You don't need click-bait titles to get us to watch Sir David Attenborough. Just chill and let the man work.

I really get annoyed at those misleading titles even though Lord Attenborough is always interesting.

Another hallucinogenic cactus that grows MUCH faster and bigger than the peyote is called the Peruvian Torch...they can go to tree size in the wild...the San Francisco botanical gardens have some beautiful specimens and a lot of people in CA have them growing in their yards, not knowing their secret.

I use to own an Agave neomexicana. I started it, from seed, in 1996. It bloomed last summer, after growing a 20 foot mast, that grew it in about 10 days. It stayed alive, for about two more weeks, wile the seed pods formed.

Sir David... I don't think I have watched anything more than your episodes on nature and I am fascinated each time I watch something new... you put it across so beautifully like none other... thank you so much... God bless you....

I've had the pleasure to actually see an agave bloom. The city I currently live in got a bunch of them way, waaaay before I was born. And they decided to bloom the very year I moved here. One or two of them have bloomed every summer in the last 4 years. Not sure if they have any left now, but I hope to see one bloom this summer too. This is a rare thing in Sweden, so I keep encouraging ppl to come look. But they don't seem as impressed as me. :/

Clickbait. He didn't "just find" it. Peyote is very well known.

My grand dad had a century plant, it just shocked me to see it do that after being around it for over 10 years. I could never get use to the yard changing like that from known plants.

There is, and will always be a magic to these documentaries and videos from David Attenborough and his team. Everything from the way they capture such enchanting and wonderful footage, to the lovely music that compliments every bit of it, it's like heaven in information form. Thank you very much for doing all of that so well and over so long too 😊🥰 The Agave is amazing. Its mast looks like a giant asparagus haha. And that plant at 4:03 just looks like something from an alien Planet. Never would've thought that they were plants 😯

I didn't know David Attenborough discovered the Peyote Plant. Amazing

I've been aware for some time now that some plants flower one time and then die. I've never felt sad about it. Until now. The way he broke the news was so moving. But that's David Attenborough for you. Bringing life... to life.

. In the late 1940s my mother transplanted a tiny "Century Plant" (Agave) from the Los Angeles area to Western Oregon, to a spot very near her front door. It survived & grew, albeit slowly. After about 35 years, in the late 1960s, it put up two flower stalks, the tallest being no more than 8 feet, the shorter about 6 feet. It did bloom well, from both stalks, but I really don't know if it was fertilized. (Their house was *VERY, VERY rural, in the forests, even,* & I don't remember ever seeing hummingbirds there as I grew up.) Anyway, blooming DIDN'T deliver a "death knell" to the plant, it just continued to live it's very slow & even life pattern. The last time I saw it was just before the "turnover" to the 21st century, in the late 1990s. It was then somewhat smaller than when it had bloomed in the '60s, and didn't seem quite as vigorous a plant, but it certainly wasn't "in its death throes" by any means! Unfortunately, my mother managed to burn the house to the ground in 2003, which I'm certain did the Agave NO good whatsoever. I haven't been there since, but thought this reminiscence still significant enough to be shared. Amazing plants, those Agaves! *Thank you so very much for this short video clip; it DID stimulate my memories, and in a pleasant manner, too!* 🌾 (So sorry; I couldn't locate a more appropriate emoji. 😥 )

David Attenborough could speak about plumbing for 5 whole minutes and I’d probably would be captivated the whole time.

click bait title, but still love David Attenborough

I think my Aloe plant did the same thing, put up a stalk and now it's dying, seems to be rotting from the middle. Got 11 babies from it, it was growing on the lawn but I moved them all to pots. Still trying to keep the original one alive, it's more than 15 years old for sure.

Oh sheesh. Love this stuff. I been collecting cacti and succulents in my backyard for 20 years . One can never get enough to add to the beauty.

I’ve learned so much from David Attenborough 🙂

peyote is such a fascinating plant. It's not quite poisonous, but it relies heavily on animals knowing not to eat it because they'll become very ill and have a ... weird... time. There are so few plants that manage to pull that off and thrive. The fact that humans have used it for thousands of years for medicinal, religious, and recreational purposes only makes it more fascinating.

I've been watching this guy narrate plant and animal films my entire life. He's a living legend. An thank you for the education you have given me about everything in are plant.

I have been wanted to get some Lithop's for a while because I think they look really interesting, I never knew their colour matched their surroundings! That's really incredible to me! I would never had guessed plants had that kind of ability.

A quarter of a meter a day!??! That’s awesomely fast for a plant.

David Attenborough apparently just found peyote?? Not like it's been known about for 1000s of years or anything. Good job David 👍👍

All you gotta put is David talks about plants and we will be here

man, they made this sound like some big discovery, but peyote has been widely known for ages

Agave is abundant in our village and we use to eat the juicy part of it when it starts to grow its flowers on top of the stem. We were kids at that time but I don't remember being hallucinogenic. Thanks for the video. Love from Nepal

When a perennial plant dies after its flowering cycle, that’s called monocarpic. One such species in the southern Rockies (and elsewhere ) is Frasera speciosa or Monument plant.

