David Attenborough Uncovers Nature's Record-Breaking Plant!

David Attenborough Uncovers Nature's Record-Breaking Plant! | Nature Bites

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5 ай бұрын

Dive into the fascinating world of botany as David Attenborough unveils an extraordinary plant that breaks records, revealing the astounding wonders hidden within our natural world.
From Kingdom of Plants Season 1 Episode 3, "Solving the Secrets": this series, narrated and presented by Sir David Attenborough, documents the world of plants, from the strangest to the most beautiful. Plus, a look at how plants change their biology to adapt to the changing seasons, and ensure their survival.
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@AfraidMonsters 5 ай бұрын

I'm so glad he's still doing so well! If anyone deserves immortality, I think it's him. I wish he could have it.

@Alpaka_Lolo 5 ай бұрын

Yes, totally! And others such as Jacques Cousteau or Carl Sagan!

@replica1052 5 ай бұрын

(where consciousness is an echo of our senses, echoes of our senses may echo for all of eternity )

@danielreed5199 5 ай бұрын

Immortality might seem great in the short term but in reality it is probably one of the worst things a person could have. Imagine still existing once the universe is dead, floating in space, alone for eternity, sounds pretty horrific to me. Things need to die for other things to exist.

@anthonypk7281 5 ай бұрын

@@danielreed5199 Seems, you've convinced yourself without much effort.

@AfraidMonsters 5 ай бұрын

@@danielreed5199 Idk. I’d love to be immortal. Even if it meant losing the ones i love over and over. At least i could shape society. And rid of the horrible things in it. consuming animals, dhmb or abhsive laws, injustices everywhere, etc.

@kunigunde.d 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mr. Attenborough for showing us the incredible beauty of the plant world in such an interesting and unexpected way.

@bobseldestagain 5 ай бұрын

I'll never forget when the Greenhouse at UNC-Charlotte had one open for the first time. Working there meant having a key to the building and let me be the first one to see it open at 5:45 in the morning! Walking through the Greenhouse rooms, turning on the lights as I went from room to room, finally getting to the Tropics room with our Titan Arum that had just opened...was an incredible experience, like being there for the birth of a long-awaited child.

@DonnieTNJ 5 ай бұрын

Everyone on earth should be able to donate him one day of their lifespan. So he stays with us forever

@jackbenimblejack1 5 ай бұрын

Orrr we make an a.i version of him

@catherinefilipowski3506 5 ай бұрын

I would willingly do so.

@mark6302 5 ай бұрын

i'll give him a few years

@crimsonfirelily 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful and so mesmerizing too! Thank you! 💜 ✌

@mamaj6028 5 ай бұрын

I ❤ nature ! And when it's delivered by Mr Attenborough its even better !

@theworthysoul 5 ай бұрын

Aroids are definitely some of my favourite plants. The fact that both the smallest (a tiny duckweed) and largest (the titan arum here) flowering plants are in the arum family is fascinating to me. Pothos, Monstera, Peace Lilies, Calla Lilies, Philodendron, Alocasia, ZZ plants, Syngonium, Anthuriums and many other popular houseplants are also aroids (often having the signature large spadix surrounded by the spathe should they flower). So are crops like elephant yam (close relative of titan arum) and taro (elephant ear). We also do have native aroids here in the UK, like duckweeds, as well as Arum maculatum, the cuckoo-pint/lords and ladies, which David covered on Wild Isles. It also emits a slightly foul scent, warms up and traps little flies inside it to pollinate it! Edit: Also, afaik, the Titan arum flower isn’t a flower but a large inflorescence, which contains many smaller flowers inside. It’s the largest unbranched inflorescence for sure though.

@eaglerocvox3277 5 ай бұрын

The Wonderment of Creation...Thankyou Sir. David for Everything you have Done for Us...

@timmillan6701 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic videography

@comfortablynumb9342 5 ай бұрын

Who else wants to hear the rest of the details?!

@10man10 5 ай бұрын

@kerryh3918 5 ай бұрын

We are lucky enough to have a couple at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens & wow are they absolutely spectacular….pongs a fair bit but they were truly an amazing sight & gargantuan in size

@robertfindley921 5 ай бұрын

OK, that's wild. I heard it smelled bad, but I didn't know about the heat.

