I learned about these flowers in animal crossing. If you neglect your town long enough then these things start growing and making its own ecosystem.

@guide9547

Жыл бұрын

thats how i learned them too pretty weird they added that to game

@GreyGooseBurberry

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 That’s crazy! Ironically, I haven’t played my Animal Crossing app in years. Guess I should see how the town looks lately! I could use some more Nintendo coins, anyways! 🌺

@inrevenant

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, which animal crossing?

@chimeraproject9481

Жыл бұрын

Me: *chaos trigger itching* Me: "well I need whatever console that game runs on, play it, leave to village unattended and bask in the raflesia chaos*

@chattycatty3336

Жыл бұрын

@@inrevenant i think it was new leaf but i could be wrong

So this must be the flower that the Pokemon Vileplume is based on. It's always fascinating to see the real world connections.

@timothyvanhoeck233

10 ай бұрын

It is. Likewise Victreebel is based on the Pitcher Plant.

@trevorswims5754

10 ай бұрын

Not to mention venusaur, who's flower is also based on the rafflesia flower.

@timothyvanhoeck233

10 ай бұрын

@@trevorswims5754 Hmm...not quite. While it is similar, the key thing which prevents Venusaur's flower from being a rafflesia is the leaves surrounding it. Rafflesia doesn't have leaves because it is parasytic rather than photosynthetic. I would say Venusaur's is probably more akin to some species of passiflora or another tropical flowering plant species, though I'd need to look into it to be certain.

@trevorswims5754

10 ай бұрын

@@timothyvanhoeck233 Oh yeah, that does make sense, but even though the its flower may not be parasitic, I still like to believe that venusaurs flower is at least half or somewhat based on the rafflesia flower. You made a great point though.

@doragonsureia7288

10 ай бұрын

@@trevorswims5754 I think venusaur is just a bullfrog, that planted some plants on his back so that a Rafflesia can infest the plants and attract tasty flies for the bullfrog. In the first episode of "The insane biology of Pokémon"!

There's a preserved Rafflesia on display at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan that never ceases to amaze me. I'm a small statured woman and this flower is more than half my size. I've always appreciated the fact that it's no longer smelly though I have always wondered how bad it truly smells.

@dankachilles9356

Жыл бұрын

Man I LOVE that museum ❤️. Sadly it's been over two decades since I've visited. I need to go again next year.

@spidaman0112

Жыл бұрын

​@@dankachilles9356 it's now next year, have fun

@ikizul3871

Жыл бұрын

It smells really bad,like rotten meat,like corpse. It smells that bad to attract insect to come inside. You can come here,Bogor,Indonesia to smell that flower. The ticket is cheap,it is not more than 2 dollars. But,the ticket for aeroplane is expensive😅

@stevethea5250

Жыл бұрын

u cute-sized

@fancyincubus

Жыл бұрын

It's like opening a bottle of rotten milk and opening a room with a highly decomposed body in it at the same time

Depending on the temperature reached by thermogenesis, another possible reason for it might be to further mimic decaying carcasses, which produce some heat as they decompose.

@gaburieruR

11 ай бұрын

The most probable, and to strengthen and spread the odour too!

Thank you for this information about Vileplume!

@ceymiss1

Жыл бұрын

This comment is way too down. Definitely the first thing I thought of too. 😂

@Jerrowashere

Жыл бұрын

And Venusaur

@angelicaph483

Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there😂

@NinjutsuSeeker

Жыл бұрын

Im.surprised this isn't a top.comment. I couldn't help but think of vileplum the entire video

@james4thedoctor482

Жыл бұрын

@@NinjutsuSeeker I've never gotten more than like 7 likes and 1 comment, so to me this feels like a top comment! lol

We have these growing in our backyard back then. my grandpa cut them off, it never grew back after a few times cutting the flower. It's sure is magnificent seeing it up close.

@AdminAbuse

10 ай бұрын

Had*

@LoneMagpie91

7 ай бұрын

​@@AdminAbuseOnly losers do what you just did tbh

@MrChrisshoe

3 күн бұрын

Woah, where did you grow up?!

