🤣🤣 That’s crazy! Ironically, I haven’t played my Animal Crossing app in years. Guess I should see how the town looks lately! I could use some more Nintendo coins, anyways! 🌺
@@trevorswims5754 Hmm...not quite. While it is similar, the key thing which prevents Venusaur's flower from being a rafflesia is the leaves surrounding it. Rafflesia doesn't have leaves because it is parasytic rather than photosynthetic. I would say Venusaur's is probably more akin to some species of passiflora or another tropical flowering plant species, though I'd need to look into it to be certain.
@@timothyvanhoeck233 Oh yeah, that does make sense, but even though the its flower may not be parasitic, I still like to believe that venusaurs flower is at least half or somewhat based on the rafflesia flower. You made a great point though.
@@trevorswims5754 I think venusaur is just a bullfrog, that planted some plants on his back so that a Rafflesia can infest the plants and attract tasty flies for the bullfrog. In the first episode of "The insane biology of Pokémon"!
Whenever I learn about a parasitic insect I hate them with all my guts, but for some reason when the parasite is a plant, I'm just thinking "you go girl"
There's a preserved Rafflesia on display at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan that never ceases to amaze me. I'm a small statured woman and this flower is more than half my size. I've always appreciated the fact that it's no longer smelly though I have always wondered how bad it truly smells.
It smells really bad,like rotten meat,like corpse. It smells that bad to attract insect to come inside. You can come here,Bogor,Indonesia to smell that flower. The ticket is cheap,it is not more than 2 dollars. But,the ticket for aeroplane is expensive😅
Depending on the temperature reached by thermogenesis, another possible reason for it might be to further mimic decaying carcasses, which produce some heat as they decompose.
We have these growing in our backyard back then. my grandpa cut them off, it never grew back after a few times cutting the flower. It's sure is magnificent seeing it up close.
I learned about this flower on a school trip, you could press a button to smell it, and i had that smell stuck in my body and lungs for an entire hour. The smell and size were the only two/2 things i knew about this flower.
I saw these flowers up near Mt Kinabalu in Borneo its diameter measured around 700 mm and yes it did smell .. Borneo is full of amazing weird things and it’s one of my favorite countries to travel through
Borneo is the name of the island, which consists of states from 3 different countries. Mt Kinabalu is in Sabah which is a state of Malaysia, but I'm sure Kalimantan and Brunei are great places to visit too.
is that 700 mm 1 sig fig, 2 sig figs, or 3 sig figs?? Should've went with 0.700 m if it is 3 sig fits, otherwise I could be thinking you only know this thing to within +- 100 mm
I've seen these in Borneo, and yes, they smell bad, but it's absolutely nothing compared to Swedish surströmming(fermented herring), unrelated but I was walking on the beach the other day and came across a semi decomposed seal, even that was nothing compared to the Surströmming.
@@mooodeang The first surströmmingsklämma in the autumn is amazing, but then I'm pretty much fine 'till the next year. It may just be the total experience.
@@atrudokht Durian smells sweet atleast to us South East Asian ig, the smell he's trying to describe is more like the smell of trash bins but 10x more intense as it stings your nose.
5:17 Let me tell you, staph is a very serious infection. I have a staph folliculitus infection that is resistant to antibiotics. I've been on various antibiotics for a year now. I've been seeing an infections disease specialist for about half that time. My skin, going from my feet up to my knees, is covered in painful, itchy, bleeding sores that do not heal. They'll form scabs, but the skin under those scabs won't recover. I've had some of these scabs for over a month, and when I accidently scrath them off, it bleeds as if it were a fresh wound. I haven't been able to work because sweating causes my condition to worsen. At first I was able to do non-physical jobs for a short time, but now my arms are starting to break out too. My sores are contact spread on people and surfaces, so I can't work most jobs at all. Make sure to cover your wounds carefully and shower a minimum of once each other day. If you are worried about something on your skin, go see a dermatologist. It's worth the ~80$ to avoid being in a state like mine. Remember, preemptive care is always more effective than reactive care.
Ive had staph infection in my nose. A year of antibiotics did nothing. Got rid of it by accidentally hearing the pharmacy lady talking about some medicine used for animals. Bought it, put some of it inside my nose cavity for 2 weeks, tested negative some 2 weeks later. 10/10 would selfmedicate again!
hi have you ever heard of Cuga it’s a fungus thingy that grows near mountain terrain. anyways it’s brown and looks rocky like not smooth and it heals from the inside so by drinking it. that may help aide in the right healing that your leg needs. also talk to your leg let it knw that u need it to walk.
some things i note: 1. is rafflesia the same kind of flower like in other flowering plants? or is it just an organ that mimics the shape of a flower 2. Interesting that some flowers smell nice, and others smell terrible, but seemingly for the same purpose 3. How is it possible that horizontal gene transfer happen in macroscopic eukaryote? does rafflesia has a similar cellular machinery to bacteria to accomplish this? 5. Where is rafflesia in the evolutionary tree? i imagine a plant as weird as this might be evolutionarily isolated and have only few relatives (like the case of platypus and its relatives for mammals) 6. How can rafflesia be so difficult to cultivate outside their natural habitat, while we can do that with titanarum?
