The Weirdest Parasite on Earth

  Рет қаралды 739,351

Real Science

Real Science

Күн бұрын

Пікірлер
@rirururu4697
@rirururu4697 2 жыл бұрын
I learned about these flowers in animal crossing. If you neglect your town long enough then these things start growing and making its own ecosystem.
@GreyGooseBurberry
@GreyGooseBurberry Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣 That’s crazy! Ironically, I haven’t played my Animal Crossing app in years. Guess I should see how the town looks lately! I could use some more Nintendo coins, anyways! 🌺
@inrevenant
@inrevenant Жыл бұрын
Oh wow, which animal crossing?
@chimeraproject9481
@chimeraproject9481 Жыл бұрын
Me: *chaos trigger itching* Me: "well I need whatever console that game runs on, play it, leave to village unattended and bask in the raflesia chaos*
@chattycatty3336
@chattycatty3336 Жыл бұрын
@@inrevenant i think it was new leaf but i could be wrong
@JohnBrown-yx4ec
@JohnBrown-yx4ec Жыл бұрын
Like Los Angeles 😉😂
@countchocula1250
@countchocula1250 Жыл бұрын
imagine deciding that photosynthesis isn't useful 💀
@Goldendeed
@Goldendeed 5 ай бұрын
Truly an evolution move. Fuck it why not right?
@VirtualLusamine
@VirtualLusamine 5 ай бұрын
this makes you sound like a irl plant dissing this one for not photisynthesising
@axelotlee_
@axelotlee_ 5 ай бұрын
Whenever I learn about a parasitic insect I hate them with all my guts, but for some reason when the parasite is a plant, I'm just thinking "you go girl"
@alexthetiger7806
@alexthetiger7806 Жыл бұрын
So this must be the flower that the Pokemon Vileplume is based on. It's always fascinating to see the real world connections.
@timothyvanhoeck233
@timothyvanhoeck233 Жыл бұрын
It is. Likewise Victreebel is based on the Pitcher Plant.
@trevorswims5754
@trevorswims5754 Жыл бұрын
Not to mention venusaur, who's flower is also based on the rafflesia flower.
@timothyvanhoeck233
@timothyvanhoeck233 Жыл бұрын
@@trevorswims5754 Hmm...not quite. While it is similar, the key thing which prevents Venusaur's flower from being a rafflesia is the leaves surrounding it. Rafflesia doesn't have leaves because it is parasytic rather than photosynthetic. I would say Venusaur's is probably more akin to some species of passiflora or another tropical flowering plant species, though I'd need to look into it to be certain.
@trevorswims5754
@trevorswims5754 Жыл бұрын
@@timothyvanhoeck233 Oh yeah, that does make sense, but even though the its flower may not be parasitic, I still like to believe that venusaurs flower is at least half or somewhat based on the rafflesia flower. You made a great point though.
@doragonsureia7288
@doragonsureia7288 Жыл бұрын
@@trevorswims5754 I think venusaur is just a bullfrog, that planted some plants on his back so that a Rafflesia can infest the plants and attract tasty flies for the bullfrog. In the first episode of "The insane biology of Pokémon"!
@Darkflowerchyld718
@Darkflowerchyld718 2 жыл бұрын
There's a preserved Rafflesia on display at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan that never ceases to amaze me. I'm a small statured woman and this flower is more than half my size. I've always appreciated the fact that it's no longer smelly though I have always wondered how bad it truly smells.
@dankachilles9356
@dankachilles9356 2 жыл бұрын
Man I LOVE that museum ❤️. Sadly it's been over two decades since I've visited. I need to go again next year.
@spidaman0112
@spidaman0112 Жыл бұрын
​@@dankachilles9356 it's now next year, have fun
@ikizul3871
@ikizul3871 Жыл бұрын
It smells really bad,like rotten meat,like corpse. It smells that bad to attract insect to come inside. You can come here,Bogor,Indonesia to smell that flower. The ticket is cheap,it is not more than 2 dollars. But,the ticket for aeroplane is expensive😅
@stevethea5250
@stevethea5250 Жыл бұрын
u cute-sized
@fancyincubus
@fancyincubus Жыл бұрын
It's like opening a bottle of rotten milk and opening a room with a highly decomposed body in it at the same time
@fancifuldreamer6360
@fancifuldreamer6360 2 жыл бұрын
Depending on the temperature reached by thermogenesis, another possible reason for it might be to further mimic decaying carcasses, which produce some heat as they decompose.
@ElementalAer
@ElementalAer Жыл бұрын
The most probable, and to strengthen and spread the odour too!
@sulaymanfaghirzadah8680
@sulaymanfaghirzadah8680 Жыл бұрын
I learned about this flower on a school trip, you could press a button to smell it, and i had that smell stuck in my body and lungs for an entire hour. The smell and size were the only two/2 things i knew about this flower.
