I Touched the Worlds Most Painful Plant - Gympie Gympie (The Suicide Plant)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Have you ever been stung or burned from a plant before?
Many
no but i’ve been stung by a wasp
Bee sting - the sole of my foot
The sole became completely white and no sensation. Weirdly, I felt no pain.
Nope
got stung by a jelly fish and once I got stung by a wasp 11 times on the head
I love the basic human experience of "this hurts" leading to "cool, let me try!"
That is not my basic human experience
They risked their life’s for the sake of UA-cam content
"You've got to try this dude, it sucks!"
@@RandomPerson-nh3ch none of the plants they touched were lethal though, just painful
Yes
"Zuko, remember that plant that I thought might be tea?"
"You didn't..."
"I did, *and it wasn't"*
Oof
Great episode lol
@@CreeseDF stfu
Shut up already
BRUH
The madlad actually did it. I appreciate that the title wasn't clickbait.
They never fell in stinging nettles. UK has them
The fact that he could feel it for 2 months. That's commitment.
@@girlsdrinkfeck nettles aren’t that bad, they hurt but it’s probably like a 2-3
@@girlsdrinkfeck Denmark too
Someone did essentially call "The Gympie Gympie" Nettles on Steroids.
i live in australia... this plant.. its everywhere. its not. that. bad.
Back in Queensland, I saw a kid in a lot of pain after he brushed against some gympie gympie. An executive type bloke came over and asked what happened and as soon as we told him he inexplicably rubbed his hands on the leaf! I've never seen anyone go down so fast. I imagine a similar scenario played out every weekend.
I’m sorry but “executive type bloke tries to prove he’s tough and instantly regrets it” is just the perfect mental image ROFL 🤣
based
@@eroraf8637I'd like to imagine that he had a very important meeting he really didn't want to attend that day
I get stung by it occasionally and there's a lot of them where I'm from. It's not really painful and is no where close to the pain inflicted by a bee sting or a fire ant bite.
@@wokeydokey6885 do you eat it for breakfast too?
"Not only do these peptides activate pain receptors, but they prevent them from turning off, too." - Wow, didn't know plants understood the concept of spite!
My thoughts exactly. How do plants even know how to do this?!
@@JayJay-ki4mi witch's curse
@@JayJay-ki4mi The longer the effects, the less animals interacted, the more long term versions of the plant survived. Survival of the fittest. As they were evolving, versions that had the pain disappear more rapidly were trampled on, eaten, nested near, etc until they gradually died out.
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I read sprite
Plant: *Evolves neuro toxin needles to keep itself safe*
Humans: "I like pain."
@nieooj gotoy Why'd you copy and paste a comment bruh.
plant: jeez all these animals wanna eat me... oh i know, i'll fudge with the pain receptors in living beings so they regret touching me
humans: huh, that stings bro
Same thing with hot spicy food That are made from plants
@@kachowgang808yt4 no one cares
@@vixen878 bogos binted 👽
“Don’t worry little buddy” *casually touches plant*
“What happens when you grow up and lose all your leaves” *dark music starts playing*
P
I also casually touch plant.
He doesn't touch it
Im Australian and my husband got stung by one of these on his leg Gympie gympies. He went to the ER when he first did it to get something for the pain but there’s not much you can do for it. 7 months later, he still has excruciating pain, especially when cold air or water hits his legs. The pain can last years. You got lucky.
has to do with what the needles are made from. its mineral so the body wont absorb it, but wont treat it as foreign for some reason?
Heres what you did.
"I rwead on Gwoogle that this pwant can cause pain for sweven (its usually labelled as nine so you were lazy in searching), so I mwade up a stwory for internet likes 🍼👶"
It's been 6 months since this comment. How is he now?
Why do Australians have the most horrible things
I've read about cases where the pain is terrible for months even sometimes years. These guys either faked this or got incredibly lucky
As someone from the town of Gympie, named after the gympie gympie plant, I found this quite entertaining. Gladly, I've never had a significant encounter with one, but we were always on the lookout when bushwhacking through the forest. I did test out a different species of stinging tree on the back of my hand one time, and found that the pain in my lymph glands quickly matched the localised pain on the skin. And for a month or two after, every time I reached into a vending machine, it would disturb the spot on the back of my hand again, and give me another little dose of the pain.
Back in the 60s, a man touched the gympie and allegedly felt the full extent of the pain for 2 years. That’s sounds like nasty stuff. Australia is a beautiful place but there are some nasty things to look out for.
I used to think you were tough. But losing a fight to a plant? Come on man.
Seriously, they can’t even walk
They fought back with flames
Am I rinsing machine or a filling machine?
How its grown
I know its a joke, still why dont you touch it
“What do the berries taste like?”
“Pain”
missed opportunity to say "they taste like burning". . .
@@Femaiden this
Here ya go: 3:30
@@Femaiden I like what he said in the video better it was funny one word line
Agony even
“What do you think it tastes like?” “PAIN” I laughed so hard
"I eated the purple berries!... they taste like burning!" thank you, Ralph Wiggum.