@valhoundmom 5 ай бұрын

I am so thankful I can watch this amazing process without Ssmelling it! Thank you Mr Attenborough!❤

@sazji 5 ай бұрын

Oh, you should smell it too. It’s…spectacular. :-)

@valhoundmom 5 ай бұрын

@@sazji have done once. That is enough thanks.

@sazji 5 ай бұрын

@@valhoundmom :-) The first time one popped of at the U of Washington greenhouse, I had to talk to crowds of visitors for about 4 hours. I had a headache by the end of it. 😩

@valhoundmom 5 ай бұрын

@@sazji oh!! I could not have done that!! You arexa superhero!

@sazji 5 ай бұрын

@@valhoundmom 😛

@1konNOS1 5 ай бұрын

Respect to that guy!! His voice reminds me my childhood !!

@francescamocerithibert2937 5 ай бұрын

Thankyou so much for the beautiful video of showing an amazing unique flower 😊

@markissboi3583 5 ай бұрын

Now they can store Data without using power on silicon glass these videos will be around for mils years to come David Attenbro! has shown us nature with his team like no other .

@taufik6813 5 ай бұрын

we need more channels like this, i longing for the world to be qoncuered by people like him

@christineMaccallum-uo3qx 13 күн бұрын

Nature is magical and that touches heart in many different ways 💕❤️

@yt.personal.identification 5 ай бұрын

He showed us what we are destroying before we destroyed it. Thankyou.

@asimally9468 5 ай бұрын

THE LEGEND AT IT'S BEST ... I JUST LOVE THIS MAN ...

@maoridezyah4964 5 ай бұрын

If this is the biggest flower in modern history.....imagine the size of plants and fungi in pre historic times. There are fossils of giant mushrooms bigger then humans. Only the imagination and fossils can give us a rough idea on how huge everything would have looked thousands of years ago, including insects.

@AJPemberton 5 ай бұрын

It takes little to imagine how things would have looked thousands of years ago 🙂 Though the numbers and diversity of wildlife can be surprising, most of the main species are still with us, even if terribly reduced. Millions of years is more of a challenge (and, unless you are a young earth creationist, likely what you meant) .

@aarondavis8865 5 ай бұрын

you should have a look into the carboniferous period if your into this stuff it was a truly bizare world when compared to today milipedes as long as cars drangonflys the size of birds and rainforests engulfed the globe

@kelliott7864 5 ай бұрын

Skunk cabbage in the pacific northwest of the United States also smells strongly and creates its own heat.

@g.d.cooper4901 4 ай бұрын

Sir David, Thankyou for still being wonderful.😊

@AnarchoReptiloidUa 5 ай бұрын

Great video ❤

@jamieennen964 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely love all of the nature shows and documentaries he's done!!

@chrisferrell1588 5 ай бұрын

Just think of all the insanely crazy type of plants that's come and gone?!? Things I bet we couldn't even imagine

@TobiasDettinger 2 ай бұрын

This is probably the most fascinating plan in the world...

@dblaze4745 5 ай бұрын

Marvelous👍☀️💖...

@ShamblerDK 5 ай бұрын

I wish my life was narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

@cossetta 4 ай бұрын

im amazed by the cinematography on display here, beautiful shots that must have taken alot of skill to pull off!! looks almost like claymation at times its wonderful

@theboredblueberry 4 ай бұрын

You had me at Attenborough bro 🌱💚💯👊🏻💨love botany 🤙🏻💨💨💨🔥

@Raida7 5 ай бұрын

As it came out of the ground, just the colour and patterning, I thought 'is this the corpse flower?" :D it's really just... it's so sci-fi! so much larger than we realistically think of a flower

@grandduchyoflovendara3516 5 ай бұрын

We used to have smaller versions of these popping up and growing on the old grass field behind our backyard. It always puzzled me as a kid as to how this rotten-smelling flower could grow into a small bush-looking plant a few days after the flower wilted, the more you know.

@YayRaven 5 ай бұрын

That is amazing!

@alishademmery3581 5 ай бұрын

Gorgeous

@rock0345 5 ай бұрын

how amazing!

