This Is The Real Life Piranha Plant

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Created by Dylan Dubeau
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Tasha the Amazon
Producer: Andres Salazar
Writer: Lauren Greenwood
Camera Operator: Colin Cooper
Editor: Collin Sideris
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Exploring the World of Plants and Fungi

[@animalogic]

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[@jaseiwilde]

mama uwuu...

[@estherbrown4084]

What about the Amelanchier plants? Who's with me on them?

[@lisaswinson8187]

Much live to Tasha and the team. Thank you for the show, my family are dedicated watchers. I'm gonna try to find a stinky cactuslike succulent now. I would live to see a bit on torch cacti, their history with the indigenous people of central/South America, pollinator species etc. I grow a few of them, and I am honestly impressed by any cacti that grows from seed especially in the wild. Thank you again 💓

[@uesdtosignin1038]

Could you make a video about Seriema bird ?

[@edloki3057]

You folks should just rename this channel from "Animalogic" to "Women with off-putting nose-rings" channel.

[@timwoods2852]

I was told there would be Piranha Plants. I've been tricked, lied to, and quite possibly bamboozled! I feel like the flies.

[@niklasbastuck1492]

Punish the guy who lied to you

[@MiniMii550]

Looks like you just got Carrioned™️

[@karoshi2]

But we're not here to touch any reproductive structures, are we?

[@victoryjamaica1042]

Do you mean drunk because flies feel drunk when well you know😢

[@Local_custard]

I feel like the venus flytrap is still a much closer to a Piranha Plant than the featured plant of this video.

[@johnjones6049]

The thumbnail is such a bullsh!t picture too!!! Even Animalogic is stooping nowadays...

[@celestialrenamon]

I agree. The Venus at least looks like it has teeth, and it actually has a (somewhat looking) mouth.

[@Saamniferu]

I would disagree because the piranha plant has a carnivorous flower. But im sure the flowers of the piranha plant were inspired by venus fly trap bracts

[@zingkoinko1231]

@@celestialrenamon well about this one Carnivorous Plant Magisword ?

[@raikuthedragon3907]

I think the invasive strawberry guava is an interesting subject to talk about. It’s been over crowding native Hawaiian plants and spreads rapidly.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Ohia lehua are cooler.

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

Are you from Hawaii, or did you watch Green Planet

[@raikuthedragon3907]

@@maythesciencebewithyou none of the above. I did a research assignment on the ways the Hawaiian ecosystem has been destroyed over the years since no one talks about it enough.

[@sydney5887]

I have a couple bushes at home in California!! Delicious fruit, had no idea it's invasive!! Probably doesn't like my area as it hasn't moved 😂

[@jeffreylo5600]

Passiflora!

[@skrubknight884]

A fun fact in regards to succulents and Cacti. The word "Cactus" actually comes from the taxonomical name "Cactaceae", and all of the some 1700 species found in this family are true cacti, and all native to North and South America. However, quite a few other plants all over the world have convergently evolved similar features because its such an effective design and may be called cacti, but are not true cacti. The Carrion Flower being one, and many Euphorbias(a family more known for plants such as Common Spurge growing out of concrete cracks, the Castor Oil Plant, and the Manchineel Tree) being another, such as the grafted Coral Cactus you often see in stores, African Milk Trees, or the fearsome looking Enlopa Cactus.

[@bri1085]

So cacti are the crabs of the tree world?

[@doomsdoor]

All cacti are native to north/south america EXCEPT ONE A rhapsilis got to africa somehow on it's own

[@KaneyoriHK]

Kinda like carcinization?

[@segamai]

Crabs, cacti and trains. Any other examples of convergent evolution defined by top efficiency?

[@bri1085]

@@segamai trains?

[@jaredcormier]

I have one of these plants in my garden! (my wife and I have an interesting collection) It was flowering a few weeks ago. I actually don't find them smelling that bad in person, more like a ripe cheese than a rotting corpse.

[@_dell3888]

Your Garden sounds so cool.

[@Libelibel]

and what do you do to prevent the spread of seeds?

[@brigidtheirish]

@@Libelibel With most plants, that's prevented by trimming the seed head before it ripens. Also, I'm mostly anosmic, so I wonder if I'd be *able* to smell this flower.

[@sealevel5961]

How do you know what a rotting corpse smells like?

[@brigidtheirish]

@@sealevel5961 Probably been in the general vicinity of roadkill. I hope.

[@DixieNormus710]

I got a cutting of one of these. I had no idea what it was, I just rooted it and potted it and watched it grow. One day it stated growing flowers and when it bloomed 😍 I was blown away! Mine isn't actually stinky, at least I can't smell it. It does however attract flies. I keep it outside while it's in bloom lol. I also steal the little fly larvae that end up in there and feed them to my fish

[@lucycannon6732]

LOL, Tasha's pronunciation of carrion even fooled the closed caption program.