@dannyU2g
@dannyU2g 2 жыл бұрын
Damn, props to the dudes who found it for not burning the whole forest down after lol
@kiyull_p
@kiyull_p Жыл бұрын
We have these growing in our backyard back then. my grandpa cut them off, it never grew back after a few times cutting the flower. It's sure is magnificent seeing it up close.
@AdminAbuse
@AdminAbuse Жыл бұрын
Had*
@SéaFid
@SéaFid Жыл бұрын
​@@AdminAbuseOnly losers do what you just did tbh
@MrChrisshoe
@MrChrisshoe 7 ай бұрын
Woah, where did you grow up?!
@james4thedoctor482
@james4thedoctor482 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this information about Vileplume!
@ceymiss1
@ceymiss1 2 жыл бұрын
This comment is way too down. Definitely the first thing I thought of too. 😂
@Jerrowashere
@Jerrowashere 2 жыл бұрын
And Venusaur
@angelicaph483
@angelicaph483 2 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there😂
@ThatFunnyPlace
@ThatFunnyPlace 2 жыл бұрын
Im.surprised this isn't a top.comment. I couldn't help but think of vileplum the entire video
@james4thedoctor482
@james4thedoctor482 2 жыл бұрын
@@ThatFunnyPlace I've never gotten more than like 7 likes and 1 comment, so to me this feels like a top comment! lol
@mooodeang
@mooodeang 2 жыл бұрын
I've seen these in Borneo, and yes, they smell bad, but it's absolutely nothing compared to Swedish surströmming(fermented herring), unrelated but I was walking on the beach the other day and came across a semi decomposed seal, even that was nothing compared to the Surströmming.
@elisabethbjuhr1318
@elisabethbjuhr1318 2 жыл бұрын
But still, it is so tasty. Surströmming, I mean. Never tasted the flower. .
@mooodeang
@mooodeang 2 жыл бұрын
@@elisabethbjuhr1318 I think its overrated, its just tastes salty and fishy. Its not really anything special.
@elisabethbjuhr1318
@elisabethbjuhr1318 2 жыл бұрын
@@mooodeang The first surströmmingsklämma in the autumn is amazing, but then I'm pretty much fine 'till the next year. It may just be the total experience.
@atrudokht
@atrudokht 2 жыл бұрын
How about durian? We southeastasians really adore this king of fruit while foreigners hate it so much due to the strong aroma.
@90enemies
@90enemies Жыл бұрын
​@@atrudokht Durian smells sweet atleast to us South East Asian ig, the smell he's trying to describe is more like the smell of trash bins but 10x more intense as it stings your nose.
@donbrashsux
@donbrashsux 2 жыл бұрын
I saw these flowers up near Mt Kinabalu in Borneo its diameter measured around 700 mm and yes it did smell .. Borneo is full of amazing weird things and it’s one of my favorite countries to travel through
@ChuinYih
@ChuinYih 2 жыл бұрын
Borneo is the name of the island, which consists of states from 3 different countries. Mt Kinabalu is in Sabah which is a state of Malaysia, but I'm sure Kalimantan and Brunei are great places to visit too.
@pyropulseIXXI
@pyropulseIXXI 2 жыл бұрын
is that 700 mm 1 sig fig, 2 sig figs, or 3 sig figs?? Should've went with 0.700 m if it is 3 sig fits, otherwise I could be thinking you only know this thing to within +- 100 mm
@filipdrucker4990
@filipdrucker4990 2 жыл бұрын
@@pyropulseIXXI most likely the latter.
@donbrashsux
@donbrashsux 2 жыл бұрын
@@pyropulseIXXI it’s 700mm on my builders rule
@pyropulseIXXI
@pyropulseIXXI 2 жыл бұрын
@@donbrashsux So that means 0.700 m?
@geoffrygifari3377
@geoffrygifari3377 2 жыл бұрын
some things i note: 1. is rafflesia the same kind of flower like in other flowering plants? or is it just an organ that mimics the shape of a flower 2. Interesting that some flowers smell nice, and others smell terrible, but seemingly for the same purpose 3. How is it possible that horizontal gene transfer happen in macroscopic eukaryote? does rafflesia has a similar cellular machinery to bacteria to accomplish this? 5. Where is rafflesia in the evolutionary tree? i imagine a plant as weird as this might be evolutionarily isolated and have only few relatives (like the case of platypus and its relatives for mammals) 6. How can rafflesia be so difficult to cultivate outside their natural habitat, while we can do that with titanarum?
@kiangandhi4048
@kiangandhi4048 2 жыл бұрын
The only thing I noted is that you missed number 4. 😄
@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083
@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083 2 жыл бұрын
6. Rafflesia is parasitic, only grow from seeds, and need very very specific host. It is stated in video that it's still unclear how the seeds germinates. While titanarum not only grow from seed, it also produces tuber that is easy peasy to grow like growing a potato (some titanarum relatives are well known as food source in SE Asia). Digging a full grown tuber for replanting usually doesn't harm the plant. It does hibernate out of the ground, you can plant it months later and it grows like nothing happen.
