The Discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii

[@agungpurnomo8]

An Indonesian here. It makes me jealous and a bit ashamed sometimes that most people studying my country's nature are foreign scientists/ researchers. Our government and private sectors rarely take an interest in natural science to the point where a sufficient amount of funding for research is as scarce as hen's teeth. This is made worse by the attitude of most politicians who value research's worth only by the invention it makes not the discovery. In other words, they would only fund research that leads to an invention which they can then capitalize for profits. While knowledge discovery is worthless to them.

[@valeriemelanson4131]

Thank you for the wonderful experience this video has given me as an armchair traveller. Fantastic Nepenthes!

[@calvinhobbes5686]

You’ve again delighted this subscriber! And many thanks for honouring Sir Richard Attenborough. In doing so, you have brought honour upon yourselves.

[@Fallingxleaves]

Such a captivating story. Thank you for sharing it with us! That guide who had the accident sure is a trooper.

[@LLTR00]

So amazing! Thanks for sharing your adventure with the rest of us! Looking forward to seeing more!

[@DeBoswachter]

Simply amazing! Thank you very much for making this documentry and helping to sustain these great forms of art/plants.

[@lorib1696]

How have I never seen this channel before? I love Nepenthes!

[@NorKal530]

My wife and I just visited her family in Narra in December 2022. I had no idea about these recent discoveries of large pitcher plants on Mt. Victoria. I've always been fascinated by them. Thanks for the video!

[@WilsonChin]

As as avid hikers in Sarawak, Borneo. I really love and enjoy watching all your adventure trip

[@matthewhaley2334]

LOVE this video and all the pitcher plant ones you have done!!! KEEP THEM COMING lol!! Great work!

[@Juscz]

Great story! I have one on these Nepethes attenboroughii in cultivation for more than two years now.. It is producing beautiful pitchers, but only about 1 to 2 inches in length. Along with my sprawling Nepenthes tenuis, it is my favorite pitcher plant. looking forward to receiving Mr. McPherson's three volume set on Nepenthes, which is reportedly now at the printers.

[@watermill21]

I love all your documentary about plants with a huge flower.❤️❤️❤️

[@snapperhead51]

I did very much enjoy Climbing Mt Victoria and seeing this great plant with my own eyes, was a tough climb too & making some great friends on the trip ,seeing this vid brought back great memory's of my trips seeing nepenthe's all over Asia , thanks Stew

[@jage5256]

Wonderful to learn there's more to learn. Greetings from California. Subscribed🤗

[@pinkhibiscus3695]

Really interesting, I love plants and learn about them. Thank you for the video

[@amandagarcia5037]

Very, very interesting. Thank you so much for discovering this.

[@cleoxo2566]

Humanity as a great deal to be thankful for dedicated botanists.

[@mmovido4082]

The Philippines is just blessed with such great biodiversity

[@jeksixten5751]

Palawan is

[@skyinuri8868]

Kinibalu in phillipine?

[@skyinuri8868]

Serawak, kinibalu, borneo all is malaysia and or indonesia ig

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

@@skyinuri8868 kinabalu is the Saint graal of botanical biodiversity, a true natural wonder, but other places are also quite amazing 👍

[@hariniel]

@@skyinuri8868 the video is in the Philippines. Not Malaysia.

[@judemetz8963]

Thanks for naming this after my idol, Sir David! I'll admit the site of "Nepenthes attenboroughii" was excellent click bait and made me watch this vid. Very enjoyable, thanks!

[@hugholiveiro2081]

STUNNING IMAGES..UNBELIEVABLE DISCOVERIES ...GREAT PRESENTATION. SHAME ON ALL THOSE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD......TO DESTROY IT.......

[@_cephalotus4187]

Well made! Thanks for sharing this great adventure and documentary. Better than many actual broadcast and not-for-fun documentaries. ;-)

[@_cephalotus4187]

And BTW: Congratulations for discovering this enormous plant!

[@killercaos123]

That was beautiful. Made me wanna go there and do some explorin'.

[@gemmajess007]

Can I come too and I'm from Philippines 😊

[@Serenitynature]

Beautiful documentary. Thanks.

[@chloenoja9582]

thank you for this video. I love my country (Philippines).

[@oo-xk3ih]

Spectacular plants for an amazing video. Great job and thanks.

[@finac6194]

Foozil I wpwlcpl bj

[@sasorishino]

Thank you for Appreciating palawan. Hopefully my countrymen can also appreciate it.