6. Rafflesia is parasitic, only grow from seeds, and need very very specific host. It is stated in video that it's still unclear how the seeds germinates. While titanarum not only grow from seed, it also produces tuber that is easy peasy to grow like growing a potato (some titanarum relatives are well known as food source in SE Asia). Digging a full grown tuber for replanting usually doesn't harm the plant. It does hibernate out of the ground, you can plant it months later and it grows like nothing happen.
(Answering as a botanist but not an expert specifically on Rafflesia) 1. It is a real flower, not just a look-alike organ. 2. Yes, just all depends on the type of pollinator the plant has adapted to attract. 3. No, it does not appear that horizontal gene transfer works the same way in plants as in bacteria (though a bit tricky to simplify and some aspects are the same). Parasitic plants seem to have a proclivity towards it, so we might posit that it has something to do with the host-parasite relationship, 5. Rafflesia is a a eudicot in the Rosids. Holoparasitism has evolved several times in flowering plants. 6. It can be notoriously difficult to establish obligate symbioses (whether mutualistic or parasitic) in cultivation...
I remember a video about an Indonesian that *grow* this flower in his backyard. This plant is a parasite of a certain vine, so all he did was _implanting_ the whatever-it's-called (bulb?) on a mature vine, then watch them bloom on his backyard. The vine need big tree to climb, so to plant this Rafflesia, you will need (i) the bulb of Rafflesia, (ii) the vine as its host plant, (iii) big tree for its host plant to climb on, and (iv) humid environment. I remember his backyard was quite shaded, with rich black humus and puddles everywhere. The host plant (vine) itself was about 10cm in diameter. I just Googled it. Seems like the host plant is from genus Tetrasigma, a type of tropical wild grape.
@@parry3439 Because the flower is kinda rare right now. There are lot of this flower (titan arum / rafflesia) back in the days and people usually get rid of it because of its smells.
@@parry3439first, because it looks absolutely stunning. Second, because it's rare, meaning you're helping with the conservation by raising one. Third, because… honestly, for those who love gardening, this kind of smell is no big deal. It smells like your usual day on composting area.
"Role" feels like it implies purpose. There was a niche in the ecosystem, it figured it out, it eats the larvae to live. Everything nature is just trying to eat and reproduce. This plant is no different. :)
i have learned about this plant on BBC with David Attenborough the plant also leaves a small drup of their pollen on the flies so the plant can reproduce!
Yesterday I walked through a fishing dock in equatorial Africa. The smell there pretty sure trumps this flower. It fits the description but add "decaying fish and fermenting feces" to it. I am not easily bothered by smells, but I had to fight the urge to vomit all the time.
I opened a can of surstroming in my garden to eat once and i swear to god, the amount of greenbottles that turned up within the first minuet.... It was unholy. I can see why a plant would use stink to reproduce
One was found at a mountain within our city here in the Philippines by hikers a few years back and it said that more would bloom in a few months time since it's already in the state of decay when they found it, they also found a few montior lizards surrounding the area since they were also attracted to decay
i was just thinking this exact question a few months back, why the two largest flowers both happens to smell like corpses, like i know it's to attract carrion flies to pollinate but WHY? is there a particular benefit to the combination of large size and pollination by insects specifically targeting corpses?
Rafflesia is actually a fungus, often parasitic on tree trunks, the living conditions of the flower are quite special, only growing in damp places, with bamboo bushes and vines.
That was another video that keeps me in AWE about the millions of species we have that evolve so differently. Anyway, you could look into Halyomorpha Halys. The Brown marmorated stink bug. They are the size of a fat dime, but when one lets loose near you, you have to take a shower afterward! And the smell, I would describe as moldy dirt. I much prefer skunk! 🤡❤
My cat played with one of these, and after smacking it and licking her paw, she began jumping and jaw smacking. Quite upsetting, til I found out it wasn’t toxic, then I chuckled. The bug was unharmed as well
maybe it's more apt to say, how did evolution as we understand it create this flower? when it comes to the long time scales of evolutionary biology and extra species evolution, what forebear successfully went down the line of chemicals that would achieve the desired affect and how could evolution have occurred if it didn't at once possess them to attract it's pollinator? what how did it reproduce while transitioning and why did the transition continue if it was successful before doing so (which it's current iteration implies had to occur otherwise it wouldn't have survived long enough to propagate enough generations to nail down the chemical synthesis necessary to produce it's "alluring odor")?