@belomolnar2128 5 ай бұрын

Great doing by Sir A. ❤

@microscopicmagician 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful and amazing

@teejayman215 5 ай бұрын

The tuber of the smaller version of this plant is very commonly eater in South India. Its called the Amorphophallus paeoniifolius or elephant yam

@sufiyan2682 5 ай бұрын

Cheamph in Malayalam

@EnglishViking420 5 ай бұрын

Hes not just a national treasure hes an international treasure

@Lumimyrsky 5 ай бұрын

I've had the honor of seeing one of these giants bloom in the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen some years ago. They are H U G E. But the smell is very overpowering, and does smell like everything rotten. It's not for people with very sensitive noses 😆

@Gipsi711 5 ай бұрын

It most probably came from Indonesia

@MottyGlix 5 ай бұрын

@@Gipsi711 He did say it came from the jungles of Sumatra, which is in western Indonesia.

@ramonbril 5 ай бұрын

Lovely plant, and for hobbyists totally doable too!

@MR-puffnstuff 5 ай бұрын

I love your green house dave its been there for so long.

@fastbudgrower4205 4 ай бұрын

At 2:00 mins or so the other plants look like they're going AHH AHH and praying to it 😅

@victormuhia750 5 ай бұрын

Mr Attenborough would read the yellow pages and still make it interesting. Keep him safe at all costs.

@souffle420 5 ай бұрын

As far as I know, it's the unique characteristic of that family of plant. Lota of species from that family also have similar life cycle; growing big leaf, only to wilt later and produce stinky flower. You probably know some of them. Elephant yam (South Asia), and the ingredients for Konjac/Konnyaku jelly (East Asia).

@katyc.8663 5 ай бұрын

I got to see on blooming in person. They are neat!

@birdnird 5 ай бұрын

Now I want one more than ever

@rozekins 5 ай бұрын

We have a lot of those in my grandpa's backyard in the village. Some are huge, bigger than in this video. Some are smaller. during war, the locals dug out the root, cleaned it up, and ate it. it has to be properly cleaned and properly cooked (which i unfortunately don't know how to), otherwise your mouth and tongue will get itchy.

@mikaeltuber9225 5 ай бұрын

Mr Attenborough, the plant you just described was one of the food crops the First Voyaging Pacific Islanders brought with them. They cooked the root as a form of wild taro. But today is no longer used for eating.

@WilliamHunterII 5 ай бұрын

"Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The inflorescence of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, is larger, but it is branched rather than unbranched. A. titanum is endemic to rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra." -- Wikipedia

@oliverhobbs2231 5 ай бұрын

ive got one of these at home!

@chicob.8419 5 ай бұрын

Albeit unrealistic, i loved the work of the sound technician, with the emerging and opening sounds...

@tiddybearkush 5 ай бұрын

I have grown that kind of flower but a different soeciment in the same family. They grow crazy fast.

@AJR-zg2py 5 ай бұрын

4:30 Given the size of the flower, was looking away from the screen and totally thought it was the FLOWER making that roar!

@rhondahuggins9542 5 ай бұрын

If you are going to be a flower...❤

@Sharon-yk7xm 5 ай бұрын

Truely a great man gave people so much beautful knowlage to all many thankyous

@TheTishy44 5 ай бұрын

Nature is awesome. I think that plants called the “corpse flower/plant”.

@asunder6797 5 ай бұрын

The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds! It is a parasitic plant, with no visible leaves, roots, or stem. The plant shown in the video is not the flower but at the base of the spathe is covered with many small flowers which are pollinated by insects and is also capable of self-pollination.

@davidmestre2344 4 ай бұрын

My Amorphophallus Titanum is almost 2 years old! Still a baby but hope to the flower in a couple of years 😊

@serenacoils1866 4 ай бұрын

Wish it was longer like more info, is there a second flower in that glasshouse for bugs to pollinate the other plant? So that the second plant can flower?

@charisseellsworth1310 5 ай бұрын

It looks like the plants around it are bowing to it.

@Manyanababy 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@user-hv7zi1bg5i 3 ай бұрын

Subhan Allah ❤❤❤

@khadeejarahman8372 5 ай бұрын

Oh thank you, kind Sir and do have a Wonderfully Merry Christmas together with all of your Creature comforts(Ha-Ha)! Khadeeja Alghali-Rahman (London, UK)👏👍🤣😂🥳🎉🐝🕴️🦂🦟🐜🕸️🦅🐚🐡🦃🦔🦌🦋🐐🐎🐌🦗❤️🐞⚓🐑🕊️👁️🤼🌻🏞️🏖️🌴🌜🌛

@okapi7559 5 ай бұрын

That timelapse was so crazy to watch. It felt like I was watching the birth of an alien species.

