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I live in SoCal, and there are Yucca trees literally EVERYWHERE! It's illegal to cut one down, and one man bought a lot that he wanted to build a house on. But there was a problem. Right in the center of the lot was a Yucca tree, and he wasn't allowed to cut it down or even move it. So he redesigned his home with an open-air patio in the center of the house.
Before large plants there were fungus that could grow up to 6 meters tall and possibly even taller. It likely has something to do with competition that modern mushrooms can't grow that tall.
I knew Jabuticabeira would be here as soon as I saw the title. Jabuticaba is actually the name of the fruit and the taste is alright - you just gonna be careful looking up cause as you can imagine all those little berries popping means the bark itself is pretty brittle…. when I was 11 had to go to the hospital cause a piece fell into my eye 😂
Jabuticaba are also mainly water. Since birds etc eating the fruit will often poop while eating, but their droppings are are a much more highly concentrated form of nutrients, hence it's a win for the tree overall.
I had no idea dragon's blood was endangered, which makes sense since I'm seeing it used everywhere. This definitely opened my eyes and now I want to educate others to try and save that wonderful plant. Thanks, Hank.
Talking about seeing it everywhere, if you look up dragon tree you'll find that it's a super common houseplant and you might even have one. They're from the same genus as the dragon's blood tree, will look about the same when they mature, but they don't produce the resin.
As a librarian at an arboretum, THANK YOU for agreeing that trees aren’t real, Hank and SciShow! Let me tell you that was a weird moment of realization two weeks into my fancy new plant librarian job.
Okay, help me out here. There are non vascular plants (mosses and the like) and vascular ones. And don't the vascular ones at least get divided in monocots (grasses) and dicots (plants with distinct stem and leaves like herbs, bushes and trees)? I get that we likely won't find an evolutionary distinction between trees and bushes and probably even little herbs, but what is the lowest clade that we can confidently say "here are all the trees. Plus some other plants too, but no trees beyond this"?
@@cavvieira Yeah, this video is incorrect in saying there is no such thing as trees. Yes, there is no 'Taxanomical definition of a tree', but there are CERTAINLY defining characteristics of trees. Shrubs are included in trees. They require woody stems, and must be perennial. That's the basis. The Yucca listed in this video looks like a tree, but it's absolutely not a tree. It doesn't have a true woody stem, just a dense herbaceous one. Trees cannot be succulent or herbaceous following the definition of distinct woody bark.
My parents were born and grew up in Rio, Brazil. My father told me that when he was a kid, jabuticaba trees grew all over and they used to pick the fruits and eat them right off of the tree. He also told me that the juice stains EVERYTHING and is really difficult to wash out, so it was hard to hide the fact that he and his brothers were out snacking between meals.
Did you watch the crash course on botany? It might interest you even if it is rehashing stuff you already know. It was awesome for me as a mycologist, and the presenter is delightful.
When I almost threw up when I first saw jabuticaba tree because I thought the tree was infected with some vile parasite (the fruits). I've never felt comfortable eating it.
Edit: ( a couple other trees than the redwood too) I'm honestly kind of suprised redwoods aren't on here. they might be pretty mainstream as a 'cool and weird tree', but there's a lot more than just them being tall. not only are they the tallest trees, they also support a variety of organisms ONLY found high in their canopies; bacteria, vertebrates, mosses, and even other trees that only grow out of their already existing high branches. they also grow roots straight out of those canopies to catch the mist coming off the pacific coast, on top of being one of the only known conifers to be a clonal species; like the Joshua tree in this video, they can grow 'new trees' (genetic copies) of themselves, straight up from their roots. because they're rhizomous, (and we don't know if this is something specific to clonal conifers, or just the coast redwood) when one gets cut down or dies, a 'fairy ring' pops up around the stump, which is essentially just those new rhizomous trees from its roots, but in a perfect fairytale-esque circle around where the tree fell. Baldcypress trees are also a very weird tree. they are one of few deciduous conifers we know of (think pine tree that loses all its needles in the winter like maples, oaks, locusts etc.), and they also almost exclusively live in swamps. because of this, they have very wide bases with TONS of large 'spikes' sticking up through the water connected to their roots, called knees. nobody really knows why they grow these knees, some people think it's because they pull in oxygen, but the trees showed no lethargy in growth when they were cut off in multiple studies (my personal theory is that it's because they were evolved to break up big waves that could knock the tree over in the swamps they are native to.) quaking aspen are another amazing tree. they have white bark, just like paper birches, and with beautiful yellow, nearly circular leaves in the winter, and yes, they are also clonal with their rhizomes. however, while this sounds like a normal tree, one in particular is technically the OLDEST, LARGEST KNOWN, AND HEAVIEST LIVING ORGANISM IN THE WORLD. and while this sounds ridiculous, there is a 'forest' in Utah, which is just one individual quaking aspen named 'Pando' ('I spread' in latin) which has grown to a size of 110 acres, weighing 13 million pounds, with more than an estimated 50k individual trunks, all connected to the same root system. there is no way to know, because each trunk only lives for 50-100 years, but scientists estimate it is also the oldest living organism, at somewhere between 10k-15k years old, which would make it not only older than the pyramids, but also alive at the same time as wooly mammoths, sabretooth tigers, giant ground sloths and many other now extinct species from both north America that likely walked through it, and from all over the world as well.