Indeed! Apparently, not all science and bio classes teach much in all countries, but in others this is taught. Different levels of math and others are left out in my area, as it is less necessary to the interests and jobs of the area then others
They "kinda" do, like there are Male and Female plants, and typically you can tell from the Flowers they bloom, it's why all flowering plants needs pollinators to spread their pollen(sperm) to other flowers
As soon as you said Borneo in reference to a stinky plant, my mind went back to when I was in Kota Kinabalu during an annual Durian festival. Words cannot describe it lol. Glad to say I drew quite a crowd, the lone white guy sitting down to try it for the first time. It was… interesting. The durian I got was a little out of season and not very sweet, so I’m told. It did have a slight hint of banana flavour to it though. At least that’s the only familiar thing my brain could sense. The consistency of the fruit, once I bit into it, was akin to warm cottage cheese. Wasn’t a fan of that if I’m honest, and I love cottage cheese lol. And it did also taste somewhat like how it smells. And if you don’t know, it smells like a mix of… well… ok they smell like hot diarrhea. Still tasted better than the football sized river snails I had in west Africa. Worst part though was the durian burps I had for the rest of the night 🤢
Southeast asia is pretty unique, here you have plants that obviously dont want to be eaten/consumed and reproduced like Durian and this rafflesia flower.
Makes you wonder what ancient flora looked like when there was more oxygen in the atmosphere. Could imagine giant smelly parasitic or even carnivorous plants.
Imagine those people who cannot smell, life must be abit mundane. like smelling a lovely bakery or unleaded petrol xDD though not whiffing the petrol just the smell that comes off when you're filling up or in the petrol station
As someone with the opposite condition, its nice being able to smell cigarette smoke from long distances away so I can avoid secondhand smoke... But yeah, super sensitive smell can be kinda annoying.
I'm just imagining the Rafflesia plant watching this and getting all excited about somebody talking about it. Then all of a sudden "why does it smell so bad" "One of the smelliest plants of all time" "still smells real bad" "stinky" "smells like rotten beef" Then the plant going aww 😭.
@@xixixi109 Not to mention that trypophobia isn't really anything serious. Besides that the title in the thumbnail should already prepare you uncomfortable feelings. This is like watching a history documentary and complaining about the sight of death bodies in the video.
Because it evolved from plants so it is related to plants and did not evolve from fungus so it is not related to fungus. Convergent evolution filling an ecological niche as other parasitic/decomposing organism do. Also other than that. It still has a flower, fruit, seeds, breaths in carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. While fungus breaths in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
@@yourbuddyben4854 kinda like crabs. Multiple animals have evolved in to a crab like form multiple times before in earth's history even though those animals aren't related.
these guys grow in animal crossing wild world, if you leave your village for a very long time and don't clean any weeds or trash, looks scary and the only time it goes away is if you clean up everything
Contradiction? Earlier in the video it is said that the relationship between the flies and the plant favors the plant at the expense of the insect, as their maggots are born with nothing to eat. This would imply that they would quickly die. Are they able to escape the flower before dying? Because if not, theortically they would rot in the flower and their nutrients would be absorbed by the plant. If this happens, then what is said later on--that the plant does not eat the insects--may be at least somewhat misleading. I would think that the heat generated by the flower could actually increase the rate of decay of dead insects, and maybe even raise the metabolic rate of living maggots, causing them to die even faster if they can't find any food.
Humans can do some amazing things. But when they cannot figure out a flower, I would say it is because of its smell that no one wants to investigate it.
Out of interest measured my plates they're just over 22 cm. So you must have quite big dinner plates... not that that means you have to fill it all. But I remember seeing somewhere that US plate sizes have really gone up in size, post WWII , so perhaps that's true. Btw I live in Spain.
USA here and you got me so curious that I had to bust out a tape measure and see. My standard dinner plate (standard according to the amazon info) is 10 inches and not a chance I could finish a filled plate in a sitting. I personally prefer to use the little plates of the set as the big ones are just a little crazy.
The US government a while back wanted us to eat and exercise more so we would be a little more bulky for the next war They then took away the exercise but do to lobbying not the eating and we are now mostly obese
if you help the plant shower or bath it probably won't stink as much. Imagine staying outdoors in the sun with no shower or bath, that will make you smell pretty bad
Смешно то, что , как всегда, обьяснение звучит так, -- и Рафлезия приспособилась использовать это, для того то, или того, то. А мысль о том ,что у рафлезии нету мозга, и тогда как и почему она могла думать или приспосабливаться к чему то ? Ведь что бы использовать подобные навыки приспособляемости, нужно уметь анализировать происходящее вокруг. Понимать, что такое разложение, и что это привлечет мух и насекомых. Но ученых это не беспокоит. Хотя ясно как день, что цветок и все его способности, просто творение Творца, -- Бога.
2:40 these flowers didn't evolve to be smeloy. We evolved to sense these smells as smelly... or who knows? Sense is relative so something that smell nice to someone can smell horribly to the other.
“Vileplume's toxic pollen triggers atrocious allergy attacks. That's why it is advisable never to approach any attractive flowers in a jungle, however pretty they may be.” OmegaRuby ‘dex Description. ❤ 🌺
Rafflesia-arnoldii was named after dr. Joseph Arnold, a British surgeon, and Stamford Raffles, the then Lt. Gov. of British Colony of Bencoolen (today's Bengkulu). However, it was first discovered by a French explorer, Louis Auguste Deschamps, whose on his way back home, the ship he was boarded in was captured by British, and all of his notes, drawing, and specimen was confiscated. There is currently some 25 recorded of Rafflesia genus, spread in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, including the first discovered Rafflesia-arnoldii. Most of them is considered endangered, due to threat from deforestation etc.