I saw these flowers up near Mt Kinabalu in Borneo its diameter measured around 700 mm and yes it did smell .. Borneo is full of amazing weird things and it’s one of my favorite countries to travel through

@ChuinYih

Жыл бұрын

Borneo is the name of the island, which consists of states from 3 different countries. Mt Kinabalu is in Sabah which is a state of Malaysia, but I'm sure Kalimantan and Brunei are great places to visit too.

@pyropulseIXXI

Жыл бұрын

is that 700 mm 1 sig fig, 2 sig figs, or 3 sig figs?? Should've went with 0.700 m if it is 3 sig fits, otherwise I could be thinking you only know this thing to within +- 100 mm

@filipdrucker4990

Жыл бұрын

@@pyropulseIXXI most likely the latter.

@donbrashsux

Жыл бұрын

@@pyropulseIXXI it’s 700mm on my builders rule

@pyropulseIXXI

Жыл бұрын

@@donbrashsux So that means 0.700 m?

I remember a video about an Indonesian that *grow* this flower in his backyard. This plant is a parasite of a certain vine, so all he did was _implanting_ the whatever-it's-called (bulb?) on a mature vine, then watch them bloom on his backyard. The vine need big tree to climb, so to plant this Rafflesia, you will need (i) the bulb of Rafflesia, (ii) the vine as its host plant, (iii) big tree for its host plant to climb on, and (iv) humid environment. I remember his backyard was quite shaded, with rich black humus and puddles everywhere. The host plant (vine) itself was about 10cm in diameter. I just Googled it. Seems like the host plant is from genus Tetrasigma, a type of tropical wild grape.

@bodjiedelgado1377

Жыл бұрын

It can also grow in string beans vines. It smells like decaying rat. We have a lot of that here.

@parry3439

11 ай бұрын

why in god's green earth would anyone grow a flower that smells like death in their backyard

@MadcatMashupMayhem

11 ай бұрын

@@parry3439 It does do wonders warding off unwanted neighbor kids messing in your backyard AND scaring off more superstitious ones

@adityarahmanda

11 ай бұрын

​@@parry3439 Because the flower is kinda rare right now. There are lot of this flower (titan arum / rafflesia) back in the days and people usually get rid of it because of its smells.

@souffle420

10 ай бұрын

​@@parry3439first, because it looks absolutely stunning. Second, because it's rare, meaning you're helping with the conservation by raising one. Third, because… honestly, for those who love gardening, this kind of smell is no big deal. It smells like your usual day on composting area.

What a brilliant video. I'm not as much into botany as zoology but this was super interesting. I have never heard about stinky flowers.

@alfianmelodic

Жыл бұрын

Actually first time i've seen this flower it is on junior high school backyard. 😂 Greetings from Indonesia.

@dudesayshi2191

Жыл бұрын

VILEPLUME VILPLUME if you know you know

@Mewmero

Жыл бұрын

@@dudesayshi2191 Vileplume is rafflesia

@dudesayshi2191

Жыл бұрын

@@Mewmero DING DING DING YOU ARE CORRECT DEAR SIR

@spit_soup

Жыл бұрын

me too. im so obsessed with zoology but stuff like these flowers are why i also enjoy botany. biology in general is awesome

Damn, props to the dudes who found it for not burning the whole forest down after lol

I learned about this flower on a school trip, you could press a button to smell it, and i had that smell stuck in my body and lungs for an entire hour. The smell and size were the only two/2 things i knew about this flower.

some things i note: 1. is rafflesia the same kind of flower like in other flowering plants? or is it just an organ that mimics the shape of a flower 2. Interesting that some flowers smell nice, and others smell terrible, but seemingly for the same purpose 3. How is it possible that horizontal gene transfer happen in macroscopic eukaryote? does rafflesia has a similar cellular machinery to bacteria to accomplish this? 5. Where is rafflesia in the evolutionary tree? i imagine a plant as weird as this might be evolutionarily isolated and have only few relatives (like the case of platypus and its relatives for mammals) 6. How can rafflesia be so difficult to cultivate outside their natural habitat, while we can do that with titanarum?