@@kathleendavidson3316 You learn something new ever day. Today I learned that if it looks like like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quaks like a duck, it might be a quaking aspen. Hooda thunkit? Go figure.....
This is sick as hell, thank you so much for writing this. I didn’t know about pando. Comments like these are why I actually bother to read the comments on scishow (I don’t usually bother on UA-cam)
Same! I don't even have enough land space in my yard for a dang lemon tree, let alone all the other ones! But omg, imagine having all the cool trees! All the pretty ones! All the fruit trees! It'd be a tree paradise and I'd be in heaven 😍
Don't forget the pisonia trees native to Lady Musgrave island, that make their own fertiliser by trapping birds with an abundance of sticky seeds and letting them die and decompose. 'straya. (Annother Australian one, many of our wattles technically don't have leaves; they grow the stipules of the leaves to be large enough sizes to photosynthesise instead.)
My favorite story as a kid was le petit prince (his home planet get overwhelmed with baobabs) so i started one from seed 10years ago and as been my pride and joy since then 😁
Here in the Canary Islands we have a relative of the Socotri dragon tree (dracaena cinnabari). Ours is called "drago" (dracaena draco), and it also bleeds.
There's a recipe in the old mechanics handbook that reads the a witch's curse. It's titled "varnish for philosophical instruments" and "best dragons blood" is one of the ingredients. (Along with crushed glass and other wild ingredients). Look out up
Im genuinely surprised the sandbox tree also known as the dynamite tree didn’t make the list. It’s perhaps the most dangerous tree in the world as literally every part of it wants to hurt or kill you. Its fruit literally explodes into pointy bits of shrapnel and its sap is so poisonous it can cause severe burns.
Another Seussian tree: Look up the boojum tree! Fouquieria columnaris grows only on the Baja California peninsula and one small isolated population in Sonora, Mexico, and it is so weirdly awesome!
Some "normal" trees also produce saps and resins that resemble blood. I saw it on a tree as a 12-year-old and actually called the police because it genuinely looked like someone's head had been smashed against the trunk repeatedly, it was so gruesome. The cops were very worried/shocked by the scene as well until a sample was taken. That sure scared the hell out of me!😂
You can see strangler figs in the palm beaches and south. Quite a few on the gumbo limbo nature trail (its between the Atlantic and intercoastal in boca raton if anyone cares). They also rescue sea turtles etc there
The Bristlecone Pine should be included in this discussion. It’s a tree that lives above the tree line and can live four to five thousand years. Their longevity and their habitat are closely related. The lousy soil conditions (high and dry desert) necessitate a long life to produce enough seedlings to make life worth living.
It's basically a tree extremophile, but it isn't very obviously different or extraordinary like these others. It's recognizable as a pine and less obviously unique
Next to a path in the field where I live, there was a single rowan tree. The person who owns the field didn't like how big the rowan tree was getting. So they cut it down. Now there's close to 100 rowan trees which have grown from the roots and I feel like, it's a bit overkill but that tree certainly made its point.
I was surprised to come upon a planting of rainbow eucalyptus trees at the Dole pineapple farm in Hawai'i. I'd never heard of them and stepping into a Crayola-like forest was the most magical experience. They're much more multi colour in person and do look painted!!!
1. LOVE banyans! I saw a ton of them in NOLA on a walking tour in early 2005. They were majestic! Them and mangroves are 2 favorites because of how they grow 2. Also love that rainbow eucalyptus. It's so beautiful.
Roots are so fascinating. The vanilla orchid has adaptable roots like banyan trees. The roots start as arial roots but can turn into terrestrial roots, in the right conditions.
I was rooting cuttings of Winterberry holly at home, and saw these strings growing off it all up and down the stems. I thought it was a parasite like dodder, but it turns out it was so humid in the box, and they love water so much, that they were sending out roots from every node above ground as well as below. I was able to double my number of successful cuttings that year.
@@jhndr0nia the function similar, but the difference is present. The terrestrial roots on Vanilla develop fuzzy Mycelium which assists in the symbiotic relationships between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi. Areal roots on vanilla don’t possess mycelium and can’t access all the benefits from the mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis. Specifically in Vanilla, areal roots provide mechanical support to anchor the vine. The difference might seem small, but the jobs are different. One sucks water from air, uses photosynthesis, and anchors the plant. The other can break through to inaccessible nutrients deep in the soil. Not much of a difference, but enough to have separate titles.
I am surprised he didn't talk about Giant Sequoias. The tops of some of them are so large that they have "top soil". They actually have other species of trees growing out of this soil.
Jabuticaba is my favorite fruit. Our family farm have dozens of it 😊. Sad part is it takes about 10 years to start giving fruits and grows very slowly. Also a popular exotic bonsai tree outside Brazil.