@@maulanaholiqyanuar2578 First discovered by the local tribesmen, not the European. The Raflesia Arnoldii is the biggest, and only found in Indonesia. The ones in Malaysia/Phillipine is Not the -Arnoldii.
I learned about these flowers in animal crossing. If you neglect your town long enough then these things start growing and making its own ecosystem.
🤣🤣 That’s crazy! Ironically, I haven’t played my Animal Crossing app in years. Guess I should see how the town looks lately! I could use some more Nintendo coins, anyways! 🌺
Oh wow, which animal crossing?
Me: *chaos trigger itching*
Me: "well I need whatever console that game runs on, play it, leave to village unattended and bask in the raflesia chaos*
@@inrevenant i think it was new leaf but i could be wrong
Like Los Angeles 😉😂
So this must be the flower that the Pokemon Vileplume is based on. It's always fascinating to see the real world connections.
It is. Likewise Victreebel is based on the Pitcher Plant.
Not to mention venusaur, who's flower is also based on the rafflesia flower.
@@trevorswims5754 Hmm...not quite. While it is similar, the key thing which prevents Venusaur's flower from being a rafflesia is the leaves surrounding it.
Rafflesia doesn't have leaves because it is parasytic rather than photosynthetic.
I would say Venusaur's is probably more akin to some species of passiflora or another tropical flowering plant species, though I'd need to look into it to be certain.
@@timothyvanhoeck233 Oh yeah, that does make sense, but even though the its flower may not be parasitic, I still like to believe that venusaurs flower is at least half or somewhat based on the rafflesia flower. You made a great point though.
@@trevorswims5754 I think venusaur is just a bullfrog, that planted some plants on his back so that a Rafflesia can infest the plants and attract tasty flies for the bullfrog. In the first episode of "The insane biology of Pokémon"!
Whenever I learn about a parasitic insect I hate them with all my guts, but for some reason when the parasite is a plant, I'm just thinking "you go girl"
There's a preserved Rafflesia on display at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan that never ceases to amaze me. I'm a small statured woman and this flower is more than half my size. I've always appreciated the fact that it's no longer smelly though I have always wondered how bad it truly smells.
Man I LOVE that museum ❤️. Sadly it's been over two decades since I've visited. I need to go again next year.
@@dankachilles9356 it's now next year, have fun
It smells really bad,like rotten meat,like corpse. It smells that bad to attract insect to come inside. You can come here,Bogor,Indonesia to smell that flower. The ticket is cheap,it is not more than 2 dollars. But,the ticket for aeroplane is expensive😅
u cute-sized
It's like opening a bottle of rotten milk and opening a room with a highly decomposed body in it at the same time
imagine deciding that photosynthesis isn't useful 💀
Truly an evolution move. Fuck it why not right?
this makes you sound like a irl plant dissing this one for not photisynthesising
Depending on the temperature reached by thermogenesis, another possible reason for it might be to further mimic decaying carcasses, which produce some heat as they decompose.
The most probable, and to strengthen and spread the odour too!
Thank you for this information about Vileplume!
This comment is way too down. Definitely the first thing I thought of too. 😂
And Venusaur
I see what you did there😂
Im.surprised this isn't a top.comment. I couldn't help but think of vileplum the entire video
@@ThatFunnyPlace I've never gotten more than like 7 likes and 1 comment, so to me this feels like a top comment! lol
We have these growing in our backyard back then. my grandpa cut them off, it never grew back after a few times cutting the flower. It's sure is magnificent seeing it up close.
Had*
@@AdminAbuseOnly losers do what you just did tbh
Woah, where did you grow up?!
I learned about this flower on a school trip, you could press a button to smell it, and i had that smell stuck in my body and lungs for an entire hour. The smell and size were the only two/2 things i knew about this flower.
Damn, props to the dudes who found it for not burning the whole forest down after lol
Always cool to see what inspired certain pokemon. *A wild Vileplume appeared*
I saw these flowers up near Mt Kinabalu in Borneo its diameter measured around 700 mm and yes it did smell .. Borneo is full of amazing weird things and it’s one of my favorite countries to travel through
Borneo is the name of the island, which consists of states from 3 different countries. Mt Kinabalu is in Sabah which is a state of Malaysia, but I'm sure Kalimantan and Brunei are great places to visit too.
is that 700 mm 1 sig fig, 2 sig figs, or 3 sig figs?? Should've went with 0.700 m if it is 3 sig fits, otherwise I could be thinking you only know this thing to within +- 100 mm
@@pyropulseIXXI most likely the latter.
@@pyropulseIXXI it’s 700mm on my builders rule
@@donbrashsux So that means 0.700 m?
What a brilliant video. I'm not as much into botany as zoology but this was super interesting. I have never heard about stinky flowers.
Actually first time i've seen this flower it is on junior high school backyard. 😂
Greetings from Indonesia.