[@tengotnco5942]

This is indeed an adventure and great discovery ❤

[@kyddoemiko100]

That was an amazing video on Paliwan , Philippines nepenthes 🍃🍃🍃😚

[@roneven3420]

Hello there, For a few years this has been a favourite video of mine, as well as all of the expedition videos you've ever shared. Though, I do remember that a few years ago I watched a video in which you've described the expedition where Nepenthes palawanensis was discovered. I tried to search for the video again, and couldn't find it anywhere. Has it been deleted? Could you please re-upload it if so? Thank you very much.

[@barry7608]

Congratulations, seek and you shall find, great vid.

[@TheHellbillyx]

love the vid love plants I saw small pitcher plants in South Carolina love them

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

TheHellbillyx they’re in South Carolina and Oregon. Also Venus fly traps. They must have similar bogs and climate

[@TheHellbillyx]

@@MatanuskaHIGH seen them too was working in the swamps

[@MarkBalahadiaOfficial]

Absolutely lovely video! FYI, Palawan in Tagalog is pronounced "Palaawan", with the double aa being a long vowel.

[@barbaramccoy6448]

God sure created some varied plants for our pleasure. Thank you for showing us these unique plants.

[@mickwilkinson4038]

Love your work, keep it up. It's very educational

[@ANTSPlantation]

this species is now publicly available

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

Thnk you for this awesome video

[@elgb665]

I live in Palawan. Big mining companies is now a big threat to these mountain ranges..

[@letthesunshinethru2355]

Hope they stay out! Get the word out.

[@elizabethbalazs7322]

Yes the big companies with the government permission slowly they destroy our beautiful earth and no one can't stop them

[@charleshueckstaedt5064]

EL GB WHAT TOWN ARE YOU NEAR ? SALAMAT...

[@wglenbatemanjr9729]

Oh crap.... do they mitigate negative impacts to local WATERS and soil???

[@gregbey9237]

Yeah, and they have the power to just destroy nature. They infect the local water supply, and then you have lumber companies that clear-cut thousands of acres of forests.. here in America, they will destroy an entire population of sarracenia to build a McDonald's or KFC. It's really heartbreaking..

[@TheBoogiedoc]

Grettings from Germany and thanks for your fantastic videos

[@yupiisnaini9868]

Very nice video. Thank you very much for share your experience

[@acharyaswagata]

this is lovely!

[@Roxy00726]

Such a determination.. Amazing.

[@Fishtory]

Great video, Great editing and content! I want to know the freshwater fish out there! Cypranids, specifically.

[@charleshueckstaedt5064]

i thought about fish as well ...salamat

[@deeSK8er]

Incredible story I have 2 different kinds. Don’t know there names , 1 is huge pitchers red spotted with hairs on side and long big 12 inch leaves Ive only had it a couple months. Can’t wait to see what it does😁 I live on the big island of Hawaii at about 1500 feet lots of rain , heat and humidity

[@TheLazyClips]

This video was really interesting and entertaining. I wish i was there too haha.

[@wenderis]

4:20 what a gesture. I assume Stewart learned this gesture in Sumatera. (touching your heart/left chest after a hand shake)

[@supingpilario3783]

Very informative, thank you

[@ajayvv4383]

Nepenthes, you've got my attention

[@justinekusin2969]

Wow. Very interesting.

[@rohanplantboyjames6812]

If he comes to NZ I want to be one of his guides. I know a few secret spots for drocera.

[@PachecoAquarismo]

Perfect Discovery 🌱🇧🇷

[@AntonShields]

Wow. What an adventure!!!

[@georgefleming4956]

At 17:55 you can see the guides hand all wrapped up. He's a mans man!

[@cormac8613]

Did the locals have a name for this pitcher? Surely they had come across it before 2008

[@louisgreen3071]

Why did you cut the shrew pitcher open???

[@kathysemrau2301]

Stewart do you have any ties with Weirdest Plants? They had one of your videos online about cactus in South America.

[@sandib4234]

Very interesting!!!

[@stacks1548]

How does it even evolve like that? Like what made it look the way it did?! Did a bug poop on the middle of a leaf and evolved like that?!

[@lol-dn6nx]

did you ever get to name any of these plants?

[@lynnschwemle2807]

So beautiful

[@BukuiZhao]

Good job I want to go there

[@TH-tc3ib]

Fantastic

[@alnumbers2098]

Amazing experience! Too bad the nepenthes isn't a lowland species, or I would be tempted to buy one!

[@JoanEvangelista]

There are plenty of lowland species! Just make sure to get yours from a proper grower that's not engaged in poaching.