@tomkleist1815
@tomkleist1815 2 жыл бұрын
(Answering as a botanist but not an expert specifically on Rafflesia) 1. It is a real flower, not just a look-alike organ. 2. Yes, just all depends on the type of pollinator the plant has adapted to attract. 3. No, it does not appear that horizontal gene transfer works the same way in plants as in bacteria (though a bit tricky to simplify and some aspects are the same). Parasitic plants seem to have a proclivity towards it, so we might posit that it has something to do with the host-parasite relationship, 5. Rafflesia is a a eudicot in the Rosids. Holoparasitism has evolved several times in flowering plants. 6. It can be notoriously difficult to establish obligate symbioses (whether mutualistic or parasitic) in cultivation...
@kaylakennedy4835
@kaylakennedy4835 Жыл бұрын
​@@tomkleist1815amazing thank you for the detailed explanation
@strikermodel
@strikermodel Жыл бұрын
5:17 Let me tell you, staph is a very serious infection. I have a staph folliculitus infection that is resistant to antibiotics. I've been on various antibiotics for a year now. I've been seeing an infections disease specialist for about half that time. My skin, going from my feet up to my knees, is covered in painful, itchy, bleeding sores that do not heal. They'll form scabs, but the skin under those scabs won't recover. I've had some of these scabs for over a month, and when I accidently scrath them off, it bleeds as if it were a fresh wound. I haven't been able to work because sweating causes my condition to worsen. At first I was able to do non-physical jobs for a short time, but now my arms are starting to break out too. My sores are contact spread on people and surfaces, so I can't work most jobs at all. Make sure to cover your wounds carefully and shower a minimum of once each other day. If you are worried about something on your skin, go see a dermatologist. It's worth the ~80$ to avoid being in a state like mine. Remember, preemptive care is always more effective than reactive care.
@nikola12nis
@nikola12nis Жыл бұрын
Ive had staph infection in my nose. A year of antibiotics did nothing. Got rid of it by accidentally hearing the pharmacy lady talking about some medicine used for animals. Bought it, put some of it inside my nose cavity for 2 weeks, tested negative some 2 weeks later. 10/10 would selfmedicate again!
@absoutezeo2126
@absoutezeo2126 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this.
@reahtoni8069
@reahtoni8069 Жыл бұрын
hi have you ever heard of Cuga it’s a fungus thingy that grows near mountain terrain. anyways it’s brown and looks rocky like not smooth and it heals from the inside so by drinking it. that may help aide in the right healing that your leg needs. also talk to your leg let it knw that u need it to walk.
@reahtoni8069
@reahtoni8069 Жыл бұрын
chugga if spelled correctly
@souffle420
@souffle420 Жыл бұрын
I remember a video about an Indonesian that *grow* this flower in his backyard. This plant is a parasite of a certain vine, so all he did was _implanting_ the whatever-it's-called (bulb?) on a mature vine, then watch them bloom on his backyard. The vine need big tree to climb, so to plant this Rafflesia, you will need (i) the bulb of Rafflesia, (ii) the vine as its host plant, (iii) big tree for its host plant to climb on, and (iv) humid environment. I remember his backyard was quite shaded, with rich black humus and puddles everywhere. The host plant (vine) itself was about 10cm in diameter. I just Googled it. Seems like the host plant is from genus Tetrasigma, a type of tropical wild grape.
@bodjiedelgado1377
@bodjiedelgado1377 Жыл бұрын
It can also grow in string beans vines. It smells like decaying rat. We have a lot of that here.
@parry3439
@parry3439 Жыл бұрын
why in god's green earth would anyone grow a flower that smells like death in their backyard
@MadcatMashupMayhem
@MadcatMashupMayhem Жыл бұрын
@@parry3439 It does do wonders warding off unwanted neighbor kids messing in your backyard AND scaring off more superstitious ones
@adityarahmanda
@adityarahmanda Жыл бұрын
​@@parry3439 Because the flower is kinda rare right now. There are lot of this flower (titan arum / rafflesia) back in the days and people usually get rid of it because of its smells.
@souffle420
@souffle420 Жыл бұрын
​@@parry3439first, because it looks absolutely stunning. Second, because it's rare, meaning you're helping with the conservation by raising one. Third, because… honestly, for those who love gardening, this kind of smell is no big deal. It smells like your usual day on composting area.
@Cursivealpha
@Cursivealpha 2 жыл бұрын
Always cool to see what inspired certain pokemon. *A wild Vileplume appeared*
@ruthhopeful1405
@ruthhopeful1405 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting, maybe the role of this plant is, like so many limiting factors in nature, to control the population of insects by eliminating their larva
@zakirehman9023
@zakirehman9023 2 жыл бұрын
oh, that could be
@StevenSkoczen
@StevenSkoczen 2 жыл бұрын
"Role" feels like it implies purpose. There was a niche in the ecosystem, it figured it out, it eats the larvae to live. Everything nature is just trying to eat and reproduce. This plant is no different. :)
@ishrendon6435
@ishrendon6435 2 жыл бұрын
@@StevenSkoczen well no offense that is a purpose most organisms have
@ishrendon6435
@ishrendon6435 2 жыл бұрын
@@StevenSkoczen if we want to play word games like mant do ok but it is a purpose many organisms have. To survive and reproduce
@atrudokht
@atrudokht 2 жыл бұрын
Only tropical countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil who got this rich and abundant biodiversities.
