Rediscovery of Nepenthes paniculata in New Guinea

A non-broadcast documentary (made just for fun) filmed during a 2013 expedition in search of Nepenthes paniculata, a carnivorous pitcher plant that had been lost to science and remained unknown for over 80 years.
In this 32 minute film, Stewart McPherson travels with a team of Nepenthes expert friends to the heart of New Guinea - one of the last great wildernesses on the planet - to explore a little-known range of mountains in search of the lost species. Along the way, we witness New Guinea’s extraordinary cultural heritage, as well as amazing ant-plants, orchids and many species of little-known Nepenthes, and finally rediscover the lost species.
This expedition was undertaken in partnership with Holger Gossner, Thomas Gronemeyer, David Marwinski, Marius Micheler, Joachim Nerz, Andreas Wistiba amd Urs Zimmermann, with supporting film footage contributed by Alastair S. Robinson, Jeremiah Harris and Greg Bourke.

[@thekineo]

This man is a great storyteller. Botany became interesting to me as a result. This is my third video

[@JakubKorzeniowski]

this channel made me somehow obsessed about pitcher plants

[@roneven3420]

same! everything in the videos is so clear and interesting. I don't have none yet, but I'll buy my first one soon!

[@roneven3420]

@Foreign Fishing indeed they are! good luck:)

[@drunkenwhaler6890]

Narrator: "these ant plants are very old" Natives "CHOOOOOP CHOP CHOP!"

[@Gaaraape]

Yeah, it's quite unfortunate...

[@alfcapili1952]

I love watching Stewart in his expeditions, he's such a great story teller. Also, I hope you can run a reprint of some of your books because some of them have become astronomically priced right now. I'm hoping to complete all.

[@npaujbais]

How is botany boring? Botanists may save our planet oneday...

[@barefootlyrooted]

Fantastic documentary. His passion for carnivorous plants and exploration is infectious!

[@KimiHayashi]

Nepenthes Pina colada

[@Plant_Parenthood]

Bugs gettin' caught in the raiiin

[@volvos70t51]

What an amazingly interesting video and brilliantly presented!, great stuff!!!!!

[@MrTheWaterbear]

Watching the latter part of the video, with the mosquitoes swarming the camera made me want to run away shaking my arms around my head... bloody mosquitoes!! Spectacular film, and I hope the field of plant discovery, conservation, and study continues to expand! I'm quite interested in furthering the study into orchids and carnivorous plants myself, having spent much of my childhood living right next to the Copenhagen Botanical Garden, with a sizable collection of amazing plants. Once, a botanist who had taken a liking to the curious 10 year-old me took me into a tunnel under the 200 year-old "palm house" (the oldest still-standing "large" greenhouse in the world) to show me their restricted plant laboratories. They have lots of tissue cultures of rare plants they distribute between botanical gardens for plant preservation purposes, and even had some huge specimens of rare nepenthes, cephalotus and heliamphora growing in bog trays under gigantic lights and humidifiers. Pursuing botany is something I have taken to with pride, curiosity, and excitement!

[@ilya8914]

Haitaka123 cooool

[@s.a.shinobi]

I'm a carnivorous plant expert And I found a new species of sundew I call is Drosera ukalambanensis The reason for the name is it was found in the ukaklumba drakensberg In South Africa I first thought it was a drosera natalensis but the I discovered the the leaf form was odd and in the spring it went blue red and purple

[@mariasilviamartinez4558]

MartinDube Productions Congratulations. I find a Drosera sp in Central Brasil region, but I can't to now identify.

[@JVan-ic6ic]

2 people watched this video upside down :)

[@water5]

Jordz Van 6299 now 5

[@greyone308]

9 crack smokers stumbled by randomly pushing buttons......

[@slateflash]

Stewart, how do you travel to such exotic locations?? I plan on visiting New Guinea someday and would like to know how you planned your trips and arranged for guides.

[@Thanos_Jax]

as a native who is fortunate enough to be able to study in the US, I respect this man! 4 years hasn’t been home, can’t wait to go back and wildin’ again 😎

[@nabrismuftia]

I remember when my friend did presentation about 𝘕𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘯 in front of class few years ago. "Jamban" means water closet in Indonesia :-)

[@lilrask9464]

I'm now fascinated by Pitcher & Carnivorous Plants. The presenter just earned a new Subscriber to the channel. Power & Respect from Melbourne Australia ✌

[@DeBoswachter]

I Just discovered your channel and I have to say, your expeditions and documentation is absolutely amazing! I already have a Big monstera deliosa and quite a few Different birds nest ferns and I started to Get interested in carnivorous Plants as wel recently. Your video's have really Made my Love for (exotic) Plants, Nature and exploring even greater. Thx!