"[Something called "the Suicide Plant"] is native to Australia..."
Sounds about right.
YES
Everything in Australia wants to kill you. Fact.
Can relate I’m an aussie
he looks like the word greg
@@TheRisskee clearly you’ve never seen a quokka only thing that’s not tryna kill u there
this is the perfect mix of jackass and mythbusters that I never knew I needed in my life
hell yeah lmao
i live for this comparison lol
@@aightchou I found my people
Will's definitely the Bam Margera of this show
Perfect
*puts itching buring welts in chemical laced pool water*
"I think that made it worse!"
Truly a scientist.
I would love to put a leaf from that thing in your bed to give you a goodnight surprise muhahahahahahaha
@@raven4k998 id accept it that way i can get into a chlorine pool after
@@raven4k998 Imagine someone accidently put it in a meal and ate it...
@@resphantom cooking probably deactivates the sting
@@resphantom It grows fruit. It is actually eaten.
However, the sting actually is made worse by water too.
At the beginning I was so nervous at how casual he was around it thinking he would just touch it on accident while moving his hands and talking
same.
Well, I learnt my lesson working on some old woman's flower garden, she kept that thing in a small pot and whilst I was removing weeds near it, my hand and part of my arm took a good generous brash. Lets just say, I had to pause for sometime.
Pain wise, my whole arm went numb and I thought I was going into shock and I was panicking because I did not know what I touched. Fortunately, I knew that unless sap had dropped from above me, then it had to be pins the plant below. I quickly rinsed my arm gently with soap and salted water to remove possible toxins on the arm and used light yellow light to check if I was pricked by something. It was easy to spot the problem on the boils.
My advice would be removing the pins as quick as possible, that's offers best relief than anything else but the pain tho. hmm
dude at the end I was so worried bro had t-shirts and shorts on and were chopping it with a machete what if one of the leaves or needles flew off and hit one of em.
@@samuelkundael3503 how do you remove the pins?
Also at the end when they destroyed the plant, could have breath something in or flicked it onto themselves.
“What do you think it tastes like?”
*”P A I N”*
WITHOUT LOVE
@@lordreega8994 Pain, can’t get enough
Note to self: Don't walk barefoot in your driveway.
*its a bad idea*
You ain't never been to Flordia then if you don't want to walk barefoot
oMg veRIFy?? must LiKe!!
@@rommosher He probably meant that as in the plants needles are now just littered over his driveway, that would hurt
It's my right to walk without communist socks, it is on 1st amendments, no one will take my freedom of walk.
We went on a school trip to an area that had these. the guide showed us them and told us to stay away. Several kids thought it was a joke and had to have an ambulance called it was so bad. Also were it grows can have an impact on how bad it is. Growing it in a pot away from it's natural habitat probably made it a bit more tame than it is normally.
They had it coming,
You will be intrigued by the wilderness if your parents never take you on hikes
@@FightanddieHiking gang, assemble!
It's not as painful as a bee sting or a fire ant bite. I've been stung by it atleast 50 times throughout my life and the pain is easily manageable. My bike shed had them and i used to bump into them occasionally. Just leave it alone and it will go away in an hour. I never even cared enough to remove that plant either since it never bothered me much.
@@wokeydokey6885which of the three plants are you talking about?
"I felt really painful after touch that plant"
"So what did you do after that?"
"I punched it"
@HASAAN GROSS helling
One of my friends did this with barb wire
@@Handlesbedumb lol what
Apparently the collector didn't tell you not to set it on fire. Those needles don't burn easily, and can actually go airborne. You were very lucky not to breathe any in.
Damn that would be PAINFUL
Sounds fun☺️
@@christians4599 not the time with kinks lmfao
He would have got karma
@@zentryn7400 ok
I really dig the influence that William's had on the channel. I feel like he's really helped you express your fun side a lot more. Like way less stiff and you seem more relaxed.
Same! Great chemistry
Now if William can also just start making more videos again then that would be great..
@@juanbrits3002 RIght? by the time a video comes out ive forgotten this channel exists.
Im from Queensland, Australia and i lived in Gympie which is the town literally named after this plant, i got stung once trecking in the bush.. it must have been a big leaf and pretty bad because it was like being punched in the face, i fell down disorientated and later it became excrusiating for a few days.. it got kinda better after time, hot or cold water set it off again for like 2 years.. i got a coin sized numb spot on my arm that lasted almost 10 years and can still feel something wrong with my arm to this day.. super nasty and you would probly die from shock if you got too much
Can it be treated completely?
@@ButterBeanfromheavenFrom what Coyote has said, do not try to put water, duct tape comes first, if nothing is working, try the native strategy, if that doesn't work, seek medical attention.
@@tonychen3368What is the native strategy?
@@TeaCup1940Nothing much, just get tougher. I'm not from AU but there's a lot where I'm from and I've been stung more than 50 times throughout my life. It doesn't even bother me (or anyone in my place), we just leave it at that and move on with our life. Kids here play by sticking it onto each others (including me when I was a kid) and even though it hurts, they all end up fine, they don't even cry. The irritation will go away within an hour (maybe because we're accustomed to it).