@kiangandhi4048

Жыл бұрын

The only thing I noted is that you missed number 4. 😄

@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083

Жыл бұрын

6. Rafflesia is parasitic, only grow from seeds, and need very very specific host. It is stated in video that it's still unclear how the seeds germinates. While titanarum not only grow from seed, it also produces tuber that is easy peasy to grow like growing a potato (some titanarum relatives are well known as food source in SE Asia). Digging a full grown tuber for replanting usually doesn't harm the plant. It does hibernate out of the ground, you can plant it months later and it grows like nothing happen.

@tomkleist1815

Жыл бұрын

(Answering as a botanist but not an expert specifically on Rafflesia) 1. It is a real flower, not just a look-alike organ. 2. Yes, just all depends on the type of pollinator the plant has adapted to attract. 3. No, it does not appear that horizontal gene transfer works the same way in plants as in bacteria (though a bit tricky to simplify and some aspects are the same). Parasitic plants seem to have a proclivity towards it, so we might posit that it has something to do with the host-parasite relationship, 5. Rafflesia is a a eudicot in the Rosids. Holoparasitism has evolved several times in flowering plants. 6. It can be notoriously difficult to establish obligate symbioses (whether mutualistic or parasitic) in cultivation...

@kaylakennedy4835

7 ай бұрын

​@@tomkleist1815amazing thank you for the detailed explanation

I've seen these in Borneo, and yes, they smell bad, but it's absolutely nothing compared to Swedish surströmming(fermented herring), unrelated but I was walking on the beach the other day and came across a semi decomposed seal, even that was nothing compared to the Surströmming.

@elisabethbjuhr1318

Жыл бұрын

But still, it is so tasty. Surströmming, I mean. Never tasted the flower. .

@mooodeang

Жыл бұрын

@@elisabethbjuhr1318 I think its overrated, its just tastes salty and fishy. Its not really anything special.

@elisabethbjuhr1318

Жыл бұрын

@@mooodeang The first surströmmingsklämma in the autumn is amazing, but then I'm pretty much fine 'till the next year. It may just be the total experience.

@atrudokht

Жыл бұрын

How about durian? We southeastasians really adore this king of fruit while foreigners hate it so much due to the strong aroma.

@90enemies

Жыл бұрын

​@@atrudokht Durian smells sweet atleast to us South East Asian ig, the smell he's trying to describe is more like the smell of trash bins but 10x more intense as it stings your nose.

They don’t call it “The Corpse Flower”, for no reason now.🌹

For me, this is one of the best voice-overs on KZread!!

Always cool to see what inspired certain pokemon. *A wild Vileplume appeared*

This is extraordinarily cool, thanks for exploring something I don't get to see very often in such detail. Love to see it.

Interesting, maybe the role of this plant is, like so many limiting factors in nature, to control the population of insects by eliminating their larva

@zakirehman9023

Жыл бұрын

oh, that could be

@StevenSkoczen

Жыл бұрын

"Role" feels like it implies purpose. There was a niche in the ecosystem, it figured it out, it eats the larvae to live. Everything nature is just trying to eat and reproduce. This plant is no different. :)

@ishrendon6435

Жыл бұрын

@@StevenSkoczen well no offense that is a purpose most organisms have

@ishrendon6435

Жыл бұрын

@@StevenSkoczen if we want to play word games like mant do ok but it is a purpose many organisms have. To survive and reproduce

@atrudokht

Жыл бұрын

Only tropical countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil who got this rich and abundant biodiversities.

Love waking up and seeing a new vid from this channel, keep it up🔥🙏🏼

Such a good channel, only down side is I gotta prepare before watching because I’m trying to learn

These raflessia flower were probably one of surviving highly specialist flower in Kpg extinction.

@filonin2

Жыл бұрын

Would have went well with all the rotting corpses.

It looks like a flower you'd find in an old 16 bit side-scrolling platformer video game from the early 90s. 🌺☄️🚶🏻‍♂️🌸📺🎮

@FireFog44

Жыл бұрын

I don't know if this counts, but rafflesia is the inspiration behind the Pokemon Vileplume.

@goaway1148

Жыл бұрын

That was a lot of emojis

The way these flowers look creep me out so badly and i cant even explain why

One was found at a mountain within our city here in the Philippines by hikers a few years back and it said that more would bloom in a few months time since it's already in the state of decay when they found it, they also found a few montior lizards surrounding the area since they were also attracted to decay

I saw a preserved one of these flowers in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens. Really cool to see this after seeing the preserved flower in person. Amazing!