[@arttreestick7434]

It's crazy this was posted today, the very day my Zulu Giant bloomed for the first time!🤯

[@luckas221a]

That's so cool! I have one at home too. Smells awful, right? lol

[@arttreestick7434]

@@luckas221a lol! It does! The first day not so much, but the second morning, I thought there was a gas leak, so I started getting up to check the stove, then saw the flower, and was like, " OHHHHH" 😂

[@WigantX]

What we need to talk about is having these videos becoming its own channel: "Floralogic". I believe they deserves it

[@TheMrhope92]

I liked it, though I was more so curious as to why the tittle called it "piranha plant". The moment they started talking about flies I thought she was gonna say "... but surprise, flies are actually its prey".

[@rsurish377]

Tasha's outtakes are the best! I wish the other hosts did this.

[@dominicmanester8125]

I've never heard someone mispronounce carrion so many times in such a short amount of time. I'll now always hear 'carry-on' when I read carrion, wonderful...

[@sarcasticallyyours]

The comment I was searching for! Carry-en not carry-on lol

[@ajchapeliere]

My person, there are all kinds of reasons someone might pronounce something differently than you do. I doubt you'd feel comfortable making that same comment on footage of Steven Hawking or any public figure with a neurological condition. We usually teach children some version of "if you can't be polite, be quiet" for a reason.

[@dominicmanester8125]

@@ajchapeliere That man needed a machine to talk, I don't think mispronouncing things is quite on the same level as a machine dependant person who actually can't help mispronouncing things because a machine program does it for them. Also, likening them to that is pretty rude.

[@EyeGlassTrainofMind]

This is the perfect episode for Halloween!

[@Eagle_Owl2]

I have a Stapelia in my living room. It blooms all the time, but ist doesn't smell at all for some reason. We nicknamed ist tentacle cactus (I know it's not a cactus, I'm a botanist after all xD ). I love this guy since it looks funny, is low-maintenance and you can easily make cuttings of it.

[@Nikoleagle]

Same! It doesn't smell past 20cm or so.

[@commonnons3ns316]

I have mine in a hanging pot on my porch and I've never smelled a thing. It does attract flies but, that's a positive thing because, it keeps the flies out of my house. 👍🏻 Cool plant and low maintenance.

[@Eagle_Owl2]

@@commonnons3ns316 mine doesn't even attract flies. I think it forgot how to be a proper Stapelia :D It's just the best

[@Iwatch2019cartoonsobsessively]

Bruh how does a plant just “forget it’s purpose” XD

[@dandavidvalecruz7269]

Certified nose-blind succulent collector here! Love collecting these Stapeliads and their milkweed relatives!! Hoping that their fragrant cousins: the Hoyas get featured next

[@641mamaluigi]

You know I like stank flowers because they always come in strange and interesting shapes and colors like the hydnora africana, titan arum, rafflesia, and now this.

[@bulbasaurvines8992]

I hope you tackle Boquila trifoliolata in the future 🥰🥰🥰

[@littlerave86]

In my teens I loved cacti and succulents and had one of those. If I remember right it had deep red petals and was growing on our 1. floor corridor. The smell wasn't noticeable unless you got close, then it was awful - though, not to the point of stomach turning, more like a pretty bad fart (intensity wise, I mean). It also didn't bloom all too often, so the vast majority of the time it was just the green fleshy bits, which don't smell at all.

[@samarcher9468]

If I hear "carry on" one more time, I'll SCREAM!!!!!

[@pppantz]

I bought a succulent and I didn't know what it was. It was a stapelia that flowered black!

[@tarellwarren3058]

pretty cool

[@sakuram69]

I live for those outtakes 😂😂😂

[@coleus2883]

I would love to see a video on moringa ❤

[@jomo9454]

I'm so glad everyone in Florida loves growing these things outdoors. Thanks guys. Oh and they don't get too badly hurt below 10C as long as they don't freeze. Maybe if it was weeks on end but when we have brief dips to almost freezing they don't take too much damage. Any flowers will probably drop though.

[@firethylacine1976]

I love this! My grandma has a few of these growing, and we always admire their comically-oversized flowers, but have never known what they are. Now I can tell her!

[@saraross8396]

You didn't explain how this was the "real life piranha plant". I was expecting something more carnivorous.

[@lonewolffang]

Is it just me or did the creature from Stranger Things inspired by the Carrion Plant?

[@gabrielgomescunha]

The comment I was expecting to find.... 🤘

[@redfailhawk]

I think we can safely say yes. The demodogs definitely came from this thing or something close to it. And their lore makes sense for this as well; we know they reek.

