Australian "Suicide Plant" - Gympie Gympie // DON'T TOUCH IT!!
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The Australian Gimpie Gimpie plant has the most painful stingers in the world. Some describe it as being burned by hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. It is also known as the suicide plant, and for good reason. With extremely fine needles that are stinging hairs, just a simple swipe of your skin over a leaf will embed toxins into your skin, whose painful effects can last for up to two years.
There is a story of an incident during World War 2 training exercises, when an officer was walking an Australian bush track in Queensland. On the trail he had to stop to go to the bathroom as nature called. During this bathroom break, he unknowingly reached out and used a large broad leaf of a Gimpy Gimpy plant as toilet paper.
So intense was the agony of the pain in the most sensitive of areas, the officer was driven to madness and ended up drawing his firearm and shooting himself in the head. Such was the story that has been told.
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Brother, do you have seeds of this tree? I want to plant it and study it.
My son just hit on one while hiking through Stoney Creek, just outside of Woodford Qld. He was traversing some rather difficult terrain and grabbed onto one by its stem to steady himself. It is a truly awful experience to see a loved one endure the raging and searing pain, and I can't imagine I could ever cope with it myself.
Youch...sounds nasty Robert! Hope he's come good now.
@@jelbuilderfilms Thankfully he has.
@@robertalker652 is he better now does it still itchy or pain???
@@slowzu512 He has completely recovered. But that said, he had symptoms for about six months, though they weren't terribly bad
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@@robertalker652 mate i had my 18 month old on my shoulders up mount nebo and brushed past, and it copped me on the shoulder, had it wiped over his face he could have killed him! im not proud to admit i dropped instantly and almost dropped him. if my wife wasnt there to catch him i would have. because i didnt know what it was, insect, spider, snake?! it was a bit freaky. and up at the cafe near nebo i went into mild shock. people thought i was having a panic attack! hahaha. ur poor son. i have a pretty good resistance to pain but that f**king dropped me like no tomorrow!!
*Hi I’m Coyote Peterson”
You’re a genius man 😂. Hit that man up!
“And I’m gonna fake being stung”
Lol he's literally doing it next 😂 9 months in advance you are
@@whateverdoesntmatter9868 nothing fake about it?
@@crow1989 well yea I said it the wrong way. He does get stung but he immensely exaggerates the effects/level of pain these stinks cause. Just look up his reaction to being stung by a bullet ant and then from literally anybody else.
I got stuck on both knees, and up my quads today. I've never been in so much pain. I was screaming at one point. Now, 6hrs on. My legs are still on fire. I tried waxing (holy hell the pain) and the 1:10 hydrochloric acid solution soaked on toilet paper over my legs for 30 mins. If you do this, DO NOT use cold water. Use warm. The pain was excruciating. I've tried topical Xylocaine. Peppermint oil gives instant relief for a minute. It still is sooo incredibly painful. I get that if it was on your face or over whole body, that death might seem like a way out.
Youch.... sounds like you really hit bad with it!! 😨Hope relief comes soon for you. Thanks for sharing your terrible experience and more importantly, the relief remedies you tried.
Did you make it through it okay? All recovered now?
Did you recover is it still itchy or pain?
I got stung twice last week but the pain and numbness was gone after 45 minutes each time. It was an interesting experience but maybe I got luck as your episode looks so much worse. I hope your better now mate.
I had fantastic results treating Gympie Gympie with Bentonite clay: add water to Bentonite clay powder and make a poultice, cover the stung area, then cover with a moist cloth and wrap everything with cling wrap (so it's not drying out) Leave for 12 hours, then wash off. Might need a second application for 8-12 hours, depending how it feels, but usually one application works. Bentonite clay is able to draw toxins and impurities (like splinters) out of your skin. This is the only treatment that works and won't leave you with scars like using hydrochloride acid or pain when applying it.
