Thismia: The Vampire Plant

This plant sucks the life out of mushrooms.
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Created by Dylan Dubeau
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Tasha the Amazon
Editor: Cat Senior
Researcher, Producer: Andres Salazar
Writer: Lauren Greenwood
Camera Operator: Colin Cooper
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Exploring the World of Plants and Fungi

[@Harsha.Sampath.Jayawickrama]

Thismia is truely fairy to me, In early days of my M.phil research I never imagined specialist like Thismia can survive small forest fragments about 2-35 ha size. But I got several Thismia gardneriana populations inside my forest fragments in Sri Lanka and it makes me to believe there may be more new discoveries than we think in those isolated small fragments, I paid more attention and that assumption became true because I was able to record three populations of brand new mycoheterotroph orchid called "Gastrodia pushparagae". We published that in last year.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Congratulations! I admire your patience while searching, you must have a lot of it. Good luck with your future studies and I wish you many new discoveries :D

[@SorenAlba54]

Impressive, you definitely revealed to me a plant that I never even heard of until now. Furthermore, it really is so elusive and unknown that even the comment section for this suggestion was only one. Props.

[@animalogic]

Glad we could introduce you to this beauty!

[@Geniusprimate]

Hi​@@animalogic, I'm a biologist

[@jyusatsu]

Never knew of this plant species. I learned smth new today

[@chickenpants]

Me too.

[@jeremiahdevore]

At the end of the video Tasha said she killed her pitcher plants and doesn't know why. Could have been other things but a common cause of death in the states is people using tap water to water. They're very sensitive to chlorine, so rain water and distilled water are the way to go!

[@TacoCatzZ]

there is a plant that has adapted the same way called ghost pipes, and they belong in the heath family, the same family as blueberries. i found a couple last year and they are so interesting

[@K42U]

I think they already covered/featured that one.

[@BlackReaper0]

Another plant that looks super cool.

[@skrubknight884]

in my home state we have a parasitic orchid called Coralroot like this as well. completely invisible underground parasitizing fungi until it puts up the flowers that gave the plant its name.

[@TacoCatzZ]

@@skrubknight884 ive wanted to find coralroots before but i would have to travel up north quite a bit to find them, they look so cool

[@DaimyoD0]

Yeah and Pinesap in the same genus

[@mypal1990]

Nature is beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

[@emilybrackett2840]

Nature's awesome sad happy exciting and complicated.

[@maxximus6418]

@@emilybrackett2840and cruel And careless And caring And empathetic

[@RoseRedRoseWhite]

Random Tasha plant mini tour! Woot

[@amicableenmity9820]

Thank you for also focusing on plants. I know some people complain but the fact is plants are important too.

[@alyciab7417]

From the early images in this and vampire relationship, I have to think that this plant was, at least partially, the inspiration for Morticia's pet plant "Cleopatra" from the old Addams family TV series.

New idea: timelapse of Tasha with background of all vids since the very start of Floralogic :D

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- What a pretty looking plant 🪴

[@DavinStewart]

2:12 "photosynthetic features" 2:17 a·duhj 3:42 see·luh·kanth

[@retroicdescent]

👏

[@animallvr87]

Oh thankkkk you. I was dying.

[@tonydeluna8095]

Another awesome video by Animallogic!

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

Loving the unhinged bits at the end lol

[@GundamAngelicDevil]

Why do I feel like this is an Herbology class in Hogwarts?

[@PsychoSavager289]

Tasha looks like she managed to get into a very casual version of Hogwarts.

[@AbhishekKr.Singh1609]

I was just about to comment that

[@krislochlan5366]

Pigzits 😂😂😂

[@ianhawkins4979]

👏🏽

[@504rosco6]

Love it!

[@tamedthethreebears]

She's the cool student teacher 😁

[@ChaosMagnet]

Totally love your style, Tasha!

[@ChimeraMoth]

I love all the unique and interesting plants that are covered in this series, and I love Tasha's outfit in this one!