At one of the two colleges I attended, we had a rainbow eucalyptus on campus. It was beautiful to walk past each day! And right behind it was the library, underneath which... was a Dunkin' Donuts 😂 The juxtaposition of beautiful nature and delicious human achievement.
Years ago i bought 'Dragon's Blood' watercolour paint, because i liked the name. I didn't know at that time it was made out of dragon's blood resin. Anyways, it's beautiful rich red color that have bit of 'rusty' tones to it. Works really well if one intend to paint blood
Fascinating video. While not as wild as the trees on this list, I'd also add Ipe and Cumaru wood which is so dense it is nearly fire proof and so hard you typically need to cut it with tools usually reserved for metal.
My aunt has a jabuticaba tree in her backyard, they’re pretty common, and though i’ve thought it is weird they fruit from their bark, i’ve never truly considered how amazing it is. they taste super delicious btw
Jabuticabas are just the sweetest in looks and taste! When they are not fruiting or blooming they are all spoted and cute! Just the best fruit tree ever :3
Another "tree" that fits this complete botanical weirdo profile is native to the Galapagos ( of course): Scalesia pedunculata Basically the world's tallest daisies.
Im from Brasil and Jabuticaba is awesome! I'm like to make a liquor out of it, it's just cachaça (Brazilian run ) and you just throw a bunch of Jabuticaba fruits on the bottle and leave there for a while. It's the best liquor that I ever had!!
In Costa Rica they make a park full of the Rainbow trees. I remember them from childhood and there were a lot of them, basically a small artificial forest. They cut them all very recently, because they are not from Costa Rica and well… all the animals hate them
"Pando" a quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, laughs at your 5 acre Banyan tree. It is the world's biggest tree and spans 106 acres! It is the world's biggest single living organism.
A tree trunk is just a plant stem. Blowing my mind again Hank! Also, I’m surprised you didn’t mention the sandbox tree, another weird one. Great video tho. 😊
So many cool tree forms but I think one was missed. The world spanning varieties of Arbutus. I have only seen, and touched, the type in the Pacific Northwest and can report that the exposed skin (where the bark has been shed) does mostly feel LIKE SKIN! Dear Hank, you need to go to the Oregeon or Washington coast to experience this tree that looks like a supersized rhododendron. Love your stuff, so glad we get to have more time with you in the world.
Fantastic video! I knew some of these things already, but somehow, the one that really stood out to me is that the baobab is a succulent. I never heard that before!
4:53 The concord grape gets its name from the town of Concord, MA (Yes, the same Concord of the famous ride of Paul Revere), where it was developed in 1849. If you ask any local, they'll tell you the correct pronunciation is identical to the word "conquered" (with or without the Boston accent).
So I read that as concerned ape... I was very confused as to why the video game developer for Stardew Valley was being talked about on this kind of video.
Plants are freaking amazing ❤️❤️❤️🌲🌳🌴 trees are no exception! I'm kind of surprised the Sandbox tree and monkey puzzle tree weren't on your list. But these were still fascinating!
There are so many other really weird trees you could've easily made a top ten, wether that includes Manchineel, Gingko, Bristlecone pine, Cashapona, Sequoia, Pando, sandbox tree... I could probably do a whole essay about the topic. I could teach you how to care for succulents too Hank ;D
My friend's neighborhood growing up had a jaboticaba tree! The fruit are delicious. Grapes are the closest flavor, but they also have a pit inside the fruit, abd the pit is coated in a membrane with a sour flavor.
So interesting! Please more vidéos on plants and trees. Thanks for high quality, originality and pédagogy. Wish only a few seconds more for thé photos or explainatory drawings😊
When you mentioned the bleeding trees, I was hoping it'd be the Bloodwood Corymbias (in the same Family as Eucalypts) If anyone's curious why they're called that, look them up - and just remember it's only sap.
I love trees, and particularly weird ones. I am growing three Dracaenas and one Baobab at inside my home in little pots. Unfortunately I live in Sweden so they don't get as much sun as they would need. Grew them all from seeds! Also have a ginkgo I'm very fond of.
Your brief mention of a particular gene being a direct causal force makes me think of Phillip Ball's book "How Life Works," which makes a very cool argument about complex systems dynamics being fundamental to life, genes only being a constituent part. You might like it! I'm learning a lot from it.
A lovely and fascinating video, as always. A speculative suggestion, nothing more, but it struck me during the fruiting tree bit that maybe the team could use lines closer to "why this mutation (might have) brought this species success" instead of variations on "why this tree developed this trait/strategy" to better fit/normalize/inculcate the actual processes of evolution vs creationist (or animist, I guess) mindsets?
I know you guys covered it in a different video, but I'd love a shout out to Pycnandra acuminata, the New Caledonian tree that absorbs nickel from contaminated soil and bleed bright teal/blue sap.
