Maybe what they really meant, did David Attenborough just get high on a hallucinogenic plant? I certainly wouldn’t put it past dear David getting stoned.
Seems pretty rude to accuse mr. Attenborough of click bait. Not everyone is into drugs and sits around studying stuff that gets you high, this is meant to be educational and informative. This man deserves nothing but respect.
I am also disappointed. the Agave bit was interesting but the misleading title of this video and the sparse reference to peyote at the end...not too cool. More information needed!
they don't mean he was the first person to ever discover it hahahaha. Yesterday i found some flowers while on a walk, but it doesn't mean i'm claiming to be the first human being to ever see them. 🤣
@@zacharynehf4208 I don't think David is clickbaiting anyone, but whoever posted this video certainly made the title a little bit clickbaity... certainly not the worst offender on this site though.
Another hallucinogenic cactus that grows MUCH faster and bigger than the peyote is called the Peruvian Torch...they can go to tree size in the wild...the San Francisco botanical gardens have some beautiful specimens and a lot of people in CA have them growing in their yards, not knowing their secret.
Also in this video he walked by some Trichocereus Pachanoi, aka the San Pedro cactus, which also contains large amounts of mescaline and grows everywhere all over southern california.
@@IamTHEJealousGreen Yes I definitely noticed them! The San Pedro and the Peruvian Torch are similar in appearance, althea the Torch can have bigger spikes, but there are lots of awesome subspecies that vary in appearance like the peruvianus monstrose...
I use to own an Agave neomexicana. I started it, from seed, in 1996. It bloomed last summer, after growing a 20 foot mast, that grew it in about 10 days. It stayed alive, for about two more weeks, wile the seed pods formed.
@@kigozimuhammad mang if you don't feel something after nurturing it since 1996 there's something wrong with you. Thine beating heart doth detest Those that neglect the forest For the being that bees me when I cease to be Is the nutrients for thy tree.
I've had the pleasure to actually see an agave bloom. The city I currently live in got a bunch of them way, waaaay before I was born. And they decided to bloom the very year I moved here. One or two of them have bloomed every summer in the last 4 years. Not sure if they have any left now, but I hope to see one bloom this summer too. This is a rare thing in Sweden, so I keep encouraging ppl to come look. But they don't seem as impressed as me. :/
@@user-pt1cz4ot1e it's not a loss really, just the plant's natural life cycle, in this case quite a monumental one. it will attract many hummingbirds and usually new ones will sprout up from beneath the dead mother plant because it creates the perfect microclimate for the seeds to germinate. There are some where I live too and a few bloom every year, they are pretty commonly cultivated and very cool to see in their native environment too.
@@rebeccan7276 that person was talking about the fact that those people weren't really interested in seeing the plant blooming... so it's their loss. not the plant lol
Agave is abundant in our village and we use to eat the juicy part of its flower on top of the stem. We were kids at that time but I don't remember being hallucinogenic after having it. We used to eat about 40-50 flower juice in a day.
Sir David... I don't think I have watched anything more than your episodes on nature and I am fascinated each time I watch something new... you put it across so beautifully like none other... thank you so much... God bless you....
@@hashfingers it's funny that you presume it's not possible to be both. The one doesn't contradict the other in any way if you actually understand what's going on.
My grand dad had a century plant, it just shocked me to see it do that after being around it for over 10 years. I could never get use to the yard changing like that from known plants.
I have a huge patch and have about 5 sprout EACH YEAR. The damn sheep are eating the baby ones. I probably should be selling the babies or getting the seeds off the ground.
This manmade system of pipes. transfers waste into underground sewers. and it does it all at the pressing. of a little lever. on the top. of the toilet. The contraption has even been adapted to prevent the wafting of obnoxious scents from the sewage into the main apparatus. Truly, truly remarkable.
@@evilsharkey8954 He only talks about peyote in the very last 8 seconds of a 5 min video. Love Attenborough, but whoever posted this vid is guilty of clickbate lol
I think my Aloe plant did the same thing, put up a stalk and now it's dying, seems to be rotting from the middle. Got 11 babies from it, it was growing on the lawn but I moved them all to pots. Still trying to keep the original one alive, it's more than 15 years old for sure.
Aloes aren't monocarps (plants that flower once, like Agave). Usually aloes will grow their fower stalks from the sides. Rot is the biggest enemies to aloes. Those plants that aren't in full sun are vulnerable to too much irrigation, and even those baking in the sun can recover remarkable from a bit of under-watering. Lovely plants, good that you have so many offsets from it. If you haven't, check out the hybrid aloes that folks like Altman plants have developed; interesting foliage textures and colors and bright flowers.
When a perennial plant dies after its flowering cycle, that’s called monocarpic. One such species in the southern Rockies (and elsewhere ) is Frasera speciosa or Monument plant.
But when you look up the etymology of a carp, or from Greek karpos, it is interesting some of the other uses of it. I guess if look at “fruit” as a process more than an object the term makes more sense. It really just represents the stage of plant development. Edit: sorry I think misunderstood. In a monocarpic plant, the plant will die after producing its fruit. It has completed its biological function. Unless you can name an example of a monocarpic plant that continues to live after producing seed, I believe it can be implied that the plant dies.
There is, and will always be a magic to these documentaries and videos from David Attenborough and his team. Everything from the way they capture such enchanting and wonderful footage, to the lovely music that compliments every bit of it, it's like heaven in information form. Thank you very much for doing all of that so well and over so long too 😊🥰 The Agave is amazing. Its mast looks like a giant asparagus haha. And that plant at 4:03 just looks like something from an alien Planet. Never would've thought that they were plants 😯
peyote is such a fascinating plant. It's not quite poisonous, but it relies heavily on animals knowing not to eat it because they'll become very ill and have a ... weird... time. There are so few plants that manage to pull that off and thrive. The fact that humans have used it for thousands of years for medicinal, religious, and recreational purposes only makes it more fascinating.
I've been aware for some time now that some plants flower one time and then die. I've never felt sad about it. Until now. The way he broke the news was so moving. But that's David Attenborough for you. Bringing life... to life.