@LoveHandle4890
@LoveHandle4890 2 жыл бұрын
They don’t call it “The Corpse Flower”, for no reason now.🌹
@birkinsmith88
@birkinsmith88 2 жыл бұрын
I opened a can of surstroming in my garden to eat once and i swear to god, the amount of greenbottles that turned up within the first minuet.... It was unholy. I can see why a plant would use stink to reproduce
@connors3647
@connors3647 Жыл бұрын
The way these flowers look creep me out so badly and i cant even explain why
@Chyrre
@Chyrre 6 ай бұрын
10:28: Fun fact: This plant smells so bad that you have to wear a mask when watching it on TV
@antonio460
@antonio460 6 ай бұрын
0:03 Instantly started thinking of the mother of my child 💀
@EarthPoweredHippie
@EarthPoweredHippie 5 ай бұрын
Lmfaooooo me too
@KORNEWARRIOR
@KORNEWARRIOR 5 ай бұрын
😂😂
@jschouten1985
@jschouten1985 2 жыл бұрын
For me, this is one of the best voice-overs on KZbin!!
@amarug
@amarug 2 жыл бұрын
Yesterday I walked through a fishing dock in equatorial Africa. The smell there pretty sure trumps this flower. It fits the description but add "decaying fish and fermenting feces" to it. I am not easily bothered by smells, but I had to fight the urge to vomit all the time.
@thenightscythe2030
@thenightscythe2030 Жыл бұрын
Well... Learning that they are Parasitic, makes Vileplume from Pokémon even more interesting
@nektu5435
@nektu5435 2 жыл бұрын
It looks like a flower you'd find in an old 16 bit side-scrolling platformer video game from the early 90s. 🌺☄️🚶🏻‍♂️🌸📺🎮
@FireFog44
@FireFog44 2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if this counts, but rafflesia is the inspiration behind the Pokemon Vileplume.
@goaway1148
@goaway1148 2 жыл бұрын
That was a lot of emojis
@RockinRhinox
@RockinRhinox 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the Pokemon Vileplume is based on this flower.
@potetong12
@potetong12 2 жыл бұрын
One was found at a mountain within our city here in the Philippines by hikers a few years back and it said that more would bloom in a few months time since it's already in the state of decay when they found it, they also found a few montior lizards surrounding the area since they were also attracted to decay
@terezaherrmannova8354
@terezaherrmannova8354 2 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant video. I'm not as much into botany as zoology but this was super interesting. I have never heard about stinky flowers.
@alfianmelodic
@alfianmelodic 2 жыл бұрын
Actually first time i've seen this flower it is on junior high school backyard. 😂 Greetings from Indonesia.
@dudesayshi2191
@dudesayshi2191 2 жыл бұрын
VILEPLUME VILPLUME if you know you know
@Mewmero
@Mewmero 2 жыл бұрын
@@dudesayshi2191 Vileplume is rafflesia
@dudesayshi2191
@dudesayshi2191 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mewmero DING DING DING YOU ARE CORRECT DEAR SIR
@spit_soup
@spit_soup Жыл бұрын
me too. im so obsessed with zoology but stuff like these flowers are why i also enjoy botany. biology in general is awesome
@maddiewaters7112
@maddiewaters7112 5 ай бұрын
Let's all be thankful this isn't a common strategy among plants to make their flowers stink like that.
@RicardoVanHouten
@RicardoVanHouten Жыл бұрын
i have learned about this plant on BBC with David Attenborough the plant also leaves a small drup of their pollen on the flies so the plant can reproduce!
@MKRex
@MKRex 2 жыл бұрын
It's the accent and cadence for me. I could listen to her for hours. Just exquisite.
@ChuckReal303
@ChuckReal303 Ай бұрын
9:15 "the male rafflesia-" Wait, plants have genders now!?
@goshdarnitman
@goshdarnitman 16 күн бұрын
Indeed! Apparently, not all science and bio classes teach much in all countries, but in others this is taught. Different levels of math and others are left out in my area, as it is less necessary to the interests and jobs of the area then others
@6Unknown_Source9
@6Unknown_Source9 7 күн бұрын
They "kinda" do, like there are Male and Female plants, and typically you can tell from the Flowers they bloom, it's why all flowering plants needs pollinators to spread their pollen(sperm) to other flowers
@davidtitanium22
@davidtitanium22 Жыл бұрын
i was just thinking this exact question a few months back, why the two largest flowers both happens to smell like corpses, like i know it's to attract carrion flies to pollinate but WHY? is there a particular benefit to the combination of large size and pollination by insects specifically targeting corpses?