[@chenkhoo2258]

New Guinea or Papua? that's Indonesia Bro...

[@jeksixten5751]

Papua New Guinea and West Papua are One Island Idiot

[@adebastian6054]

wow is very cool

[@demarjef]

Congratulations guys for your determination to find back this species, with a very entertaining/interesting video. Never been to see south-east Asian pitcher plants, but visited their cousins on Morne Seychellois: N. pervillei (Seychelles main island of Mahé). And in Madagascar on Pic Saint Louis and strangely, at sea level, in the sea spray of Lokaro & Evatra: N. madagascariensis. Would love to join an orchid/pitcher expedition to Borneo & NG (I'll check Redfern)

[@westpapualiberation]

thanks bro to promoting our island

[@user-yj4qz5lo6k]

You could use google earth to check the altitude of the ridge before going there

[@mariasilviamartinez4558]

Das 3 famílias de plantas insetívoras, a Nepenthes foi a única que eu consegui cultivar dentro do meu apartamento.

[@bongobongo985]

is that at the point they described the glowing night bird, the glowing ptyerisor?

[@j.folder8276]

It’s West Papua not New Guinea. You may as well call it Iceland.

[@sidney4747]

How can you discover a valley if people are already living there?

[@frankmacleod2565]

Amazing. my favorite new channel.

[@igor2030ign]

amazing man! keep going!

[@nhuthomas7797]

love to watch these shows,,thanks ,,i love plants ,,specially orchids

[@dddaaa21]

Such a lovely documentary! Very well done!

[@rangod1532]

Knowledge + passion... Hats off

[@robertle3038]

The Dutch are native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Aruba, Suriname, Guyana, Curaçao, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

The guide’s expressions when they’re holding the plants looks exactly like my wife’s expression whenever I show her a new exotic plant I have bought😆

[@عاشقالشعرالعربي]

What a great video. Well done work and Stewart McPherson you are amazing ...Thank you for such an effort

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Oh wow. A myrmecodia shoutout? Baller!

[@michaelhallett3298]

Awesome documentary! Searching for Nepenthes in the Asian jungle is a dream of mine. Thanks for making the film.

[@jamesstudd9776]

Awesome rare Nepenthe footage and well presented expedition. This is the only footage available of this species and excellent photography to compliment.

[@liliansather683]

Thanks to share your videos and your encouraged for this expedition and thanks to the team we love your excellent comments about nepenthes rediscovery s .jasen and Lidia.

[@halethi3318]

clip này sẽ cho các bé nhiều thông tin bổ ích lắm đấy nha!

[@RedBattalion9000]

Local people eat expensive price plants which sale at the house plant market as their launch meal (lol).

[@poguemahone1031]

If that tribe's traditions change due to encroaching modernity, all the better, because it's pretty vile that they mutilate their women in that fashion - I'd try to document it for posterity, then try to convince them to knock that shit off. That aside, beautiful Nepenthes always make a worthwhile visit.

[@MrTheWaterbear]

+Pogue Mahone Certain practices that are needlessly damaging to people should be bound to change, and in fact should have never existed in the first place as it bears no advantages and involves many inherit dangers to their livelihoods. Nepenthes are spectacular, and I hope the study expands in the future :P

[@dapper_gent]

the mayans had the right idea when the cut that out.

[@EJhoedjevanpap]

David Laughlin I agree it's pretty vile. But who are we to judge and claim it should change.

[@poguemahone1031]

We're thinking individuals, can see that it's objectively retarded and vile, and therefore are perfectly within our rights to judge it and claim it should change. I'm not one for postmodernism or moral relativism - their practice is backwards, barbaric, and that's exactly why they're fucked while we're putting satellites in space.

[@EJhoedjevanpap]

Though I take back the part of judging keep in mind that one of the hardest things to understand is other cultures than our own. As we do not know the context we should not try and claim it our right to change. In the end we don't need to agree on this.

[@monicakohlskohls3677]

Thank you so much for downloading this marvelously inspiring video.

[@trackinggod8087]

Very enjoyable. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@medicwaffles]

to me it crocodile tasted of chicken and texture of fish so other way round?! How?