I've got a HUGE patch likes planted by relatives YEARS ago. I have about 5 EACH YEAR sprout. One fell over while still in flower with some immature pods earlier this year.
I was never much interested in cacti and desert plants before. I like trees. But this series has been fascinating. I have been rubbish at keeping house plants and garden plants alive, so I lost interest until now. Sir David could make a tax return fascinating!
. In the late 1940s my mother transplanted a tiny "Century Plant" (Agave) from the Los Angeles area to Western Oregon, to a spot very near her front door. It survived & grew, albeit slowly. After about 35 years, in the late 1960s, it put up two flower stalks, the tallest being no more than 8 feet, the shorter about 6 feet. It did bloom well, from both stalks, but I really don't know if it was fertilized. (Their house was *VERY, VERY rural, in the forests, even,* & I don't remember ever seeing hummingbirds there as I grew up.) Anyway, blooming DIDN'T deliver a "death knell" to the plant, it just continued to live it's very slow & even life pattern. The last time I saw it was just before the "turnover" to the 21st century, in the late 1990s. It was then somewhat smaller than when it had bloomed in the '60s, and didn't seem quite as vigorous a plant, but it certainly wasn't "in its death throes" by any means! Unfortunately, my mother managed to burn the house to the ground in 2003, which I'm certain did the Agave NO good whatsoever. I haven't been there since, but thought this reminiscence still significant enough to be shared. Amazing plants, those Agaves! *Thank you so very much for this short video clip; it DID stimulate my memories, and in a pleasant manner, too!* 🌾 (So sorry; I couldn't locate a more appropriate emoji. 😥 )
An agave individual plant cannot put 2 stalks as the stalk pushes from the same very spot the leaves push and there is only one per agave individual! If you saw more than one stalk (two as you mention) you simply had various clones of that same Agave plant and two of them were big enough to send a stalk each. That is why you saw it in the 1990s smaller than it was before, it is cloning itself over and over producing small clones (pups) at the base. Agave Americana (Century plant) can clone itself like many agave do anyway, but in the video wanted to be dramatic and left that out.
@@FirstPersonOnUtube FirstPersonOnUA-cam apparently just found sarcasm?? Not like it's been around for 1000s of years or anything. Good job, FirstPerson 👍👍
@@pombagira5325 yes, but the great sir Attenborough did not “just find” it. Lol… it’s clearly well known, for centuries, and it wasn’t even mentioned until the last few seconds, thus clickbait. :)
I've been watching this guy narrate plant and animal films my entire life. He's a living legend. An thank you for the education you have given me about everything in are plant.
Agave is abundant in our village and we use to eat the juicy part of it when it starts to grow its flowers on top of the stem. We were kids at that time but I don't remember being hallucinogenic. Thanks for the video. Love from Nepal
It isn't. The only hallucinogenic plant that he spoke about was the lophophora williamsii, aka peyote. At a certain point he walked by a trichocereus pachanoi while he was speaking. That is also a plant that contains large quantities of mescaline and is therefore also hallucinogenic. But the Agave has no hallucinogenic alkaliods, you are correct.
What I found interesting is that do plants have a certain intelligence, It doesn't have brain, but it does have a processing unit somewhere that can instruct the plant to do things, like how do they know which coulour atrracts bird or what smell attracts insects. Mindblowing
It’s the intelligence of evolution. Over a period of time, the plants, through natural selection adapt to the environment and the survivors will have these interesting traits. If you could see this happen over thousands (or even millions) of years, you would realize that life has developed an intelligence for the entire earth.
I have been wanted to get some Lithop's for a while because I think they look really interesting, I never knew their colour matched their surroundings! That's really incredible to me! I would never had guessed plants had that kind of ability.
Plants are far more evolved than animals and have been around almost a billion years longer. They have abilities humans could not possibly understand including controls over animal behavior.
I think the narration was slightly misleading. The plants don't change colors like a cuttlefish, rather through evolutionary processes, they have adapted colors that match their general surroundings.
I am a 36yr old American just finding this guy for the first time this week and his voice is so relaxing!! I want this guy to teach me everything or at least just read me books.
There's another agave plant where I live in Arizona, where the entire stalk is covered by yellow flowers. The cool thing is that the flowers don't turn into fruits or seed pods. Each flower turns into a little seedling. Then, high winds or the stalk falling once the parent plant dies break the seedlings loose from the stalk.
@Carboxysome Agave vilmoriniana. Common name is octopus agave. The miniature agave the flowers turn into are called bulbils. I had to google that one. It's crazy how fast the stalks grow. It feels like they appear out of nowhere.
All octopus are species that only reproduce once and the female dies nurturing it's offspring from egg form until they hatch and thousands of larvae diffuse away...
I am definitely wondering the same thing. I have to with sick orchids that immediately try to flower when I start nursing them back to health. 🤦🏼♀️ Like, I’m trying to save you, dumb plant. Lol.
You can't, it's a natural mechanism. Such plants are called monocarpic. But they do often produce offsets as they're dying, too, so you should be left with a bunch of young clones.
@@bluefox5331 On the other hand there is Basil, It normally flowers and produces seeds only once defore it dies but if you cut off the flowers then it can survive for multiple years
David nicely shows the terminal action of the Agave’s blooming effort - yes, the plant lives for decades trying to get to a blooming stage. BUT(!) - that does not kill the plant which, I’m sure he knows but just chose not to show. The blooming just terminates the individual rosette on which the bloom spike is growing - therefore it’s the rosette that is monocarpic… technically a “multiannual.” Whereas your average “annual” plant lives for the one year, distributes seeds & then dies, the Agaves take decades to grow old enough to bloom - therefore, a “multiannual.” I always rejoiced when the rosette dies off, because… that means there’ll be a flurry of underground activity as the bulb underneath sets out new rosettes all around it - sometimes just one, sometimes many. In that way, it spreads out, both, vegetatively AND (through seeds) sexually. Also… according to Wikipedia, the trailing-letter-“e” IS pronounced, as I have done all my life. Of course, that’s one of the many joys of watching David Attenborough: his manifold eccentricities… 😊 😁
They grow all over here in Florida. No they do not die. I think the local power company wishes they would. For the past 10 years the same plant has poked into and through the power line above it. They can't kill it so finally have an agreement with the owner to top it rather than put out the area power for several hours. We had someone miss name them as normal aloe plants. Two were put in front of our house in a small stone bed. They grew huge in just two years then started to send up stocks. Between them push out of the bed huge rocks and us getting nailed by the leaves thorny tips we had them removed. Even then it took 3 tries to be sure all the babies and roots were dead and gone. Please leave century plants in the desert. Outside they take over and are dangerous. David is always extremely telling fibes to get his 'Doom and gloom' forecast in his shows. His brother, Richard, used the same talent in acting to make people believe he was everything.