[@engineerinhickorystripehat]

Do they stampede themselves off cliffs ?

[@keo8069]

i really want that plant...

[@CarnivorousPlantsAndGardening]

You can buy pitcher plants from Amazon but predatory plants is a better website to buy them from

[@Lex-tb1wd]

This is inspiring

[@mac_is_easy]

Most are unexplored because most of the mountains and islands on Palawan is protected by their local tribes. They rarely allow anyone to step foot there to protect the forest and its habitat. Even people from surrounding cities there has never been that place for the same reason.

[@bleumiette]

2007 was the year when born :)

[@thetruthexperiment]

shrews eat bugs, it isnt a stretch to believe they occasionally try to eat the bugs they chase into the flowers. with such large blooms I'd say it's a lot less rare than you think. maybe hasnt been seen a lot. but I'm sure it happens.

[@Glitchesftw]

great vid cheers

[@scottbridgeforth507]

Well Remember Being Stunned as a Child at Pitcher Plants In NC

[@Toastymarshmallow80]

It's a Victreebell 😊, but seriously though cool plant.

[@victornado4015]

Tbh sundews are my favorite speces of carnivorous plant or even my favorite plant.

[@mirekfojt2723]

Amazing.

[@billlumberg5746]

Those missionaries discovered this plant should be recognized Stewart.

[@eliseolopez2790]

Expeditions are done to strip the world of its beauty ,the king will turn the world into world of wonders and amazement

[@aaroniouse]

The pitcher obviously DID evolve to catch vertibrates, because it caught one pretty easily. A bucket of water is the best mouse-trap.

[@eyesclosed3709]

It's definitely hard to imagine the plant evolved to have very large, wide pitchers for any other reason than to catch large prey, such as rodents and lizards

[@gregbey9237]

​@eyesclosed3709 not necessarily a lot of the big nepenthes pitcher plants are used as toilets and have the pitchers that size so that small animals can eat the nectar and deficate in the pitchers. Some Sarracenia pitchers are huge but they definitely are not made to catch vertebrates.

[@brynnhatesschool]

14:04 Nepenthes attenboroughii

[@swat3isharder]

20:25 the more humidity, the bigger the pitchers

[@gohomehumanzzz]

Any other KZbin algorithm surfers?

[@mariahlee7653]

um yes I started off at growing potatoes and then I ended up here. I think it'll bring me around to Trixie Mattel and Li ziqi

[@user-oz5iy4bl1u]

Hi there

[@suckerbranch9943]

Sub bob surf pen

[@felicier09]

Omg is that nepthes plants?

[@inflatable6849]

it would be a dream to go out recherche and go on expeditions and discover more insectivorous plants its a dream to go to Borneo.

[@billlumberg5746]

Use drones to explore easier might help.

[@TILER96]

i want those beautiful dracaena's in my house lol

[@ganeshsiyum3959]

I always wanted to b a botanist ...it was my childhood dream... I also want to explore forest mountains...😑

[@antonil-wol6353]

thank you for visiting Palawan we love you

[@princeharry7702]

amazing

[@berd802]

5:51 that is a corpse flower if I’m not wrong.

[@williamfullofwood7421]

Anony Mousse It is in the same genus though.

[@pratibhadarekar2277]

Bug eating plants can also be used in farms.

[@m.v.domingo5363]

Rise of the Nepenthes genus is pitcher plants!

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Nepenthes? Yes please!

[@maintagodisah3829]

the wild banana we make pickle the taste is sour like cucumber. so many cucumber in my village tambunan north borneo.

[@nopenope8418]

Wait, wait, wait.... Leeches on trees... FREAKING LEECHES ON TREES!?!? I tought the 30cm long one we have in some lakes and meadows around where i live were nightmares... BUT THIS!?!?!

[@scottbridgeforth507]

THE GUIDES are TRUE MEN of the Forest

[@Lotus201877]

The guide that accidentally cuts himself was very manly to continue the journey.

[@clutchuwu1355]

10 years ago dozens of nepenthos species had not ever been studied or *Even Photographed* Victreebel from Pokémon in 1996: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@MBP97]

I wish i could do stuff like these....

[@barbaracovey]

Amazing video visually. Dumbing down of your narration was really off putting. I’ve watched to much “Crime Pays, But Botany Doesn’t “ 🙃

[@lucaciarnold-vasile9022]

And here we are in 2021 where u can find nepenthes in my apartament🙈

[@geofox9484]

16:10 *N O G L O V E S*

[@iquit3438]

I can buy most of these on Amazon prime

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Such a spoiled brat