@JimmyRJump 5 ай бұрын

Wasn't this filmed in the botanical gardens in Meise, Belgium?

@Hemp1972 5 ай бұрын

❤

@stevehall7372 4 ай бұрын

Fredrick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids Michigan butterfly garden grows1 i seen it one year super coop place👍

@dawnezone8491 5 ай бұрын

Watching this shows me we are surrounded by Aliens!! Wonderful, thank you ♥

@dmfleming 4 ай бұрын

Yes, heat sensitive camras are remarkable

@gary.richardson 5 ай бұрын

There is one of these in Seattle

@uncledick9445 5 ай бұрын

I can smell it through the screen.

@ianfrasermobile 5 ай бұрын

The leaves look similar to that of a Kiepersol tree (Cussonia paniculata)

@ingr8ful1 5 ай бұрын

1:49 to 2:10 looks like me in my younger days…says every guy ever

@seetheforest 5 ай бұрын

That's some Jurassic park sh8t there! 😮

@user-we6ef4no8w 5 ай бұрын

HOW DO THEY GET THESE CAMERA ANGLES

@deeza72 5 ай бұрын

How does a plant learn to mimic the body temperature of a mammal to trick pollinating insects?

@siggyincr7447 5 ай бұрын

It's called evolution.

@Alusnovalotus 5 ай бұрын

Plants know… 🌱

@bramvanduijn8086 5 ай бұрын

It's not learning, it is mutation and selection, repeated for many many generations. One way this could happen: - One of the plants mutated to generate 1 degree more heat than the other plants in the population. This plant got more pollinators, so they had more offspring. - A couple hundred or thousand generations later they're all 1 degree hotter. - One of the plants mutated to generate 2 degrees more heat, and again it got more pollinators. - Repeat.

@sergeidominiquepantejo9773 5 ай бұрын

Dami ito sa Palawan..and it smells bad, heheh

@logan3455 5 ай бұрын

I have one in my living room. Not sure what to do if it blooms.

@cxaxukluth5432 5 ай бұрын

1:34 not the biggest flower though; what we see in the video is Amorphophallus titanum’s inflorescence, which is the largest in the world, and it’s made up of many tiny little flowers. It’s not one single flower though. Rafflesia is the true largest flower.

@deathkitten7635 5 ай бұрын

The ‘flower’ is technically an inflorescence since it produces multiple fruits along its stem. The largest true flower is the rafflesia which also smells like rotting flesh.

@nontrashfire2 5 ай бұрын

flower petals are a specialized leaf

@jusele-ox9rc 5 ай бұрын

I do believe I have solved the triffid mystery DNA 😮

@jordanhill15 5 ай бұрын

This is a scene from Dennis the menace lol

@thlee3 5 ай бұрын

haha the sound fx

@shoveldoggermafia 3 ай бұрын

where can we get seeds?

@Martin_Priesthood 5 ай бұрын

👍🙏

@ndacadet1 5 ай бұрын

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius is closely related . And looks petty same . Most important its tuber(boiled , mashed with tamarind) is so yummy .

@chlorophyllheart 4 ай бұрын

Is this the plant in the movie Dennis the menace? Hah

@peterwysoczanski9391 5 ай бұрын

anyone figure out what the chemical reaction is that is causing the heat?

@user-sn2oq4qt7b 5 ай бұрын

Oh my god that is related to the smelly flower

@muxahid1 5 ай бұрын

You commit sin if you fast forward Sir David Attenborough’s documentary 👼

@boardmandave 5 ай бұрын

How could a plant know every 7 years it's time to flower I mean the season cycle fair enough but the years?

@bramvanduijn8086 5 ай бұрын

Good question. If you're a biologist or future biologist (or you know some), you could get started on that research.

@kanders7391 5 ай бұрын

I can see his nose is cold, with the heat sensitive camera.

@MultiSenna12 5 ай бұрын

is it Sri Lanka or Sumatra, Captions and what he says differ

@krishnagar740 4 ай бұрын

The leaves and the tubers are edible. We eat like vegetables.

@balongvillanueva1049 5 ай бұрын

Pinakbet bagsak nian samin

@GiGiGoesShopping 5 ай бұрын

Years ago we stood in line with dozens of others waiting in queue to see this at the DC Botanic Garden. It was massively impressive, but no scent at all. It's reported that this plant has all manor of scent that parallels decaying things, we detected nothing 🤔