Don't come back to gympie, homeless people everywhere and you cannot walk through Mary Street without finding 10 needles
“What does it taste like?”
“Pain”
It tastes like purple
@@Aaron48219 nah more liek jepawk@pa ya know?
XD
@@Aaron48219 Wait, what color is "Pain"? Is it purple?
@@gabornemeth7174 According to Ralph Wiggum on The Simpsons, purple tastes like burning, burning = pain = purple
"Hey, that looks like a nice plant"
**touches plant**
"ᵒᵘᶜʰ"
Ball ua-cam.com/video/KZfYkq0Moz4/v-deo.html
it do be like that
Ball :)
life
You hurt too rose Ms I have thorns
You know it’s bad when Will acts and talks like a normal person
My mom had this horrible cactus in the kitchen window that would sense your body heat, and "throw" its hairlike spines at you. It was also super itchy. This plant was also by the toaster, so sometimes it'd shoot you when you were grabbing your toast. I have no idea why she kept that thing.
What species? That’s pretty cool
This happened to me toooo!! My mom kept hers on the patio, so I would never go out
Thats like having an angry cat
My beloved pet cactus that hates me so much and shoots me with projectile attack
Thats terrifying and hilarious lol.
Be careful when you hit the plant, the needles can detach and suspend themselves in the air because they are so light. You can get them in your lungs that way and it would be terrible.
Well that's terrifying
@@thecastlemouse indeed.
Well, you dont have any pain receptors in your lungs at least
@@Tyrain3 its literally made of glass
@@jonathanodude6660 Still wont feel any pain tho :D
May be very bad in regards to lung cancer however, similiar to aspestos but Im no expert on that field
My husband works in an Australian Botanic Garden and they had a Gympie Gympie in one of the glasshouses. Over the years he started to feel ill being around it, and then two other gardeners had anaphylactic reactions working near it. Turns out the ‘hairs’ shed, which made sense, and could enter the respiratory system. Husband called time on it and they torched it
i'm surprised they don't have a national program designed to remove the plant from areas frequented by humans.
...well who knows. Maybe they do. But considering how many things there are in Australia that will f*ck a human up... they've probably got there hands full.
@@the503creepout7 Down here we don’t kill indigenous plants. Even snakes are protected fauna.
Oh god I couldn’t imagine the pain of inhaling this plant
from what i heard/read....not only do they shed but they stay "active" for years even if they are dried etc.
like someone had them like pressed flowers and it still stung
@@HeartTheBacon i'm an american. So maybe that's why my first inclination upon hearing about the gympie gympie is to figure out how to weaponize it.
i wonder if there'd be a way to make it into a mace spray. F*cking brutal.
2 dudes casually poisoning themselves while one dude runs on crutches. I live for this.
Peter Sripol it was, and rather amusing indeed
@@wayfa13 lol oh I know who he is lmao I fuccin love Peter.
This would be why I have no faith in humanity anymore
@@MadScientist267 this is science. How else would we have milked a cow or smoked a bowl or drank water. A couple dudes have been poisoning themselves for the future since the beginning of time.
@@justintyler4814 That's not where my issue is lol
Yes, I have brushed up against Gympie Gympie of Queensland Stinging Tree, it hurts for days, then is itchy for a week or so. Not as bad as some people make out but not pleasant. We have lots of them growing in the bushland near where I live.
I think the important part is how much you touch. Small prick on the arm, sure thats not to bad. If its your entire back or more then its a whole diffrent problem.
There was experiment in Russia to use hogweed as cow food. Well, it didn't go well. Milk becomes sour when cows eat this plant.
And now we have hogweed as one of the most cancerous weed in some regions. It grows fast and becomes HUGE. And it is REALLY hard to deal with it without using radical measures like glyphosate. It is not a type of weed that grows on fields. But ones that grows along roads, villages and at forest clearings.
When dealing with it you MUST wear full clothes, preferably ones that won't soak at all. Even under sun. Because if any amount of this plant juice touches your skin, you become "light allergic". Basically this juice is quite harmless as long as it doesn't see UV light (sunlight). But it is really hard to remove, and as soon as light falls on this place, it will turn into acid leaving rash, blisters and days of pain.
@@detachsoup6061 not to mention if that broad leaf looked good as toilet paper
Different ppl different reactions
You hurt for days from brushing on them. The stories of people using them as toilet paper or having the needles go so deep that is impossible to remove them or for them to get out naturally are one of the most terrifying things.
Next episode: "I'm the backyard scientist and I'm about to enter the sting zone."
lmao
@@DyslexicMitochondria now thats a video i would watch
he should try the lagunaria patersonii cow itch aka itchy bomb tree because when you get those fibreglass like hairs in your skin it's the most itchy thing in the world and you cannot get the hairs out lol
“I’m going into the Chernobyl reactor!”
Haha Coyote Vibes
Explosives:need a license
Self-replicating Pain Machine:allowed
Crush, toss at enemy, run.
probably still classified as assault if thrown at someone and i bet you'd be charged a lot of money for the pain caused. -10/10 would not reccomend
@@UnicaLuce Crush, mix with delicious smoothie, hand smoothie to enemy and pretend to want to be friends. Maybe take a fake sip. Then run?