Imagine the planet eons ago that fortified this fast and tall growth. These plants had to compete with some probably extinct plants that were abundant and grew fast.
Sir David Attenborough & all things Naturalistic FASCINATE me; the Both combined in documentaries, journals, articles, etc are BEYOND REWARDING ENRICHMENT TO MY VERY SOUL... Even my 3, very individually unique, Daughters (17,13&10 y/o) share the love of his life's work, revere Sir David in the most respected high esteem as an Iconic Mentor and seek out his past & present pieces spanning decades. As a mother, I know I've made/make TONS of mistakes in my role & duties YET, in this, I have NOT failed them in the many ways this shared passion will continue to teach, enrich, motivate & change them as they grow & thrive along their paths in life; He has much to offer society, foreseeing issues LONG before the masses of his time, mine & theirs!! #MankindsMentor
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I lived in Southern California for awhile years ago and there was a few plants around the house I rented that people in the area called Spanish Bayonets. I don't know if that is their true name but I can certainly understand why people might call them that. The leaves were very rigid and the points and spikes were very sharp and I could easily imagine someone falling into one and being impaled. They were actually very beautiful but also very terrifying. I'm color blind so I can't say what colors they had but I could see very defined bands of a lighter tone along the edges. I always made sure to be very cautious whenever doing anything near them.
@@GrayLady9118 yo noto bien la diferencia en la pronunciación en Inglés de la E, intenta hacerla pero obviamente no puede. Se entiende perfectamente que está diciendo agave.
I must give my two cents into the Agave stems subject and add another species besides Hummingbirds that feed off the flowers, I've personally seen Bats feeding out of the flower's nectar... as a matter of fact, I've seen more Bats flying around a Maguey's "Quiote" than Hummingbirds.
As Max Kharpovitski wrote, there are other options if you HAVE TO take Mescalin. Trichocereus Pachanoi, Trichocereus Bridgesii or as he wrote Trichocereus Peruvianus. But please be wise if you really HAVE TO take it, it is a rough journey.
That’s what’s so amazing about evolution. The plant doesn’t know. Selection pressures (herbivory for example) cause plants that are more camouflaged to be more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on genes that make their offspring well camouflaged as well.
Possibly they take in something of their environment, like how food colouring is taken up by plants and expressed in the flowers when put in the water. Just a guess though 🤷♂️
OK, let's correct something right now. Most agaves (pronounced 'a-gah-vey') are NOT monocarpic. Yes, the flowering shoot dies afterwards, but those pups that come up around the old crown come from the same plant. It's more accurate to think of them as a branched perennial, where most of the structure is below the ground. The flowering crown is equivalent to a branch tip, while the new pups are other branches that erupt from the soil after the dominant branch has done its thing.
yep. also not mentioned, at the tip of the flower structure it forms tiny plantlets that are clones of the parent plant that scatter when the flowering shoot falls over.
In the slang of my grandmother, she called these plants, "God's Candlestick". Also, look into the, "San Pedro Cactus". Also, "Jimson Weed". All are hallucinogens. Jimson grows wild on the hills and byways in CA., and it's not illegal.
It is so sad that people are so poor that they have to Steal living plants and animals to make money!! Especially when the vast majority of poached flora and fauna Die because of this disruption to themselves!! Worst thing are the people who buy them!! Because, without the buyer, there is no longer a market for the Poachers to sell them to!! Time for Everyone to start thinking about this!! Thank you Ryanne for mentioning the facts about plant poaching!! Namaste. XxX..
Couldn’t someone have told David how to pronounce “agave”? The plant is from Mexico and the American Southwest, so it’s pronounced “ah-gah-vay”. It’s the first time I’ve ever cringed at something he’s said. This must be how South Africans feel when Americans pronounce “zebra”.
You’re right about it’s typical pronunciation, of course, but it’s not pronounced that way because it’s from Spanish; it’s actually a learned borrowing directly from Ancient Greek. The local Spanish term, ultimately from Taíno, is “maguey”.
@@jacobc-k9224 you’re right about maguey coming from Taino & agave being from Greek origins, but Attenborough is still pronouncing it wrong unfortunately lol
I wonder how my Echinopsis Denudata ever managed to survive - it's a big fat cactus with no spines! The flowers are amazing, and the whole plant is beautiful.
@@blackkennedy3966 Yes, animals do seem to know which things are and aren't safe to eat. I'm not sure how close to a 'wild' plant this is, it comes from Bolivia originally, maybe there's no animals to eat it there. Thankyou for answering. 🌵
It's going to be a sad, sad day when we lose this man. He and Patrick Stewart are two of my favorite people ever. Both have been huge role model / inspiration to me for most of my life. Glad they're still going strong, despite their advanced age. David Attenborough is the reason I have such care for animals, nature and the environment, in general.
Fun, misleading title. No. He hasn't. Spoiler alert: everyone knows peyote is hallucinogenic. In pure British colonial fashion, he also agonizingly mispronounces "Agave."
I’d love to have a peyote button in my garden collection. I don’t live in a good desert climate so most of the time it’s kept inside. They are super rare nowadays thanks to dea etc
More thanks to people overharvesting them since they became apart of drug culture unfortunately, Trichocereus sp. Such as Pachanoi and Peruvianus are much better substitutes.
