These Exploding Plants Will Blow Your Mind

Some plants have a real party trick. Who needs fireworks when you can do this? We're going to take a look at eight exploding plants that will blow your mind. These plants, with their explosive seed-shooting capabilities, can be found all over the world. Scientists think the plants are making sure their seeds disperse without animals carrying them to new locations.
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[@NgoDaPhuc]

We are safe from zombies now

[@lori-jeans5563]

what a reference

[@shhinysilver1720]

Plants vs zombies is seeming less like fiction every day…

[@elesystemic6742]

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES?

[@Official_zack_edits]

Bruh I’m 70 th comment

[@ipfreely9245]

Lol Imagine a garden full of these plants, safety glasses and a risk assessment..before entering the garden? 😂👍

[@SunFlowerFromPvZ1]

Best possible garden for a zombie apocalypse

[@ipfreely9245]

@@SunFlowerFromPvZ1 lol 😂

[@brycefilmzzz]

What if it rains

[@crystalchild2423]

1:27 i used to prank my friend by saying that the seeds is sweet, and by the time they put it in their mout its pop. 😂

[@tokumei1282]

As a kid, we used to give cracker plants seeds to kids and told them if they sucked on them, they were really sweet. Takes about 10 seconds for them to pop lol!

[@SerpentStar_]

This was actually pretty darn cool 🌱

[@HansGunterVelesPhilips]

So many puns 😂

[@TZA_]

"Squirting cucumber"

[@AmySkribble]

But HOW do they explode?? Also, that one thorny exploding tree (not in this video) is the scariest I've seen.

[@everettduncan7543]

A special type of lignin that snaps upon a stimulus

[@SquirmieWormington]

For most of them it’s heat triggered like popcorn

[@ViceZone]

gun powder

[@tokumei1282]

@@SquirmieWormingtonLOL! No its not, its water, when it rains the pods explode to scatter the seeds in wet soil.

[@duckpod5478]

yea... i discorvered them when i watered my plants and they popped on my face

[@AmySkribble]

They exploded on your face 🤣💀

[@Tommyr]

impatiens seeds also explode out as well.

[@caderbavahmuhammadsiddick384]

Thanks lot for sharing ❤️ ❤❤

[@vcwtech4088]

Childhood memories 🤣

[@gracio1231]

I loved poppin the yellow sorelle plant the pods especially or from impatients!!

[@localtoiletstealer]

Back in the day me and my friends often collecting the cracker plants and the drop them in water for them to explode like tiny dynamite

[@tokumei1282]

I used to tell kids that if you sucked on them, they would taste really sweet, haha!

[@aceplaysstuff2621]

Exeggutor used Explosion It doesn't affect Gengar

[@edwinarcilla5888]

Sandbox tree is missing here. Projectiles (seeds) travel up to 150mph.

[@paragonsting8490]

That would be sooooo cool!

[@swingair-internationalairw6150]

i can relate to the squirting cucumber.

[@Icn_atitagain]

Narrator: “shoots it seeds” Me: so is that a plantjaculation?🤔

[@17-MASY]

Pretty cool

[@scootermom1791]

1:16 How caterpillars amuse themselves: they spend a day with the touch-me-nots practicing their aerial moves.

[@cartooncontrarian7804]

You forgot the sandbox tree.

[@macwelch8599]

Fire/Grass type Pokémon

[@moniknordine9772]

Surprising that Scotch Broom was not on this list.

[@yennguyen-uj3ri]

I was at a new rich friend’s garden and I went secretly to pick a flower to collect the seed. I did not want to ask because I didn’t want them to think that I’m using them so I quietly went into their garden and pretended I was checking their flowers out. I had one flower in mind already so as I went to pick it as I touch it it exploded and I screamed so loud. Everyone ran to me and asked if I was ok and they asked me what happened. I was embarrassed and explained to me that their flower exploded when I touch it. They said that they didn’t know about it.😂😂😂

[@tanakakokilovad1594]

The most amazing plants in the world 🌱👍🌱🌿🍃🌳🌳🌳🌍🌳🌳🌏🌳🌎🌳plants and trees🌱🌳 more interesting than animals 🌱🌿🍃🌳. trees and plants are living things just like animals and human 🌱🌿🍃🌳🌲🌸🌺🌼🌱🌳🌲

[@bestbeast74]

Rubber tree ( Hevea braziliensis) way bigger as a timber tree..

[@DwarfDaddy]

This is gonna be great for the Fey Extremist group in a future DnD game

[@manki23]

I love popping pods xd (Aka the 6th ones)

[@halflucan]

Seed shooter Gonna use that from now on

[@abhilashmagesh3575]

1:25 this was my childhood

[@sitadubeau5104]

Love your humorous comments, Tasha! I see orange columbine- called there a touch-me-not too - in Muskoka. Don’t know if there is any relation.

[@choochooitsame]

well theres a pumpkin that explodes. well that tree who has a pumpkin is called. "spikes and grenades"

[@dailyleisure521]

Variety of Hairy bittercress found in our village is very tasty if steamed

[@fluffyfox5579]

Damn this New Rain World Update is Wild😂

[@divyanshrodney8322]

Miss Castor beans.

[@alyxum._]

Some fruits get dried and disperse the seed by self explosion.

[@robertmata1997]

*Sigh * I should call him

[@realgsdontdie5095]

These plants are essentially ejaculating once something brushes against it? Reminds me of myself.

[@monicamonicamonicamonica8677]

✌️👍

[@roshinravi1095]

I have played with cracker plant

[@joshuauyanlacaba4194]

wait you can eat the hairy bittercress?? I used to soak it with my saliva and throw it at my friends 😂

[@Titan_Beetle]

WW2 be using them

[@deeyt8845]

Sir, SIRRR!!!!

[@RaiyanMikail]

I play cracker plant

[@williamjordan5554]

Forgot the sandbox tree.

[@Tyretes]

plants invented rocket before technology. damn.

[@infiniusnobelliusroy3201]

The music is so annoying...😮😮

[@allahdengasis4283]

You didnt even answer the question on the thumbnail. Fucking clickbait.

[@vivekpatel9337]

What if humans mate monkeys