Is it a natural alternative medicine
Going from Top Swanfels Road up the south-west ridge to Mount Doubletop, once you get off what many decades ago might have been a 4WD track, practically can barely tell it was - there is a gympie gympie forest there, the largest I have ever seen anywhere - and it covers the whole slope, no avoiding it, and is deep as well. My party spent over 45 minutes limbo (ducking, dodging, weaving, talking each other past parts of the plants) through that forest. You cannot just smash them down with poles either, because then the fine hairs release into the air, damaging eyes and lungs..
Surprisingly none of us copped more than a glance there because we were being careful. Later on though, coming down from Swan Knoll through the worst and largest lantana stand I have ever been witness to, there I got stung head to foot everywhere - because they were hidden amongst the lantana, hard to see, especially in the failing light, as we were all a bit panicky about being trapped there overnight, so caution was abandoned for speed. I still remember telling one of my companions I just got stung badly, and her reply was 'That's too bad, we can't worry about that now, we have to get out!'
On the drive back out it was practically unbearable. And it hurt for days. Worst experience with the plant.
Sounds crazy, Darren. You're right, the fine hairs do release in the air and can give you a secondary. On yesterday's hike up to Stinson's Wreck, I got another direct swipe of hidden Gympie underneath my right forearm. Don't care what anyone reckons, these things burn like heck and I've got a reasonably high pain threshold. Still copping the pain today, aaah, it's great to be human. LOL.
There are a few species of Dendrocnide in Australia, some more dangerous than others. Another trap for the unwary is that stinging trees can be mistaken for the harmless Macaranga tanarius. It's a rainforest pioneer species and tends to grow in similar locations to the Gympie Gympie.
There is a plant called Kunjeboy (don't know how to spell it😉) which grows nearby to the Gympie Gympie plant. If you rub it on it will relieve the pain. Someone should write about that...
Thanks for that info.... just looked it up, Cunjevoi. Interesting stuff.
I decided to watch this again after my run in with a gympie gympie tree.. same location as this video I may add! and your dying words.. touch and see what kind of party you would have hahahaha
... And you had a Gympie party alright on your last Stinson scramble👊
I wouldn't call it a "weed" like what you stated in the video. The gympie gympie is a native and certain native fauna actually find uses to this plant. (I remember reading it is either a moth/ caterpillar or ant that eats those leaves). According to a local indigenous Cairns, QLD "Fine hairs can sting the skin for two months but the root juice relieves it.”. Also using a wax strip will pull out those thin fine hairs that have stung from the skin
Good to know and now I know what to look out for!
I had poison ivy before on both arms and it's actually not very comfortable. The itching and skin rash was actually very uncomfortable. Gympie plant is actually similar to the stinging tree or maybe they're actually the same plant.
Poison Ivy is like getting a good slap across the face.... whilst Gympie Gympie is like getting kicked in the face and one's teeth broken. Pretty bad analogy my end, I know, but Gympie's can inject hundreds of neurotoxins in one's skin possibly landing them in hospital for days. Poison Ivy has nothing on our Gympie Gympies.
@@jelbuilderfilms it does when it spreads all over your body then again if the gympie was all over the body 🤯😳
Sounds like a good candidate for: "Burn it! Burn it with fire!"
Agreed...👍👍
hahahaha! I actually wrote that comment before finishing the video! lol.. that's the same story I heard about the dude using it as toilet paper! hahaha I can contest it feels like Acid burning your skin..not so much the electricity as I black out when I got electrocuted when I was young haha
These things are all over Mt Suberbus. I can't stand them, takes the relaxation out of hiking. I have toyed with the idea of brushing my shin against one and videoing the results for posterity. Haha
Do it!
@@tofuhiker Knowing my luck i'll have some massive allergic reaction to it and puff up like a beach ball. Haha
Or it puts the "excitement" into hiking amidst the element of danger, lol. I've rubbed myself on enough of these now to know (1) I certainly don't feel like videoing it when it happens, (2) it can burn like heck depending where it swipes you, and (3) even wearing gloves, the needles will still penetrate and although not super painful, the stinging sensation still lasts for hours. They actually got me pretty bad on my last trek out Mt Lindesay - I'm having a little cry now about it still. Give me a moment...
