early experiences. Thanks.

[@jupitervalbuena710]

I am amaze will your dedication in finding new species of nepenthes in our country

[@duncanpage1556]

excellent vid!!!

[@ALEXANDER31988]

Very nice find! Well done!

[@eggh100]

Congrat! Nice video :)

[@slateflash]

3:02 that's Nepenthes lowii. Apparently it gains its nutrition not from insects but from squirrel shit and that photo just proves it.

[@apdroidgeek1737]

slateflash we don’t have squirrels though

[@hermesmallari6135]

apdroid geek Yes there are endemic squirrels in Palawan.

[@Astrostevo]

Awesome fun and fascinating mini-doco here. Thankyou.

[@AlonaFaraola]

wow its amazing in the philippines it my home country wow beautiful

[@haydo1990]

Fantastic videos

[@RiversideCarnivores]

awesome video!

[@kimuseni]

Very interesting plants.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

This is an amazing KZbin channel! Keep exploring and learning! Love learning about botany and environments and places I know little to nothing about. Discovering and sharing knowledge and saving habitat of plants and animals is very important. Way more Important than the new iPhone or gaming system. Without the science behind why plants and animals evolve the way they do we wouldn’t know how important micro climates and untouched areas are to the health of the planet. Diversity is key. We dump money into bullshit when we should be spending money on exploration and learning.

[@NDRAMSMOOTH]

Thank you

[@nptsmirabilis]

Wow! Pitcher plants in natural habitat are really beautiful!

[@dannytourigny9403]

This guy is so cool!

[@wendysmith-Florida]

incredible

[@nicholaszer]

Excellent video

[@danubuska]

Your guides are the real explorers

[@gameronna8600]

Rest in peace Leonardo! Plus that's a lovely crew right there xD I wonder if there's a cameraman following him around the forest :D

[@Robert-xi5nm]

Congrats!

[@sorasoki]

love it to watch your videos totaly stoned.

[@billlumberg5746]

I want to go exploring for Nepenthes with Stewart! Looks really hard and fun simultaneously.

[@RyngKatBaDPhiTogetherwithYou]

the explorer is very awesome. Welcome to my village / Meghalaya - Bangladesh Border. there are plenty of pitcher plants and rare orchids and species. the place is incredibly beautiful.

[@handdamn22]

Iam from BORNEO , like your content

[@bambasanu780]

Thanks

[@bigred8438]

Thanks for your interesting video exploration.While you are out there looking in remote places, can you keep an eye out for any signs of a relic hominid please? Love Nepenthes by the way, have a few or at least one indigenous to Australia. Lovely tribute at the end and a fitting name given for the new species.

[@sheebasebastian5874]

Interesting video !

[@cheeseblog]

I would hope they also digest the mosquito larvae but I would guess probably not. Love viewing all of your videos.

[@steve154life]

Amazing beautiful, if only u waz able to collect seeds of them .

[@rubendariotorresmoncada5139]

It's really amazing, there were a ficus near to the 19:30minutes of video's nepenthes, there wasn't? I seem to have seen one

[@crazyworld7219]

That’s proper backpacking hiking and exploring looking for something exciting

[@steve154life]

I bought a picher plant once from a orchid store ,on tha way home out poped a frog i caught tha frog and carried both frog and plant back home i placed tha tree frog in a 20gallon tank with a fire belly toad at itz botom i named that frog justian i lived 8-10 years and depending on tempertures or mood it would change itz colours from green to brown to bright blue ,amazing i called that store and asked if they usualy end wit aniamal stoaways ,they said this waz the first time they heard of thiz happtening ,i think tha pitcher plant waz from hawaii it eaz moastly green wit a little pink to red on tha top and red on tha ridge on itz botton edge

[@bambasanu780]

Wow done . this video I like that.

[@StrongKickMan]

I am fascinated by pitcher plants

[@djcbikes3098]

My Aunt use to grow pitcher plants in their back yard in the province of Laguna, back then, I never knew it's true value, so like any playful kid would do, i placed all sorts of things inside the pitchers 😂 This video made me wanna visit Palawan. Who knew there are sundews on this Island. I never even knew that sundews can grow in the wild here in the Philippines.

[@nokiot9]

Did you film a tide commercial after this?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

lol, actually looking untidy on camera is good for a real terrain explorer. Unlike those journalists explorers that look like they have not explored shit.

[@rhynemusic4101]

Do you happen to explored already the other mountain?, Gonna look on your video list then

[@tiamat87]

has this ridge in the end been climbed yet? Is it Mt Victoria?

[@JeanneBook]

Those are crazy 😲 I'm so mind blown but damm knowing all this now I don't know if those guys are safe in the wild many people tend to get those and sell em.. specially in remote areas for easy money.... I'm thankful that it's discovered but I'm also praying that it's gonna be more dangerous to get to those guys.

[@jangreygarin3107]

Philippines 🌿🌱

[@macrick]

You should do more docs

[@ukiej9112]

We have nepenthes villosa, rajah, tentaculata and many more here in Borneo😊

[@judygambel2801]

I want to have the nepenthes jambanicus in my garder

[@steve154life]

I do wounder if u name any of the new species u discover

[@rjjr.1071]

Selecta ice cream......kahit saan, kayang puntahan....