Yeah they are endangered in the wild. Also because of development, long held oppression of Native American culture, and like Jayden said, over/mis harvesting.
I love David, but your titles are very misleading. He didn't just find a peyote plant. I'm sure he's know about it for a very long time like the rest of the world.
I really get annoyed at those misleading titles even though Lord Attenborough is always interesting.
Yup. What's especially annoying is that I (like a lot of folks) click on anything Attenborough, there is literally no need to lie about it.
I mean they did show the Hallucinogenic plant at the end.
@@Sinknight212 Doesn't mean he found it...
@@Sinknight212 Yes, briefly, the peyote cactus.
They also misspelled "hallucinogenic".
Clickbait. He didn't "just find" it. Peyote is very well known.
Maybe what they really meant, did David Attenborough just get high on a hallucinogenic plant?
I certainly wouldn’t put it past dear David getting stoned.
Seems pretty rude to accuse mr. Attenborough of click bait. Not everyone is into drugs and sits around studying stuff that gets you high, this is meant to be educational and informative. This man deserves nothing but respect.
I am also disappointed. the Agave bit was interesting but the misleading title of this video and the sparse reference to peyote at the end...not too cool. More information needed!
they don't mean he was the first person to ever discover it hahahaha. Yesterday i found some flowers while on a walk, but it doesn't mean i'm claiming to be the first human being to ever see them. 🤣
@@zacharynehf4208 I don't think David is clickbaiting anyone, but whoever posted this video certainly made the title a little bit clickbaity... certainly not the worst offender on this site though.
Another hallucinogenic cactus that grows MUCH faster and bigger than the peyote is called the Peruvian Torch...they can go to tree size in the wild...the San Francisco botanical gardens have some beautiful specimens and a lot of people in CA have them growing in their yards, not knowing their secret.
Also in this video he walked by some Trichocereus Pachanoi, aka the San Pedro cactus, which also contains large amounts of mescaline and grows everywhere all over southern california.
@@IamTHEJealousGreen Yes I definitely noticed them! The San Pedro and the Peruvian Torch are similar in appearance, althea the Torch can have bigger spikes, but there are lots of awesome subspecies that vary in appearance like the peruvianus monstrose...
It’s California. Are you really sure they don’t know it’s hallucinogenic?
@@CourtneySchwartz yeah.. lot's definitely do. 🤣 my yard is full of them. 😉
@@IamTHEJealousGreen decorative purposes of course. Heheh
I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
I'm so interested in the experience but am terrified of having a bad trip
I tried two grams last time, it was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed it
(doctor_ spores)
Got psych's*
This whole thing is pretty new to me, can I try 3grams?
@@joachimlunares4871 is he on insta?
I use to own an Agave neomexicana. I started it, from seed, in 1996. It bloomed last summer, after growing a 20 foot mast, that grew it in about 10 days.
It stayed alive, for about two more weeks, wile the seed pods formed.
awesome Agave grower!
As with many plants they are sucked into being a commodity while some shipdit humans are "shootomg all Earthlings in the foot"
That’s such an amazing thing to be part of, but I’m sorry for your loss. I hope you got seeds from it to carry on its legacy.
They usually produce offsets around the base which can be detached and potted up. Didn't your?
@@user-pt1cz4ot1e did u just give ur sympathies over a dead plant?
@@kigozimuhammad mang if you don't feel something after nurturing it since 1996 there's something wrong with you.
Thine beating heart doth detest
Those that neglect the forest
For the being that bees me when I cease to be
Is the nutrients for thy tree.
I've had the pleasure to actually see an agave bloom. The city I currently live in got a bunch of them way, waaaay before I was born. And they decided to bloom the very year I moved here. One or two of them have bloomed every summer in the last 4 years. Not sure if they have any left now, but I hope to see one bloom this summer too.
This is a rare thing in Sweden, so I keep encouraging ppl to come look. But they don't seem as impressed as me. :/
I’m impressed and quite jealous. Their loss.
Hey, I'll come and have a look :3
Would be nice to see that
@@user-pt1cz4ot1e it's not a loss really, just the plant's natural life cycle, in this case quite a monumental one. it will attract many hummingbirds and usually new ones will sprout up from beneath the dead mother plant because it creates the perfect microclimate for the seeds to germinate. There are some where I live too and a few bloom every year, they are pretty commonly cultivated and very cool to see in their native environment too.
@@rebeccan7276 that person was talking about the fact that those people weren't really interested in seeing the plant blooming... so it's their loss. not the plant lol
Agave is abundant in our village and we use to eat the juicy part of its flower on top of the stem. We were kids at that time but I don't remember being hallucinogenic after having it. We used to eat about 40-50 flower juice in a day.
I could listen the that man’s voice forever and never tire of it.
Happy birthday Mr Attenborough I really love & enjoy your work! I know it was yesterday 🎉Happy Belated birthday 🎂
Sir David... I don't think I have watched anything more than your episodes on nature and I am fascinated each time I watch something new... you put it across so beautifully like none other... thank you so much... God bless you....
which one shall do the blessing?
I nominate Pan'Gu.
I don't think old Davey boy reads this UA-cam channels comment section...
Doubt he believes in your god he’s a man of science and facts lol
@@hashfingers it's funny that you presume it's not possible to be both. The one doesn't contradict the other in any way if you actually understand what's going on.
My grand dad had a century plant, it just shocked me to see it do that after being around it for over 10 years. I could never get use to the yard changing like that from known plants.
I have a huge patch and have about 5 sprout EACH YEAR. The damn sheep are eating the baby ones. I probably should be selling the babies or getting the seeds off the ground.
David Attenborough could speak about plumbing for 5 whole minutes and I’d probably would be captivated the whole time.
Right! Talk to me about the different asphalt mixes used to pave the street and why. I am ENGROSSED!!!
This manmade system of pipes. transfers waste into underground sewers. and it does it all at the pressing. of a little lever. on the top. of the toilet. The contraption has even been adapted to prevent the wafting of obnoxious scents from the sewage into the main apparatus. Truly, truly remarkable.
@@wrestlingconnoisseur LMAO!! I love you for that!!!