VILEPLUME VILPLUME if you know you know
@@dudesayshi2191 Vileplume is rafflesia
@@Mewmero DING DING DING YOU ARE CORRECT DEAR SIR
me too. im so obsessed with zoology but stuff like these flowers are why i also enjoy botany. biology in general is awesome
I've seen these in Borneo, and yes, they smell bad, but it's absolutely nothing compared to Swedish surströmming(fermented herring), unrelated but I was walking on the beach the other day and came across a semi decomposed seal, even that was nothing compared to the Surströmming.
But still, it is so tasty. Surströmming, I mean. Never tasted the flower. .
@@elisabethbjuhr1318 I think its overrated, its just tastes salty and fishy. Its not really anything special.
@@mooodeang The first surströmmingsklämma in the autumn is amazing, but then I'm pretty much fine 'till the next year.
It may just be the total experience.
How about durian? We southeastasians really adore this king of fruit while foreigners hate it so much due to the strong aroma.
@@atrudokht Durian smells sweet atleast to us South East Asian ig, the smell he's trying to describe is more like the smell of trash bins but 10x more intense as it stings your nose.
For me, this is one of the best voice-overs on UA-cam!!
It looks like a flower you'd find in an old 16 bit side-scrolling platformer video game from the early 90s. 🌺☄️🚶🏻♂️🌸📺🎮
I don't know if this counts, but rafflesia is the inspiration behind the Pokemon Vileplume.
That was a lot of emojis
5:17
Let me tell you, staph is a very serious infection. I have a staph folliculitus infection that is resistant to antibiotics. I've been on various antibiotics for a year now. I've been seeing an infections disease specialist for about half that time.
My skin, going from my feet up to my knees, is covered in painful, itchy, bleeding sores that do not heal. They'll form scabs, but the skin under those scabs won't recover. I've had some of these scabs for over a month, and when I accidently scrath them off, it bleeds as if it were a fresh wound.
I haven't been able to work because sweating causes my condition to worsen. At first I was able to do non-physical jobs for a short time, but now my arms are starting to break out too. My sores are contact spread on people and surfaces, so I can't work most jobs at all.
Make sure to cover your wounds carefully and shower a minimum of once each other day. If you are worried about something on your skin, go see a dermatologist. It's worth the ~80$ to avoid being in a state like mine.
Remember, preemptive care is always more effective than reactive care.
Ive had staph infection in my nose. A year of antibiotics did nothing. Got rid of it by accidentally hearing the pharmacy lady talking about some medicine used for animals. Bought it, put some of it inside my nose cavity for 2 weeks, tested negative some 2 weeks later. 10/10 would selfmedicate again!
Thank you for sharing this.
hi have you ever heard of Cuga it’s a fungus thingy that grows near mountain terrain. anyways it’s brown and looks rocky like not smooth and it heals from the inside so by drinking it. that may help aide in the right healing that your leg needs. also talk to your leg let it knw that u need it to walk.
chugga if spelled correctly
some things i note:
1. is rafflesia the same kind of flower like in other flowering plants? or is it just an organ that mimics the shape of a flower
2. Interesting that some flowers smell nice, and others smell terrible, but seemingly for the same purpose
3. How is it possible that horizontal gene transfer happen in macroscopic eukaryote?
does rafflesia has a similar cellular machinery to bacteria to accomplish this?
5. Where is rafflesia in the evolutionary tree? i imagine a plant as weird as this might be evolutionarily isolated
and have only few relatives (like the case of platypus and its relatives for mammals)
6. How can rafflesia be so difficult to cultivate outside their natural habitat, while we can do that with titanarum?
The only thing I noted is that you missed number 4. 😄
6. Rafflesia is parasitic, only grow from seeds, and need very very specific host. It is stated in video that it's still unclear how the seeds germinates. While titanarum not only grow from seed, it also produces tuber that is easy peasy to grow like growing a potato (some titanarum relatives are well known as food source in SE Asia). Digging a full grown tuber for replanting usually doesn't harm the plant. It does hibernate out of the ground, you can plant it months later and it grows like nothing happen.
(Answering as a botanist but not an expert specifically on Rafflesia)
1. It is a real flower, not just a look-alike organ.
2. Yes, just all depends on the type of pollinator the plant has adapted to attract.
3. No, it does not appear that horizontal gene transfer works the same way in plants as in bacteria (though a bit tricky to simplify and some aspects are the same). Parasitic plants seem to have a proclivity towards it, so we might posit that it has something to do with the host-parasite relationship,
5. Rafflesia is a a eudicot in the Rosids. Holoparasitism has evolved several times in flowering plants.
6. It can be notoriously difficult to establish obligate symbioses (whether mutualistic or parasitic) in cultivation...
@@tomkleist1815amazing thank you for the detailed explanation
I remember a video about an Indonesian that *grow* this flower in his backyard.
This plant is a parasite of a certain vine, so all he did was _implanting_ the whatever-it's-called (bulb?) on a mature vine, then watch them bloom on his backyard.
