This is the World's Loneliest Tree
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2016
- Tucked away in a corner of London's Royal Botanic Gardens, there is a very peculiar plant. At first glance, it resembles a stumpy palm tree, but this ancient specimen is incredibly rare. It is, in fact, the very last of its kind on Earth. Encephalartos woodii is a cycad, a type of plant that once dominated the planet during the Jurassic Period. Over the millennia, the age of the cycad came to an end. And in the case of Encephalartos Woodii, we may have been left with only one-a single male specimen. This tree is the loneliest bachelor on Earth.
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Tissue culture that plant and keep spreading 😂
IVE MISSED YOU GUYS SO MUCH
Love this video
69th 👍
Yay!
I never thought i'd feel so sorry for a tree.
Hang in there buddy.
If it had a branch, I'd do it.
I know right?
I hope he's vine..
I'm sorry I'll leave now
That tree is as lonely as me
Hope it found a mate
Great, now I feel bad for a plant.
I've mourned many trees in my lifetime.
But can't they just keep on making cuttings and keep it alive until they can clone it, or better yet find a mate?
James Tredinnick as stated in the video, this one is a male and it needs a female. if you cloned it or made cuttings. the trees that grow from it will still be male
Lam Sterling gay trees?
TRIDENT STUDIOS if only
If he can talk, imagine all the story' he can tell
Bet itll be like: back in my days
@@cometwolf1130 i was chillin until i went to the united kingdom
and that would be a story that started really long long ago
Yep
He could tell you the story of being sat in that green house for 100 years
I immediately came back here after reading an article about a cycad found in Masungi Georeserve in the Philippines. I’m so proud for my country having a tree that is at least a piece of the past.
You missed little detail IS IT FEMALE??!!!!!!
@@NadDew it's not the same species so i dont think that matters? not sure tho
that matters since the cycad variation here in my homecountry may come from a different time since cycads have different varieties as of today
Wait Seriously?!?!
I luv our Flora and Fauna its so rich and diverse..
Well at least what's left of it 😥😥😥😥
I think I've seen one here in cebu!
"Let's give this tree a friend"-Bob Ross
Yeahhhh 😁 i Saw the videos !
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
@@riseevolution what video?
@@femur_0282 look for bob Ross is a famous painter did a lot of shows in tv
@@femur_0282 he said it in so many videos :D
Tree : i want a girlfriend before i die
Genie : granted
Tree : nothing happend
Genie : you're immortal now
That's just ..... Dark humour at its finest
LMAO 🤣
Deliciously evil.
Horny Fruit Flies dioeciously evil
my life story in a nutshell
"It'll have me to keep him company."
(Happy brass music)
This made my day
so wholesome
@@RoPiDe Voris Dimp - Dummy Jazz
"I've looked after him for 20 years"
That's a serious flex.
poor tree, I bet his girl is out there somewhere...
ChuckleBuck Are you assuming it's gender??? I'm triggered
They literally say in the video that its a male plant...........
921Jackofalltrades Trees can be gay, bi, etc too 😢
lol
ChuckleBuck there are millions of fish in the ... O wait that's right :(
Damn that tree about to die a virgin feels bad...
no, feels bad man
300 million years virgin
His been virgin for 107 years found
Can the scientists just make the closest relative of the tree mate with that if it can if they can't find a mate
@@vinala67 : The closest relative is so different that they may as well just try cloning.
Edit: Actually, the Wikipedia page suggests it may just be a mutant of another species. Apparently someone checked the genetics.
My mum's house in South Africa still has three healthy cycads, and several others in varying stages of wild growth - so I'm assuming this is a special variant talked about in this video.
They're quite the menace to maintain if you want a good looking garden. There was lots of trimming off of long dead leaves in favour of the living ones, and the prickles/teeth on the leaflets are not at all kind to bare skin. Was surprised to hear animals loved to perch on top of them
Encepbalartos woodii
Hey at least thise types of trees still exist
That botanist is a lovely gentleman, I never thought I would feel sad for a tree being lonely but I'm genuinely glad the tree has such a kind and dedicated friend 💚
what if there was a female and it got cut down by someone who doesn't know how rare it is.