[@waynelemon9779]

TY for including the out takes guy, those are gold. 🙃

[@shadowsong_777]

I love all the Animalogic/Floralogic/Second Nature content! I'm wondering if the Paleologic videos are coming back?

[@paranoiarpincess]

Until I actually looked at my screen, I thought the species was called “Disneya” lol. Or would that be spelled “Disnia”?

[@raulpinto7543]

I always found animals more interesting, you have a very powerful way of teaching that catches the attention, Tasha.

[@trinomial-nomenclature]

You should do a video about Lady Slippers. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and when I was younger I would always come across some when I was in the woods, now, they're much harder to find.

[@ChaosMagnet]

We used to have some in the garden of the house I grew up in, in southwestern Ontario. Lady slippers are such a cool plant.

[@Liz_678]

Love this series❤. Tasha explains everything so well!

[@--Paws--]

I notice that most mycoheterotrophic always look unique or even weird. Ghost Pipes, certain orchids and even the rafflesia area few.

[@amayr2]

loved the realness with the bonus plant tour

[@plovergrrl]

I got fascinated with mycoheterotrophs when my wife showed me a local group of Monotropa uniflora. Very cool video!!

[@ScarletRebel96]

Always good to see your plant videos , its like a digital Farmers Almanac

[@jolenechandler4192]

Loved the plant showing at the end! So fun.

[@MisterCynic18]

On the off chance you didn't already know, carnivorous plants hate tap water. I've killed several before switching to distilled

[@bacon_sammich2845]

Loving your outfit Tasha! So excited to see a video about these amazing plants, great choice for a topic!

[@crimsonfirelily]

This is an awesome upload! I am going to look for these now. I am super motivated for this! Thank you 💜 🌱💮🦠✌️

[@strikerevimus]

The subtitle of this video makes me think it should have been saved for October... Hearing it described, yeah, I'm convinced that this should be a Halloween episode.

[@RippieFarmer]

In the forests of Mendocino, in Northern California, there are similar plants that we use as indicators of where certain wild edible mushrooms will fruit.

[@Forever_Rayne]

Love learning about new plants!

[@deadlydingus1138]

4:25 it looks like a falcon with one of those little hats people use to cover their eyes.

[@michaelrodriguez4818]

Tasha has really been carrying this channel lately.

[@hausovdismater1721]

I love these videos so much, but this one is a big hitter! I love parasitic plants they're so undervalued by humans in the ecosystem and beautiful! Thank you for doing this, more people should know about the beautiful world of parasitic plants!

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

Them are some very sweet plants indeed. Everyone swears Basil is super easy to grow, but anytime I get near it, it's just like and dead. And yeah, you are most definitely rockin'' that Hogwarts look lol

[@robynpicknell7801]

I love it when Tasha and a new Floralogic episode drops! She makes learning about plants entertaining and fun. You can see that she clearly loves what she is doing and has a genuine love and passion for both plants and educating people about plants! Perhaps you could do an episode about the "Fynbos" of the Western Cape in South Africa? Th st are a fascinating and unique bunch of plants found only in the Western Cape and are in trouble because of Climate Change. It would be tragic to see them disappear because of our actions.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

I absolutely love plants that grow in unusual ways like needing a lack of sun, or very little water or actually grows stuff really fast or tiny or oddly shaped uniquely colored, I could go on. 😅👍

[@darrenswails]

So much innuendo in that last bit

[@michaelhollett6039]

Wonderful presentation! This plant is fascinating to me. We have something similar, I think, here in Indiana called " Monotropa uniflora" I am not a botanist, just a fan, but what we call " Indian ghost pipe" not only looks similar to Thismia but also has established a mycorrhizal relationship with mycelium too! I love it. Its the weirdest plant in the woods here ❤

[@wilgarcia1]

Sometimes I hear about creatures that have gone unchanged in millennia and wonder why they never evolved.