@alecicruz388
@alecicruz388 Жыл бұрын
flies might be the only available pollinators in its habitat?
@theslayer9169
@theslayer9169 2 жыл бұрын
The forbidden salami
@RonakDhakan
@RonakDhakan 2 жыл бұрын
Humans can do some amazing things. But when they cannot figure out a flower, I would say it is because of its smell that no one wants to investigate it.
@thomasdickson35
@thomasdickson35 Жыл бұрын
I am so thankful the British have always been there to discover everything we, as a collective species, are aware of.
@alecicruz388
@alecicruz388 Жыл бұрын
i guess its one of the very few positive things to come out of colonialism hahahaha
@FLOWER15-h15
@FLOWER15-h15 Ай бұрын
Rafflesia is actually a fungus, often parasitic on tree trunks, the living conditions of the flower are quite special, only growing in damp places, with bamboo bushes and vines.
@aste4949
@aste4949 Жыл бұрын
Plant Man (from Mega Man), Vileplume, and possibly but probably not Venusaur are inspired by rafflesia. Such an interesting yet disturbing flower!
@joshuapatrick682
@joshuapatrick682 Жыл бұрын
maybe it's more apt to say, how did evolution as we understand it create this flower? when it comes to the long time scales of evolutionary biology and extra species evolution, what forebear successfully went down the line of chemicals that would achieve the desired affect and how could evolution have occurred if it didn't at once possess them to attract it's pollinator? what how did it reproduce while transitioning and why did the transition continue if it was successful before doing so (which it's current iteration implies had to occur otherwise it wouldn't have survived long enough to propagate enough generations to nail down the chemical synthesis necessary to produce it's "alluring odor")?
@harukrentz435
@harukrentz435 2 жыл бұрын
Southeast asia is pretty unique, here you have plants that obviously dont want to be eaten/consumed and reproduced like Durian and this rafflesia flower.
@ClaustroPasta
@ClaustroPasta 6 ай бұрын
If durian don't want to be eaten then they gotta stop being so sweet!
@ParvaChauhan
@ParvaChauhan Жыл бұрын
Having lunch while watching this wasn't my best idea in retrospect.
@phoenix5054
@phoenix5054 2 жыл бұрын
So why is Rafflesia considered a plant instead of a fungi?
@stibis5713
@stibis5713 2 жыл бұрын
because they call it a flower.
@yourbuddyben4854
@yourbuddyben4854 2 жыл бұрын
Because it evolved from plants so it is related to plants and did not evolve from fungus so it is not related to fungus. Convergent evolution filling an ecological niche as other parasitic/decomposing organism do. Also other than that. It still has a flower, fruit, seeds, breaths in carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. While fungus breaths in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
@oddpotato4038
@oddpotato4038 2 жыл бұрын
@@yourbuddyben4854 kinda like crabs. Multiple animals have evolved in to a crab like form multiple times before in earth's history even though those animals aren't related.
@BruceVial
@BruceVial 2 жыл бұрын
Fungi use spores to reproduce, plants use pollen. It’s a plant
@blackpow3r
@blackpow3r 5 ай бұрын
You know, biology? 😂😂
@jasobobo
@jasobobo 2 жыл бұрын
Such a good channel, only down side is I gotta prepare before watching because I’m trying to learn
@CMZneu
@CMZneu 2 жыл бұрын
10:01 Those are termites not ants.
@Big_Dip1
@Big_Dip1 Жыл бұрын
Makes you wonder what ancient flora looked like when there was more oxygen in the atmosphere. Could imagine giant smelly parasitic or even carnivorous plants.
@AlekseyNeprochnov-bu8qd
@AlekseyNeprochnov-bu8qd Жыл бұрын
Смешно то, что , как всегда, обьяснение звучит так, -- и Рафлезия приспособилась использовать это, для того то, или того, то. А мысль о том ,что у рафлезии нету мозга, и тогда как и почему она могла думать или приспосабливаться к чему то ? Ведь что бы использовать подобные навыки приспособляемости, нужно уметь анализировать происходящее вокруг. Понимать, что такое разложение, и что это привлечет мух и насекомых. Но ученых это не беспокоит. Хотя ясно как день, что цветок и все его способности, просто творение Творца, -- Бога.
@Avery-432
@Avery-432 Жыл бұрын
@3:14 I think a 7 year old is a bit taller than a meter lol a meter is 3.28 feet.......
@khem6up
@khem6up 7 ай бұрын
Can’t fool me, That’s a vileplume.
@nathan34914
@nathan34914 Жыл бұрын
I'm just imagining the Rafflesia plant watching this and getting all excited about somebody talking about it. Then all of a sudden "why does it smell so bad" "One of the smelliest plants of all time" "still smells real bad" "stinky" "smells like rotten beef" Then the plant going aww 😭.