@@jelbuilderfilms well the one that hurts the most for me is when I was down climbing coomera gorge and as moved my head to look down, I side swipe the bastard right across my face and it double slapped my nose! oh man the face was on fire.. when I got down to the creek I dumped my face into it! hahaha
@@Spacegoat92 that would make good content! hahaha I have recorded myself getting hit but it was a little touch only..I'm not insane enough to touch it on purpose..
Just got stung by a small one today while climbing up some jungle terrain at Gardners Falls. Not very comfortable I must say. Fingers crossed the pain doesn't last too long, It's already been ongoing for 5 hours though...
They are nasty things. Hope you're recovering OK!
I’m pretty sure dinosaurs will eventually return in Australia if the haven’t already. Spiders the size of my face, crocodiles that swim in the coastal oceans and up rivers? I’m guessing bats that can open truck doors and ear eating canary are common there.
Hey mate, these look like young giant stinging trees, not the gympie stinger. The giant stinging trees start off looking very similar to the gympie stinger but the stinging tree grows out to 40m or so & the gympie stinger to a shrub a few mtrs high sometimes higher. The easiest way to identify them (without touching them to check the pain intensity) is the way the leaves connect to the stems. In your video it looks like the stem connects further down the leaf not at the margin as is the giant stinging tree. My screen isn't the best quality so can only go off what I can see. As I wasn't there, you would be the best one to verify.🙂
Great video mate! I found two small plants near cedar creek North of Brisbane but do you know any spots near brissy where I can find larger plants. I would like to do a documentary for my Polish channel. It is one of the most fascinating plants on the planet.
Thanks. These plants are in abundance everywhere in Lamington National Park, Illinbah, Christmas Creek, Binna Burra and Mt Lindesay areas. I haven't seen them in areas closer to Brisbane... possibly in D'Aguilar National Park but I can't confirm. One thing you might be interested in if you're doing a video on these that not many people know about (and I forgot to add it to this video at the time), is that generally wherever you find a Gympie Gympie plant, there is the Cunjevoi plant nearby which provides a natural relief to the stinging pain. So basically, if the Gympie stings you, find a neighbouring Cunjevoi plant (looks like elephant ears, also called a Spoon Lilly), cut it open and rub it on your affected area, and it will not hurt as bad. Hope that helps.... 😉
@@jelbuilderfilms thanks for the info and what a great idea with finding the remedy. I will try it out and will let you know if it works. I’ll go back to the same spot, it’s the closest one found near Brisbane.
Have you found any near Mt Barney like the lower portals, you mentioned mt Lindsay which is very close.
Thanks again for the reply and good luck with the channel
@AustraliaNaDziko No, I've never seen them at lower portals, nor at Mt Barney. But driving up to Binna Burra, heaps of big ones simply growing each side of the road just as you drive a few kms from the O'Reilly's Cafe. Good luck with it, I don't recommend playing with the stuff. It's hairs can disperse if disturbed and get into your respiratory system, and also it'll sting through clothing and gloves, so Def exercise caution. 👍👍
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@@jelbuilderfilms I got done walking from Malalia Park to the Elm House Cafe, its growing everywhere, you can see it easily on google maps street view
Teenytate here, I have gympie for breakfast and it's why I'm all muscly.
I Love Stinging Nettle Tea, I drink it all The Time. Crazy Plant. Here we have The Cholla Cactus, Brutal Cactus.
My wife makes stinging nettle tea regularly as well!
Hmm... I just stick to Australian Bushels Black Tea 😋.
Somehow it seems quite unrealistic that the soldier wiped his S with the leaf, because there is no way he grabbed the leaf without his hands being stung immediately.
i always think the same, unless he had gloves on which they dont use sooo.... its instant. it would sting ur hand. i got done on the shoulder and that dropped me!