@@amymoriyama6616 you are an evil genius 👍
I can’t even bring banana tree seeds over a border
“What do they taste like?”
“…pain?”
@Aidan Heckathorn brutal😂
While living in the bush in British Columbia, I learned the hard way about a plant known as Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus). Touching Devil’s Club with bare skin is ill-advised as I have personally learned. The spines detach from the plant with the greatest of ease, but are removed from skin with great difficulty. Deeply imbedded, they are nearly impossible to fully extract immediately. Instead they fester. Slowly they are pushed closer to the surface of your irritated skin where they are more easily removed, a process that can take days or weeks.
"Are the berries edible?"
"NO"
"What do you mean by no?"
I like his answer of
“What would it taste like?”
“Pain.”
@@Pixel3572 not to mention the needles are made of the same material kidney stones are made of
G’day I live in Gympie Australia. The berries are similar to a mulberry bush but acquiring them is perilous so most sane people don’t attempt it. Hope that answers questions.
@@colintupper6410 They were quoting the video in the section about the fishtail palm. Though the Gympie berry stuff does seem interesting. Maybe they should regrow it for the fruit!
Fun fact, the poison from the Gympie Gympie has through convergent evolution become structurally similar to the proteins in spider venom :)
Thats a cool fact thank you Fact Man :)
@@dahweebzy1227 yeah the world is a simulation, nothing is real
@@dahweebzy1227 oh boy here we go The cultists are at it again
@@dahweebzy1227 quite incorrect
@@dahweebzy1227 lol look whos talkin bout fairy tales
My younger brother when he was four or five years old fell with his bike in ditch filled with nettle. It was terrible, he was red and in pain.
*ouch*
I did that aged 30. Stung about 50% of my body and didn't sleep for days! Lol
In my country i never met someone who hasn't at least once 😂 totally awful experience
not relevant: i heard that nettle helps with circulation and also saw ppl like hitting their backs and legs with that plant not sure if thats true tho
also not relevant: i like nettle pie
Ya nettle can help circulation. I used to play in it lol me and my friend world see who could take more XD kinda silly now that I think about it. We had a joke for people who don't know about it and told them native Americans used to use the plant to tell who would be a good Leader if they were picked by the plant. Everyone thought they were special because they got stung :D
3:30
"What do you think it tastes like?"
"Pain"
- TheBackyardScientist 2021
This is probably about a 10 on the pain scale, but since they only stung such a small area, they were completely fine, had they stung a larger area or even fallen into it, they would've most likely wanted to live up to its name.
Imagine if it got on a sensitive area, like that poor guy who used it as toilet paper...
@@shaggyspade2468 Did he use it as toilet paper on accident or on purpose? No disrespect to him at all, just curious
@@murasakino101 accidentally, probably didn´t realize what plants he was using till it was too late
I think it's also because it was a baby gympie gympie plant and not a large one
@@JoelLopez-gq4uu that's really sad. I had no idea this plant existed until now myself 😭
plants: millions of years of evolution for protection and defense
humans: ooooh it hurty hurt
plants: am i a joke
*that resulted in protection and defense.
Evolution isn't something an organism does on purpose. That would be along the lines of Lamarckism/Lysenkoism.
yes, yes you are
I know this is a joke but just saying, I'm pretty sure it would deter most people or animals from eating it
@@creepersans9257 Yea but unless you're trying to get hurt most people wouldn't purposely touch it. Also evolution isn't worried about being touched, it's about survival. It would deter most things from harming it. Same way a poison dart frog has its toxins
666th like.... you're welcome
"This plant is covered with tiny hairs that inject neurotoxin"
>sends a cloud of vaporised plant into the air with an angle grinder wearing shorts and T-shirt and no airway protection
Them stomping on it in shoes that I sure hope don't walk in their house or in their car that had me go eyiargh. Imagine walking barefoot and getting a gympie gympie limpie because you were getting revenge on a plant for a video.
you aren't using the arrows right
@@monkeymaster8342 right? Couldn't take the comment seriously because of that
@@SegmentAxis go back to plebbit
The hairs are on the bottom of the leaves, with the angle grinder they hit the stem, I would imagine it has no defense mechanism in the stem that will harm you if touched, most likely ONLY in the leaves
The homage to office space at the end was nice 😂
"I've read multiple articles saying that water and change in temperature makes it worse"
*"so let's try that instead"*
"I am William Osman, and this is the worlds most dangerous salad". I am dead.
That is some clever word play my dude
xDDDDDD
“Aghhh, that’s a ten” *continues to press the can on his arm*
continues to pour water as well lol
Because it's a 3 not a 10.
yeah thats the thing, is its definitely not nearly as bad as theyre saying it is, but because its messing with pain receptors, its pretty solidly the max your brain can understand.
The fact that nothing else is going wrong is what makes it bearable. i dont think either of these guys have ever felt a ten lol. Its just their personal worst.