@@wrestlingconnoisseur 🤣🤣🤣
click bait title, but still love David Attenborough
He mentions the hallucinogenic peyote cactus at the end of the video.
@@evilsharkey8954 He only talks about peyote in the very last 8 seconds of a 5 min video. Love Attenborough, but whoever posted this vid is guilty of clickbate lol
I think my Aloe plant did the same thing, put up a stalk and now it's dying, seems to be rotting from the middle. Got 11 babies from it, it was growing on the lawn but I moved them all to pots. Still trying to keep the original one alive, it's more than 15 years old for sure.
Aloes aren't monocarps (plants that flower once, like Agave). Usually aloes will grow their fower stalks from the sides. Rot is the biggest enemies to aloes. Those plants that aren't in full sun are vulnerable to too much irrigation, and even those baking in the sun can recover remarkable from a bit of under-watering. Lovely plants, good that you have so many offsets from it.
If you haven't, check out the hybrid aloes that folks like Altman plants have developed; interesting foliage textures and colors and bright flowers.
Probably lack of light and too much watering
I have about 50 aloe plants now all from an original 1 aloe that unfortunately died ages ago due to root rot as I was still inexperienced
@sunire, I read somewhere that the aloe life expectancy is about 13-16 years.
@@lawsonone6015 my mother still has one that is going on 50 yrs
When a perennial plant dies after its flowering cycle, that’s called monocarpic. One such species in the southern Rockies (and elsewhere ) is Frasera speciosa or Monument plant.
"Monocarpic" mean the plant has a single flowering and has nothing to do with death.
mono = one
carp = fruit
@@mikemondano3624 I see what you mean. You would think maybe a single fruit plant.
But when you look up the etymology of a carp, or from Greek karpos, it is interesting some of the other uses of it. I guess if look at “fruit” as a process more than an object the term makes more sense. It really just represents the stage of plant development.
Edit: sorry I think misunderstood. In a monocarpic plant, the plant will die after producing its fruit. It has completed its biological function. Unless you can name an example of a monocarpic plant that continues to live after producing seed, I believe it can be implied that the plant dies.
There is, and will always be a magic to these documentaries and videos from David Attenborough and his team. Everything from the way they capture such enchanting and wonderful footage, to the lovely music that compliments every bit of it, it's like heaven in information form. Thank you very much for doing all of that so well and over so long too 😊🥰
The Agave is amazing. Its mast looks like a giant asparagus haha. And that plant at 4:03 just looks like something from an alien Planet. Never would've thought that they were plants 😯
All you gotta put is David talks about plants and we will be here
peyote is such a fascinating plant. It's not quite poisonous, but it relies heavily on animals knowing not to eat it because they'll become very ill and have a ... weird... time. There are so few plants that manage to pull that off and thrive. The fact that humans have used it for thousands of years for medicinal, religious, and recreational purposes only makes it more fascinating.
I've been aware for some time now that some plants flower one time and then die. I've never felt sad about it. Until now. The way he broke the news was so moving. But that's David Attenborough for you. Bringing life... to life.
I've got a HUGE patch likes planted by relatives YEARS ago. I have about 5 EACH YEAR sprout. One fell over while still in flower with some immature pods earlier this year.
I didn't know David Attenborough discovered the Peyote Plant. Amazing
David Attenborough has an ability to make everything so interesting that I forget why I was here to begin with. Lol
man, they made this sound like some big discovery, but peyote has been widely known for ages
I was never much interested in cacti and desert plants before. I like trees. But this series has been fascinating. I have been rubbish at keeping house plants and garden plants alive, so I lost interest until now. Sir David could make a tax return fascinating!
Wait till ya find out more about fungi! Highly recommend the documentary called Fantastic Fungi.
@@efdavis Thank you!
Try the Trichocereus Grandiflorus species. They’re extremely hardy but are more on the thirsty side unlike a Ferocactus that hardly ever need water
. In the late 1940s my mother transplanted a tiny "Century Plant" (Agave) from the Los Angeles area to Western Oregon, to a spot very near her front door. It survived & grew, albeit slowly. After about 35 years, in the late 1960s, it put up two flower stalks, the tallest being no more than 8 feet, the shorter about 6 feet. It did bloom well, from both stalks, but I really don't know if it was fertilized. (Their house was *VERY, VERY rural, in the forests, even,* & I don't remember ever seeing hummingbirds there as I grew up.) Anyway, blooming DIDN'T deliver a "death knell" to the plant, it just continued to live it's very slow & even life pattern.
The last time I saw it was just before the "turnover" to the 21st century, in the late 1990s. It was then somewhat smaller than when it had bloomed in the '60s, and didn't seem quite as vigorous a plant, but it certainly wasn't "in its death throes" by any means! Unfortunately, my mother managed to burn the house to the ground in 2003, which I'm certain did the Agave NO good whatsoever. I haven't been there since, but thought this reminiscence still significant enough to be shared. Amazing plants, those Agaves!
*Thank you so very much for this short video clip; it DID stimulate my memories, and in a pleasant manner, too!* 🌾 (So sorry; I couldn't locate a more appropriate emoji. 😥 )
Dang feet... im tired of googling hoe many meters that is
An agave individual plant cannot put 2 stalks as the stalk pushes from the same very spot the leaves push and there is only one per agave individual!
If you saw more than one stalk (two as you mention) you simply had various clones of that same Agave plant and two of them were big enough to send a stalk each.
That is why you saw it in the 1990s smaller than it was before, it is cloning itself over and over producing small clones (pups) at the base.
Agave Americana (Century plant) can clone itself like many agave do anyway, but in the video wanted to be dramatic and left that out.
His voice is nostalgic and legendary. Great video!
Oh sheesh. Love this stuff. I been collecting cacti and succulents in my backyard for 20 years . One can never get enough to add to the beauty.
No need of clickbait. Who doesn't like to watch the King of Narration? I often fall asleep just by listening to his soothing narrations.😊😊😊
try james hoffman ..
I've never heard of this plant he's discovered 'Peyote', what a remarkable find.