Redbuds, a very common species of native and planted tree here in the US, also produce pink flower buds on the stems. These flowers are edible and taste like sweet peas! They can be a nice little snack on a walk :)
I'm from São Paulo, Brasil. The jabuticaba tree my grandpa planted in the 1950s is still, to this day, giving delicious sweet jabuticabas off of its trunk (and grandpa died more than 30 years ago)
I really appreciate the intro because sometimes I (in a surprisingly completely sober state) look at trees and go "Dang these things are weird, like look at this long Boi. What is it? What makes a tree a tree" and then I snap back to reality and question if my coworkers slipped something in my coffee
Growing fruit on their trunks also relieves trees of the need to use resources for growing branches strong enough to support the weight of that fruit, an advantage that anyone who has ever propped up the branches of a backyard fruit tree cultivar to keep them from breaking or touching the ground will appreciate
This just reinforces that I really like trees (not trees?!?). So many distinct plant forms that have used the tree shape to help its survival. So very cool 😎!
My favourite type of tree is the Fever Tree in Southern Africa. I love their green bark! People used to think it's what caused malaria - hence the name. But it's completely safe.
Not even mentioning that Dragon's Blood trees are related to lots of houseplants like "lucky bamboo" and those living posts with pompoms of leaves. And a bit more distantly related to snakeplants, yucca, Joshua trees, and *asparagus* !
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Rainbow eucalyptus is also common in Hawaii now I believe
Use metrics! Dont say acre. This is not understood by non-americans.
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You missed the golden opportunity to say "Treenager" instead of teenager
05:04 it sound like cauliflower…..
I live in SoCal, and there are Yucca trees literally EVERYWHERE! It's illegal to cut one down, and one man bought a lot that he wanted to build a house on. But there was a problem. Right in the center of the lot was a Yucca tree, and he wasn't allowed to cut it down or even move it. So he redesigned his home with an open-air patio in the center of the house.
Yep. I live there too. They are unique.
I love them
Must be an awesome house
@@mandrakejake I would love that house
@@xXJoeyXxcoooool me too
Last week: Everything is actually a fish
This week: Nothing is actually a tree
😂
And shrubs don't exist.
On the up side, we are all Africans which is nice.
You forgot Eons' everything is and will be a crab.
@julianshepherd2038 I genuinely love the fact that we can trace all of humanity to one proverbial Eve from prehistoric Africa. So freaking cool!
memento mori
"Its like a tree that eats trees" the excitement on his face🤭
Well, we all know that old saying, _"It's a tree eat tree world"._ At least that's what the talking vegetarian dogs say.
Wait until he finds out about kudzu!
3:46
@@elisebrown5157surely, Hank knows about Kudzu?
Before large plants there were fungus that could grow up to 6 meters tall and possibly even taller. It likely has something to do with competition that modern mushrooms can't grow that tall.
I would love a "Bizarre Beasts" style channel or video series which focuses on weird and wacky flora/plants !
Freaky Flora!
@@Abdega This is a much better name than what I first thought of, "Bizarre Treests" >_>
Floral Logic does some. Offshoot of Animalogic
@@TragoudistrosMPHmy thought exactly
@@TragoudistrosMPHI came to say this!
Tree is a ~lifestyle~
this is actually accurate XD
A *_vibe_*
Ah, druids...
@@greenben3744 "Did you say 'transport these plants' or 'transport via plants'? I might have misheard... yeah, I'm in Canada now, so what?"
That doesn't even make sense. It's a shame the world is getting dumber even though education is just a click away.
I knew Jabuticabeira would be here as soon as I saw the title. Jabuticaba is actually the name of the fruit and the taste is alright - you just gonna be careful looking up cause as you can imagine all those little berries popping means the bark itself is pretty brittle…. when I was 11 had to go to the hospital cause a piece fell into my eye 😂
Jabuticaba are also mainly water. Since birds etc eating the fruit will often poop while eating, but their droppings are are a much more highly concentrated form of nutrients, hence it's a win for the tree overall.
I'm surprised jaboticaba still haven't been introduced and naturalized here in the Philippines and rest of SEA.
@@nunyabiznes33 they have been in Hawaii. Although they don't really invade like albezia or guava
They are delicious. Only rarely have I seen plumb-sized ones. Most appear like a grape with an extra thick skin.
I had no idea dragon's blood was endangered, which makes sense since I'm seeing it used everywhere. This definitely opened my eyes and now I want to educate others to try and save that wonderful plant. Thanks, Hank.
Talking about seeing it everywhere, if you look up dragon tree you'll find that it's a super common houseplant and you might even have one. They're from the same genus as the dragon's blood tree, will look about the same when they mature, but they don't produce the resin.
As a librarian at an arboretum, THANK YOU for agreeing that trees aren’t real, Hank and SciShow!
Let me tell you that was a weird moment of realization two weeks into my fancy new plant librarian job.
Vegetables aren't real either.
Okay, help me out here. There are non vascular plants (mosses and the like) and vascular ones. And don't the vascular ones at least get divided in monocots (grasses) and dicots (plants with distinct stem and leaves like herbs, bushes and trees)? I get that we likely won't find an evolutionary distinction between trees and bushes and probably even little herbs, but what is the lowest clade that we can confidently say "here are all the trees. Plus some other plants too, but no trees beyond this"?