@@drawapretzel6003 If it's "as much pain as the brain can understand" how could it be more? You're rating pain here, right?
@@MaakaSakuranbo this is topical pain, theyre only feeling it in the skin, not in bone or muscle. It can get *worse* because it could be assaulting the other bodily senses, whereas this is only a skin irritation.
It can get more fucked up, but the specific area of skin cant feel more pain. It would have been interesting to see them poke it or pinch it or cut it to see if they could feel it. Thats if its actually locally threshold limited.
On a family trip about 6 years ago I managed to get Mango sap on the back of my hand during a hike. It caused my hand to blister pretty bad and I still have a scar.
Mango sap is related to the poison ivy plant
From a mango tree like as in the juice I love to drink?
@@planes3333 The bad stuff is only in the tree sap, and they all know to keep the fruit free of that sap, so I wouldnt worry about it.
@@rideon6140 Oh ok thanks so much for clarifying, you rock!
Wait I ate mango sap yesterday!!
"the pain goes up to a 9 like a wasp sting"
Coyote Peterson: Really?
Note: Coyote is holding a Bullet Ant while looking at Backyard Scientist
Pain scales are relative. I've had 3 hornet stings in an inch sized area on my foot once. Would I rate it a 9? No. I've had my thigh, right below my hip, smashed by a large truck against a cement filled steel pole, had a hematoma the size of a grapefruit right where the thigh bends. That's MY 10. When I was a child a honey bee sting was my 10, which was then replaced when a nest of hornets got me for shaking their tree. I also ate a ghost pepper off a bush when I was 5. A wasp sting is about a 6 for me. I still don't like anything over a 2.
@@usonumabeach300 You know that is actually really true. I was in a near fatal car crash that broke a bunch of bones, shattered my pelvis and elbow and yet the worst pain I have ever experienced was an infected tooth. It was the most unbearable pain I have ever felt. Funny how the body reacts to pain.
@@chriss.9398 Abscessed teeth are rough, bliding, thought breaking pain
I had an abscess and nerve die and that was the most excruciating thing I’ve ever experience
Interesting... as an Aussie who lived amongst these plants my whole life, and has had the misfortune to feel their wrath while hiking -- I've never before seen/heard them called "The Suicide Plant". We just call them "Stinging Trees".
The clear difference between Aussies and Americans.
@@almxnds Australians are just built differently
Different countries do have different names for different plants
@@cloudbasedbear And that's fair enough for plants that are native to those different countries -- but it's certainly not native in the USA -- and in Australia it's certainly not commonly known as "The Suicide Plant"
@@procrastinator1727 true true, I don't disagree with you one bit
I live in Australia, and I see them a lot where I hike. My father had a story when he was out doing some multi-day trek with his friends they decided to take of their shoes and walk in the creek-bed because it felt nice. Little did they know, when a Gympie-Gympie decomposes, the little needles do not. So they just walk on a carpet full of them barefoot. In the middle of no-where.
That sounds hurt
🥺
NOOOOOOOOO NOT THE FEEET!!!
What happened?
@@TheBitcoinBattery They were fine, that's how most encounters with Australian flora/fauna tend to go.
I feel extremely bad for that 1 dude who used it as toilet paper.
"I'm william osman and this is the world's most dangerous salad!"
*softly* don't
please dont
Cursed salad
@Potatosalad ??? You good?
Gympie gympie: horses literally throw themselves off cliffs when they touch me and man fears me.
Backyard scientist: Ouch.
Backyard scientist is beyond the power of horse and man.
@@drunkenskunkproductionsdsp8094 wayy beyond
i mean the reason you cant compare the 2 too much since backyard scientist brushed a very specific and controlled area where as the horse and other incidences would've been not nearly as tame and controlled ie instead of a small patch of skin it'd be more akin to a whole arm or in the case of a horse they'd get it along their legs and along their underside. how hard they brushed the plant against themselves compared to say a horse riding through the plant or a person walk through a forest plays a factor into how much the needles of the plant will impale you too i imagine
This truly answers my questions of how touching grass feels for discord mods
Don't forget reddit mods!
and twitter users
And genshin impact players
@@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl and people that insult games just because they dislike one person
@@TheMrsYWilson ok genshin impact player
You washed the Fish tail fruit "needles" in a swimming pool...
Great way to transfer the pain from your hands to your eyes...
And using a hand grinder to turn the gympie gympie into vapors, wow... that's next level... Coyote Peterson
"Used leaf as toilet paper, shot himself"
"I'm going to touch this plant!"
All jokes aside this takes balls
Apparently, so did the plant...