[@robinmatz6686]

They keep evolving. Just their circumstances stay the same, so their body adapts to changing little. Mutations happen at a (more or less and certain exceptions apply) fixed rate, so the genetic makeup of those organisms keeps changing from their ancestors. But if their function is already well suited to their circumstances, changing your function and/or appearance is a disadvantage, so those individuals are weeded out. This results in the ironic phenomenon that organisms that change little in appearance over long times are actually a lot more genetically distinct in their different populations, since their mutations accumulate in their non-coding regions that have little to no effect on their appearance than in comparison to organisms that did change a lot in form, because the same amount of mutations happens in them, but in the areas that affect their genetic expression. So their populations share the changed form, but are more closely related genetically, since its important for them to keep the changes amongst all individuals.

[@MrLoobu]

Because nothing competes with or for them.

[@ScionStorm1]

Some animals have extremely stable genes that resist the establishment of new mutations.

[@spiralpython1989]

I previously lived adjacent to a national park in Victoria (south eastern Australia)’s alpine region. It was very exciting that we had a small localised thalismia population which was kept under secretive locals’ watch… a wonderful way to introduce kiddos to citizen science.

[@manavoxprimaltv]

I’ve never heard anyone pronounce coelacanth as “kohlacanth” before

[@asklepije]

We need a plant tour!:)

[@williamfrazier4797]

I live on the Northwest coast of British Columbia and can’t wait to go out on a hunt for Thismia.

[@tfsheahan2265]

Chicago Wilderness organizations used to participate in a hunt every late summer when we lived in NW Indiana from 1992-2000. They probably still do. I only participated once. It would have been nice to be provided an image as good as the one in your video.

[@jaspyjiindust.9227]

Very interesting plant! i would love to see tashas plant collection!

[@wocky661]

Did not know about those, but knew about monotropa uniflora plants that seem to have a pretty similar way of living, they are just not related at all! Yay for convergent evolution!

[@KamiInValhalla]

Those are some cool plants behind you

[@TheJohtunnBandit]

Sounds like a similar situation to Monotropa uniflora, neat!

[@PJ-he5zk]

Tasha is a treasure 😂

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Another great video

[@JonathenPetrie]

Such an interesting and strangely relatable genus

[@scotttod6954]

I have monotropa uniflora all over my yard. ( Ghost pipe ) They are also mycoheterotropic too!

[@akrulla]

Ahhh that wasn't enough. Now I'm gonna go on a search for thismia.

[@takenname8053]

This plant is so elusive it evaded my knowledge

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

I love all of your videos

[@humpadumpathump5918]

Present day Chicago is an urban jungle. A specialist organism relying on another specialist organism makes the odds of finding such a plant very low. Most of the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States is covered in farmland.

[@Shattered_Instance]

These are absolutely everywhere in the woods behind me. I used to make tinctures.

[@adamhickinbottom5041]

Love your shows ❤❤❤❤

[@jesipohl6717]

nitrogen pollution plus plants = no mycorhizal symbioses = no thismia in nothwest indiana/ northeast illinois. I'd check protected wetlands with low nitrogren pollution if I was in the region. I might look where we have pitcher plants in the region.

[@ETBrenner]

Those eyeglass frames are awesome!

[@Floris254]

could you do a vid about tilandsias and spanish moss? id love to learn more about how they spread and stuff

[@6852660]

Please talk about phantom orchids next! They are interesting parasitic plants too!

[@thefishisdead]

We got a plant over here in Europe, that might deserve the nickname "vampire plant" even more : Lathraea squamaria. Seemingly those really suck on the fluids of trees and bushes ...

[@MrJdsenior]

It could also have come over on somebody's shoe. Finding a species once is nuts. It makes me wonder if this is something like the cicadia in the animal world that goes into long periods of some sort of maybe microscopic or hidden 'hibernation' in its life cycle, say maybe inside of a root or something. Quite a mystery. That one version should be called the owl plant, talons and all.

[@davidbrevik2537]

There are so many mysterious out there! If I find the flower, can I rename it?