@stinky2202
@stinky2202 2 жыл бұрын
That Google search in the end was hilarious. 11:37
@sock756
@sock756 2 жыл бұрын
This is extraordinarily cool, thanks for exploring something I don't get to see very often in such detail. Love to see it.
@UltraZelda64
@UltraZelda64 5 ай бұрын
Contradiction? Earlier in the video it is said that the relationship between the flies and the plant favors the plant at the expense of the insect, as their maggots are born with nothing to eat. This would imply that they would quickly die. Are they able to escape the flower before dying? Because if not, theortically they would rot in the flower and their nutrients would be absorbed by the plant. If this happens, then what is said later on--that the plant does not eat the insects--may be at least somewhat misleading. I would think that the heat generated by the flower could actually increase the rate of decay of dead insects, and maybe even raise the metabolic rate of living maggots, causing them to die even faster if they can't find any food.
@tridgab677
@tridgab677 Жыл бұрын
if you help the plant shower or bath it probably won't stink as much. Imagine staying outdoors in the sun with no shower or bath, that will make you smell pretty bad
@muffinman3052
@muffinman3052 2 жыл бұрын
The title is what I be asking myself after failing to blow all the smoke out the window on a fat bong rip
@fajaradi1223
@fajaradi1223 2 жыл бұрын
No, don't do that. Inhale them all. Why would you wasting most of the good stuffs?
@Guusagi
@Guusagi Жыл бұрын
these guys grow in animal crossing wild world, if you leave your village for a very long time and don't clean any weeds or trash, looks scary and the only time it goes away is if you clean up everything
@jackdaniels5071
@jackdaniels5071 Жыл бұрын
SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS
@socratesii91
@socratesii91 Жыл бұрын
Yos should put the biggest flower in the world, not the weirdest parasite.
@LondonBikerReal
@LondonBikerReal 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine those people who cannot smell, life must be abit mundane. like smelling a lovely bakery or unleaded petrol xDD though not whiffing the petrol just the smell that comes off when you're filling up or in the petrol station
@StepBaum
@StepBaum 2 жыл бұрын
As such person its awesome. Much more often ppl complain about smell than saying "oh this smells nice"
@claireemily1983
@claireemily1983 2 жыл бұрын
Without smell your unlikely to be able to taste so yes it must be awful not being able to enjoy your favourite foods
@LondonBikerReal
@LondonBikerReal 2 жыл бұрын
@@StepBaum at least you will never know being trapped in a car as a passenger in hot summer and someone farted and the windows are locked 😕🤢
@StepBaum
@StepBaum 2 жыл бұрын
@@claireemily1983 not the case tho, i can still taste
@zyansheep
@zyansheep 2 жыл бұрын
As someone with the opposite condition, its nice being able to smell cigarette smoke from long distances away so I can avoid secondhand smoke... But yeah, super sensitive smell can be kinda annoying.
@stefan_popp
@stefan_popp 2 жыл бұрын
10:02: Those aren't ants, they are termites.
@SgtMars
@SgtMars 2 жыл бұрын
“Vileplume's toxic pollen triggers atrocious allergy attacks. That's why it is advisable never to approach any attractive flowers in a jungle, however pretty they may be.” OmegaRuby ‘dex Description. ❤ 🌺
@luciennelucke2319
@luciennelucke2319 2 жыл бұрын
there is a rafflesia in the tropical house of the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria
@FlamingBasketballClub
@FlamingBasketballClub 2 жыл бұрын
This channel has come a long way since it's humble beginnings in early October 2019. Almost at 1 million subscribers.
@dubstrippin
@dubstrippin 2 жыл бұрын
Are you a robot ?
@FlamingBasketballClub
@FlamingBasketballClub 2 жыл бұрын
@@dubstrippin Not I'm not a robot. Dunno why you'd ask such a stupid question mate.
@Phoenix56801
@Phoenix56801 2 жыл бұрын
@@FlamingBasketballClub it's not a stupid question, bots are known for posting stuff like this to get likes and subscribers
@FlamingBasketballClub
@FlamingBasketballClub 2 жыл бұрын
@@Phoenix56801 So are humans. It's the comment section of KZbin. L response bruh.
@martyparty2003
@martyparty2003 2 жыл бұрын
@@FlamingBasketballClub I don’t think you needed to respond so harshly
@asiano3385
@asiano3385 5 ай бұрын
2:40 these flowers didn't evolve to be smeloy. We evolved to sense these smells as smelly... or who knows? Sense is relative so something that smell nice to someone can smell horribly to the other.
@KingKuda420
@KingKuda420 2 жыл бұрын
All this talk of stinky flowers makes me want to roll one up 🔥
@KioHonda428
@KioHonda428 Жыл бұрын
In my mother’s front garden, a stinky little boy would grow. Me and my brother would try to kill it before our mother saw it pop up every spring. We despised that little stinky boy. In the years he was allowed to live, he was yellow/green/purple. Pretty little fellow tho he was. He smelled like the worst little creature that had ever died. We called it, the corpse flower.