The vine need big tree to climb, so to plant this Rafflesia, you will need (i) the bulb of Rafflesia, (ii) the vine as its host plant, (iii) big tree for its host plant to climb on, and (iv) humid environment.
I remember his backyard was quite shaded, with rich black humus and puddles everywhere. The host plant (vine) itself was about 10cm in diameter.
I just Googled it. Seems like the host plant is from genus Tetrasigma, a type of tropical wild grape.
It can also grow in string beans vines. It smells like decaying rat. We have a lot of that here.
why in god's green earth would anyone grow a flower that smells like death in their backyard
@@parry3439 It does do wonders warding off unwanted neighbor kids messing in your backyard AND scaring off more superstitious ones
@@parry3439 Because the flower is kinda rare right now. There are lot of this flower (titan arum / rafflesia) back in the days and people usually get rid of it because of its smells.
@@parry3439first, because it looks absolutely stunning.
Second, because it's rare, meaning you're helping with the conservation by raising one.
Third, because… honestly, for those who love gardening, this kind of smell is no big deal. It smells like your usual day on composting area.
The way these flowers look creep me out so badly and i cant even explain why
Interesting, maybe the role of this plant is, like so many limiting factors in nature, to control the population of insects by eliminating their larva
oh, that could be
"Role" feels like it implies purpose. There was a niche in the ecosystem, it figured it out, it eats the larvae to live. Everything nature is just trying to eat and reproduce. This plant is no different. :)
@@StevenSkoczen well no offense that is a purpose most organisms have
@@StevenSkoczen if we want to play word games like mant do ok but it is a purpose many organisms have. To survive and reproduce
Only tropical countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil who got this rich and abundant biodiversities.
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Are you a robot ?
@@dubstrippin Not I'm not a robot. Dunno why you'd ask such a stupid question mate.
@@FlamingBasketballClub it's not a stupid question, bots are known for posting stuff like this to get likes and subscribers
@@Phoenix56801 So are humans. It's the comment section of UA-cam. L response bruh.
@@FlamingBasketballClub I don’t think you needed to respond so harshly
i have learned about this plant on BBC with David Attenborough the plant also leaves a small drup of their pollen on the flies so the plant can reproduce!
They don’t call it “The Corpse Flower”, for no reason now.🌹
Love waking up and seeing a new vid from this channel, keep it up🔥🙏🏼
I saw a preserved one of these flowers in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens. Really cool to see this after seeing the preserved flower in person. Amazing!
Yesterday I walked through a fishing dock in equatorial Africa. The smell there pretty sure trumps this flower. It fits the description but add "decaying fish and fermenting feces" to it. I am not easily bothered by smells, but I had to fight the urge to vomit all the time.
This is extraordinarily cool, thanks for exploring something I don't get to see very often in such detail. Love to see it.
Such a good channel, only down side is I gotta prepare before watching because I’m trying to learn
It's the accent and cadence for me. I could listen to her for hours. Just exquisite.
0:03 Instantly started thinking of the mother of my child 💀
Lmfaooooo me too
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I opened a can of surstroming in my garden to eat once and i swear to god, the amount of greenbottles that turned up within the first minuet.... It was unholy. I can see why a plant would use stink to reproduce
One was found at a mountain within our city here in the Philippines by hikers a few years back and it said that more would bloom in a few months time since it's already in the state of decay when they found it, they also found a few montior lizards surrounding the area since they were also attracted to decay
Well... Learning that they are Parasitic, makes Vileplume from Pokémon even more interesting
i was just thinking this exact question a few months back, why the two largest flowers both happens to smell like corpses, like i know it's to attract carrion flies to pollinate but WHY? is there a particular benefit to the combination of large size and pollination by insects specifically targeting corpses?
flies might be the only available pollinators in its habitat?
Plant Man (from Mega Man), Vileplume, and possibly but probably not Venusaur are inspired by rafflesia. Such an interesting yet disturbing flower!
That Google search in the end was hilarious. 11:37
Fun fact, the Pokemon Vileplume is based on this flower.
10:28: Fun fact: This plant smells so bad that you have to wear a mask when watching it on TV
Let's all be thankful this isn't a common strategy among plants to make their flowers stink like that.
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Rafflesia is actually a fungus, often parasitic on tree trunks, the living conditions of the flower are quite special, only growing in damp places, with bamboo bushes and vines.
That was another video that keeps me in AWE about the millions of species we have that evolve so differently. Anyway, you could look into Halyomorpha Halys. The Brown marmorated stink bug. They are the size of a fat dime, but when one lets loose near you, you have to take a shower afterward! And the smell, I would describe as moldy dirt. I much prefer skunk! 🤡❤
My cat played with one of these, and after smacking it and licking her paw, she began jumping and jaw smacking. Quite upsetting, til I found out it wasn’t toxic, then I chuckled. The bug was unharmed as well
The title is what I be asking myself after failing to blow all the smoke out the window on a fat bong rip
No, don't do that. Inhale them all. Why would you wasting most of the good stuffs?