It really does
@@The_Keeper im upset for laughing
Using this plant as toilet paper would probably make it so you feel like you're having constant explosive diarrhea
@@trashcontent4851
No, constant bullet ant pain directly on anus
this is everyday stuff for him at this point
pls no
@@GrandpaStories826 no
@@saggingzebra2578 k
@TheBackyardScientist gotta do it for the content
𝖄𝖊𝖆
When I was about 9, my friend and I had a battle [swords] with two massive elephant ear stems with the big leaves attached. We used them to whip the ever loving crap out of one another for no less than 15 minutes. Unfortunately, we weren't wearing shirts and the sap got all over our torsos, arms and faces. After 15 to 20 minutes of fighting we started to notice a stinging sensation similar to getting it good from a big bloom of jellyfish larvae [sea lice]. About 10 minutes after that the pain suddenly intensified into an unbearable, searing, and sizzling hell. What ensued was roughly 3 hours of pure agony that I've never forgotten. My friend and I were in tears... screaming, and writhing in pain as my mother frantically put us in the shower and helped us clean ourselves with oatmeal soap [which helped but only a little bit]. We received hellacious chemical burns from the toxic sap, lol. It was horrifying. It was like being covered in a billion stinging velvet ants {aka cow killers as we call the} whilst a million tattoo guns with their needles glowing red hot and electrified drill far too deep into your skin... relentlessly. I'm no stranger to pain. I've experienced a compound fracture of my Radius & Ulna, I nearly bit my tongue clean off to the point it was attached by less than a half inch of tissue, I've had spinal fractures and herniated discs, I've been bitten and stung by various nightmarish creatures including a horrid sting from a Portuguese man o' war... and much more etcetera ad nauseam. Decades later the toxic sap experience remains etched into my mind. It was uniquely excruciating and legitimately traumatizing. It taught me to have a much healthier respect for plants and nature in general. Disrespect nature {even a benign looking plant} and it may be at your own peril.
That must be awful. The only thing I have experienced is fracturing my radius and ulna too, but that must be nothing compared to what you went through
Wow! What do you do to get so many injuries 😧
that’s pretty cool but i don’t remember asking 🤨
Been there done that as well and god I still have ptsd from it. That’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
All I want to know is why did a Portuguese bit you
Getting pricked by a cactus would hurt as much as falling into a cactus but fall into a Gympie Gympie tree and you’re going to have a lot of pain for a long time that’ll mess with you psychologically
“it makes it worse”
william: “ooh, ooh, let me try”
😂 lol
Lol
" The goggles, they do nothing"
6:20 this is awful 😃
“What do they taste like?”
*Famous last words*
Y E S
☑️ These remind me of stinging nettles, which also have tiny hairs that inject formic acid and other chemicals that cause itching and burning and bumps. People avoid them like the plague. BUT, they also EAT stinging nettle soup! You have to fully cook them first, which destroys the stinging hairs and the chemicals. Look up stinging nettle soup....
Pain
@@HighlanderNorth1 if I'm not stupidly making false claims here i think recognise that plant its abundant here in Sweden (and i assume other places are full of the nettles too) its not dangerous or anything you just regret that you ran through the woods without thinking of what you where doing and it itches for a few hours or so.
The itching rarely lasts a day or 2 but its not gonna get worse after that and making soup out of them are not weird at all its just common knowledge that gets shared around from stranger to stranger and "avoiding them like the plague" is a far cry from reality and in my opinion *(Echium vulgare)* or more commonly referred to as *"Blueweed"* (i will just call it *Blåeld*) is much more painful then the nettles just a slight feel from it and you start grasping your arm or wherever the plant touched you and you will soon refuse to move because of the itching pain
/Edit feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
@@TheFagerlund
Yeah, I may have exaggerated the significance of the effects of stinging nettles when I said that "people avoid them like the plague". Thats a well known cliche in America. I wasn't comparing nettles to plague, I was just pointing out that people who know how to identify nettles, will avoid walking through them. Here's what an extreme case looks like: ua-cam.com/video/MnBEYmbjdic/v-deo.html
They have different degrees of effects on different people. The first time I experienced nettles, was when I rode a mountain bike through a patch of them in the middle of a trail that wasn't well used at that time. I felt the stings immediately, then burning, then raised bumps formed, then itchiness. It lasted maybe an hour or so, gradually decreasing in severity.
But every time I've been stung by them since, the effect has been much less significant. I barely get the bumps anymore, and the pain and itching are greatly reduced.
Plant : *evolves a way to defend against virtually everything*
Mankind : *domesticates fire*
Plant : gg wp
Poison Ivy: Congratulations, Humans, you just aerosolized my poison! Muahahahahahahaha...
@@MrOarson well it’s useless if the plant is dead since it doesn’t prevent
@@theslamjamfrincisco2820 The poison ivy will return from seeds or come in from a nearby area again.
Burning Poison ivy causes swelling inside of the throat, quite deadly.
It grows as a result of an open canopy in the wet tropics. Gympie Gympie protects the next generation of trees from being eaten.
@@haydenjardine9178 interesting
This, the manchineel and the giant hogweed all prove that if Poison Ivy stopped jobbing it with vines and actually got halfway serious, Gotham would be in some SERIOUS trouble.
This is what I imagine a backyard scientist meets jackass episode would look like. 10/10
This is why Darwin awards exist
More like a brave wilderness episode
"I'm William Osman and this is the world's most dangerous salad"
Yes please
HI IM JOHHNY KNOXVILLE, AND WELCOME TO JACKASS!
