What I knew before watching this video: Rafflesia is a plant with interesting big flowers. What I know after watching this video: Rafflesia is a freaking lovecraftian horror of plant world.
I did a report on the flower in the 4th grade(well over 15 years ago) I had forgotten the name since then, but still thought about how it astonished me. Yesterday, I thought of it again and now I’m stumbling across this video. Thank you.
What a great video! I would like to add that an Indonesian botanist became the first person to successfully cultivated Rafflesia Padma outside their natural habitat using grafting method. She successfully grow 6-7 flowers using the grafting method.
I live in Turkey and my mother suggested me to watch your videos when I was in the 5th grade, and since she suggested me, we have been turning on the Turkish subtitles and watching your videos. Your videos are really interesting!
I haven't seen one in person, but someone told me that it looks like it was hand-crafted by theatre students for a set. It smells like the combination of rotten eggs, spoiled milk, and feces. How I wish the science world can figure out more about this plant and its significance to the Southeast Asian history.
the fact that this flower was named after Sir Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition and the founder of the British colony of Singapore - is quite ironic and funny.
Correction: it was named Rafflesia because he "discovered" it, but the locals have always called it Pakma since the early civilisation. We interchange the name Pakma/Rafflesia sometimes.
Even as a Sarawakian myself, I've never encountered a Rafflesia flower, nor have I ever been to Gunung Gading National Park (even though it's located not too far from my place) I wish I could see it someday
My science teacher just to make the classes interesting would make up her own mythology in correlation to chapter. For Rafflesia it was "a human cursed to become a rotting flesh flower for eternity"
This is amazing of this flower. I didn't know that all the flowers related to this flower were parasites. I'm studying botany, and i'm going to write this down and do more research on it. Now i'm curious what else this flower has to show.
Rafflesia can be seen around south east asia specifically here in the Philippines. If you are a hiker or adverous and would dare to hike the mountains around visayas zone you'll probably will see one of these. They are huge and stinky as well.
thank you for explaining the rafflesia! as an indonesian, i never seen one of those (sadly), but i always hoped to see one. btw, in indonesian, its called "Bunga bangkai" bunga is flower and bangkai is carcass ( idk just translate from the google :v)
i saw this once when I was working in a island in malaysia, there were like 4-6 rafflessia on one tree trunk. I don't recall the smell but it was amazing
There's 40 species of Rafflesia. The biggest one is the rafflesia arnoldii, only be found in sumatera indonesia.. The species that grow in your country are probably different species
I knew there was such a thing as a corpse flower( the conservatory in my city has one growing in the tropical plants section) but it different from the rafflesia, which is commonly referred to as the stinking corpse lily. I had no idea there were so many flowers that smell like dead bodies.
So proud to be a Southeast Asian! (Malaysian) Even though it stinks 😅 It’s a pity that the numbers of recorded number of the Rafflesia flower is decreasing due to deforestation…
They got passing mentions about them having the largest flower in plants but man, they're way more interesting. They're basically plants with fungal lifestyle.
The largest Rafflesia species here in the Philippines is Rafflesia schadenbergiana. It can be found in Mt. Apo (Country's highest peak) in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. So sad that I haven't seen one of those despite the fact that I live in Mindanao
I only distantly knew about this flower from my niece watching Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She is gonna be so excited when I show her this video later!!
At the cellular level they are very different. Plants cells have walls made of cellulose. Fungi have hyphae which are covered with a material similar to chitin, and the cell contents connect with adjacent cells, IIRC.
@@lakminikumari4981- Scientists have working definitions, but each one has its limitations. Living organisms vary, and we've been unable to come up with clear, consistently-applicable definitions of plants and fungi. Same deal with animals, by the way.
Somebody already succeed growing rafflesia. Reported that you can reproduce rafflesia through grafting from infected plant host to uninfected plant host.