He didnt discover it , its very popular for the fact that it gets you fucked up. Even Tony Soprano did it in Sopranos.
@@ExTAzY101 I know; it's well known. I've actually tried it. Sarcasm never works through text, lol
@@justinwebber9968 no doesnt :) write /s like in reddit people will get it then
David Attenborough apparently just found peyote?? Not like it's been known about for 1000s of years or anything. Good job David 👍👍
No, you just bought into the clickbait title
@@FirstPersonOnUtube FirstPersonOnUA-cam apparently just found sarcasm?? Not like it's been around for 1000s of years or anything. Good job, FirstPerson 👍👍
@@maxbracegirdle9990 It's OK Max, don't feel bad for falling for clickbait, just own up to it.
@@FirstPersonOnUtube Are you taking the piss?
Clickbait title… but gotta love Sir Attenborough!!
It's actually a hallucinogenic plant
@@pombagira5325 yes, but the great sir Attenborough did not “just find” it. Lol… it’s clearly well known, for centuries, and it wasn’t even mentioned until the last few seconds, thus clickbait. :)
I've been watching this guy narrate plant and animal films my entire life. He's a living legend. An thank you for the education you have given me about everything in are plant.
Also full libtard
So has anyone under 75 years old who hasn’t been living under a rock.
Agave is abundant in our village and we use to eat the juicy part of it when it starts to grow its flowers on top of the stem. We were kids at that time but I don't remember being hallucinogenic. Thanks for the video. Love from Nepal
It isn't. The only hallucinogenic plant that he spoke about was the lophophora williamsii, aka peyote.
At a certain point he walked by a trichocereus pachanoi while he was speaking. That is also a plant that contains large quantities of mescaline and is therefore also hallucinogenic.
But the Agave has no hallucinogenic alkaliods, you are correct.
Thank you.
It's not. We ferment the sweet juices of agave (aguamiel) and make pulque, mezcal and tequila in Mexico.
@@guidoylosfreaks I dig the Sotol
What I found interesting is that do plants have a certain intelligence, It doesn't have brain, but it does have a processing unit somewhere that can instruct the plant to do things, like how do they know which coulour atrracts bird or what smell attracts insects. Mindblowing
It’s the intelligence of evolution. Over a period of time, the plants, through natural selection adapt to the environment and the survivors will have these interesting traits. If you could see this happen over thousands (or even millions) of years, you would realize that life has developed an intelligence for the entire earth.
form of evolution. Adapting to the surroundings and any predators it has encounter beforehand. Just another evidence of evolution.
Root Brain
Everything is part of the mind.
@Elvis's Bastard what's the difference?
I have been wanted to get some Lithop's for a while because I think they look really interesting, I never knew their colour matched their surroundings! That's really incredible to me! I would never had guessed plants had that kind of ability.
Plants are far more evolved than animals and have been around almost a billion years longer. They have abilities humans could not possibly understand including controls over animal behavior.
I think the narration was slightly misleading. The plants don't change colors like a cuttlefish, rather through evolutionary processes, they have adapted colors that match their general surroundings.
That is why lithops are nicknamed "living stones"
lithops are super cool I’ve been able to find some basic ones at my local Home Depot
I am a 36yr old American just finding this guy for the first time this week and his voice is so relaxing!! I want this guy to teach me everything or at least just read me books.
There's another agave plant where I live in Arizona, where the entire stalk is covered by yellow flowers. The cool thing is that the flowers don't turn into fruits or seed pods. Each flower turns into a little seedling. Then, high winds or the stalk falling once the parent plant dies break the seedlings loose from the stalk.
Do you know the name of this species?
@Carboxysome Agave vilmoriniana. Common name is octopus agave. The miniature agave the flowers turn into are called bulbils. I had to google that one. It's crazy how fast the stalks grow. It feels like they appear out of nowhere.
All octopus are species that only reproduce once and the female dies nurturing it's offspring from egg form until they hatch and thousands of larvae diffuse away...
Thank you ones again for interest video
🍃💖🕊️💖🍃Just love this 🍃💖🕊️
A quarter of a meter a day!??! That’s awesomely fast for a plant.
Bamboo grows a meter a day.
I don't care what the subject is - if David Attenborough is narrating, I'm there.
If u cut the mast before it expends all its energy, can u save the plant from killing itself?
I am definitely wondering the same thing. I have to with sick orchids that immediately try to flower when I start nursing them back to health. 🤦🏼♀️ Like, I’m trying to save you, dumb plant. Lol.
You can't, it's a natural mechanism. Such plants are called monocarpic. But they do often produce offsets as they're dying, too, so you should be left with a bunch of young clones.
@@bluefox5331 On the other hand there is Basil, It normally flowers and produces seeds only once defore it dies but if you cut off the flowers then it can survive for multiple years
David nicely shows the terminal action of the Agave’s blooming effort - yes, the plant lives for decades trying to get to a blooming stage. BUT(!) - that does not kill the plant which, I’m sure he knows but just chose not to show. The blooming just terminates the individual rosette on which the bloom spike is growing - therefore it’s the rosette that is monocarpic… technically a “multiannual.” Whereas your average “annual” plant lives for the one year, distributes seeds & then dies, the Agaves take decades to grow old enough to bloom - therefore, a “multiannual.” I always rejoiced when the rosette dies off, because… that means there’ll be a flurry of underground activity as the bulb underneath sets out new rosettes all around it - sometimes just one, sometimes many. In that way, it spreads out, both, vegetatively AND (through seeds) sexually. Also… according to Wikipedia, the trailing-letter-“e” IS pronounced, as I have done all my life. Of course, that’s one of the many joys of watching David Attenborough: his manifold eccentricities… 😊 😁
Your information is Very much appreciated. Adds to the much needed knowledge we should know about Botany. TY!
They grow all over here in Florida. No they do not die. I think the local power company wishes they would. For the past 10 years the same plant has poked into and through the power line above it. They can't kill it so finally have an agreement with the owner to top it rather than put out the area power for several hours.