[@crazyworld7219]

The construction they got over there in the mountain is better quality than the new build they have in the UK

[@luwiz]

sun dew 😍

[@evan5935]

What was the name of the tower droseras???? :D i love droseras!!! 🥰😍🥰😍🥰❣❤💗

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Trick to stop blood from bleeding is found at the pet store. They use It for parrots etc because if they bleed they don’t have coagulants and bleed out so they make a powder for that. Try it next jungle expedition for leeches. I remember having it with my step dads parrot and it is supposed to help blood clot in wounds

[@RentAsunder0]

Do you take cuttings

[@00inwiththenew00]

I would be so miserable in that environment, wow.

[@tijmen131]

nice job, now let's hope poachers didn't follow the new trail

[@nepenthesman6167]

Poachers have actually got to leonardoi saw it on facebook

[@stupidostupido7694]

Use a wireless lav microphone! Can hardly hear you when you are speaking infront of the camera .

[@ohmymatchamia]

Well.. Actually here in the Philippines you can get some plants.. Even the wild ones...but not the endangered plants

[@wongelfski4681]

To think that there are still undiscovered species

[@benangotti3281]

This is awesome. How do shows like Diggers get viewers??? Way more interesting

[@xMxx-ow3dp]

11:40 Oi mate! Where's the bloody sea?

[@derekrohen9183]

He sounded so much like Ramsay XD

[@ohhi5237]

no

[@thebigrigtrucker7277]

Yet to be documented* Nearly every peak on earth has been reached by mankind at some point

[@chowchow5835]

i am so afraid that the first plant will poison him and hurt him

[@ThePinkElephant10]

7:27 of course are there tags. lul

[@BARCH-wp5vl]

Any body suggest similar plant KZbin channels 🤗

[@corners3755]

that was a rat btw, not a mouse

[@gthomas1421]

How about that!

[@RentAsunder0]

What's mautain

[@VoXuanThien1984]

How much for leonardoi nê địa pen-thet huh Stewart ? Bọn Mọi ở Châu Á họ xin tôi Tiền _ tôi thấy là nên mua gì đó và trả tiền thì tốt hơn . Hình như, tôi thấy cái địa chỉ của bạn củng mua & bán thực vật. Nice adventure !! =]]

[@klttrll]

If the mountain has no name, someone should name it Anyone

[@Cipluk799]

is there at India ??

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Priston Philippines

[@Ru-ps8kg]

Soo you let that cute mouse die?

[@katmanclancy]

Woven not weaved 🙄

[@VoXuanThien1984]

;)

[@ponomapanorama2161]

16:19 is he playing minecraft!?

[@rjjr.1071]

Because Philippines is the the garden of Eden...... *Ophir-the land of gold *Maharlika

[@gloriaandrade8199]

Southeast asia na lahat na

[@indoexplore]

1:39 NOT IN PHILIPHINE. BUT KUNYIT MOUNTAIN IN KERINCI

[@harlendresen]

driiiiiiink it..... drink the pitcher juice

[@The_ZeroLine]

Damn, talk about earned footage. That was tiresome jungle to hack through.

[@alexandersalz5850]

3:04 thats great he found a foodsource and a toilet in 1 spot ahhh mother nature tomorrow hel have forgotten where he took the shit und will drink out of this vessel like plant XD

[@VoXuanThien1984]

Mày nói gì ? _?

[@robertle3038]

Mount Victoria? You mean Mount Oogaboogaboogyboogyboga.

[@lauranyc4966]

WHY DO HUMANS NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ??????? LEAVE THOSE PLACES ALONE !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ohhi5237]

because white people

[@ohhi5237]

humans build nyc, why dont you go back and live in cave instead

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

You live in NYC shut the fuck up tourist.

[@mbukukanyau]

Perhaps, ‘discover’ is too grandiose of a term, perhaps , ‘document’ is most likely the correct term

[@emilianoromero-cano2605]

Can he stop saying carnivorous?? They are not carnivorous, they’re insectivorous.. “fLEsh EAtiNg” like please shut up

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Emiliano the secretions will eat your flesh over time. And they can digest proteins. So yeah. Stop trying to a act intelligent.

[@emilianoromero-cano2605]

matanuska high I- lmao what do you mean, they digest phosphorus and nitrogen😂 in insects, lmao they can’t digest flesh, if you feed them meat (like a flytrap or sundew) the leaf dies off because they can’t break it down.. I- sis you really thought you snapped huh

[@emilianoromero-cano2605]

matanuska high also the structure of nitrogen and phosphorous are easy for the plants to break down because that’s what literally every plant uses to grow, they can’t break down the proteins in meat because they’ve never done it, it’s like using a wrong key to open a lock, it’s just not gonna happen, stfu

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Emiliano insects contain both of those also just look at insect frass. Used for fertilizer all around the world

[@emilianoromero-cano2605]

matanuska high what the fuck are you saying, I already said that insects contain phosphorus and nitrogen.

[@kennethlimbo2549]

you never discover shit.you just name shit