Influenza why would africans do that ?
Jamison payot Swaney cause they dont know how rare it is?
@@daluven why would Africans do that..
@@Filmtoday. a lot of people do not know about this tree. And some africans do not know too. So they might cut it down.
Jamison payot Swaney
Why only Africans? I thought they were found all over the world before the continents separated
“Everyone needs a friend... even a tree.”
- Bob Ross
🤪
haha
I agree. Even if I never had one. T.T
You're goddamn right.
Our happy little tree...
Every teenager watching this: maybe I'm a plant
i see what you did there 😂
Yes, I am
" What plant exactly ? "
Learning about trees and plants is really interesting. After you learn about all your local species, once in a while you find something youve never seen before in a local forest and you can appreciate the rarity of a plant by itself where no others grow and wonder how it got there. Did some bird travel 1000 miles and poop a seed or is it a plant that grows only in the most niche of conditions, or did some settler plant a small garden 200 years ago with seeds he brought from another continent?
Put queen palms on top and learn to apologize to god 🧠❤️🏋️we have hands/palms and souls in our feet for a reason🙏❤️🙏☯️🙏🌏🙏🌊🙏🌽🙏🔋🙏⛰🙏
@@Christionbridges u bogus
I have never felt so much emotions about a Tree.
real talk
Same
honest truth :D
Same, the whole vid I was saying "awe that poor tree"
Well. I think I can cry now....many many tears.
Why do I feel like they are gonna find another one of these and it's going to be male aswell?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
@@mamomamo6130 Aaaand there it is. The '90s are officially "a long time ago".
@@jancw you are stupid
HA gayyy
@@level10trash49 hmmmm boi.. I said the same thing!
Today’s Valentine’s Day and I can totally relate with this plant
Ur not alone
@@Conqueror_of_UA-camCommunitywe will all be lonely together
_"In the mean time, it'll have me to keep him company"_
**sad tree noises**
Happy*
camera pans to carved glory hole
It's gonna be a rough night for that human 🤣🤣
It might be gay, if so i support their relationship and hope they stay happy together
Hehehehe
"In the meantime, he'll have me to keep him company...."
Tree: "I appreciate the offer mate, I really do - but I don't swing that way. I'm flattered though."
Lol...my leaves don’t sway that way
*Tree didn't understand a single word from the human, but it was flattered anyways*
Tree: *_ua-cam.com/video/ooOELrGMn14/v-deo.html_*
James Charles would still try to get you tree
He doesn’t get a choice
That tree : is lonely
Me : "maybe I'm an encephalartos woddi myself"
This tree in Kew Gardens is NOT the original Woods cycad that was found. This is a cutting from that tree. The original tree was moved to the Durban Botanical Gardens in South Africa where it’s now grown to the size of a palm tree and grows alongside at least five other Woods cycads that, like the Kew Gardens one, are cuttings of the original tree.
"Carefully removed a small portion of it"
**Took the whole tree**
He took a small part which grew into another tree
@@srikrishnarao1094 i dont think thats how trees work
@@RedLemons19 well some trees do be like that
@@RedLemons19 some trees do and it is called plant propagation
@@srikrishnarao1094 oh, cool
Bob Ross wold not be happy about that
Jebbo Fisher THE HAPPY LITTLE TREE NEEDS A FRIEND!!!!
Let's give this little tree a friend oh there we go - Bob ross
Would
Wood
Nobody:
Bob Ross: ThAt HaPpY LiTtLE TrEe NeEdS a FrIeNd!
As I write this comment, it is January 10th 2021. I came to this video immediately after I read an article of this Cycad tree is now reappearing, the rise in global temperature is thought to be the cause of the sudden appearance. Not only that, they found a female cone! Now this lonely tree isn’t so lonely anymore.