We had someone miss name them as normal aloe plants. Two were put in front of our house in a small stone bed. They grew huge in just two years then started to send up stocks. Between them push out of the bed huge rocks and us getting nailed by the leaves thorny tips we had them removed.
Even then it took 3 tries to be sure all the babies and roots were dead and gone. Please leave century plants in the desert. Outside they take over and are dangerous.
David is always extremely telling fibes to get his 'Doom and gloom' forecast in his shows. His brother, Richard, used the same talent in acting to make people believe he was everything.
@@drowessblack Thank You too on that. Well, at least he spawned a group of individuals like yourself to expand the knowledge of trees 🌲 🦉
I’ve learned so much from David Attenborough 🙂
We all have,when he goes it will be the greatest loss to nature.
Why is this video titled that when it has 1 sentence about Peyote? The title should tell about the agave.
Imagine the planet eons ago that fortified this fast and tall growth. These plants had to compete with some probably extinct plants that were abundant and grew fast.
Methinks the tall stalk protects the seed pods from herbivores, as well as make the flowers conspicuous to hummingbirds.
Sir David Attenborough & all things Naturalistic FASCINATE me; the Both combined in documentaries, journals, articles, etc are BEYOND REWARDING ENRICHMENT TO MY VERY SOUL... Even my 3, very individually unique, Daughters (17,13&10 y/o) share the love of his life's work, revere Sir David in the most respected high esteem as an Iconic Mentor and seek out his past & present pieces spanning decades. As a mother, I know I've made/make TONS of mistakes in my role & duties YET, in this, I have NOT failed them in the many ways this shared passion will continue to teach, enrich, motivate & change them as they grow & thrive along their paths in life; He has much to offer society, foreseeing issues LONG before the masses of his time, mine & theirs!! #MankindsMentor
My mountain walking stick is created by one of these stalks. They're an amazing plant
My walking stick is from my ten foot tall FRUITY PEBBLES OG. Got 3lbs of smoke off that baby. 😆
@@newfreenayshaun6651 That's awesome 🤣. I'm in Idaho so if I got caught with that I'd be in a wee bit of trouble... Hopefully that'll change soon.
@@Sweet_Independence_II well if you ever make it down to New Mexico give me a holler and I'll make it worth your while. I can send you home with enough to pay for gas twice and utilities for a couple months, while keeping all your friends happy
@@newfreenayshaun6651 Deal!! I've got rheumatoid and I recently just quit taking opioids. I need something safer if you know what I mean 😉
@@Sweet_Independence_II make it a vacation bro. Good cause, good stuff. Another tangible tho, for anti-inflammatory stuff, -food grade diatomaceous earth!! Doctors hate this crap. I put a heaping spoon full in my coffee every morning, testimonials were enough for me, 6 years later im younger in all aspects physically.
Seeing an Agave flourish is a beautiful thing to witness.
I lived in Southern California for awhile years ago and there was a few plants around the house I rented that people in the area called Spanish Bayonets. I don't know if that is their true name but I can certainly understand why people might call them that. The leaves were very rigid and the points and spikes were very sharp and I could easily imagine someone falling into one and being impaled. They were actually very beautiful but also very terrifying. I'm color blind so I can't say what colors they had but I could see very defined bands of a lighter tone along the edges. I always made sure to be very cautious whenever doing anything near them.
You can't see color? So the world just looks grey or something?
@@justicedemocrat9357 yes different shades of grey
Another slang name for Spanish Bayonet is "mother in-law's tongue".
It would be an honor to trip out on hallucinogens with Sir David Attenborough.
British pronunciation of “agave” just sounds so wrong.
Hello, I speak spanish, he pronounces right.
@@haroldmontano837 Hola, hablo español y vivo en México, su pronunciación esta mal.
@@plittlercomposition así es... Lo pronuncia mal.
@@GrayLady9118 yo noto bien la diferencia en la pronunciación en Inglés de la E, intenta hacerla pero obviamente no puede. Se entiende perfectamente que está diciendo agave.
@@haroldmontano837 se entiende, pero la pronunciación sigue estando mal. Tú mismo lo dijiste: no puede.
Where can you find this series?
I must give my two cents into the Agave stems subject and add another species besides Hummingbirds that feed off the flowers, I've personally seen Bats feeding out of the flower's nectar... as a matter of fact, I've seen more Bats flying around a Maguey's "Quiote" than Hummingbirds.
Love the vid
What a champ! have a good trip david
Fantastic. Many thanks
As Max Kharpovitski wrote, there are other options if you HAVE TO take Mescalin. Trichocereus Pachanoi, Trichocereus Bridgesii or as he wrote Trichocereus Peruvianus.
But please be wise if you really HAVE TO take it, it is a rough journey.
Great, man!... Thanks a lot!
How does a plant mimic its environment? How does it know its surroundings aren’t bright blue if they cant perceive colour?
My guess is - that a lot of plants try different colors - the ones that survive - last longer
That’s what’s so amazing about evolution. The plant doesn’t know. Selection pressures (herbivory for example) cause plants that are more camouflaged to be more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on genes that make their offspring well camouflaged as well.
Possibly they take in something of their environment, like how food colouring is taken up by plants and expressed in the flowers when put in the water. Just a guess though 🤷♂️
Where is this greenhouse that David Attenborough was filming this segment from?
A very intersting film. Thanks to you, we are learning more and more about the world of plants and getting to know this world.
It isn't a film.
It is a pity that you did not spend more time discovering your real adult name.
Just too lazy to find out about it yourself?
wow you have so cool farm nice! i love it have a nice day!
Got to see a century plant bloom in my neighbor's yard, quite the view!
This man needs to narrate my life to me just to make it seem interesting
OK, let's correct something right now. Most agaves (pronounced 'a-gah-vey') are NOT monocarpic. Yes, the flowering shoot dies afterwards, but those pups that come up around the old crown come from the same plant. It's more accurate to think of them as a branched perennial, where most of the structure is below the ground. The flowering crown is equivalent to a branch tip, while the new pups are other branches that erupt from the soil after the dominant branch has done its thing.
yep. also not mentioned, at the tip of the flower structure it forms tiny plantlets that are clones of the parent plant that scatter when the flowering shoot falls over.