Rafflesia arnoldii is a big flower that grows in the rainforest. It smells like a dead body to trick some insects. These insects like to eat dead animals. When they come to the flower, they help it make more flowers. The flower needs these insects because it cannot make more flowers by itself. The flower is very rare and hard to find. It only blooms for a few days.
uhmm from what is observed by my grandfather who would occasionally go into the woods to gather fruits, wood and whatever he could find, said that rafflesia could grow from any plants as long as it provides shade, cold temp and humidity, and it can even grow on the ground, the rafflesia would consume all insects and small animals and the remains from their body would cause the smell to attract the next victim, once the rafflesia dies most insects would consume the rafflesia then scatters the seeds, he said that the seed would slowly consume the insects and their enzyme would help until it attaches to a host, then it would attach to the plant to eat and the cycle repeats. (Didn't know if this is true though, he said that for a rafflesia to live it must kill, and the one who killed her would make her breath)😂 the smaller the rafflesia means that the biodiversity is present like there's a predator and a prey, food chain? because rafflesias would go big if there's not enough in the environment, once you see a lot of rafflesia means that the ecology is thriving and healthy, once there's less and only a one big present, means that the rafflesia should go bigger coz the food is scarce, and the bigger the rafflesia the older they are and they're not propagating when they're growing. (Might've messed up lol)
Did I miss something? But I don't really feel the video actually answers its title other than mentioning the fact that it smells of decomposition a couple times and releases different sulfur gases.
There are many types of Corpse flower, other species might be possible to grow outside their natural habitat, but this specific Rafflesia is still currently unable to grow outside their natural habitat.
Stealing DNA is the most insane concept I ever heard of
Same here.
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fact
38.000 years from now
There would be genestealers
Same
What I knew before watching this video: Rafflesia is a plant with interesting big flowers.
What I know after watching this video: Rafflesia is a freaking lovecraftian horror of plant world.
+ its a freaking pokemon
@@jamesmedalla7043 literally a vileplume
I did a report on the flower in the 4th grade(well over 15 years ago) I had forgotten the name since then, but still thought about how it astonished me. Yesterday, I thought of it again and now I’m stumbling across this video. Thank you.
As an Indonesian, I am sad that I still haven't seen one of these myself.
bro, life is long
@@utasukoyet life is too short not take risk
Well... it's probably due to environmental destruction. Indonésie has the 2nd greatest plastic pollution in the world.
😮
I thought it is common for Indonesians to see it 😢
The Largest Flower in the world, glad i got a chance to see it in Bogor Botanical Garden, Indonesia
Why is the art style getting more corporate like
yup! bogor botanical garden is such a wonderful place if you want to learn about our native indonesian's flora
Awesome as always thanks
@@topherthe11th23 tbh, i couldn't smell anything because 5 meter distance from fence. But it visibly attracted flies.
You mean Cibodas botanical garden
my favorite flower! this flower always fascinates me because it looks so mythical and otherworldly.
What a great video! I would like to add that an Indonesian botanist became the first person to successfully cultivated Rafflesia Padma outside their natural habitat using grafting method. She successfully grow 6-7 flowers using the grafting method.
What is the botanist’s name?
*correction 17 flowers have bloomed through this method
Yeah I guess that’s the only way it’s been done yet
@@sadiauddin8701 sofi mursidawati
Only grafting? How about from seeds? Really curious on how it grows from seed.
I live in Turkey and my mother suggested me to watch your videos when I was in the 5th grade, and since she suggested me, we have been turning on the Turkish subtitles and watching your videos. Your videos are really interesting!
I haven't seen one in person, but someone told me that it looks like it was hand-crafted by theatre students for a set. It smells like the combination of rotten eggs, spoiled milk, and feces. How I wish the science world can figure out more about this plant and its significance to the Southeast Asian history.
Had no idea it was a parasite. Great video
I also thought they ate the flies.
I like to compare this plant to a hobo running an illegitimate business out of someone else’s home mooching off their housekeeping resources.
@@SwampNymph522 yeah XD
Same.
I always wondered what these were from seeing them in Animal Crossing.
in what game?
@@Allium95 wild world for sure.. maybe even the very first game
@@franzi6325 thank you
@@Allium95they showed up when you didn’t pick weeds in your town 😂 my town was always a mess when i was a kid and they freaked me out so much!
@@nicche511 no, it happens when your island is at it's lowest star rating, and not tending to those weeds could cause it
This is so disgustingly interesting...
the fact that this flower was named after Sir Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition and the founder of the British colony of Singapore - is quite ironic and funny.
Correction: it was named Rafflesia because he "discovered" it, but the locals have always called it Pakma since the early civilisation. We interchange the name Pakma/Rafflesia sometimes.
@@fid.firdhaus thank you for sharing- i love learning new histories !