Dude that sounds like the most incredible job ever
@@cavvieira Yeah, this video is incorrect in saying there is no such thing as trees. Yes, there is no 'Taxanomical definition of a tree', but there are CERTAINLY defining characteristics of trees. Shrubs are included in trees. They require woody stems, and must be perennial. That's the basis. The Yucca listed in this video looks like a tree, but it's absolutely not a tree. It doesn't have a true woody stem, just a dense herbaceous one. Trees cannot be succulent or herbaceous following the definition of distinct woody bark.
I'm treed.
My parents were born and grew up in Rio, Brazil. My father told me that when he was a kid, jabuticaba trees grew all over and they used to pick the fruits and eat them right off of the tree. He also told me that the juice stains EVERYTHING and is really difficult to wash out, so it was hard to hide the fact that he and his brothers were out snacking between meals.
I'm a horticulture student and I love your plant based videos! Thank you for making plants interesting for people.
Did you watch the crash course on botany? It might interest you even if it is rehashing stuff you already know. It was awesome for me as a mycologist, and the presenter is delightful.
@@dxthehardyzway1997 Yes, I loved that series!
I love The Happening and unfortunately the masses scoffed at the chemical dispersal. That movie should have gotten people interested in plants.
I am an arborist in Hawaii and we have all of these trees. jaboticaba taste like a grape and a plum. Banyan are regularly one acre in size out here
Hi from syilva arb UK
Hi, retired arborist/urban farmer here. I was surprised to find that a banyon can actually outgrow an aspen!
@@nickiemcnichols5397same principle but banyan have mostly aerial roots that spread
When I almost threw up when I first saw jabuticaba tree because I thought the tree was infected with some vile parasite (the fruits). I've never felt comfortable eating it.
Edit: ( a couple other trees than the redwood too)
I'm honestly kind of suprised redwoods aren't on here. they might be pretty mainstream as a 'cool and weird tree', but there's a lot more than just them being tall. not only are they the tallest trees, they also support a variety of organisms ONLY found high in their canopies; bacteria, vertebrates, mosses, and even other trees that only grow out of their already existing high branches. they also grow roots straight out of those canopies to catch the mist coming off the pacific coast, on top of being one of the only known conifers to be a clonal species; like the Joshua tree in this video, they can grow 'new trees' (genetic copies) of themselves, straight up from their roots. because they're rhizomous, (and we don't know if this is something specific to clonal conifers, or just the coast redwood) when one gets cut down or dies, a 'fairy ring' pops up around the stump, which is essentially just those new rhizomous trees from its roots, but in a perfect fairytale-esque circle around where the tree fell.
Baldcypress trees are also a very weird tree. they are one of few deciduous conifers we know of (think pine tree that loses all its needles in the winter like maples, oaks, locusts etc.), and they also almost exclusively live in swamps. because of this, they have very wide bases with TONS of large 'spikes' sticking up through the water connected to their roots, called knees. nobody really knows why they grow these knees, some people think it's because they pull in oxygen, but the trees showed no lethargy in growth when they were cut off in multiple studies (my personal theory is that it's because they were evolved to break up big waves that could knock the tree over in the swamps they are native to.)
quaking aspen are another amazing tree. they have white bark, just like paper birches, and with beautiful yellow, nearly circular leaves in the winter, and yes, they are also clonal with their rhizomes. however, while this sounds like a normal tree, one in particular is technically the OLDEST, LARGEST KNOWN, AND HEAVIEST LIVING ORGANISM IN THE WORLD. and while this sounds ridiculous, there is a 'forest' in Utah, which is just one individual quaking aspen named 'Pando' ('I spread' in latin) which has grown to a size of 110 acres, weighing 13 million pounds, with more than an estimated 50k individual trunks, all connected to the same root system. there is no way to know, because each trunk only lives for 50-100 years, but scientists estimate it is also the oldest living organism, at somewhere between 10k-15k years old, which would make it not only older than the pyramids, but also alive at the same time as wooly mammoths, sabretooth tigers, giant ground sloths and many other now extinct species from both north America that likely walked through it, and from all over the world as well.
I came into the comments specifically to bring up the quaking aspen. They grow around here and they look and sound so pretty.
This is awesome, thank you!
@@kathleendavidson3316 You learn something new ever day. Today I learned that if it looks like like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quaks like a duck, it might be a quaking aspen. Hooda thunkit? Go figure.....
This is sick as hell, thank you so much for writing this. I didn’t know about pando. Comments like these are why I actually bother to read the comments on scishow (I don’t usually bother on UA-cam)
Thank you very much for this lesson! Awesome!
My toxic trait is every time I see an interesting tree, I want one
Eucalyptus trees are a big problem in California. Their oils are flammable and cause wildfires.
@@blakake o…kay?
@@blakake So you're saying I should make firewood farm with them.