David Attenborough has an ability to make everything so interesting that I forget why I was here to begin with. Lol

I could listen the that man’s voice forever and never tire of it.

I've never heard of this plant he's discovered 'Peyote', what a remarkable find.

There's another agave plant where I live in Arizona, where the entire stalk is covered by yellow flowers. The cool thing is that the flowers don't turn into fruits or seed pods. Each flower turns into a little seedling. Then, high winds or the stalk falling once the parent plant dies break the seedlings loose from the stalk.

Happy birthday Mr Attenborough I really love & enjoy your work! I know it was yesterday 🎉Happy Belated birthday 🎂

I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??

David nicely shows the terminal action of the Agave’s blooming effort - yes, the plant lives for decades trying to get to a blooming stage. BUT(!) - that does not kill the plant which, I’m sure he knows but just chose not to show. The blooming just terminates the individual rosette on which the bloom spike is growing - therefore it’s the rosette that is monocarpic… technically a “multiannual.” Whereas your average “annual” plant lives for the one year, distributes seeds & then dies, the Agaves take decades to grow old enough to bloom - therefore, a “multiannual.” I always rejoiced when the rosette dies off, because… that means there’ll be a flurry of underground activity as the bulb underneath sets out new rosettes all around it - sometimes just one, sometimes many. In that way, it spreads out, both, vegetatively AND (through seeds) sexually. Also… according to Wikipedia, the trailing-letter-“e” IS pronounced, as I have done all my life. Of course, that’s one of the many joys of watching David Attenborough: his manifold eccentricities… 😊 😁

What a champ! have a good trip david

Sir David Attenborough & all things Naturalistic FASCINATE me; the Both combined in documentaries, journals, articles, etc are BEYOND REWARDING ENRICHMENT TO MY VERY SOUL... Even my 3, very individually unique, Daughters (17,13&10 y/o) share the love of his life's work, revere Sir David in the most respected high esteem as an Iconic Mentor and seek out his past & present pieces spanning decades. As a mother, I know I've made/make TONS of mistakes in my role & duties YET, in this, I have NOT failed them in the many ways this shared passion will continue to teach, enrich, motivate & change them as they grow & thrive along their paths in life; He has much to offer society, foreseeing issues LONG before the masses of his time, mine & theirs!! #MankindsMentor

His voice is nostalgic and legendary. Great video!

As Max Kharpovitski wrote, there are other options if you HAVE TO take Mescalin. Trichocereus Pachanoi, Trichocereus Bridgesii or as he wrote Trichocereus Peruvianus. But please be wise if you really HAVE TO take it, it is a rough journey.

Imagine the planet eons ago that fortified this fast and tall growth. These plants had to compete with some probably extinct plants that were abundant and grew fast.

Seeing an Agave flourish is a beautiful thing to witness.

Fenomenal collecting, great job, big love to the plants :) - thanks for uploading for one part of your life :)

Got to see a century plant bloom in my neighbor's yard, quite the view!

I was never much interested in cacti and desert plants before. I like trees. But this series has been fascinating. I have been rubbish at keeping house plants and garden plants alive, so I lost interest until now. Sir David could make a tax return fascinating!

One time when i was on holidays in Croatia (my first time there) there were those agava flowers everywhere, like you could see several hundred of them blooming along the beach. The next times i've been in that place the spectacle never repeated, maybe like 1 spotted for the whole trip.

Wow my neighbor had a plant that just randomly started growing this giant stem like two stories high and come to find out it was this same plant!

I lived in Southern California for awhile years ago and there was a few plants around the house I rented that people in the area called Spanish Bayonets. I don't know if that is their true name but I can certainly understand why people might call them that. The leaves were very rigid and the points and spikes were very sharp and I could easily imagine someone falling into one and being impaled. They were actually very beautiful but also very terrifying. I'm color blind so I can't say what colors they had but I could see very defined bands of a lighter tone along the edges. I always made sure to be very cautious whenever doing anything near them.

I must give my two cents into the Agave stems subject and add another species besides Hummingbirds that feed off the flowers, I've personally seen Bats feeding out of the flower's nectar... as a matter of fact, I've seen more Bats flying around a Maguey's "Quiote" than Hummingbirds.

I am a 36yr old American just finding this guy for the first time this week and his voice is so relaxing!! I want this guy to teach me everything or at least just read me books.

What I found interesting is that do plants have a certain intelligence, It doesn't have brain, but it does have a processing unit somewhere that can instruct the plant to do things, like how do they know which coulour atrracts bird or what smell attracts insects. Mindblowing

The agave plant is amazing. When I was in Peru I saw many poached agave all over. They kill the plant which takes so long to grow initially.

Our neighbour has some growing in his yard. They're amazingly tall and the flowers look like yellow floating islands. Incredible plants indeed.

In the slang of my grandmother, she called these plants, "God's Candlestick". Also, look into the, "San Pedro Cactus". Also, "Jimson Weed". All are hallucinogens. Jimson grows wild on the hills and byways in CA., and it's not illegal.