"hey mate, we named a giant flower species after you"
Well, thank you
"But it smells rotten"
Even as a Sarawakian myself, I've never encountered a Rafflesia flower, nor have I ever been to Gunung Gading National Park (even though it's located not too far from my place)
I wish I could see it someday
I'm from Sri Aman
Ayy also a fellow Sarawakian here
Usopp : hey that flower would make for a great weapon
I love One Piece and Usopp.
Imagine gifting this flower to someone in a bouquet 💐😂.
Good idea
"Yh sorry I thought you might like these flowers love" 😂
this is the type of flower you would give to your ex lol
@@HexaflexagonFanI was about to say it. 😂
A wild vileplume appeared
So THATS why it’s called vile! Never knew
we learned about these in botany class. The animation makes this flower looks way better than it does in real life
My science teacher just to make the classes interesting would make up her own mythology in correlation to chapter. For Rafflesia it was "a human cursed to become a rotting flesh flower for eternity"
So this is where the inspiration for Vileplume came from.
This is amazing of this flower. I didn't know that all the flowers related to this flower were parasites. I'm studying botany, and i'm going to write this down and do more research on it. Now i'm curious what else this flower has to show.
Vileplume’s inspiration.
Rafflesia can be seen around south east asia specifically here in the Philippines. If you are a hiker or adverous and would dare to hike the mountains around visayas zone you'll probably will see one of these. They are huge and stinky as well.
I never knew these amazing flowers grew in my country until now! Thanks TED Ed!
I don't even know how a dead body smells even though I have seen them.
thank you for explaining the rafflesia!
as an indonesian, i never seen one of those (sadly), but i always hoped to see one. btw, in indonesian, its called
"Bunga bangkai"
bunga is flower and bangkai is carcass ( idk just translate from the google :v)
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Thought the flesh smell was the most notable thing about this flower, only to be astounded by literally every other fact about it's lifecycle.
i saw this once when I was working in a island in malaysia, there were like 4-6 rafflessia on one tree trunk. I don't recall the smell but it was amazing
I'm guessing you mean the sight was amazing not the smell... /lighthearted
I've seen these flowers in the forests here in my home province in the Philippines. They're both beautiful and bizzarre.
There's 40 species of Rafflesia. The biggest one is the rafflesia arnoldii, only be found in sumatera indonesia.. The species that grow in your country are probably different species
@@sekar9901 I know. I was only referring to the one native to my biological area.
This channel is nice and interesting, it has information as we want and I like this aspect very much, I recommend this channel.
This looks like something I would draw in my drawing book
I knew there was such a thing as a corpse flower( the conservatory in my city has one growing in the tropical plants section) but it different from the rafflesia, which is commonly referred to as the stinking corpse lily. I had no idea there were so many flowers that smell like dead bodies.
Check out Asclepiads
That's probably Titan arum, also from southeast asia.
as i remember, founded my thomas raffles arnoldi, i studied when i was 5th grade and so proud as indonesian
So proud to be a Southeast Asian! (Malaysian) Even though it stinks 😅
It’s a pity that the numbers of recorded number of the Rafflesia flower is decreasing due to deforestation…
Vileplume that’s the only things I can think of when I see this flower
this video is much more detailed than others of the same topic
The sound effects in this video are very cool! Kinda feels like those old timey videos idk
This flower... This rafflesia... Is so...
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I think here at Sarawak, I still wait for the time it will blooming.
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They got passing mentions about them having the largest flower in plants but man, they're way more interesting. They're basically plants with fungal lifestyle.
We have these in our city but I've never seen one since they are located in the mountains. lol
Flowers are amazing
There's one just 10 minutes drive from my place. The variant we have is called Rafflesia Tuan Mudae.
My biggest question is, are rafflesia edible???????
It is, actually!
Does it taste good?
Oh, the weird flower is way weirder than I knew, fascinating
Now you finally know what that pokemon is based out off
What a mysterious flower! Been on school textbook since 4th grade all I know is the flower is endangered amd smelly.
Thank you for providing animated education and I hope you can visit me in Bengkulu with 5 species of Rafflesia
Brings new meaning to deadly flower.
It looks like a Demogorgon's face!
Makes sense, BOTH reek of corpses, just for different reasons!
The largest Rafflesia species here in the Philippines is Rafflesia schadenbergiana. It can be found in Mt. Apo (Country's highest peak) in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. So sad that I haven't seen one of those despite the fact that I live in Mindanao
I absolutley love your channel, thanks!
I only distantly knew about this flower from my niece watching Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She is gonna be so excited when I show her this video later!!
Just curious..
