Hmm…Mr Sheffield, I think you left out the most humorous of weird plants, the Naked Man Orchid. Sometimes I look up images of it just for a giggle. 😂 This was a fascinating video! Nature is AMAZING, isn’t it? ❤
I managed to kill one of the Unkillable Plants when I was a kid! I forget how I did it. Probably left it sitting in water or something. Also, impressive show of self-restraint not comparing Lithops to butts.
I bought some this fall, I didn't water them, now a few are kind of wrinkly and two seem to be splitting. The advice online is conflicting for watering, what would you suggest? Do I water them or wait a couple more months until spring or do I hope they are all going to split and not water, they are all in the same pot.
My only stinging nettle experience was on a school field trip. We were on a nature trail that started to narrow and I was nudged into them. I guess it made the trip more memorable 😅 Thanks for sharing such interesting plants! The Darth Vader one was new to me.
I used to "encounter" them very often as a child growing up in England, always a painful experience! I learned to use the leaves of the Dock plants that always grew nearby to help relieve the pain of the stings.
Talking about orchids, I feel one of the world's interesting, less known yet extremely common plants is vanilla. Like how many are consciously aware vanilla is an orchid? Let alone the flower and seed pod it produces? And that the seed pod is dried and washed in alcohol. And that's where the extremely unique flavour comes from, that is often ridiculed for how boring it is, because imitations and synthesizations have been put in every product (and that most don't even know that the sharp aromatic flavour is not what real vanilla tastes/smells like, but is actually a rich and nuanced taste). And that the real vanilla is rather finicky, picky about where it grows so that only a couple of places outside Madagascar produce it, and in Madagascar it creates the vast majority of the people's economy, which is somewhat painfully hurt by 1. refining companies reaping the most profits 2. refining companies controlling the market price 3. other regions producing it for cheaper conquering market space 4. companies switching to imitations and synthetics for cheaper costs. When Madagascar tried to set some sort of minimum limit for the price of vanilla "bean", the companies would stop buying and instead of guaranteeing the farmers livelihood that would be easily affordable in the product chain, it just messed things up worse. The whole sphere around vanilla orchid is fascinating and full of nuances.
Maybe giant corpse flower rare here in it's native land but we have the other kinds of corpse flower that give us edible tubers and or high economical value. And even smaller one that's just everywhere spreading rotten rat corpse so we call it rat's tail. And gimpy2 to. So nice to have a walk in our forest,eh? 😂
I thought you were going to talk about the deadliest tree on earth, the Manchineel tree 🥺 there's a few where i live and in the Caribbean. My friend bit the fruit once and spat it out, had bloody diarrhea for days 😭
""Avoid being eaten" Exactly, it can't run away. Most plants contain oxalates, lectins etc. for the same reason. What does that tell you about what to ea t?
I was amused to hear you say that the mimosa pudica can be bought and planted at home. Where I live, the mimosa pudica is everywhere and is considered as weed to many. I do like them a lot and often touch them when I am out for my runs.
Fun fact, many ficus are considered a "Strangler Fig". If you have a ficus Audrey or an Altissima at home, you have a strangler fig! My Audrey's roots keep on trying to escape, either through the drainage holes or even over the side of the pot!
Funfact your Rose of Jericho is Not the original one, yours is a specimen from around Mexico. The original Rose of Jericho is Home in the middle east an Looks a bit different. The one we all can buy is just more easy to reproduce an sell in a larger scale
For anyone curious about carnivorous plants I would highly recommend them even for the slightly less experienced! I've found them easy to keep alive and so wonderful to watch grow. The main thing is the right type of medium and only using distilled water or rain water. Apart from that they're very happy little things and they keep your house bug free!
I have a venus fly trap outside. It did very well over the mild Phoenix winter. It's starting to warm up now and my vft has lots of new little traps popping up.
@@gauchesymbiote1039 oh I bet they would love arizona, IIRC they are native to california? My personal favourites are nepenthes - but they generally need high humidity. But if you get the humidity right it's amazing to see the little cups grow, eventually you get some that you could almost fit a chihuahua in!
I believe I've watched this video before, so please excuse me if I've already posted a similar comment! When I was little, we had Mimosa pudica growing wild all around our woods. This was in the late 50's & 60's. IDK if it survived the years, but the last time I remember seeing it was in the 70's. However, that's because I haven't been in the woods more than 2-3 times since. Now I CAN'T go because I'm a fall risk on a flat floor! Anyway, I used to play with it for a minute every time I came upon it! I love the little puff ball flowers! It seems to me ours were more lilac in color than pink, but I could be misremembering! We had lots of neat things down there. My ridge forms a small cove. I wish I were able to go, but 1) it has grown up terribly, I'm sure, 2) Mama sold her old pines for lumber before the beetles got into them & the trucks left 3+ft deep canyons as ruts! & 3) my woods, well most of them, don't belong to me anymore! I have just less than 2 acres left. If you were here to go down there, no telling what you could find! I have the Mimosa trees too. They were beautiful this year!
