15 Plants You Won't Believe Actually Exist

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 107

  • @susanmilam2346
    @susanmilam2346 3 місяці тому +32

    Hmm…Mr Sheffield, I think you left out the most humorous of weird plants, the Naked Man Orchid. Sometimes I look up images of it just for a giggle. 😂 This was a fascinating video! Nature is AMAZING, isn’t it? ❤

  • @laschlein9470
    @laschlein9470 3 місяці тому +6

    For anyone curious about carnivorous plants I would highly recommend them even for the slightly less experienced! I've found them easy to keep alive and so wonderful to watch grow. The main thing is the right type of medium and only using distilled water or rain water. Apart from that they're very happy little things and they keep your house bug free!

    • @gauchesymbiote1039
      @gauchesymbiote1039 3 місяці тому +1

      I have a venus fly trap outside. It did very well over the mild Phoenix winter. It's starting to warm up now and my vft has lots of new little traps popping up.

    • @laschlein9470
      @laschlein9470 3 місяці тому +1

      @@gauchesymbiote1039 oh I bet they would love arizona, IIRC they are native to california? My personal favourites are nepenthes - but they generally need high humidity. But if you get the humidity right it's amazing to see the little cups grow, eventually you get some that you could almost fit a chihuahua in!

  • @Dwynfal
    @Dwynfal 3 місяці тому +14

    Fun fact, many ficus are considered a "Strangler Fig". If you have a ficus Audrey or an Altissima at home, you have a strangler fig!
    My Audrey's roots keep on trying to escape, either through the drainage holes or even over the side of the pot!

  • @JuanellHopper
    @JuanellHopper 3 місяці тому +16

    I have lithops. They are weird but pretty plants. You absolutely have to be careful about watering them. One of mine flowered this year

    • @jamiemittermuller6470
      @jamiemittermuller6470 3 місяці тому +1

      Really easy to grow from seed.

    • @nicoleperron3315
      @nicoleperron3315 3 місяці тому +1

      I bought some this fall, I didn't water them, now a few are kind of wrinkly and two seem to be splitting.
      The advice online is conflicting for watering, what would you suggest? Do I water them or wait a couple more months until spring or do I hope they are all going to split and not water, they are all in the same pot.

    • @JuanellHopper
      @JuanellHopper 3 місяці тому +3

      @nicoleperron3315 if they are wrinkly I would give them a little water just until it runs out the bottom. If they are blooming you don't water

    • @Deb.-.
      @Deb.-. 3 місяці тому

      @@jamiemittermuller6470 That could be interesting but I seem not to be blessed with 'green thumbs' 😶

  • @TruthWillSetYouFree832
    @TruthWillSetYouFree832 3 місяці тому +11

    New bucket list item: wander around the jungle with Rich looking for the stinking corpse flower. I think you could gather up a group to do that! :)

  • @redsalt69
    @redsalt69 3 місяці тому +3

    Mimosa pudica ( Touch me not ) is a very common plant found everywhere in india at nurseries for 40 INR which is 0.48 USD . They are actually a herb plant and they bear very cute flowers

  • @ravertaking6343
    @ravertaking6343 3 місяці тому +3

    The singular of lithops is lithops. I learned the hard way over on Reddit when I asked for tips to grow my lithops. Boy people got up in arms at me.

    • @Deb.-.
      @Deb.-. 3 місяці тому

      🙂

  • @anno471
    @anno471 3 місяці тому +3

    I was amused to hear you say that the mimosa pudica can be bought and planted at home. Where I live, the mimosa pudica is everywhere and is considered as weed to many. I do like them a lot and often touch them when I am out for my runs.

  • @kempydupree9374
    @kempydupree9374 3 місяці тому +3

    Those shy plants are all over my lawn

  • @ParrotplaySix
    @ParrotplaySix 3 місяці тому +4

    I was very lucky to see a Corpse Plant in bloom. It was located at the University of Connecticut's greenhouse. Yes, there was a line.

  • @lindacambria5413
    @lindacambria5413 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for a video on such interviews plants! You’re always so informative and entertaining!

  • @Tjsreptileworld
    @Tjsreptileworld 3 місяці тому +4

    These are weird plants but they are so awesome

  • @DragoniteSpam
    @DragoniteSpam 3 місяці тому +4

    I managed to kill one of the Unkillable Plants when I was a kid! I forget how I did it. Probably left it sitting in water or something.
    Also, impressive show of self-restraint not comparing Lithops to butts.