Clickbait title… but gotta love Sir Attenborough!!

what's rather interesting is how similar the stalk and flowers look to that of an asparagus stalk.

From Floridah and have tooo many Agave plants in my yard...they self propagate like crazy when they do flower..was pullling up babies for years Love Cacti and grow lots of species including peyote and san pedro they're fun

It's going to be a sad, sad day when we lose this man. He and Patrick Stewart are two of my favorite people ever. Both have been huge role model / inspiration to me for most of my life. Glad they're still going strong, despite their advanced age. David Attenborough is the reason I have such care for animals, nature and the environment, in general.

A very intersting film. Thanks to you, we are learning more and more about the world of plants and getting to know this world.

Great, man!... Thanks a lot!

The flowers on that agave are known as "quiote" in certain parts of mexico and are a delicacy. Many people make a "guisado" out of them.

If u cut the mast before it expends all its energy, can u save the plant from killing itself?

Lithop and lophaphora are the two main reasons I love cacti

It would be an honor to trip out on hallucinogens with Sir David Attenborough.

Me when I get out of bed in the morning: 0:57

I'm pretty sure that's just a giant asparagus

Yes he has David is the best his comforting voice never gets boring

Blue agave, aka century plant is very common here in Florida and I've been lucky enough to see quite a few when in flower. They're quite pretty

Hearing David Attenborough speak makes me miss John Hammond. RIP.😔

OK, let's correct something right now. Most agaves (pronounced 'a-gah-vey') are NOT monocarpic. Yes, the flowering shoot dies afterwards, but those pups that come up around the old crown come from the same plant. It's more accurate to think of them as a branched perennial, where most of the structure is below the ground. The flowering crown is equivalent to a branch tip, while the new pups are other branches that erupt from the soil after the dominant branch has done its thing.

How does a plant mimic its environment? How does it know its surroundings aren’t bright blue if they cant perceive colour?

I wonder how my Echinopsis Denudata ever managed to survive - it's a big fat cactus with no spines! The flowers are amazing, and the whole plant is beautiful.

Reminds me of the song "It's a living thing". Beautiful!

Ohh you meant to type "hallucinogenic." I gotcha Nature Bites 😂🌈👍🏽

I love this man. Only him can explain the peyote cactus 🌵 in 10 seconds.

I know my boy david has had some DEEECENT trips in his day lol

Fantastic. Many thanks

As a Cherokee, I have taken a "Spirit World" vision quest with peyote

British pronunciation of “agave” just sounds so wrong.

I have a big Lithops collection. Love them.

Amazing to find something that you've grown for years

I’d love to have a peyote button in my garden collection. I don’t live in a good desert climate so most of the time it’s kept inside. They are super rare nowadays thanks to dea etc

Agane is pronounced like Ave Maeia. note Have/

where can we buy the DVD series here in USA Thax!

The way he says agave lol, love Lord Attenborough

God bless the hallucinogenic plants and mushrooms! New revolution coming up!

Never thought I would say it, but Mr. Attenborough is incorrect about birds. They indeed do have a sense of smell.

"The act of producing that mast is the last act in this plant's life. Having done it and been pollinated, it dies." Aww 😢

I was hoping for David to document to us a hallucigenic experience. "here I am.... tripping my balls off"

“HALLUCIGENIC PLANT?!?!!??!! SHOCKING NEW MIRACLE PLANT!!!” Clickbait sucks

Fun, misleading title. No. He hasn't. Spoiler alert: everyone knows peyote is hallucinogenic. In pure British colonial fashion, he also agonizingly mispronounces "Agave."

plant: "awh man, I'm like, really not tryna get picked up, I'm about to just look like a rock" human: "oh dude! rocks! I'm pickin them up!"

proud to be Mexican, I used to ask for a ride since Mexico city until I get to the dessert located in the limits of Zacatecas and San Luis potosi... just getting into the desert walking for hours til El venado Azul jumped around us and we have found it!!!

Couldn’t someone have told David how to pronounce “agave”? The plant is from Mexico and the American Southwest, so it’s pronounced “ah-gah-vay”. It’s the first time I’ve ever cringed at something he’s said. This must be how South Africans feel when Americans pronounce “zebra”.

When you stop using false headlines ill start watching.

I can see Mr. Attenborough sitting down with a button and some peeled seedless green grapes chowing down puking and tripping out in the name of science 🤪👍

2:18 dying has such a negative connotation but there's beauty in that it accomplishes it's goal, and then goes back home.

I guess I have been mispronouncing agave.

Let’s goooo

Fascinating!

Where can you find this series?

I love David, but your titles are very misleading. He didn't just find a peyote plant. I'm sure he's know about it for a very long time like the rest of the world.

We had one of these in our yard, quite a few actually, I wondered why only one was doing that instead of the others yet the plants had always been there, we used to take sticks and beat the plants when playing, they were cut down by our gardener. We didn't know what they were, I was 10. Edit: Ours were thorny.