Yay! The lonely tree isn't lonely anymore!
Yay! Thank you for updating us!
@@paleobc65 It’s a different type of Cycad unfortunately. The lonely tree is still alone as of April 2023. Sorry to ruin the moment
@@winxwest2964 ah, he's just built different
@@winxwest2964 GOD
DAMMIT 😭
Imagine being a botanist called Wood, naming newly discovered species after you. Badass!
Random British guy: wow nice tree
Also him: imma take this to England
Most colonial think ever
he didn't send the tree, he just sent bits of it so they could grow another one back in england
And thank goodness he did! Otherwise we wouldn't even know of its existance.
So he pretty much shopping in the jungle 😂
Colonialism was bad but we should not conflate colonialism with the the movement of ornamental and food plants by humans from one place to another, a foundational activity that typifies virtually every human civilisation. There are excess and abuses for sure, but the propagation and distribution of plant material by humans should not be pathologised; the world we know today would be unimaginable without this essential human impulse.
"carefully removed a small potion of it" Translation : Took the whole tree.
no they took a small portion and grew a tree out of that portion. its like cutting a branch of a tree but a new branch slowly grows back
Kobie Nieuwoudt 😂😂😂
haha
your average plumbus cant they do that with this tree and grow more of them
420 like.BLAZE IT
Imagine chopping one of these down because it doesnt flow with the rest of ur landscape not realizing that tree is a literal national treasure for its rarity
You would be surprised how many times something like that has actually happened. For example, ever heard of "The most isolated tree in the world"?
oh m gee the floww yass
So loved for the style of this film,thank you for this
“In the meantime he’ll have me to keep him company.”
What a bro👊
cant they just clone it?
@@ForeignMoves I'm sure if it was that easy they'd have done it
@@tauruscommunist9532 you mean “Everyone” could have done it Comrade?
Dude watched too much syfy
@@ForeignMoves it's a plant, not an animal. Plants come from seeds.
why do I feel so freaking bad for this tree
no swearing in my Christian Minecraft server
fuck you to
Feel bad for the man who is probably more lonely because his only friend is a tree
SM J I
Because no one really wants to be lonely.
This actually makes me sad yet fascinated ❤️❤️❤️ I hope they can save it
I love this clever way of presenting to me such a subject.
Plot Twist: We find another Woodi but its also a male. GG
mothafuger Make them gay lol🤣😂
mothafuger Plot twist: They find a Woodii tree. It turns out to be the one used to grow the clone in England.
Orange Fruit XD how to reproduce?
I thought the same thing
Gg
year 2030:
explorers: *we found another tree!*
scientist: *its a male*
.........
Gay trees
The lonely tree : fuck it I’ll take it
f
If there's a hole, there's a way.
Oh shit wrong species.
There are actually four left. My father, being an exotic plant trader, placed one of them in the San Diego zoo. Right above the “Africa Rocks” sign.
It’s still there today
nope. still only one left. all the others are clones of the original
As someone that is involved in global afforestation effort, I feel so intrigued and bad for this tree. Its hard to be the last of a kind.
Did you try punching the leaves to get a sapling?
Ya nothing dropped but an apple
@@nicky_tdbp5353 And then Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity.
@@hunterbeck7271 He then surrounded the apples with gold and created golden apples
MineCraft: 100
Anyone know which command I have to use to get it
*Me who was single in 10 years
Tree: pathetic
Tree: ya noobs
This channel was very informative and helpful Sadly they don't make videos anymore
Good to see you again
No one:
UA-cam recommendations: wanna see a rare ass tree
Me: well of course
Ikr lol
Yes I wanna see a rare ass tree lol
Hey Mr Bruh here to explain why this is in your recommendations. You see if you even watched one great big story video and liked it, UA-cam will recommend more. Or say if you like trees, or around the time this comment was made it was during the team trees fundraiser, that could be another reason why UA-cam recommend it to you.