I'd love to have a baobab
Same! I don't even have enough land space in my yard for a dang lemon tree, let alone all the other ones! But omg, imagine having all the cool trees! All the pretty ones! All the fruit trees! It'd be a tree paradise and I'd be in heaven 😍
Just went to Hawaii and saw two of these beautiful trees! Rainbow eucalyptus and banyans
Neither is native to poor invaded Hawaii, sadly. I, too, am lucky enough to have experienced both without going to SE Asia or India.
banyans tree are native to india
Don't forget the pisonia trees native to Lady Musgrave island, that make their own fertiliser by trapping birds with an abundance of sticky seeds and letting them die and decompose.
'straya.
(Annother Australian one, many of our wattles technically don't have leaves; they grow the stipules of the leaves to be large enough sizes to photosynthesise instead.)
My favorite story as a kid was le petit prince (his home planet get overwhelmed with baobabs) so i started one from seed 10years ago and as been my pride and joy since then 😁
The face Hank makes at 3:46 😭😭😭"It's like a tree that eats trees"
Lol, paused to post exactly that. Like an excited kid. Love the energy.
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂
Yes I thought the same 😂😂😂
Here in the Canary Islands we have a relative of the Socotri dragon tree (dracaena cinnabari). Ours is called "drago" (dracaena draco), and it also bleeds.
I remember visiting Hawai'i and getting to see rainbow eucalyptus trees in person. They're even more stunning than in pictures.
I saw them in Costa Rica - a bunch together that were like an enchanted forest!
Fun fact: Banyans make great houseplants, and are available at most plant stores under the nickname Ficus Audrey
When I read Ficus Audrey, I immediately remembered Little Shop of Horrors! Oh my.
OTOH, I now have a desire to try weird fruits.
Dragon's Blood tree resin has also been used for varnish specifically for wooden musical instruments, such as violins.
There's a recipe in the old mechanics handbook that reads the a witch's curse. It's titled "varnish for philosophical instruments" and "best dragons blood" is one of the ingredients. (Along with crushed glass and other wild ingredients). Look out up
Look up the Red Violin. It’s weird.
Trees, crabs, moles. These are the shapes we should've been learning as children!!!
That's right! It goes in the square hole!
personally my favorite shape is crab. cool little guys
Im genuinely surprised the sandbox tree also known as the dynamite tree didn’t make the list. It’s perhaps the most dangerous tree in the world as literally every part of it wants to hurt or kill you. Its fruit literally explodes into pointy bits of shrapnel and its sap is so poisonous it can cause severe burns.
Another Seussian tree: Look up the boojum tree! Fouquieria columnaris grows only on the Baja California peninsula and one small isolated population in Sonora, Mexico, and it is so weirdly awesome!
Some "normal" trees also produce saps and resins that resemble blood. I saw it on a tree as a 12-year-old and actually called the police because it genuinely looked like someone's head had been smashed against the trunk repeatedly, it was so gruesome. The cops were very worried/shocked by the scene as well until a sample was taken. That sure scared the hell out of me!😂
3:46 "It's like a tree that eats trees" You were way too excited there ...lol...
You can see strangler figs in the palm beaches and south. Quite a few on the gumbo limbo nature trail (its between the Atlantic and intercoastal in boca raton if anyone cares). They also rescue sea turtles etc there
@@duanesamuelson2256 Interesting. Thanks for the info.
missed opportunity at 5:30 "treenager"
Agent Chapman reporting for Missed Ops
who is this treen and why does someone/-thing want to age it? /j
@@Dzdzovnica It is Groot.
youtube.com/@atreeager
Thanks!
Hank *spooky voice*: Blood coloured sap!
Me: Ooh, I hope that's Dragon's Blood. It smells soooo good.
4:06 small correction- they are the largest trees *above the ground* that's an important distinction because there are trees like Pando in the world.
The Bristlecone Pine should be included in this discussion. It’s a tree that lives above the tree line and can live four to five thousand years. Their longevity and their habitat are closely related. The lousy soil conditions (high and dry desert) necessitate a long life to produce enough seedlings to make life worth living.
It's basically a tree extremophile, but it isn't very obviously different or extraordinary like these others. It's recognizable as a pine and less obviously unique
Next to a path in the field where I live, there was a single rowan tree. The person who owns the field didn't like how big the rowan tree was getting. So they cut it down. Now there's close to 100 rowan trees which have grown from the roots and I feel like, it's a bit overkill but that tree certainly made its point.
I was surprised to come upon a planting of rainbow eucalyptus trees at the Dole pineapple farm in Hawai'i. I'd never heard of them and stepping into a Crayola-like forest was the most magical experience. They're much more multi colour in person and do look painted!!!
1. LOVE banyans! I saw a ton of them in NOLA on a walking tour in early 2005. They were majestic! Them and mangroves are 2 favorites because of how they grow
2. Also love that rainbow eucalyptus. It's so beautiful.
This is the first video ive seen where youre back and it feels so good to see you well
Roots are so fascinating. The vanilla orchid has adaptable roots like banyan trees. The roots start as arial roots but can turn into terrestrial roots, in the right conditions.
And supposedly trees can communicate through roots, too.