[@SmartyPoohBear]

THIS. My immediate reaction to this plant was, "demogorgon plant??"

[@saltdaemon4453]

I remember finding these flowers blowing around our resort/marina in the Keys. Although I never noticed a bad smell when I examined them, the islands all smell like an open sewer from the seagrass that bakes on the shoreline.

[@recklessroges]

There is no way that I could do a better job at presenting this. Each episode makes me smile. I really enjoy how you present each episode.

[@Gildorify]

The outtakes were hilarious. Would looove to see more. :D

[@bolinvolovan3060]

Wow, I just discovered this plant this week, I had it and knew nothing about it until Starro the flower appeared.

[@foeller13]

there's a yuhioh monster called predaplant dracostapelia, weird to see what it's based on

[@sizanogreen9900]

Do a video about cycads! (Sometimes) toxic dinosaur salad! What is not to love?

[@chdwckvnstrsslhm]

Did I miss how it’s like a piranha..?

[@charlsgabrielcecilio4464]

It really does look like a demogorgon

[@kimbratton9620]

I love watching Animalogic!!!

[@thien.2061]

well my garden has like 20+ of these and half of them are blooming now, some doesnt smell that bad, but the huedina flower smell like beef jerky lol

[@tuxuhds6955]

I may have missed the point - How is this a Piranha plant?

[@SlavKnightVlad]

Predaplant Dragostapelia is a very useful card in Yu-Gi-Oh

[@degdeg4034]

Spright decks tremble before it. I love Predaplants ❤️

[@GoticoArrombado]

The plant is beautiful, the ad is extremely weird tho.

[@borttorbbq2556]

Damn I mean it's something you can do basically you buy a plot of land and they'll plant trees there or something and technically if you own the land in Scotland who are Lord or lady or whatever and you can legally use it. But yeah this particular version of the ad is weird not going to say why but it just kind of got weird

[@DrachenGothik666]

@@borttorbbq2556 You don't own the land at all. You own a piece of paper. It's a scam.

[@arnaldorentes5371]

Hi Tasha! The first time I saw a flowering Stapelia, I wanted to smell it up close. I didn't know what it would be like and I felt my nostrils flaring... Propagation tip. Any piece of stem will do. The best cutting Will be the apical one. The tip is to wash the mucilage of the cut well and leave the cutting in a ventilated shade, until the cut is dry. That way, you won't lose any cutting. Congratulations and cheers!

[@6852660]

Please talk about phantom orchids next!

[@lacybookworm5039]

What about underwater plants? 🌱

[@wiandryadiwasistio2062]

next idea: convergent evolution in caladium (aroids) and nervilia (orchids)

[@MrAlexbreak]

Great stuff Tash keep them coming

[@TaraMolohon-lb1zn]

I love that y'all are so into these little creatures/plants and will enjoy the hell out of all of them the whole time they were around. You just don't know how awesome it really is!!! That's just life... 😍❣️🥰

[@lucindawilliams180]

What happened to the Piranha plant? Please do more in this series! You are my favorite presenter. I learn a lot and you make me laugh sooooo hard! More please!😂

[@amelialikesfrogs5778]

"ew, you cant take that thing on a plane" "yes i can, it's my Carry On plant"

[@lizardisbetterthanyou5692]

I love the vibes LOL And learning at the same time, makes this one of my favorite channels!

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Could you possibly cover the adeniums? Adeniums have marvelously interesting adaptations.

[@uesdtosignin1038]

Could you make a video about Neesia altissima ? It is little-known unusual plant relate to Durian but its fruit look like the combination between durian and star fruit.

[@Reg_The_Galah]

My father grows Stapelias, I loved playing with the seeds. The plant would release these fluffy seeds that would get carried away by the wind.

[@rhynemusic4101]

I love the sarcasm and jokes on her script

[@tanostrelok2323]

Ironically I gave this a watch while having dinner, lol

[@wrahvin]

The video staresults with the pirhana plant and goes imediatly to the carion plant

[@mitchhaelann9215]

I'd like to know more about the Machineel tree, the gympy-gympy shrub, and those lichens that can uproot themselves and (slowly) crawl around. I know, I'm weird.

[@alberttillman8017]

I truly injoyed this

[@kathyl9222]

Have you seen Huernia pillanasi and Huernia asperia? Those really look like demogorgons too.

[@lotfibouhedjeur]

I can't get enough of Tasha 😂

[@travelorchidslondon]

Really enjoying your presentation skills 🙂

[@RondeLeeuw]

Great documentary short! I loved the fails at the end, and of course 😍 your eyes.

[@kmcsciguy]

The outtakes are always fun 🎉

[@ticklemepan]

I can't wait until my plant blooms. I have two buds that look like the plant from little shop of horrors!