Chillout it's like you've been waiting your whole life to correct someone about this.
I love your vids
Ohh you meant to type "hallucinogenic." I gotcha Nature Bites 😂🌈👍🏽
The term hallucigenic is used informally in general terms
In the slang of my grandmother, she called these plants, "God's Candlestick".
Also, look into the, "San Pedro Cactus".
Also, "Jimson Weed".
All are hallucinogens. Jimson grows wild on the hills and byways in CA., and it's not illegal.
The agave plant is amazing. When I was in Peru I saw many poached agave all over. They kill the plant which takes so long to grow initially.
It is so sad that people are so poor that they have to Steal living plants and animals to make money!!
Especially when the vast majority of poached flora and fauna Die because of this disruption to themselves!!
Worst thing are the people who buy them!!
Because, without the buyer, there is no longer a market for the Poachers to sell them to!!
Time for Everyone to start thinking about this!!
Thank you Ryanne for mentioning the facts about plant poaching!!
Namaste. XxX..
That agave stalk is just crazy for a desert plant.
Wow my neighbor had a plant that just randomly started growing this giant stem like two stories high and come to find out it was this same plant!
He found it!
Couldn’t someone have told David how to pronounce “agave”? The plant is from Mexico and the American Southwest, so it’s pronounced “ah-gah-vay”. It’s the first time I’ve ever cringed at something he’s said. This must be how South Africans feel when Americans pronounce “zebra”.
You’re right about it’s typical pronunciation, of course, but it’s not pronounced that way because it’s from Spanish; it’s actually a learned borrowing directly from Ancient Greek. The local Spanish term, ultimately from Taíno, is “maguey”.
@@jacobc-k9224 you’re right about maguey coming from Taino & agave being from Greek origins, but Attenborough is still pronouncing it wrong unfortunately lol
I am here just for David Attenborough.
I'm pretty sure that's just a giant asparagus
I wonder how my Echinopsis Denudata ever managed to survive - it's a big fat cactus with no spines! The flowers are amazing, and the whole plant is beautiful.
Some cacti are poisonous, animals know what plants can kill them even if they aren’t native. barrel cactuses and opuntia are safe bets though.
@@blackkennedy3966
Yes, animals do seem to know which things are and aren't safe to eat. I'm not sure how close to a 'wild' plant this is, it comes from Bolivia originally, maybe there's no animals to eat it there.
Thankyou for answering. 🌵
what's rather interesting is how similar the stalk and flowers look to that of an asparagus stalk.
That's because agave is a genus within the family asparagaceae - the agave and asparagus are cousins :)
@@mattkuhn6634 gotta love science and nature!
Very interesting video.
Yes he has David is the best his comforting voice never gets boring
No he has not 🤦🏻♂️ 🤷🏻♂️
Me when I get out of bed in the morning: 0:57
I love this man. Only him can explain the peyote cactus 🌵 in 10 seconds.
I didn't see any peyote cacti. The only Lophophoras that he showed us were diffusa and jourdania which only contain a negligible amount of alkaloids
I bet if ye put music in the vid instead ov talking .we'd all be thinking davids bopping lol..🤣🤣😍
It's going to be a sad, sad day when we lose this man. He and Patrick Stewart are two of my favorite people ever. Both have been huge role model / inspiration to me for most of my life. Glad they're still going strong, despite their advanced age. David Attenborough is the reason I have such care for animals, nature and the environment, in general.
I see David, I click!
Would watch him read the ingredients list on a can "tin" of soup.
Lithop and lophaphora are the two main reasons I love cacti
Same! I have way too many now.
2:46 Incredibly beautiful collection of cacti!
As a Cherokee, I have taken a "Spirit World" vision quest with peyote
nice, rights of passage used to be a requirement for leader roles.
now we are lead by the least among us.
Whats the name of the psychedelic cactus that is available at Lowe's stores and home depot in garden section's. I want the cactus so I can consumn it
Fun, misleading title. No. He hasn't. Spoiler alert: everyone knows peyote is hallucinogenic. In pure British colonial fashion, he also agonizingly mispronounces "Agave."
How is it pronounced? I've wondered about this ever since I bought Agave syrup. Description would be appreciated. Thanks.
Still seathing at your superiors?
@@julieprior3126 “ah-gah-vay”
They’re common in Mexico so they have a Spanish name where the E at the end is pronounced, not silent.
@@evilsharkey8954 Thank-you!
also there isn't a single peyote shown in the vid -_-
So beautiful 😍
When you stop using false headlines ill start watching.
If the bud is nipped doo the leaves continue growing?
God bless the hallucinogenic plants and mushrooms! New revolution coming up!
I notice with the stone plants, which I have an attractive purple one, it looks like you have them in Jack's gritty mix?
“HALLUCIGENIC PLANT?!?!!??!! SHOCKING NEW MIRACLE PLANT!!!”
Clickbait sucks
Fascinating!
I’d love to have a peyote button in my garden collection. I don’t live in a good desert climate so most of the time it’s kept inside. They are super rare nowadays thanks to dea etc
More thanks to people overharvesting them since they became apart of drug culture unfortunately, Trichocereus sp. Such as Pachanoi and Peruvianus are much better substitutes.
They're not buttons.
Yeah they are endangered in the wild. Also because of development, long held oppression of Native American culture, and like Jayden said, over/mis harvesting.
It’s mostly declining due to development and poaching.
NO, no lophophora in yourp collection. Use internetGFY
The flowers on that agave are known as "quiote" in certain parts of mexico and are a delicacy. Many people make a "guisado" out of them.
Never thought I would say it, but Mr. Attenborough is incorrect about birds. They indeed do have a sense of smell.
He mentions their sense of smell is too poor for plants to be able to rely on fragrant flowers to attract them.
The way he says agave lol, love Lord Attenborough
Ahgav 😂
I love David, but your titles are very misleading. He didn't just find a peyote plant. I'm sure he's know about it for a very long time like the rest of the world.
I remember watching this whole plant documentary like 3 times on a flight to China while high on mucinex