  • @kimscrafts4814
    @kimscrafts4814 3 місяці тому +4

    I have some lithops love them although only ever found the brown ones I've seen some beautiful colours of them. The pitcher plant and monkey orchid looks so cool definitely ones I'd pick up if I see them at a garden centre TFS

  • @ryangooseling
    @ryangooseling 3 місяці тому +2

    Watermeal....aka duckweed😊
    😂😂😂😂
    Plant the hotlips next to the lipstick plant
    😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Deb.-.
    @Deb.-. 3 місяці тому +2

    What a very interesting video.
    The last time the Amorphophallus titanum flowered here at the Botanical Gardens in Adelaide, South Australia was in Jan 2023 I would have loved to go into the city to see it but unfortunately was unable to. Perhaps next time. 🙂

  • @lisa-maried8733
    @lisa-maried8733 2 дні тому +1

    I really like the look of lithops and thinking of being my next purchase, there just so unique looking and very different compared to other succulents you see

  • @user-bs1wg9dt1y
    @user-bs1wg9dt1y 2 місяці тому +1

    I have one of these in my basement right now! We call it a voodoo lily around these parts.

  • @jeannette7243
    @jeannette7243 3 місяці тому +4

    Mother Nature has such a weird sense of humour!

  • @remmirath42
    @remmirath42 3 місяці тому +2

    I used to have a mimosa. I loved watching it go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning, it was adorable. Then some spider mites found it and it was dead before I even realized that something was wrong 😢

  • @theagg
    @theagg 2 місяці тому +2

    Heh, not sure you pronounced Amorphophallus quite right there but never mind! Titan is too big for the amateur to grow but there are smaller spieces that are house friendly, errm, except for the period they flower. I'm just about to pot up my Amorphophallus Konjac tubers, as they have just started shooting after their winter rest. They are not quite big enough to flower this year though by the looks of it, as usually they need to be around the size of a grapefruit before they will put up the inflorescence. (The tuber getting larger each year). Until that time, they throw up an increasingly taller mottled stalk topped by a fan of pinnate leaves. From past experience, in the year the stalk/leaves reaches around the 5ft high mark, there's a good chance that once it dies back in the autumn, the tuber will finally be large enough to flower the next year! (and stink out the home if indoors at the time)
    As for Welwitschia, back when I had greenhouses (I no longer have access to that luxury where I now live) I did try growing them from seed. Back then getting the seed was hard work (maybe it still is), requiring me to write (the old fashioned way before the internet) to Botanical gardens and ask kindly if they could supply me with some seeds. Thankfully someone in the botanical gardens in Windhoek, Namibia sent me some a few times. As well as someone from the Huntingdon Gardens in America. They were fairly easy to germinate but very difficult to keep alive after that, being very prone to fungal attack and rot. Most of my Welwitschia seedlings died young but I did keep one plant going for around 8 years before I slipped up one year and a cold spell killed it off before I had moved it indoors from my unheated greenhouse. I'm too old now to try growing one again if I could get seed, given how slowly they grow! (plus I don't have a greenhouse as mentioned)

  • @RiyLeaf
    @RiyLeaf 3 місяці тому +3

    My only stinging nettle experience was on a school field trip. We were on a nature trail that started to narrow and I was nudged into them. I guess it made the trip more memorable 😅
    Thanks for sharing such interesting plants! The Darth Vader one was new to me.

    • @SheffieldMadePlants
      @SheffieldMadePlants  3 місяці тому +1

      My pleasure 😊

    • @kathy1310
      @kathy1310 3 місяці тому +2

      I used to "encounter" them very often as a child growing up in England, always a painful experience! I learned to use the leaves of the Dock plants that always grew nearby to help relieve the pain of the stings.

  • @jimmyjo1375
    @jimmyjo1375 3 місяці тому +4

    Do not plant mimosa pudica outdoors. Will take over garden and very difficult to eradicate.