Ikr
Doesn't everyone?
imagine of the last female burned in the amazon
That will be sad AF
As if the whole rainforest burned down.
The fires have been going for 10 years, it was just a big increase on the rate the affected areas are burned. Also don't forget that the majority of the fire is set to make room more farms, the same farms who export large quantities of food to other countries.
Next time you feel hungry for some vegetables or cereal, remember that you help with it.
@@alanwatts8239 i agree but you took it too seriously he/she said "imagine" lol but youre smart
@Gabriel
We would have way more space for farm if they stop abusing animals like cow and chicken
Lol
Thank you for keeping the tree a company... Dear tree keeper...
Thanks for looking after it 😀
I just found my spirit plant.
And my spirit animal
So have I, my friend.
So have i
Honestly same
Same
That one guy in the comments that says there's one in my backyard then they take a picture and it's just a palm tree
Jackson Keyte I seriously have that in my backyard, *10000000 years ago*
Jackson Keyte pffff so tru
Jackson Keyte I'm from the place where they found this tree and I have something SIMILAR LOOKING
@@genecisse sell it to him now it can make a baby and the species is saved
@@notstressmess1883 it may not be the exact same tree and even if it is, it may not be female
I hope that one day, we can genetically recreate a female partner for him
With no female, it would be impossible to create one, because we literally have no reference for its genetics.
i think they breeded it with a different cycad species a couple times but those are hybrids
I remember thinking about this tree I saw in cnn in class for 4 years and im happy to see its still alive
This video is over 5yo lol
What a hardcore 'What if everyone disappear exept you'.
The last man on earth
@@lunaticluna9071 in this case a species of tree
YOU SO FUCEKN DUMB , i live in SA and these are everywhere >> gosh research please
@@michaelFoucheGodIsGood They are only genetic clones of the plant. This plant is Extinct IN THE WILD because there are no REAL NATURAL types of this plant left.
@@michaelFoucheGodIsGood "you so fucekn dumb"
ok.
"Trees are like all of us, they need friends"
-Bob Ross
bob rose is boy or girl?!
@@tiggerisdumb foolish
@@muffinmcfloppin why is bob rose foolish?
Stolen comment
@@heindrichpepler709 oh what a world
The original E.Woodii is still standing, here, at the Durban Botanical gardens.
is it possible to clone a female from the seed?
The one growing in Kew is a cloned tree
*****
So they can't clone a female?
Well they only have a male tree so no, they can only clone female. They get no seeds from the tree.
*****
What I mean is there is no way to genetically manipulate a female out of the genetic information they have or that there is no current means of doing such?
Not that I am aware of. Would be nice though wouldn't it
He's got wood and nobody to share it with. Poor fellow must suffer from a nasty case of blue bark.
lol
kek
This showed up in my recommendations. I feel a little attacked...
The video gives the impression that there is only 1 in existence. _Encephalartos Woodii_ is very rare, but not that rare. There are around 110 male clone plants in botanical gardens and private collections around the world, grown from the original E.woodii.
just imagine if they actually find a female E.woodii. that will make my day
...that's not how it works.
SuperCasualGuy "just imagine"
using my brain? no thanks
SuperCasualGuy please explain how reproduction works with trees.
That tree after seeing a giant ball of light : Where did everyone go?
Sad
:(
why did I laugh
"who am i talking to?"
imagine the female is on north sentinel island
The tree you show looks remarkably similar to one I encounter in the swamps of Florida unfortunately this was years ago and no idea if in fact they were possibly in the same genius.
They find another tree: :D
its a male: D:
Game Playz well,.. at least he wont be the loneliest tree anymore,. he'll just have to get used to the idea that there wont be any treelings coming anytime soon,. LOL,.
You got a problem with gay trees?