I was rooting cuttings of Winterberry holly at home, and saw these strings growing off it all up and down the stems. I thought it was a parasite like dodder, but it turns out it was so humid in the box, and they love water so much, that they were sending out roots from every node above ground as well as below. I was able to double my number of successful cuttings that year.
There is not that much difference between "aerial" and "terrestrial" roots actually
@@jhndr0nia the function similar, but the difference is present. The terrestrial roots on Vanilla develop fuzzy Mycelium which assists in the symbiotic relationships between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi. Areal roots on vanilla don’t possess mycelium and can’t access all the benefits from the mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis. Specifically in Vanilla, areal roots provide mechanical support to anchor the vine. The difference might seem small, but the jobs are different. One sucks water from air, uses photosynthesis, and anchors the plant. The other can break through to inaccessible nutrients deep in the soil. Not much of a difference, but enough to have separate titles.
0:10 being a tree is a lifestyle and philosophy!
I've heard it's a branch off budism
In Brazil, "jabuticaba" is sometimes used as a pejorative slang for something unusual that "only exists in Brazil"
To be fair, the fruit jabuticaba exists in many other countries
@@hugoiwata To be fair, Jair Bolsonaro is also a native Brazilian who has existed temporarily in other countries.
I am surprised he didn't talk about Giant Sequoias. The tops of some of them are so large that they have "top soil". They actually have other species of trees growing out of this soil.
That is one of the coolest things I've ever heard about plants. I knew about the soil. But I didn't know there was enough to grow other trees.
Jabuticaba is my favorite fruit. Our family farm have dozens of it 😊. Sad part is it takes about
10 years to start giving fruits and grows very slowly. Also a popular exotic bonsai tree outside Brazil.
At one of the two colleges I attended, we had a rainbow eucalyptus on campus. It was beautiful to walk past each day! And right behind it was the library, underneath which... was a Dunkin' Donuts 😂 The juxtaposition of beautiful nature and delicious human achievement.
Your hair looks good, man!!! Keep up the Good Fight!!!
Great to see you branching out into interesting plant topics. Gotta love trees!
I've been meaning to look up trippy trees to use for landscape paintings so thanks. This is awesome.
Bless the SciShow. Stat healthy Hank
Years ago i bought 'Dragon's Blood' watercolour paint, because i liked the name. I didn't know at that time it was made out of dragon's blood resin.
Anyways, it's beautiful rich red color that have bit of 'rusty' tones to it. Works really well if one intend to paint blood
I hope you guys cover Madrona trees one day. They’re so cool.
Rainbow euc! This is a banger! Literally an album drop. This vid is 🙌🏼
The only way I can get my shots and blood drawn is talking to the doctor about trees. So now I have more trees to entertain them with.
Fascinating video. While not as wild as the trees on this list, I'd also add Ipe and Cumaru wood which is so dense it is nearly fire proof and so hard you typically need to cut it with tools usually reserved for metal.
I love that this episode came out of someone finding a bunch of cool tree photos and deciding it needed to be a video 😁
My aunt has a jabuticaba tree in her backyard, they’re pretty common, and though i’ve thought it is weird they fruit from their bark, i’ve never truly considered how amazing it is. they taste super delicious btw
im so glad you beat cancer you Champ!! keep up the amazing science spreading Hank!!
Jabuticabas are just the sweetest in looks and taste! When they are not fruiting or blooming they are all spoted and cute! Just the best fruit tree ever :3
The first three trees on the list are all common where I live in Hawai‘i!
Trees aren't real... got it
To give you a better idea one chestnut tree closest relative is broccoli not other chestnut trees
Another "tree" that fits this complete botanical weirdo profile is native to the Galapagos ( of course): Scalesia pedunculata
Basically the world's tallest daisies.
Im from Brasil and Jabuticaba is awesome! I'm like to make a liquor out of it, it's just cachaça (Brazilian run ) and you just throw a bunch of Jabuticaba fruits on the bottle and leave there for a while. It's the best liquor that I ever had!!
Sooooooooo cool! Thanks for the video Hank! :D
SOMEONE SEND THIS MAN TRUNK FRUIT.
Great video, as always! These trees are super interesting, and I'm glad I got to learn about em!
In Costa Rica they make a park full of the Rainbow trees. I remember them from childhood and there were a lot of them, basically a small artificial forest. They cut them all very recently, because they are not from Costa Rica and well… all the animals hate them
"Pando" a quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, laughs at your 5 acre Banyan tree. It is the world's biggest tree and spans 106 acres! It is the world's biggest single living organism.
A tree trunk is just a plant stem. Blowing my mind again Hank! Also, I’m surprised you didn’t mention the sandbox tree, another weird one. Great video tho. 😊
I found a Banyan tree in Sri Lanka. It only spread to an acre, but was like a jungle. It was so cool underneath, even at 35°C (95°F) outside
I live on Hawaii island, and the banyan trees are amazing to see! The rainbow eucalyptus are beautiful ❤️
So many cool tree forms but I think one was missed. The world spanning varieties of Arbutus. I have only seen, and touched, the type in the Pacific Northwest and can report that the exposed skin (where the bark has been shed) does mostly feel LIKE SKIN! Dear Hank, you need to go to the Oregeon or Washington coast to experience this tree that looks like a supersized rhododendron. Love your stuff, so glad we get to have more time with you in the world.