[@cheffmurphy9713]

Pearlwort Antarctica ! One of the most extreme plants in the world temperature wise lol

[@evilferris]

Gorgeous! Cool flower, too :)

[@atomicskull6405]

Not all cacti are succulents the Periskia and Periskopsis families are cacti but look like woody shrubs with leaves. You can only tell they are cacti from their spines which grow radially from small pads like all other cacti. Only cacti have these structures which are highly modified leaf nodes. The spines grow from them and well as the flowers and new branches. Each one can only ever produce either a flower or a branch, and once flowered it is "spent" and cannot produce further flowers or branches.

[@fredpeterson75]

Your hair color is goals!

[@Mdc7748]

Thank you, very fun and informative video! I am shopping for them immediately, can’t wait for the day one flowers and no one can discern where the stench is from.😂

[@RondeLeeuw]

You're evil! I like that.

[@meestorpheesh]

some interesting plants you could talk about are the cobra lily, how it fools and traps it's prey, and the heliconia (or at least i think its the heliconia), which manipulates hummingbirds with it's nectar

[@pinkyysk]

I have 3. I love them. Sadly not had one flower yet. I cant wait

[@Risa_YD]

I never went close enough to mine to notice a scent but maybe that's because the plant was outside. I just admired the beauty and size of the flower. I did notice that flies love when it the flower blooms though.

[@keshiaanders6452]

Definitely an inspiration of the giant yellow man-eating flower from "Jumanji."

[@mringram]

Great episode

[@Noukz37]

If you'd also love to see some outtakes, just CARRION watching until the very end.

[@onceIhadalove]

Clearly, this video was placed online with the incorrect title "Piranha" plant. I appreciated the video (I own a 70-year old version of the Carrion Plant seen here and it blooms incessantly and wonderfully after all these years), but perhaps this video will be corrected to the proper title. Peace

[@kathyl9222]

It was “Demogorgon plant” when it was uploaded.

[@mrmagoo4134]

My mum gave me one of those plants, we didn't no the name, we do now.. From Australia . Thank you 😊

[@thomaskavanagh9780]

I've never heard the word 'carrion' being pronounced so incorrectly in my life, especially by someone who's an expert in everything plant based.

[@BadgerBabe89]

I have afew and I love them! They really dont bother me until im very close (like a foot or less)

[@Zahri8Alang]

I don't know if my nose was bad or because I love and used to the smell of durians, but last time I smelled the Rafflesia, they barely have any smell. I live in Sarawak, Malaysia

[@vivimannequin]

They only smell when freshly opened

[@drewharrison6433]

I had these in my greenhouse as a teenager. I never got them to flower though.

[@kellyrickard3833]

Devil's backbone next please. I love mine and would love to learn more about it.

[@cassidyallengar]

We have that plant. The flycatchers love it.

[@afatpossum2586]

Put one of these next to some carnivorous plants and get the ultimate tag-team going

[@therealyungcaramel5644]

Her pronunciation of carrion is gonna make me go insane

[@Nevario1]

Agreed. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed.

[@intrusivethoughts3601]

Bro the flower looks like the maze game you find in the newspapers

[@craz2580]

I have the same plant at home, it is amaizing, and surprisingly not thaf smelly

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Give it to a friend, and tell them you hope that it's stench will cover up their home's stench lol Even pretty up the place

[@jessipandarawr]

I have some of these outside on my front porch! I love the flowers, never really noticed any smell though 🤷‍♀

[@braxdthegoatchadwxick446]

I have several of these beauties. I love them and watching them bloom and the smell isn’t that bad c’mon now 🤣🤣

[@rowdysgirlalways]

Don't mean to be rude, but I love the hair color. Your hair looks like flowers, nice smelling flowers.

[@Forever_Rayne]

The flowers look cool!!

[@Eparzaking2]

Love your videos would love to see one about poppy's

[@JazzOLantern]

I kept hearing carry on lol.

[@rodrigocoockiemonster4460]

I have some of this on one of my houses!

[@isaaco5679]

Here in North America we have a banana-like fruit tree that uses the same trick. Except the flowers have a faint rotting fruit smell.

[@MMTLP-JON]

I've seen that Cactus right here in Florida.

[@joshuaomana7740]

Im from venezuela. When i was a kid i got my parents to buy me ome of these because the dude at the shop said it was a "carnivorous cacti" it was fun looking it grow... Until the flower opened. Thankully it didnt las all that long. Sooo many flies...

[@lindsaystevens4062]

I don't see what this plant has to do with a physical representation of a piranha plant? Unless the opening flower buds resemble them?

[@jerrywhidby.]

We had this plant flower a few weeks ago, and the flower didn't stink at all.