@@ysofr0sty766 they don't reproduce
KNME
I think it was a joke
Lmaooo that tuff
*"I used to rule the world"*
Chunks would load when I gave the word
Dead meme but idk
Now every night i go stow away, hide from the mobs that i used to slay
*sad fallen kingdom noises*
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooo
0:09
So fascinating.
Tree: *Lonely*
Also Tree: wassup fellow trees in this garden
imagine they found a newone and is a male
Fu Lol it's 2017, please don't be a homophobe, just let them be
charlieme5150 "homophobe" Can you be any less of an idiot?
Nate1829 I bet you're one of those people who believes there's only 2 genders lol! You're so closed minded. This week I sexually identify myself as Absorgender so stop being so stupid.
charlieme5150 SHit. Bait. Run.
Nate1829 lol, I just like being a troll on UA-cam and leave retarded comments to see who's dumb enough to think I'm being serious and get into senseless arguments.
this channel should have millions of subscribers tbh
I actually feel sorry for that plant...
Imagine finding another male
So, I just did some googling : E. Woodii is just one species of Encephalartos. There are many other Encephalartos trees that are not threatened in the wild. It has even made fertile hybrids with one of them, E. Natalensis, which brings hope to enable making female specimens by a technique called "backcrossing".
In fact, some even consider E. Woodii not to really be an individual species, but more of a mutant E. Natalensis : there's about as much genetic variation between the E. Woodii specimen and E. Natalensis specimens as there is within E. Natalensis trees. They haven't really evolutionarily diverged.
And it can also reproduce asexually by emitting basal shoots, which is why there are now many identical trees in various botanical gardens.
So, that tree is pretty lonely, but not THAT lonely. And it isn't *the* last survivor of the trees that constituted the bulk of the dinosaur's flora, since that would also apply to the other species of Encephalartos trees, which, again, are thriving.
It's a really interesting curiosity that they found a single tree that was the only member of its species, but they kind of blew it out of proportions in that video...
I mean, if all those trees had disappeared within the last 65 million years, how likely would it be that THE last specimen would be alive within our time?
Certainly E. woodii can be cloned (and has been). What makes the particular specimen in the video unique is it is the only one from the original clump discovered by John Medley Wood that is still alive today. In other words it is the only one to have grown up in the wild. Back crossing could be used to get verrrrry close to a female E. woodii, but it wouldn't be 100% pure. If the one at Kew Gardens died the species would still exist, but the last wild survivor of the species would be lost, which would be sad. Plus it's a cute story :)
Papyrus The Skeleton PAPYRUS, HAVE YOU GONE MAD!? Sans would not approve of your behaviour
cut off the random crap please..
Mr. Soup
What?
Ronn Chua There was a person with the username 'Papyrus The Skeleton' saying brash words
Wish the old fella well on finding a broad.
I'm sure there's at least one other fish in the sea...
Thomas Jefferies *tree
stevno don't be stupid you know what he ment
HotDog UpDog I was just joking Jesus Christ
Why are trees suddenly fish
Papyrus The Skeleton maybe it identifies as a fish
These can be vegetatively propagated from offsets and there are currently over 500 specimens around the world. Apparently it's very vigorous for a cycad and easy to clone this way. It could also be backcrossed with a closely related species until you had a female that was 99.9% Encephalartos Woodii
This does put a smile on my face
People who say I am single my whole life
The tree: amateur humans
Damn 2.4k likes🔥🔥 thanks guys
Hey boii, I found ya somehow 😅
@@rohanvishwanathan9131 lol
are you two fhiends?
At least the tree has a reason
@@minerstove652 treason*
Researchers: Found another tree
Tree: Male
Lonely tree: *gay*
There are actually three in Miami
@@ryanwolf5315 is a joke ya dumbass
@@qhaliseqram154 but you do know there's people would actually believe there are gay trees just like people who believe in flat earth lmao
@@atifahmed619 you sure got that one Straight :v
@@cybercomets7260 😐
Even trees deserve a friend
"A true, lonely bachelor.", had me gasping for air haha. The way he talks is so funny. Great video!