[@sauradeepsolotraveller6992]

How can I look after pitcher plant in hot weather and precaution should I take

[@lizboot]

This is amazing, so glad to have met you. Your expeditions are amazing!!!!!!

[@ALEXANDER31988]

Awesome trip!

[@spiralpython1989]

Incredible doco, amazing photography. Thank you.

[@jaidenneese3598]

This is so cool. I want to do this. This would be my dream job.

[@JayO556]

congratulations!

[@officialhalzar]

Spoiler Alert

[@roselysousa3576]

i'd be smuggling pitcher seed pods :P love those plants!

[@williamfullofwood7421]

And that’s how plants become extinct in the wild.

[@Entety303]

@@williamfullofwood7421 mostly poaching living plants ends the species. If you take 5 seeds the population wouldn’t be as impacted as cutting the stems like what they do with Clipeata. I don’t condone poaching and poachers need to gtfo

[@TNPSCREAD]

நைட் ரஜன்சத்துகுறைவுதாவரம்

[@treasuresofplantz9203]

love the music at the end of the video !!! ;)

[@SubvertTheState]

Nepenthes, a word I learned today, and somehow love. Pitcher plants are so cool. And this channel is incredible.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

So are you joining the nepenthes freak club? The admission is free, but the cost is every available inch of possible space being taken by plants.

[@ninobercilla1071]

❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍

[@mellimendelson2291]

My 1st trip into these mountains was in 1989 !

[@crazyforflowers7478]

Just Beautiful!!

[@missallsunday_6681]

I love your documentaries!!!

[@thetardheinrich]

interesting video, thanks. Patronizing guide though.

[@arcticmorning]

Love your vids...

[@arcticmorning]

SPECTACULAR

[@sean2val]

wow I would love to live there

[@janettempest716]

Brilliant man 😇🌈🦋

[@sirakgeez-m.h4139]

Thank u

[@kauanfeliciano7373]

carnivorus

[@Saurracuda]

Plants

[@kauanfeliciano7373]

carnivorus

[@ilya8914]

kauan Feliciano ?

[@Saurracuda]

Plants

[@Ethanshankar]

I keep thinking about how nice it would have been to have access to a helicopter, to rappel down (and climb back on) into the jungle on the mountain ranges. It would save an enormous amount of time I think. Was it not possible to get a helicopter in any of these expeditions? Or was it just because you would miss the opportunity to trek the forest on the way to the Nepenthes?

[@EJhoedjevanpap]

Ethan Shankar that you are gifted with eagle eyes doesn't mean that the rest of the human population can spot Nephentes from a helicopter;)

[@Ethanshankar]

I just meant to get to and from the difficult-to-access peaks. Remember: a helicopter can hover as close as you want to a point of interest. So you could skim the treeline in search of the upper pitchers of highland species for example, then disembark over a clearing like the ones Stewart Mcpherson encountered at the top of the mountain to get a closer look. But I guess this would have ruined the challenge that he was seeking when he climbed from the base the "old fashioned" way. Now on his expedition to the Tepuis of Venezuela, he had no choice but to use a helicopter to get to the tops of those plateaus. He talks about it in the video on this channel titled " Stewart McPherson - RHS Talk 6th May 2014" . That was awesome!

[@missanna208802]

Because botanists don't have any money, and helicopter fuel is $$$pendy.

[@MrcBubba1]

Not cool😡

[@Rezzzonked]

"poor things"??? you are talking about an indigenous human population... consider your language and attitude towards indigenous peoples - they are so much more than "poor things"

[@JL-dance]

rezvan have you never heard someone say ''oh, you poor thing'' before? When did he treat the indigenous people like scum?

[@hunterbuckhorn5080]

You're not explaining the context. He said "poor things" jokingly in reference to the locals being excited about seeing who arrived in the planes only to find "plant crazed botanists" and not a more interesting group of people. He didn't mean it in a condescending way, but more as a way to poke fun at the group of researchers.

[@timothygreer188]

Poor thing, you obviously missed the meaning in which he conveyed his message... consider your language and attitude towards a narrator.

[@brokenarrow_-ts4vv]

Triggered

[@hinteregions]

Rezvan, the wowser, didn't understand the sense in which the expression was used; this common English construction expresses sympathy (the narrator imagines the villagers disappointed to be visited by mere botanists). You ten idiots who applauded rezvan's ignorant bleating, you should have watched the video. 'Consider your language', definitely.