  • @loki_thewitch
    @loki_thewitch 3 місяці тому +4

    Funfact your Rose of Jericho is Not the original one, yours is a specimen from around Mexico. The original Rose of Jericho is Home in the middle east an Looks a bit different. The one we all can buy is just more easy to reproduce an sell in a larger scale

  • @suzanneyoung6273
    @suzanneyoung6273 3 місяці тому +3

    I use to live near a garden, that had lots of trees and plants. In this garden was a Strangler Vine, it grew along the ground and grew up on trees or anything it found. I was told it would kill the host plant in time, by strangling it to death. That was the first time I had seen one. I live in Queensland, Australia. 🇦🇺

    • @SheffieldMadePlants
      @SheffieldMadePlants  3 місяці тому +2

      Grim 😬

    • @suzanneyoung6273
      @suzanneyoung6273 3 місяці тому +1

      @@SheffieldMadePlants Too right it was grim. I’m just thankful it wasn’t in my garden. 😟

  • @robworrall6832
    @robworrall6832 2 місяці тому +1

    Great vid, love it. "Mickey Mouse / Foxface" is another bizzare plant that I first saw in the Philippines and I have touched one of those moving ferns out there too! They are very cool to see. Our British Ghost Orchid is one the rarest over here, I wish I could see one of those one day too 🍀

  • @retape101
    @retape101 3 місяці тому +2

    The corpse flower is at the huntington library in LA

  • @jeanthornton2107
    @jeanthornton2107 3 місяці тому +1

    Mimosa pudica defo my favourite greenhouse plant ever. Used to grow them every year.

  • @nicholasgarrett1996
    @nicholasgarrett1996 3 місяці тому +4

    I’ve had a lithops plant in my window for about a year now

    • @gauchesymbiote1039
      @gauchesymbiote1039 3 місяці тому +1

      I've had mine for about 6 months and it lives outside. It did very well in the Phoenix winter!

    • @nicholasgarrett1996
      @nicholasgarrett1996 3 місяці тому

      @@gauchesymbiote1039 I actually just checked mine and noticed the leaves are splitting! This will be a first for me so wish me luck

  • @sarahb.6475
    @sarahb.6475 8 днів тому +1

    We have a corpse flower here in Milwaukee at the Domes of Mitchell Park..

  • @melissazoeller6675
    @melissazoeller6675 3 місяці тому +2

    Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI has one. There was a huge line to see it when it bloomed and no I was not one of them. 🤢

  • @aslanlionfan28
    @aslanlionfan28 3 місяці тому +2

    I was in oahu one year for the corpse plant. They arent kidding about the stink.

  • @janetlentz7180
    @janetlentz7180 3 місяці тому +1

    I have some lithops. They’re amazing. They take some special care though. I’m fortunate to live near Longwood Gardens in the USA. Their conservatory is wonderful and has a large orchid room. I love learning about new plants. Thanks for the great video!

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi 3 місяці тому +2

    Talking about orchids, I feel one of the world's interesting, less known yet extremely common plants is vanilla. Like how many are consciously aware vanilla is an orchid? Let alone the flower and seed pod it produces? And that the seed pod is dried and washed in alcohol. And that's where the extremely unique flavour comes from, that is often ridiculed for how boring it is, because imitations and synthesizations have been put in every product (and that most don't even know that the sharp aromatic flavour is not what real vanilla tastes/smells like, but is actually a rich and nuanced taste). And that the real vanilla is rather finicky, picky about where it grows so that only a couple of places outside Madagascar produce it, and in Madagascar it creates the vast majority of the people's economy, which is somewhat painfully hurt by 1. refining companies reaping the most profits 2. refining companies controlling the market price 3. other regions producing it for cheaper conquering market space 4. companies switching to imitations and synthetics for cheaper costs. When Madagascar tried to set some sort of minimum limit for the price of vanilla "bean", the companies would stop buying and instead of guaranteeing the farmers livelihood that would be easily affordable in the product chain, it just messed things up worse. The whole sphere around vanilla orchid is fascinating and full of nuances.

  • @user-tb8dg6vl8m
    @user-tb8dg6vl8m 3 місяці тому +2

    My aunt calls the lithops a stone plant

  • @Janice4304
    @Janice4304 3 місяці тому +1

    Very interesting video Mr Sheffield. Who knew such scary 😮plants existed!!!

  • @silviap4478
    @silviap4478 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you for this interesting video ❤ I love those strange plants.

  • @nicoleperron3315
    @nicoleperron3315 3 місяці тому +1

    I'm trying lithops, I've tried a sensitive plant but it died, twice. I can't find my rose of Jericho 😔 but I am going to keep looking! It's got to be somewhere, I can't believe I forgot about it!!!