Having lunch while watching this wasn't my best idea in retrospect.
maybe it's more apt to say, how did evolution as we understand it create this flower? when it comes to the long time scales of evolutionary biology and extra species evolution, what forebear successfully went down the line of chemicals that would achieve the desired affect and how could evolution have occurred if it didn't at once possess them to attract it's pollinator? what how did it reproduce while transitioning and why did the transition continue if it was successful before doing so (which it's current iteration implies had to occur otherwise it wouldn't have survived long enough to propagate enough generations to nail down the chemical synthesis necessary to produce it's "alluring odor")?
9:15 "the male rafflesia-"
Wait, plants have genders now!?
Indeed! Apparently, not all science and bio classes teach much in all countries, but in others this is taught.
Different levels of math and others are left out in my area, as it is less necessary to the interests and jobs of the area then others
They "kinda" do, like there are Male and Female plants, and typically you can tell from the Flowers they bloom,
it's why all flowering plants needs pollinators to spread their pollen(sperm) to other flowers
As soon as you said Borneo in reference to a stinky plant, my mind went back to when I was in Kota Kinabalu during an annual Durian festival. Words cannot describe it lol.
Glad to say I drew quite a crowd, the lone white guy sitting down to try it for the first time. It was… interesting. The durian I got was a little out of season and not very sweet, so I’m told. It did have a slight hint of banana flavour to it though. At least that’s the only familiar thing my brain could sense. The consistency of the fruit, once I bit into it, was akin to warm cottage cheese. Wasn’t a fan of that if I’m honest, and I love cottage cheese lol. And it did also taste somewhat like how it smells. And if you don’t know, it smells like a mix of… well… ok they smell like hot diarrhea. Still tasted better than the football sized river snails I had in west Africa.
Worst part though was the durian burps I had for the rest of the night 🤢
I am so thankful the British have always been there to discover everything we, as a collective species, are aware of.
i guess its one of the very few positive things to come out of colonialism hahahaha
there is a rafflesia in the tropical house of the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria
and can you possible make a video on coelacanth and other "living fossils" in the future? thanks!
"Do you smell it? That smell. The kind of smelly smell. The kind of smelly smell that smells... smelly. RAFFLESIA!"
Can you do a video on the progress some scientists have made with interacting with apes
Would be great
Can’t fool me, That’s a vileplume.
All this talk of stinky flowers makes me want to roll one up 🔥
Your Voiceover is just so good!
Markie Marks lmaoo that's why i love this channel
Missing the country founded by the man who the Rafflesia is named after in that lineup of where it’s grown.
Southeast asia is pretty unique, here you have plants that obviously dont want to be eaten/consumed and reproduced like Durian and this rafflesia flower.
If durian don't want to be eaten then they gotta stop being so sweet!
Makes you wonder what ancient flora looked like when there was more oxygen in the atmosphere.
Could imagine giant smelly parasitic or even carnivorous plants.
Normal people: It's a Rafflesia! Don't touch it, it is deadly!
Me: Oh look, a wild Vileplume! Where are my pokeballs at?
Love these videos but wish they were double the length.
Imagine those people who cannot smell, life must be abit mundane. like smelling a lovely bakery or unleaded petrol xDD though not whiffing the petrol just the smell that comes off when you're filling up or in the petrol station
As such person its awesome. Much more often ppl complain about smell than saying "oh this smells nice"
Without smell your unlikely to be able to taste so yes it must be awful not being able to enjoy your favourite foods
@@StepBaum at least you will never know being trapped in a car as a passenger in hot summer and someone farted and the windows are locked 😕🤢
@@claireemily1983 not the case tho, i can still taste
As someone with the opposite condition, its nice being able to smell cigarette smoke from long distances away so I can avoid secondhand smoke...
But yeah, super sensitive smell can be kinda annoying.
There’s was one when I was a child at UNC Charlotte in North Carolina
I'm just imagining the Rafflesia plant watching this and getting all excited about somebody talking about it. Then all of a sudden "why does it smell so bad" "One of the smelliest plants of all time" "still smells real bad" "stinky" "smells like rotten beef"
Then the plant going aww 😭.
Thanks for your videos I really look up for every new video you upload
i was on the island of Borneo when i was a kid. Remember the smell of this horrible but wow-looking flower, and it was so huge
I'll never forget hiking In Malaysia at 9 years old and Stumbling upon one. Stunning and, indeed, stinky
She also protects my traptrix monsters from being targeted or destroyed by battle / card effects
there should be a Tripophobia trigger warning on this video omg my skin itched right through. Great video as usual
Why do they need to do that? Isnt it obvious only by seeing the thumbnail?
@@xixixi109 Not to mention that trypophobia isn't really anything serious. Besides that the title in the thumbnail should already prepare you uncomfortable feelings.
This is like watching a history documentary and complaining about the sight of death bodies in the video.
So why is Rafflesia considered a plant instead of a fungi?
because they call it a flower.
Because it evolved from plants so it is related to plants and did not evolve from fungus so it is not related to fungus.
Convergent evolution filling an ecological niche as other parasitic/decomposing organism do.