The awesome Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii)! They are actually related to the Rhododendrons, but more closely to manzanitas!
Fantastic video! I knew some of these things already, but somehow, the one that really stood out to me is that the baobab is a succulent. I never heard that before!
4:53 The concord grape gets its name from the town of Concord, MA (Yes, the same Concord of the famous ride of Paul Revere), where it was developed in 1849. If you ask any local, they'll tell you the correct pronunciation is identical to the word "conquered" (with or without the Boston accent).
I almost forgot ... the other pronunciation is reserved for the supersonic plane with the French name, the Concorde.
So I read that as concerned ape... I was very confused as to why the video game developer for Stardew Valley was being talked about on this kind of video.
@@meganperry1388 LMAO
Thank you very much+++ . Wonderful lesson, stunning pictures!
Plants are freaking amazing ❤️❤️❤️🌲🌳🌴 trees are no exception!
I'm kind of surprised the Sandbox tree and monkey puzzle tree weren't on your list. But these were still fascinating!
There are so many other really weird trees you could've easily made a top ten, wether that includes Manchineel, Gingko, Bristlecone pine, Cashapona, Sequoia, Pando, sandbox tree... I could probably do a whole essay about the topic. I could teach you how to care for succulents too Hank ;D
I saw a Mindanao rainbow gum eucalyptus, I click. I am a simple man
What amazing trees. This was a particularly interesting episode.
My friend's neighborhood growing up had a jaboticaba tree! The fruit are delicious. Grapes are the closest flavor, but they also have a pit inside the fruit, abd the pit is coated in a membrane with a sour flavor.
So happy to seeing you do well
So interesting! Please more vidéos on plants and trees. Thanks for high quality, originality and pédagogy. Wish only a few seconds more for thé photos or explainatory drawings😊
Beautiful video, I love trees. Can we have a part 2?
8:58 "are you suggesting seeds migrate?"
Always informative, thank you.
My wife and I saw the Rainbow Eucalyptus and Banyan trees on Maui. Amazing plants
Please continue delivering lines to the side camera I love it 😂
Trees are so cool man. Mother nature's true game changer
The eucalyptus tree’s Tribe Called Quest color scheme is dope!
When you mentioned the bleeding trees, I was hoping it'd be the Bloodwood Corymbias (in the same Family as Eucalypts)
If anyone's curious why they're called that, look them up - and just remember it's only sap.
I love trees, and particularly weird ones. I am growing three Dracaenas and one Baobab at inside my home in little pots. Unfortunately I live in Sweden so they don't get as much sun as they would need. Grew them all from seeds! Also have a ginkgo I'm very fond of.
Your brief mention of a particular gene being a direct causal force makes me think of Phillip Ball's book "How Life Works," which makes a very cool argument about complex systems dynamics being fundamental to life, genes only being a constituent part. You might like it! I'm learning a lot from it.
The jabuticaba ferments itself. Trees gettin drunk!
A lovely and fascinating video, as always. A speculative suggestion, nothing more, but it struck me during the fruiting tree bit that maybe the team could use lines closer to "why this mutation (might have) brought this species success" instead of variations on "why this tree developed this trait/strategy" to better fit/normalize/inculcate the actual processes of evolution vs creationist (or animist, I guess) mindsets?
I know you guys covered it in a different video, but I'd love a shout out to Pycnandra acuminata, the New Caledonian tree that absorbs nickel from contaminated soil and bleed bright teal/blue sap.
Redbuds, a very common species of native and planted tree here in the US, also produce pink flower buds on the stems. These flowers are edible and taste like sweet peas! They can be a nice little snack on a walk :)
I'm from São Paulo, Brasil. The jabuticaba tree my grandpa planted in the 1950s is still, to this day, giving delicious sweet jabuticabas off of its trunk (and grandpa died more than 30 years ago)
I really appreciate the intro because sometimes I (in a surprisingly completely sober state) look at trees and go "Dang these things are weird, like look at this long Boi. What is it? What makes a tree a tree" and then I snap back to reality and question if my coworkers slipped something in my coffee
The intro was top tier
Growing fruit on their trunks also relieves trees of the need to use resources for growing branches strong enough to support the weight of that fruit, an advantage that anyone who has ever propped up the branches of a backyard fruit tree cultivar to keep them from breaking or touching the ground will appreciate
This just reinforces that I really like trees (not trees?!?). So many distinct plant forms that have used the tree shape to help its survival. So very cool 😎!
My favourite type of tree is the Fever Tree in Southern Africa. I love their green bark! People used to think it's what caused malaria - hence the name. But it's completely safe.
He's so happy saying that it's a tree that eats trees! Awww lol
Not even mentioning that Dragon's Blood trees are related to lots of houseplants like "lucky bamboo" and those living posts with pompoms of leaves. And a bit more distantly related to snakeplants, yucca, Joshua trees, and *asparagus* !