Humans can do some amazing things. But when they cannot figure out a flower, I would say it is because of its smell that no one wants to investigate it.

This channel has come a long way since it's humble beginnings in early October 2019. Almost at 1 million subscribers.

@dubstrippin

Жыл бұрын

Are you a robot ?

@FlamingBasketballClub

Жыл бұрын

@@dubstrippin Not I'm not a robot. Dunno why you'd ask such a stupid question mate.

@Phoenix56801

Жыл бұрын

@@FlamingBasketballClub it's not a stupid question, bots are known for posting stuff like this to get likes and subscribers

@FlamingBasketballClub

Жыл бұрын

@@Phoenix56801 So are humans. It's the comment section of KZread. L response bruh.

@martyparty2003

Жыл бұрын

@@FlamingBasketballClub I don’t think you needed to respond so harshly

5:17 Let me tell you, staph is a very serious infection. I have a staph folliculitus infection that is resistant to antibiotics. I've been on various antibiotics for a year now. I've been seeing an infections disease specialist for about half that time. My skin, going from my feet up to my knees, is covered in painful, itchy, bleeding sores that do not heal. They'll form scabs, but the skin under those scabs won't recover. I've had some of these scabs for over a month, and when I accidently scrath them off, it bleeds as if it were a fresh wound. I haven't been able to work because sweating causes my condition to worsen. At first I was able to do non-physical jobs for a short time, but now my arms are starting to break out too. My sores are contact spread on people and surfaces, so I can't work most jobs at all. Make sure to cover your wounds carefully and shower a minimum of once each other day. If you are worried about something on your skin, go see a dermatologist. It's worth the ~80$ to avoid being in a state like mine. Remember, preemptive care is always more effective than reactive care.

@nikola12nis

11 ай бұрын

Ive had staph infection in my nose. A year of antibiotics did nothing. Got rid of it by accidentally hearing the pharmacy lady talking about some medicine used for animals. Bought it, put some of it inside my nose cavity for 2 weeks, tested negative some 2 weeks later. 10/10 would selfmedicate again!

@absoutezeo2126

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this.

@reahtoni8069

8 ай бұрын

hi have you ever heard of Cuga it’s a fungus thingy that grows near mountain terrain. anyways it’s brown and looks rocky like not smooth and it heals from the inside so by drinking it. that may help aide in the right healing that your leg needs. also talk to your leg let it knw that u need it to walk.

@reahtoni8069

8 ай бұрын

chugga if spelled correctly

Well... Learning that they are Parasitic, makes Vileplume from Pokémon even more interesting

Yesterday I walked through a fishing dock in equatorial Africa. The smell there pretty sure trumps this flower. It fits the description but add "decaying fish and fermenting feces" to it. I am not easily bothered by smells, but I had to fight the urge to vomit all the time.

I am so thankful the British have always been there to discover everything we, as a collective species, are aware of.

@alecicruz388

4 ай бұрын

i guess its one of the very few positive things to come out of colonialism hahahaha

Plant Man (from Mega Man), Vileplume, and possibly but probably not Venusaur are inspired by rafflesia. Such an interesting yet disturbing flower!

i have learned about this plant on BBC with David Attenborough the plant also leaves a small drup of their pollen on the flies so the plant can reproduce!

That was another video that keeps me in AWE about the millions of species we have that evolve so differently. Anyway, you could look into Halyomorpha Halys. The Brown marmorated stink bug. They are the size of a fat dime, but when one lets loose near you, you have to take a shower afterward! And the smell, I would describe as moldy dirt. I much prefer skunk! 🤡❤

@spiraldown2710

Жыл бұрын

My cat played with one of these, and after smacking it and licking her paw, she began jumping and jaw smacking. Quite upsetting, til I found out it wasn’t toxic, then I chuckled. The bug was unharmed as well

I opened a can of surstroming in my garden to eat once and i swear to god, the amount of greenbottles that turned up within the first minuet.... It was unholy. I can see why a plant would use stink to reproduce

Thanks for your videos I really look up for every new video you upload

It's the accent and cadence for me. I could listen to her for hours. Just exquisite.