Edit: The way he talks reminds me of young Ron Weasley :D
* people complaining about being single and lonely.*
Tree: pathetic
Woodi took a small part of it and grew it.WAIT
It means the original is still out there.
THIS IS A CLONE.
But the original would also be male
This isnt the only one . It's been cloned for 100 years.
@m OMG.
Wood collected three offsets and some original stems and left two originals. One of which was in bad shape and didn’t survive. Well the other was collected and sent to a garden where it subsequently died. So there are no known E. Woodii’s in the wild.
@@fish7735 Thanks for making it even more depressing
There is a possible solution you have never tried. As a male plant, it produces pollen. In Science magazine before it was stopped, it had an article about using glucose at different concentrations to cause some of the pollen grains to rupture and growing into haploid plants. If you could take some of those haploid plants and apply clochine (misspelled), you could create a diploid plant that would be a female plant. Then you could have a possible way of continuing this species. Of course, it would have limited diversity.
Palms usually pup from the bottom. There’s also a few chemicals that wouldn’t damage the plant but promote pupping. But I guess that would ruin their gig.
Cycads aren't palms.
Great big story: This is the loneliest living thing on earth.
Me: hold my beer.
Also Me: ok
Loneliest *_T-R-E-E_*
LoL
Who will hold your beer if you’re so lonely?
lol
@@filipedias7284 omae wa mo shindeiru
2:13 my autobiography in a nutshell
same
yeah my life
He's not lonely! He has his best friend trees all around him!
There are too many comments so i don't know if someone pointed this before, but this made me remember the ents and their search for their entwives. Also, Tolkien was a very educated english and the cycad on the video is 117 years old; I even remeber the mention of cycads when he describen how Shelob scaped from Beleriand when it started to sunk. Could all of this be a coincidence?
Tree: Lemme smash. Please
Female Tree: No, Ron, your branch is small
Tree: Wot? Swiggity Swooty?
I see you are a man of culture
Male human: "no nut November"
Tree: what am I a joke to you?
Lol
No nut November joke in September
No nut November joke in October
@@ysofr0sty766 not anymore
@@middlesiderecords9375 Woah actually? No kidding
Me after meeting this tree “you and I aren’t so different.”
I never knew they took inspiration from this plant for the fern palm from subnautica, that's actually really cool
Never felt sad for a tree but now ...
i just hope that we find a female of its kind before it dies
They can just keep growing the same one from its offshoots.
you know, thats a great ideo :D
why? its just another tree
@@bluepurple1644 Because if the first one dies, the species is extinct.
@@bluepurple1644 I mean yeah it's just a tree but it's also a little piece of earth's history.
I've never knew that a tree could be so relatable
Awwww I love this lil tree
My whole life described in 2:52 minutes....
**cries in a corner**
Don't worry, he'll keep you company
Wait, REALLY?
*_GUYS, WE FOUND THE LAST FEMALE WODII!_*
YugenDran 101 *”honey... you’re adopted, I found you at a hillside”*
*_room gets flooded by tears_*
*A true lonely bachelor*
Dude ur a tree?
*rule 34 artists be like*
“Oh, your alone? Don’t worry ill draw you a friend... :)"
NO
I remember Bob Ross saying that
Stop
jeffy said you did'nt had too because thats not so peepeeeeeeeeeee.
@@ShadeRave We bet ur daddy is high
its so astonishing.
Child: “Mommy, how are baby trees born?”
Mommy: “well you see...there’s a something called Dioecious-when a male tree & a female tre...”
Daddy: “uh uh, that’s enough honey”
I wonder if he mates with another tree he wakes up with morning wood
That's not how most people consume coffee, but okay.
AssasinDG .....hahahaha awesome comment
Thank you.
KingCobra 8 ?
I just choked on rice while reading this