"It is native to australia"
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
everything in Australia is huge, poisonous, homicidal, and/or sounds like satans indigestion
@@A_Dimension_Hopper that's how you breed a society that enjoy marmite
@TwoCentsforCharon as an Australian, nobody eats Marmite it’s a disgrace
@@boooster101 Aussies eat Vegemite, it's the Brits that eat Marmite
@Roger Jamespaul ok boomer
As soon as I saw that the title said that it was called the “suicide plant” I immediately knew it was from Australia not even a second thought wasn’t even surprised
As soon as a saw suicide plant I bought one online for *AHEM* research purposes. *cough*
Check out the Alnwick garden in England. It's nothing but a poisonous garden. You can UA-cam it up.
@@jer6162 That's probably the garden I just googled while finding information on my new favourite plant. The Manchineel.
If you want to hear the history of the gimpy-gimpy from a hilarious point of view
This is the video for you 😂
ua-cam.com/video/mg-GLwJ8Emk/v-deo.html
Fact Fiend channel w/ Karl
I'd have to say, you guys and electroboom are definitely my favorites right now. Especially since you just brought plants into science, I love plants so much. Thank you.
Plankton: "What are they made of?
Spongebob: "Hatred!"
No, what are the ingredients, what are the stinking ingredients?
nugga mie
The fact that they kept standing close to the gympie gympie plant, almost touching it with their arms several times, made me SO nervous.
Yeah lucky for him the plant is still young because it can get airborne
@@vytae9 what
@@littlereaper8006 The tiny needles that cause the pain can just fly in the air when the plant is older
@@vytae9 nice
@@sgvincent100 It doesn't kill you though but it has the power to make you kill yourself most definitely
This feels like something Coyote Peterson from Brave Wilderness would do lol
Probably too much for him
They would sleep in it peacfully
Edit: peacefully, not leacfully
"Today, we're going into the suicide zone... with the suicide plant!"
AHHHHHHRH AAAAAARH AH SHOOOT
@@lynx_ice7352 you ok?
I brushed up against one of these when I was a kid. I honestly thought for a second my leg had been set on fire
That was the calmest “10” on the pain scale.
hes lying it was a 1 a 10 would have him crying like a little girl
I would rank 10 as something that results in loss of motor skills and coherent communication. Like getting stabbed through the kidneys.
Well pain is reletive if 10 is the worst pain he has felt, then he hasnt really done much
@@raven4k998 fading in and out of consciousness, to endure pain so great you pass out again.
@@tonyravioli1982 maybe he just tough
Man, I was REALLY afraid when they're doing that montage at the end... Can you imagine when he pulls out the electric saw and accidentally hits the leaf, practically turned it into a cloud of pain?
I was expecting a leaf to swing around and hit someone when they were chopping at it like that ☹
And smelling the pain
Oh my god that was my thought too, like oh please don't inhale bits of leaf o_o
I’m worried about the shoes smashing down on it and tracking it other places 😭 imagine walking out there barefoot
"electric saw" ... that's called an angle grinder, and the discs on the 4 1/2" and 5" models spin at 10,000 to 11,000 rippums
I walked through a field of stinging nettles once. My crotch was on fire for 20 min.
Why were you pantless
what
I’m sorry what…and how…
Bro you are everywhere
If it ever happens again, put on some white vinegar. It actually helps against the itching and pain.
Theoreticly , use gympy gympy for home defense over ledges as a more visually pleasing version of barb wire for residential areas
As an Australian it was super satisfying to watch you torture that Gympie.
How much did you pay to have that user name😶🌫️
0_0
@@mwmwnwmwwwmwmwmwmwnwwwmwmw1157 5 Gympies
@@user-gg8nf4xo4m in their pants
The Gympie Gympie actually makes horses throw themselves off cliffs because it hurts them so much
🤣😅
e889 why is that funny
Reddit user I'm guessing
@@brosfromaustralia2509 pretty sure they’re talking about e889
@@e889. He is not joking around he is being serious about what he said
“What do they taste like?” “Pain???”
I think it’s more of a hurt with a side of ow.
@@destroyerj23singing17 🤤
reminded me of when Ralphie from Simpsons ate those berries! "It tastes like burning!"
"what do they taste like?"
"Pain."
@@destroyerj23singing17 the death part makes me want to eat the entire plant
Great White Shark: I'm a terrifying, top tier predator
Australian plants: hold our beer!
"what do you think it tastes like"
"uh PAIN"
The taste of spicy isn't taste, its pain.
"It's native to Australia" of course it is because if the animals don't cause enough excruciating pain then the plants will...thanks Australia.
excuuuuuse me but you bloody seppo’s take the cake for NIGHTMARE PLANT of the century - impossible to find here in Australia.
Salvia Divinorum anyone?