[@greenghoul157]

Thismia is a cool name very unusual plant

[@ICESTORM667]

Question I was doing some research on plants and noticed here in the north east we have a type of four clover plant that actually in late fall season would have flies that hatched from the ground and would get hooked by the four leaf clover plant. Im wonder if dies does it draw the fly into the ground for next years flowering would this be classified as a carnivores plants

[@kimbratton9620]

That's pretty cool!

[@grundlecheese6675]

It has strange flowers. I wonder what pollinates them.

[@infantrypaladin]

More on plants😅 great video!

[@eewilson9835]

it does suck, I put it on a swole injury, it reduced immediatly as the center took hold. plants are alive, they are all round, go out and look.

[@swampcooler8332]

Dont mess with the fae

[@HomeyDaClown]

Can we get a video on tips for growing your own little indoor forest that you went into a little detail on at the end? Would love to do the same. Also, thank you for teaching me about so many new plants, as well as going in depth in some I only heard of. This channel does great work and I hope you guys keep doing this for many years to come!

[@feralaeroapparel]

I didn't wanna say nothing.... But Im from Florida. I only knew Tasha from here til I googled her. I played her music the 2nd time I googled her a month later (she so funny and I finally was ready for more) WHEN I HIT PLAY ON THAT MUSIC 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 and watched some interviews 😂😂😂😎 I just wish I knew earlier. She's a real one. 🖖👽❤❤

[@chaosopher23]

I see these little guys here in Rhode Island. I'll see if I can get a picture or sample of the fruit.

[@theendlessdaydream6442]

Their weird shape remind me of the mushi from Mushishi!

[@RiceWD05]

If you want to another species with a distribution that makes you wonder, then Chorioactis geaster, or the Texas Star mushroom since it basically only find in Texas and Japan

[@zacharykenniston748]

There was one called thismia neptunis. It was discovered and catalogued but when its discoverer returned it was dormant. Sadly when people came to see it the whole place had been bulldozed and the species was destroyed. Such a waste

[@k5k11k23]

I love Ta$ha'$ out taKe$ 👌🏾

[@footfault1941]

A fantastic plant & where to find it... Under leaf litters!

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

Hey Thanks, Tosh

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

Tasha put her name into the Goblet Of Fire it seems

[@dn7923]

Hey how about myrmecophytes? Maybe even a couple videos to break down some of the genera. Id recommend at least lecanopteris getting its own video along with rubiaceous myremecophytes.

[@deatherutts]

Awesome plant

[@VINCE-pp3es]

gympie gympie

[@TurinTurambarTolkien]

"Fairies". I guess that is why you were dressed up for Halloween.

[@eomguel9017]

Wow, this is one plant genus I had never heard of. Speaking of minuscule rarities, why not an episode about Lacandonia schismatica?

[@katrinakollmann5265]

Incredible ❤

[@EmpyrionBlackthorn]

Tasha the Amazon 🤩

[@robinhahnsopran]

Just opened the video, so I haven't watched anything yet, but I HAD to say that Tasha's outfit today is absolute FIRE 🔥

[@pedrova8058]

Here in the south we have Arachnitis uniflora (Corsiaceae family). Like Thismias, Arachnitis don't make photosynthesis. It's a monotypic genus, with plants only in Bolivia and Chile. Hard to find and see!!! (and as its name says, it looks like a spider, faded and pale )

[@lilliew.6854]

How about common edible plants like purslane or wood sorrel?

[@Nintenboy01]

I dig those glasses

[@darellmanatrajagukguk5621]

Love this! but despite it's abiity to reemerge from extinction. the future of borneo's thismia is quite bleak considering how fast environmental loss is happening there. On a side note, would like to see you guys talk about Echinosorex gymnura, another creature that dwelve in borneo and north sumatra island. Thank you!

[@johnmichaelrutherford3514]

know this is going to sound weird but a couple of months ago i was visiting my cousins in Pennsylvania and I swear to God I saw something coming up out of the ground that vaguely resembled Thismia americana.