Fun fact, the Pokemon Vileplume is based on this flower.

Your Voiceover is just so good!

i was just thinking this exact question a few months back, why the two largest flowers both happens to smell like corpses, like i know it's to attract carrion flies to pollinate but WHY? is there a particular benefit to the combination of large size and pollination by insects specifically targeting corpses?

@alecicruz388

4 ай бұрын

flies might be the only available pollinators in its habitat?

and can you possible make a video on coelacanth and other "living fossils" in the future? thanks!

Hi Real Science. I'd love to see a documentary on Welwitschia, an equally weird plant :)

Jungle people : its a herbal medicine ! Everyone else : sure pal ! Modern science : Yeah its antibacterial and works against resistant bacteria everyone else : wipes tears with toilet paper

That Google search in the end was hilarious. 11:37

Excellent research. I learned a lot about this very interesting plant.

Having lunch while watching this wasn't my best idea in retrospect.

there is a rafflesia in the tropical house of the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria

Thanks for the info.i never seen or heard of this flower.❤

video length - chef's kiss ;)

So this is the inspiration for the Vileplume pokemon

Love these videos but wish they were double the length.

Markie Marks lmaoo that's why i love this channel

Forbidden salami

The title is what I be asking myself after failing to blow all the smoke out the window on a fat bong rip

@fajaradi1223

Жыл бұрын

No, don't do that. Inhale them all. Why would you wasting most of the good stuffs?

Great post my friend. Very interesting species.

All this talk of stinky flowers makes me want to roll one up 🔥

Thank you for these very high quality and interesting videos.

Can you do a video on the progress some scientists have made with interacting with apes

@katebretusch3752

Жыл бұрын

Would be great

I remember seeing this somewhere a long time ago

I saw some of these for the first time here in Malaysian Borneo 😊 The ones I saw, at least, didn't smell so bad unless you got pretty close to them

"The shivering isles are lovely this time of year"

Yos should put the biggest flower in the world, not the weirdest parasite.

I'm just imagining the Rafflesia plant watching this and getting all excited about somebody talking about it. Then all of a sudden "why does it smell so bad" "One of the smelliest plants of all time" "still smells real bad" "stinky" "smells like rotten beef" Then the plant going aww 😭.

Makes you wonder what ancient flora looked like when there was more oxygen in the atmosphere. Could imagine giant smelly parasitic or even carnivorous plants.

I've known about this flower ever since i was a kid so i never really paid much attention to it. But damn it's a lot more interesting than i thought

This is what inspired those giant flowers in Kraid's lair in Super Metroid and the Nettori fight in Metroid Fusion.

Your Videos are amazing but where do get all this specific video footage? Would be awesome to know 😇

Corpse flowers, make my black heart enjoy darkness.

There’s was one when I was a child at UNC Charlotte in North Carolina

Brother ... bring the Flamer ... THE HEAVY FLAMER !!! Exterminatus.

Thanks for the cool vid.Your topic choices have been awesome.

“Vileplume's toxic pollen triggers atrocious allergy attacks. That's why it is advisable never to approach any attractive flowers in a jungle, however pretty they may be.” OmegaRuby ‘dex Description. ❤ 🌺

This is one of those things I would love to see first hand but wouldn't want to get close to.

Hi there,I love nature and with your videos it inspired me to pick it as my future profession but in my region there is no course for wildlife biology .Can u give me an advice because I don't want to give on my dreams[I dreamed this since i was a child].if I studied biology I will be a teacher in my region(ridiculous) i don't want to offend teacher profession it just because I don't like the job.It will be helpful if you replied.Thanks for reading.

Love this channel

Out of interest measured my plates they're just over 22 cm. So you must have quite big dinner plates... not that that means you have to fill it all. But I remember seeing somewhere that US plate sizes have really gone up in size, post WWII , so perhaps that's true. Btw I live in Spain.

@16wolff

Жыл бұрын

USA here and you got me so curious that I had to bust out a tape measure and see. My standard dinner plate (standard according to the amazon info) is 10 inches and not a chance I could finish a filled plate in a sitting. I personally prefer to use the little plates of the set as the big ones are just a little crazy.