It’s true but the blue-ringed octopus is still super cute 🥰
If you think that's bad, Australia also gave us Ken Hamm and Rupert Murdoch.
you're welcome >:)
You're welcome other country :)
"it doesn't hurt it just itches a lot" me with chronic eczema: hmmm sounds delightful
I feel that
Same
Finally somebody who understands! Whenever people tell me not to scratch I feel like rubbing poison ivy on them and telling them not to scratch. I don’t think it would feel much different…
Relatable
I actually did a paper on Chronic Atopic Dermatitis there are certain creams that can alleviate your pain some can even be kinda like an antidote to poison in that it can stop the Atopic Dermatitis for a short period of time as far as I researched there is no permanent cure to it. There are plenty of research on it but nothing concrete that’s proven or approved by health organizations and all
I recently went camping at Gympie in Qld and was looking into the history and the name of the town is based of the local indigenous name for this plant, the stinging tree.
Soooo glad that i never accidentally brushed against it in the wild after learning more about it!!!
"This releases a neurotoxin"
Immediately slaps it on arm
* _GLaDOS INTENSIFIES_ *
*slaps*
I think people really like neurotoxins. Alcohol is also one
He acted like it was drugs
Ahh yes the Florida man in his natural habitat
😂😂😂😂😂
Agreed
Meanwhile Gray...
What is it with people being obsessed with this whole “Florida man” thing. Like you know there are regular people in Florida too like you and me.
@@Antares-rt5ub Its just a joke fam dont take it too seriously just keep calm and chill
I once punched a Gympie bush by accident when I was cleaning up the forest around my driveway. It literally felt like a live grenade went off in my hand. The pain lasted for hours and could feel it month afterwards. 0/10 would not recommend
welp i guess that one used keeps
Reason #481 to not move to Australia
@@astronemir only 481?
Fun fact: Hide the Pain Harold was stung by the plant in primary school. For many the pain never goes away.
Until the “Toe Stub” plant is discovered, I think this will take the crown.
It’s worse. The LegoStep plant. They put it in Legos to make stepping on them more painful.
Something more worse is a l a n d m i n e plant
L E G O L A N D M I N E T O E S T U B P L A N T
@@daMilkMan204 Satan himself fear the mechanical-biological monsters humans have created.
Any tree is a toe stub plant if you're bad enough at walking
"that's a 10, that's a 10"
Still holds the can to it
I don't get engineers
he needed to make sure
For science
You've got to test the breaking limit somehow.
It was not a 10. Otherwise he would have called the ambulance and perhabs startet panicing.
@@AAYLV I believe he said he would have done that, if he didn't already know it was safe before they did it.
"the stinging persisted for two years and recurred with cold showers"
holy toledo...
@john doe Yup, you are right. Still a long time but not quite 2 years haha
@john doe i think this comment is referencing 07:10
@john doe nope just checked. It definitely says 2 years. That’s crazy
You'd think he would've tried taking warmer showers
@@levsco_ water would still cause the pain to shoot up regardless of temperature
Standing there perfectly still with a straight face, saying "that's a 10, that's a 10, that's a 10" This guy has no idea what pain is
These guys getting justice on that plant had me in tears.
Have you not seen Office Space?
Lmao that was amazing
@@rickybobby144 Yes I love that movie! 😂
@@SoldrfMfortune I only remember it off that Family Guy spinoff scene 😳
It reminds me of *_these mice_* ua-cam.com/video/VE6OwKoFSB0/v-deo.html&.nrwla
This video is basically: Floridaman hurts himself with plants.
"Florida Man Behaves like Florida Man with Australian Wildlife"
Imagine being a florida man "can't be me" he he lol
This video is basically: FLORIDAMAN.
I mean.... that's basically what a bat is.
Flordia man hurts himself on part of Australia
A brave man once said, “Be brave, stay wild; we’ll see you on the next adventure”
Yeah but that's NOT Kevin and Co, and Coyote actually knows what he's doing. 🤦🤦🤦🤦
A bloke who makes thermite in "safety sandals" isn't one whose credibility is up to much. 🔥
@@AdanSolas At least it's real.
@@AdanSolas coyote is way more into nature than any scientist.
@@rickmortyson4861 fax
Lmaoo
"I'm william osman and this is the world's most dangerous salad"
Got me 😂😂
He's holding that death berry waaay to close to his eye.
341 likes, no replies. wth
@@edia6855 423 likes, 1 comment. Wth
@@cmoore9664 463 likes, two comments, wth
@@jeffreyflores3094 475 likes, 3 comments, wth
481 likes 4 comments wtf
I have to say, the ending clip where you go to town on those plant is incredibly DANGEROUS. Those tine needles can be INHALED when airborne.
Kevin: "What happens if you lose all your stinging hairs?"
Plant: *Spooky Ambience*
*"I will kill you"* - Possibly the plant.
@@callistoarmy5576 if you want to grow Dont self promote
How is this posted 28 minutes ago?! This video came out six minutes ago!
“I’m ˢᵘᵇˢᶜʳᶦᵇᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵒⁿᵉ ʷʰᵒ ˢᵘᵇˢᶜʳᶦᵇᵉˢ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵉ ʷᶦᵗʰ ⁿᵒᵗᶦˢ ᵒⁿ”...💫💫
@@GrandpaStories826 ...
No
He really earns the title of Florida man in every video