What realy draws the boundary between plants and fungus(mushrooms )
I mean even the mentioned plants lifecycle is more similar to a fungus than a plant
At the cellular level they are very different. Plants cells have walls made of cellulose. Fungi have hyphae which are covered with a material similar to chitin, and the cell contents connect with adjacent cells, IIRC.
@@lakminikumari4981- Scientists have working definitions, but each one has its limitations. Living organisms vary, and we've been unable to come up with clear, consistently-applicable definitions of plants and fungi. Same deal with animals, by the way.
Somebody already succeed growing rafflesia. Reported that you can reproduce rafflesia through grafting from infected plant host to uninfected plant host.
That's how Vileplume/Ruffresia got its look from.
Love the background music!!
Long time no see, TED-Ed!!
I have seen this flower. I am from the Philippines.
The botanical gardens in Iowa had that flower
Thank you very nice video
This flower is really rare, I've never seen one of this myself
Those flowers grow in Sri Lanka forest too.
We call it "kidaram"
Hello my dear friend! thank you for the cool video! keep filming! I'll wait for new videos
The fact that it looks like it has a sharp-teethed mouth is quite scary
Need to check out the one near me next time it blooms
Rafflesia arnoldii is a big flower that grows in the rainforest. It smells like a dead body to trick some insects. These insects like to eat dead animals. When they come to the flower, they help it make more flowers. The flower needs these insects because it cannot make more flowers by itself. The flower is very rare and hard to find. It only blooms for a few days.
Seriously, worth knowing
TY the Tasmanian tiger jump boost plants
What happens with fly's eggs inside the flower though?
I see this as kid but I still remember man this flower is big guy a
Is it unhealthy if one stops watching a TED-ED video if it is not narrated by Mr. Anderson?
uhmm from what is observed by my grandfather who would occasionally go into the woods to gather fruits, wood and whatever he could find, said that rafflesia could grow from any plants as long as it provides shade, cold temp and humidity, and it can even grow on the ground, the rafflesia would consume all insects and small animals and the remains from their body would cause the smell to attract the next victim, once the rafflesia dies most insects would consume the rafflesia then scatters the seeds, he said that the seed would slowly consume the insects and their enzyme would help until it attaches to a host, then it would attach to the plant to eat and the cycle repeats. (Didn't know if this is true though, he said that for a rafflesia to live it must kill, and the one who killed her would make her breath)😂
the smaller the rafflesia means that the biodiversity is present like there's a predator and a prey, food chain? because rafflesias would go big if there's not enough in the environment, once you see a lot of rafflesia means that the ecology is thriving and healthy, once there's less and only a one big present, means that the rafflesia should go bigger coz the food is scarce, and the bigger the rafflesia the older they are and they're not propagating when they're growing. (Might've messed up lol)
Did I miss something? But I don't really feel the video actually answers its title other than mentioning the fact that it smells of decomposition a couple times and releases different sulfur gases.
very good
Great Video ❤
I doubt this could be a demand during Valentine's Day.
I live in sumatra but i've never seen raflesia flower before
But I heard somewhere that not all of species of this flowers smell like corpse.
Only from some videos,I never see this strange plants in real life.
Great
Reminds me of Venusaur’s flower
More like Vileplume.
interesting, is it possible to stop this parasite process?
i saw this flower b4!
There are about 13 Rafflesia species here in the Philippines which is threatened due to deforestation 😢
I hope i can have this one for one collection if my neighbor are not annoyed with stinks
The scientists eye kinda reminds me of the pigeon from the books.
Ustozimiz summary uchun shuni bergan edi kingba difficult,
I live in Madison, WI. We have one growing in a hothouse at Olbrich Gardens. If no one has had any luck cultivating them, how did it get here?
There are many types of Corpse flower, other species might be possible to grow outside their natural habitat, but this specific Rafflesia is still currently unable to grow outside their natural habitat.
Make it easy to remember : Rafflesia is a huge, smelly, and parasitic flowers
It's soo amazing ❤at all.
Is there any way we can save them?
As I growing up, I saw them multiple times. But then, my mom always got rid of them. You know why.
Demogorgon flower
As an Indonesian, I never seen one one but I saw in photos
I heard that Rafflesia is sometimes depicted in Chinese & Japanese media.
One question I have is if humans can eat the fruits of the flower.
Was I the only one curious as to how the resulting fruit tasted?
the ending of this video is somehow sad