1:19, yea I mean. Basically a stinging nettle. Same plant family too. I'm kinda immune to stinging nettle, doesn't hurt me that much, especially after repeating touching and any swelling goes away in a hour (other people are complaining for days, lol). I wonder.. I might have to touch this plant some day to see.
Australian super Nettle aka Gimpy - Gimpy... that is Irukandji of nettle like plants... I just recently watched on 60 Minutes about those Irukandji jelly fish creatures, a lot of danger down under ha!
I did a first aid course and saw a video of the irukandji jellyfish. Small but deadly.
@@gohjohan Scarry little critter.
They apparently have some kind of eyes but no brains as scientists explained on 60 Minutes... Fascinating
Irukandji are deadly but very interesting at the same time. They also have 4 bums through which they expel their meals. But their stings put toxins in your body that will drive someone literally mad for a period of time if they don't die, that's a fact. Impending doom is a symptom.
welll funnily enough, they do actually inject a neurotoxin molecularly similar to jellyfish.
I came here after saying to the missus “I bet they have plants in Auz that will fk you up” 😂 yup 👍
TWO BLOODY YEARS!!! 😮
Why on earth would they get that close to that thing!
just today i was stung with about 50~ needles in my hand. was most painful experience imaginable. i am never bushwalking again you can feel the toxin spread and sting further into your body while a hot iron + sharp needles burn and sear your skin worse than torture.
Ouch, sorry to hear that! Most of us Hikers have all been stung by the Gympie so we know the feeling😭. If you do go hiking again, be aware that next to most Gympie stinging plants, grows a Cunjevoi plant which is a green elephant ear looking plant, that will ease the singing sensation. You snap it open and rub it over the affected area and it will provide relief. So the relief plant is usually very close to the pain plant.... Quite amazing stuff really.
It looks so much like other plants that you'd likely never see it before you're in it. You need more of those caterpillars to eat those damn things.
Edit There's supposedly a Brit spec ops soldier that parachuted into a grove of them and they had to tie him to the bed to keep him from getting up and possibly killing himself. It's also been reported that horses have jumped off cliffs after getting into them. There needs to be a national effort to rid the country of those friggin things.
That's an interesting story you mentioned. If you don't know what to look for then yes, these look like other plants. Once you get stung though, you'll know what to look for, 😆.
We used this plant to eat after boiling.
I can never find one. I want to, though.
please dont try and find one, if you do, dont go near it like i did. if i got stung again i would probably end my life because it is worse than torture
Well, I found one in the wild and now I have bought seeds for it
so nice hahah
Bruh 2 YEARS?
They are my favourite plant! I'm so used to these bastards they only give me a little sting now! ..The dude used it as toilet paper and then shot himself cause he couldn't stand the pain hahaha myth? or truth?
That's because you are part man and part bushbashing machine!!! lol. The story is one of those anecdotal tell around the camp-fire ones if you ask me, but apparently it's a story told by some soldier in WW2 who actually fell into a bunch of stingers himself, and went mad for a while but came good, but later told this story of another soldier who shot himself because of it. I love the tale anyways, but I still don't enjoy Gympie Goodness on my skin! :D
You've actually been "stung" by em?
Absolutely Luke.... Many times. Not pleasant at all. Has stung me also through clothing.
@@jelbuilderfilms well it can't be THAT bad the if you've been stung many times and you are still here. Shucks I'd be tempted to go to Australia just to see how bad it is! Plants are fascinating
@@lukeswain1752 Lol, very true.... Just don't use it as toilet paper😂
what a good way of torturing someone
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2 years ☠️
Gympie Gympie wimpy dimpy ginovy ginocious, the plant can sting, how would you survive this?
My wife is gympie😎
YOU ARE WAAYYYY TOO CLOSE TO THIS THING
how to save ur skin here is tip;first pee in ur painful skin
Touching it everyday gives me nothing
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do some research
He's pretty spot on with this one mate.
pee is heal ur skin
Makes me glad I don't live in Australia
Makes me wish I didn't live in Australia!
It looks the same as the giant stinging tree! 🤔