@nathanielgarza9198

7 ай бұрын

The US government a while back wanted us to eat and exercise more so we would be a little more bulky for the next war They then took away the exercise but do to lobbying not the eating and we are now mostly obese

Rafflesia sounds like a name somebody would call their kid in America 😂

@maulanaholiqyanuar2578

Жыл бұрын

Rafflesia-arnoldii was named after dr. Joseph Arnold, a British surgeon, and Stamford Raffles, the then Lt. Gov. of British Colony of Bencoolen (today's Bengkulu). However, it was first discovered by a French explorer, Louis Auguste Deschamps, whose on his way back home, the ship he was boarded in was captured by British, and all of his notes, drawing, and specimen was confiscated. There is currently some 25 recorded of Rafflesia genus, spread in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, including the first discovered Rafflesia-arnoldii. Most of them is considered endangered, due to threat from deforestation etc.

@kudajingkrak4919

Жыл бұрын

@@maulanaholiqyanuar2578 First discovered by the local tribesmen, not the European. The Raflesia Arnoldii is the biggest, and only found in Indonesia. The ones in Malaysia/Phillipine is Not the -Arnoldii.

extraordinary text rare in internet. Highly professional and interesting simultaneously

Can't wait until this channel covers Hippos! They're the stuff of interest and nightmare!

Vileplume really living up to its name

Staring into that plant reminds me what my toilet often looks like.

That thing in the thumbnail is chilling on my animal crossing map

i was on the island of Borneo when i was a kid. Remember the smell of this horrible but wow-looking flower, and it was so huge

My singaporean ass has been calling these flowers Raffles-sia. Great video! What an amazing plant!

Very well done!

so thats where my Venosaur went

Imagine those people who cannot smell, life must be abit mundane. like smelling a lovely bakery or unleaded petrol xDD though not whiffing the petrol just the smell that comes off when you're filling up or in the petrol station

@StepBaum

Жыл бұрын

As such person its awesome. Much more often ppl complain about smell than saying "oh this smells nice"

@clairehillier9818

Жыл бұрын

Without smell your unlikely to be able to taste so yes it must be awful not being able to enjoy your favourite foods

@M.One.XJ6

Жыл бұрын

@@StepBaum at least you will never know being trapped in a car as a passenger in hot summer and someone farted and the windows are locked 😕🤢

@StepBaum

Жыл бұрын

@@clairehillier9818 not the case tho, i can still taste

@zyansheep

Жыл бұрын

As someone with the opposite condition, its nice being able to smell cigarette smoke from long distances away so I can avoid secondhand smoke... But yeah, super sensitive smell can be kinda annoying.

A wild Vileplume appeared!

7:10 Wasp hunts down fly. Nice.

Also a Pokémon named Vileplume

now... this is something we found.. imagine places in rainforests we havent seen yet.

Glad to see nature's Plumbus

Southeast asia is pretty unique, here you have plants that obviously dont want to be eaten/consumed and reproduced like Durian and this rafflesia flower.

Such a cool plant

Used to learn about these a lot growing up in Malaysia

imagine deciding that photosynthesis isn't useful 💀

Are we sure that Rafflesia isn't part fungus??

@hankrearden20

Жыл бұрын

Are the 10 meter anchors hyphae? Is it's structure made of chitin? Does it reproduce by spores?

Alternative title: Why does the flower smile like an anime convention?

Don't forget Vileplume! Gotta catch em all!

So why is Rafflesia considered a plant instead of a fungi?

@stibis5713

Жыл бұрын

because they call it a flower.

@yourbuddyben4854

Жыл бұрын

Because it evolved from plants so it is related to plants and did not evolve from fungus so it is not related to fungus. Convergent evolution filling an ecological niche as other parasitic/decomposing organism do. Also other than that. It still has a flower, fruit, seeds, breaths in carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. While fungus breaths in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.

@oddpotato4038

Жыл бұрын

@@yourbuddyben4854 kinda like crabs. Multiple animals have evolved in to a crab like form multiple times before in earth's history even though those animals aren't related.

@BruceVial

Жыл бұрын

Fungi use spores to reproduce, plants use pollen. It’s a plant