@laser90
@laser90 5 ай бұрын
Normal people: It's a Rafflesia! Don't touch it, it is deadly! Me: Oh look, a wild Vileplume! Where are my pokeballs at?
@TehAntiSpammer
@TehAntiSpammer Жыл бұрын
5:00 misunderstanding of evolution. The bacteria do not evolve to become resistant to anti - biotics. The ones that are unaffected by the anti biotics have prior mutations that allow them to be resistant to anti biotics survive and are thus allowed to reproduce more bacteria who retain that mutation. Saying things like, "things evolve in order to do a certain thing." is wrong and leads to misunderstandings of what evolution actually is.
@detective_0267
@detective_0267 3 ай бұрын
She also protects my traptrix monsters from being targeted or destroyed by battle / card effects
@chrilin5107
@chrilin5107 2 жыл бұрын
Out of interest measured my plates they're just over 22 cm. So you must have quite big dinner plates... not that that means you have to fill it all. But I remember seeing somewhere that US plate sizes have really gone up in size, post WWII , so perhaps that's true. Btw I live in Spain.
@16wolff
@16wolff 2 жыл бұрын
USA here and you got me so curious that I had to bust out a tape measure and see. My standard dinner plate (standard according to the amazon info) is 10 inches and not a chance I could finish a filled plate in a sitting. I personally prefer to use the little plates of the set as the big ones are just a little crazy.
@Handlelesswithme
@Handlelesswithme Жыл бұрын
The US government a while back wanted us to eat and exercise more so we would be a little more bulky for the next war They then took away the exercise but do to lobbying not the eating and we are now mostly obese
@Elementroar
@Elementroar 5 ай бұрын
Missing the country founded by the man who the Rafflesia is named after in that lineup of where it’s grown.
@amandaturner9903
@amandaturner9903 Жыл бұрын
I saw a preserved one of these flowers in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens. Really cool to see this after seeing the preserved flower in person. Amazing!
@wafflexboy
@wafflexboy 2 жыл бұрын
Markie Marks lmaoo that's why i love this channel
@NoobieCrossOver
@NoobieCrossOver 2 жыл бұрын
Love waking up and seeing a new vid from this channel, keep it up🔥🙏🏼
@BrendonLee
@BrendonLee 2 жыл бұрын
I'm from Malaysia and am used to seeing this flower all over our tourism promos. But if I weren't and you described it to me I would call you a liar and say you rip it straight off a HP Lovecraft story. Cause let's be real, this thing looks like it could have come from an alien planet that settled here millions of years ago in some meteorite.
@thereallocke8065
@thereallocke8065 Жыл бұрын
So this is the inspiration for the Vileplume pokemon
@Davethreshold
@Davethreshold 2 жыл бұрын
That was another video that keeps me in AWE about the millions of species we have that evolve so differently. Anyway, you could look into Halyomorpha Halys. The Brown marmorated stink bug. They are the size of a fat dime, but when one lets loose near you, you have to take a shower afterward! And the smell, I would describe as moldy dirt. I much prefer skunk! 🤡❤
@SpiralDown2077
@SpiralDown2077 2 жыл бұрын
My cat played with one of these, and after smacking it and licking her paw, she began jumping and jaw smacking. Quite upsetting, til I found out it wasn’t toxic, then I chuckled. The bug was unharmed as well
@jansenart0
@jansenart0 2 жыл бұрын
Are we sure that Rafflesia isn't part fungus??
@hankrearden20
@hankrearden20 2 жыл бұрын
Are the 10 meter anchors hyphae? Is it's structure made of chitin? Does it reproduce by spores?
@MrSatnavatron
@MrSatnavatron 2 жыл бұрын
Jungle people : its a herbal medicine ! Everyone else : sure pal ! Modern science : Yeah its antibacterial and works against resistant bacteria everyone else : wipes tears with toilet paper
@iso-didact789
@iso-didact789 Жыл бұрын
This is what inspired those giant flowers in Kraid's lair in Super Metroid and the Nettori fight in Metroid Fusion.
@gaylecheung3087
@gaylecheung3087 2 жыл бұрын
Because it does! Maybe a mushroom? Have the mycelium underneath the area circumference research..
@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens
@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens 2 жыл бұрын
Brother ... bring the Flamer ... THE HEAVY FLAMER !!! Exterminatus.
@Radi_vvanker
@Radi_vvanker Жыл бұрын
My singaporean ass has been calling these flowers Raffles-sia. Great video! What an amazing plant!
@ohheylads
@ohheylads Жыл бұрын
I've known about this flower ever since i was a kid so i never really paid much attention to it. But damn it's a lot more interesting than i thought
@echo-channel77
@echo-channel77 Жыл бұрын
Some things that grow and live on this planet seemed like they hitched a ride on a UFO from another world. This flower, the octopus and it's otherworldly DNA....