  • @trashcat3000
    @trashcat3000 3 місяці тому +1

    i haven't watched the whole video yet but i how you mentioned the flying duck orchid

  • @jamiemittermuller6470
    @jamiemittermuller6470 3 місяці тому +1

    They are some wonderful looking plants; I’m trying to grow a bat plant from seeds. I have need seen an actual one in person. The spiral aloe looks to be a stunning plant, it’s like a Spirograph drawing (also got 2 that’s growing from seed).

  • @nargisfaruq2072
    @nargisfaruq2072 3 місяці тому +1

    Amazing 😮

  • @TazPessle
    @TazPessle 3 місяці тому +1

    My mum has a similar arum 8n her garden, dragon arum. Smells like rotting seafood. But the flower looks amazing... It does spread though!!

  • @TazPessle
    @TazPessle 3 місяці тому +2

    I had a rose of jericho... had... I killed it. I kept forgetting to moisten it to keep it green and get it to grow. The result was a persistent half dormant half active state and it died.

    • @istudios225
      @istudios225 Місяць тому

      So. not indestructible then..... 😢

  • @lindaedwards4632
    @lindaedwards4632 3 місяці тому +1

    Amazing plants 😀🇨🇦

  • @joycerobbins7093
    @joycerobbins7093 3 місяці тому +1

    Amazing and quite interesting.

  • @user-qi1js9zc1f
    @user-qi1js9zc1f 3 місяці тому +1

    Stinging nettle? Bull nettles in East Texas will cause hard blisters that never stop hurting until it’s gone

  • @apriljo1968
    @apriljo1968 3 місяці тому +1

    The sensitive plant grows wild here....so does the stinging Nettle.
    Tennessee/USA

  • @ann07ps49
    @ann07ps49 3 місяці тому +2

    Maybe giant corpse flower rare here in it's native land but we have the other kinds of corpse flower that give us edible tubers and or high economical value. And even smaller one that's just everywhere spreading rotten rat corpse so we call it rat's tail. And gimpy2 to. So nice to have a walk in our forest,eh? 😂

  • @WaarheidWintAltijd
    @WaarheidWintAltijd 3 місяці тому +2

    ""Avoid being eaten" Exactly, it can't run away.
    Most plants contain oxalates, lectins etc. for the same reason. What does that tell you about what to ea t?

  • @NicholayN
    @NicholayN 3 місяці тому +3

    I thought you were going to talk about the deadliest tree on earth, the Manchineel tree 🥺 there's a few where i live and in the Caribbean. My friend bit the fruit once and spat it out, had bloody diarrhea for days 😭

  • @Dieppaloveplants
    @Dieppaloveplants 3 місяці тому +1

    The mimos pudica is a grass in Puerto rico i told my sister that they sell that plant in usa she didnt believe in my gradmother house her yard is full ok it and my auncle move the lawn and we remove it and dump it like grass

  • @miniscenesgb
    @miniscenesgb 3 місяці тому +1

    I've been in the tropical house at Kew when it's in flower. It absolutely stinks, disgusting. Ridiculous looking thing too

  • @horizon319
    @horizon319 3 місяці тому +2

    I really enjoy your videos, but I noticed that you left the "r" off Vader, and swapped the a and the e... just sharing ❤

  • @ellencnixon
    @ellencnixon 3 місяці тому +1

    💜💜

  • @murielsmart4532
    @murielsmart4532 3 місяці тому +1

    Great video i watched it twice. Hinora africana does have a... disturbing appearance 😂

  • @Gardeningjourneywithedz
    @Gardeningjourneywithedz 3 місяці тому +2

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @wolframcarmichaelyear5605
    @wolframcarmichaelyear5605 3 місяці тому +1

    hi

  • @saeedhashemi-nejad7409
    @saeedhashemi-nejad7409 3 місяці тому +1

    Hi,
    I wonder if you have a section in your channel, that might cater for your viewers in Dubai... hot^humid weather. I d like to be able to buy exotic plants' seeds. Please assist if you would.
    Thank you
    Kind regards ❤

  • @virginiamartinez391
    @virginiamartinez391 3 місяці тому +1

    🤔🌿💚🌿🤔

  • @czerskip
    @czerskip 3 місяці тому +2

    Oh, I believe. I've seen people feeding their plants with milk, there's little surprise left to be unveiled…