Also other than that. It still has a flower, fruit, seeds, breaths in carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. While fungus breaths in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
@@yourbuddyben4854 kinda like crabs. Multiple animals have evolved in to a crab like form multiple times before in earth's history even though those animals aren't related.
Fungi use spores to reproduce, plants use pollen. It’s a plant
You know, biology? 😂😂
This is one of those things I would love to see first hand but wouldn't want to get close to.
these guys grow in animal crossing wild world, if you leave your village for a very long time and don't clean any weeds or trash, looks scary and the only time it goes away is if you clean up everything
SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS
So this is the inspiration for the Vileplume pokemon
@3:14 I think a 7 year old is a bit taller than a meter lol a meter is 3.28 feet.......
I've known about this flower ever since i was a kid so i never really paid much attention to it. But damn it's a lot more interesting than i thought
Contradiction? Earlier in the video it is said that the relationship between the flies and the plant favors the plant at the expense of the insect, as their maggots are born with nothing to eat. This would imply that they would quickly die. Are they able to escape the flower before dying? Because if not, theortically they would rot in the flower and their nutrients would be absorbed by the plant.
If this happens, then what is said later on--that the plant does not eat the insects--may be at least somewhat misleading. I would think that the heat generated by the flower could actually increase the rate of decay of dead insects, and maybe even raise the metabolic rate of living maggots, causing them to die even faster if they can't find any food.
Yos should put the biggest flower in the world, not the weirdest parasite.
Humans can do some amazing things. But when they cannot figure out a flower, I would say it is because of its smell that no one wants to investigate it.
Great post my friend. Very interesting species.
This is what inspired those giant flowers in Kraid's lair in Super Metroid and the Nettori fight in Metroid Fusion.
I saw some of these for the first time here in Malaysian Borneo 😊 The ones I saw, at least, didn't smell so bad unless you got pretty close to them
Used to learn about these a lot growing up in Malaysia
10:01 Those are termites not ants.
7:19 So Rafflesia is a parasite of both vines AND flies? Interesting.
video length - chef's kiss ;)
That thing in the thumbnail is chilling on my animal crossing map
now... this is something we found.. imagine places in rainforests we havent seen yet.
Out of interest measured my plates they're just over 22 cm. So you must have quite big dinner plates... not that that means you have to fill it all. But I remember seeing somewhere that US plate sizes have really gone up in size, post WWII , so perhaps that's true. Btw I live in Spain.
USA here and you got me so curious that I had to bust out a tape measure and see. My standard dinner plate (standard according to the amazon info) is 10 inches and not a chance I could finish a filled plate in a sitting. I personally prefer to use the little plates of the set as the big ones are just a little crazy.
The US government a while back wanted us to eat and exercise more so we would be a little more bulky for the next war
They then took away the exercise but do to lobbying not the eating and we are now mostly obese
if you help the plant shower or bath it probably won't stink as much. Imagine staying outdoors in the sun with no shower or bath, that will make you smell pretty bad
Can't wait until this channel covers Hippos! They're the stuff of interest and nightmare!
Смешно то, что , как всегда, обьяснение звучит так, -- и Рафлезия приспособилась использовать это, для того то, или того, то. А мысль о том ,что у рафлезии нету мозга, и тогда как и почему она могла думать или приспосабливаться к чему то ? Ведь что бы использовать подобные навыки приспособляемости, нужно уметь анализировать происходящее вокруг. Понимать, что такое разложение, и что это привлечет мух и насекомых. Но ученых это не беспокоит. Хотя ясно как день, что цветок и все его способности, просто творение Творца, -- Бога.
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2:40 these flowers didn't evolve to be smeloy. We evolved to sense these smells as smelly... or who knows? Sense is relative so something that smell nice to someone can smell horribly to the other.
Hi Real Science. I'd love to see a documentary on Welwitschia, an equally weird plant :)
“Vileplume's toxic pollen triggers atrocious allergy attacks. That's why it is advisable never to approach any attractive flowers in a jungle, however pretty they may be.” OmegaRuby ‘dex Description.
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Rafflesia sounds like a name somebody would call their kid in America 😂
Rafflesia-arnoldii was named after dr. Joseph Arnold, a British surgeon, and Stamford Raffles, the then Lt. Gov. of British Colony of Bencoolen (today's Bengkulu). However, it was first discovered by a French explorer, Louis Auguste Deschamps, whose on his way back home, the ship he was boarded in was captured by British, and all of his notes, drawing, and specimen was confiscated.
There is currently some 25 recorded of Rafflesia genus, spread in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, including the first discovered Rafflesia-arnoldii. Most of them is considered endangered, due to threat from deforestation etc.
@@maulanaholiqyanuar2578 First discovered by the local tribesmen, not the European.
The Raflesia Arnoldii is the biggest, and only found in Indonesia. The ones in Malaysia/Phillipine is Not the -Arnoldii.
This is my all time favorite flower & i have one tattooed on my right hand! Corpse plants are the coolest looking plants!!!
My singaporean ass has been calling these flowers Raffles-sia. Great video! What an amazing plant!
Alternative title: Why does the flower smile like an anime convention?