@jabbawookeez01
@jabbawookeez01 Жыл бұрын
now... this is something we found.. imagine places in rainforests we havent seen yet.
@admdubya2107
@admdubya2107 5 ай бұрын
If the seeds look like a pile of poop, it seems to me the doodle bugs are probably spreading it.
@simarkarmani4034
@simarkarmani4034 Жыл бұрын
7:19 So Rafflesia is a parasite of both vines AND flies? Interesting.
@chrisphillips2401
@chrisphillips2401 5 ай бұрын
This seems to be more of a mushroom than a flower.
@sbomorse
@sbomorse 2 жыл бұрын
Rafflesia sounds like a name somebody would call their kid in America 😂
@maulanaholiqyanuar2578
@maulanaholiqyanuar2578 2 жыл бұрын
Rafflesia-arnoldii was named after dr. Joseph Arnold, a British surgeon, and Stamford Raffles, the then Lt. Gov. of British Colony of Bencoolen (today's Bengkulu). However, it was first discovered by a French explorer, Louis Auguste Deschamps, whose on his way back home, the ship he was boarded in was captured by British, and all of his notes, drawing, and specimen was confiscated. There is currently some 25 recorded of Rafflesia genus, spread in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, including the first discovered Rafflesia-arnoldii. Most of them is considered endangered, due to threat from deforestation etc.
@kudajingkrak4919
@kudajingkrak4919 2 жыл бұрын
@@maulanaholiqyanuar2578 First discovered by the local tribesmen, not the European. The Raflesia Arnoldii is the biggest, and only found in Indonesia. The ones in Malaysia/Phillipine is Not the -Arnoldii.
@qaz120120
@qaz120120 Жыл бұрын
Impressive how it has tricked insects for 100million years
@grandestcorsair3938
@grandestcorsair3938 2 жыл бұрын
This is one of those things I would love to see first hand but wouldn't want to get close to.
@mmellowest
@mmellowest Жыл бұрын
I'll never forget hiking In Malaysia at 9 years old and Stumbling upon one. Stunning and, indeed, stinky
@geoffrygifari3377
@geoffrygifari3377 2 жыл бұрын
and can you possible make a video on coelacanth and other "living fossils" in the future? thanks!
@christophhanke6627
@christophhanke6627 2 жыл бұрын
Carnivorous or parasitic plants are just greatly weird^^ They just said, screw what humans define as a typical plant, we divirged from that and are still plants
@johnyboy268
@johnyboy268 Жыл бұрын
Hold on now... was a song from Full metal alchemist used around ⅓ of the video?? 🫨
@flowersnaught9380
@flowersnaught9380 2 жыл бұрын
Pokedex is finally getting fledged out after all this exploring.
@hamstersmash
@hamstersmash 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on the progress some scientists have made with interacting with apes
@katebretusch3752
@katebretusch3752 2 жыл бұрын
Would be great
@user-ff7nw6kn9j
@user-ff7nw6kn9j 2 жыл бұрын
Alternative title: Why does the flower smile like an anime convention?
@TheShardsFamily
@TheShardsFamily 2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Vileplume! Gotta catch em all!
@mrs_faragonda
@mrs_faragonda 2 жыл бұрын
i was on the island of Borneo when i was a kid. Remember the smell of this horrible but wow-looking flower, and it was so huge
The Insane Biology of: The Venus Flytrap
16:11
Real Science
Рет қаралды 1,1 МЛН
The Insane Evolution of: Flight
19:11
Real Science
Рет қаралды 619 М.
Every team from the Bracket Buster! Who ya got? 😏
0:53
FailArmy Shorts
Рет қаралды 13 МЛН
Their Boat Engine Fell Off
0:13
Newsflare
Рет қаралды 15 МЛН
The Mystery of the Most Dangerous Place on the Moon
47:23
Astrum
Рет қаралды 546 М.
Fire Ants - Most succesful creature that has ever lived | Full Episode
48:05
Free High-Quality Documentaries
Рет қаралды 2,1 МЛН
World's BIGGEST Flowers! (World's Most Spectacular Plants episode 2 of 14)
12:42
Redfern Natural History Productions
Рет қаралды 5 МЛН
Most Painful Parasites That Infect Humans
13:12
The Infographics Show
Рет қаралды 1,8 МЛН
Mysteries of the Twilight Zone | Worlds of the Deep
36:46
Natural World Facts
Рет қаралды 4 МЛН
The Insane Biology of: The Cicada
21:10
Real Science
Рет қаралды 1,2 МЛН
How Plants Became Carnivores
11:13
PBS Eons
Рет қаралды 2,3 МЛН
The Insane Biology of: The Lion
37:27
Real Science
Рет қаралды 220 М.
Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy
52:57
NileRed
Рет қаралды 10 МЛН
Every team from the Bracket Buster! Who ya got? 😏
0:53
FailArmy Shorts
Рет қаралды 13 МЛН