Mimosa pudica ( Touch me not ) is a very common plant found everywhere in india at nurseries for 40 INR which is 0.48 USD . They are actually a herb plant and they bear very cute flowers
I think you misspoke - Aristolochia salvadorensis is in the Aristolochiaceae, not the Orchidaceae. Dracula orchids need very cool (50F or so) temperatures and high humidity so I don't recommend people try growing them at home. But otherwise this was a wonderful and very fun video to watch, thank you!
Heh, not sure you pronounced Amorphophallus quite right there but never mind! Titan is too big for the amateur to grow but there are smaller spieces that are house friendly, errm, except for the period they flower. I'm just about to pot up my Amorphophallus Konjac tubers, as they have just started shooting after their winter rest. They are not quite big enough to flower this year though by the looks of it, as usually they need to be around the size of a grapefruit before they will put up the inflorescence. (The tuber getting larger each year). Until that time, they throw up an increasingly taller mottled stalk topped by a fan of pinnate leaves. From past experience, in the year the stalk/leaves reaches around the 5ft high mark, there's a good chance that once it dies back in the autumn, the tuber will finally be large enough to flower the next year! (and stink out the home if indoors at the time) As for Welwitschia, back when I had greenhouses (I no longer have access to that luxury where I now live) I did try growing them from seed. Back then getting the seed was hard work (maybe it still is), requiring me to write (the old fashioned way before the internet) to Botanical gardens and ask kindly if they could supply me with some seeds. Thankfully someone in the botanical gardens in Windhoek, Namibia sent me some a few times. As well as someone from the Huntingdon Gardens in America. They were fairly easy to germinate but very difficult to keep alive after that, being very prone to fungal attack and rot. Most of my Welwitschia seedlings died young but I did keep one plant going for around 8 years before I slipped up one year and a cold spell killed it off before I had moved it indoors from my unheated greenhouse. I'm too old now to try growing one again if I could get seed, given how slowly they grow! (plus I don't have a greenhouse as mentioned)
What a very interesting video. The last time the Amorphophallus titanum flowered here at the Botanical Gardens in Adelaide, South Australia was in Jan 2023 I would have loved to go into the city to see it but unfortunately was unable to. Perhaps next time. 🙂
Great vid, love it. "Mickey Mouse / Foxface" is another bizzare plant that I first saw in the Philippines and I have touched one of those moving ferns out there too! They are very cool to see. Our British Ghost Orchid is one the rarest over here, I wish I could see one of those one day too 🍀
I used to have a mimosa. I loved watching it go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning, it was adorable. Then some spider mites found it and it was dead before I even realized that something was wrong 😢
Hi, I wonder if you have a section in your channel, that might cater for your viewers in Dubai... hot^humid weather. I d like to be able to buy exotic plants' seeds. Please assist if you would. Thank you Kind regards ❤
I had a rose of jericho... had... I killed it. I kept forgetting to moisten it to keep it green and get it to grow. The result was a persistent half dormant half active state and it died.
I have some lithops love them although only ever found the brown ones I've seen some beautiful colours of them. The pitcher plant and monkey orchid looks so cool definitely ones I'd pick up if I see them at a garden centre TFS
The mimos pudica is a grass in Puerto rico i told my sister that they sell that plant in usa she didnt believe in my gradmother house her yard is full ok it and my auncle move the lawn and we remove it and dump it like grass
I've experienced that first flower that smells like rotting flesh first hand at the University of Chicago greenhouse many many moons ago. Was also able to see their Century plant in bloom as well. It's a succulent that only blooms every 100 years. When it does, it sends up a shoot that grows about 4 inches a day or so. We joked that you could probably see it grow if you watched it closely enough.
I really like the look of lithops and thinking of being my next purchase, there just so unique looking and very different compared to other succulents you see
I'm trying lithops, I've tried a sensitive plant but it died, twice. I can't find my rose of Jericho 😔 but I am going to keep looking! It's got to be somewhere, I can't believe I forgot about it!!!
They are some wonderful looking plants; I’m trying to grow a bat plant from seeds. I have need seen an actual one in person. The spiral aloe looks to be a stunning plant, it’s like a Spirograph drawing (also got 2 that’s growing from seed).
I use to live near a garden, that had lots of trees and plants. In this garden was a Strangler Vine, it grew along the ground and grew up on trees or anything it found. I was told it would kill the host plant in time, by strangling it to death. That was the first time I had seen one. I live in Queensland, Australia. 🇦🇺
I have some lithops. They’re amazing. They take some special care though. I’m fortunate to live near Longwood Gardens in the USA. Their conservatory is wonderful and has a large orchid room. I love learning about new plants. Thanks for the great video!
Hmm…Mr Sheffield, I think you left out the most humorous of weird plants, the Naked Man Orchid. Sometimes I look up images of it just for a giggle. 😂 This was a fascinating video! Nature is AMAZING, isn’t it? ❤
I looked it up. Thanks for the laugh!
Your welcome! 😆
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Oh my gosh I laughed so loud! Thanks for this!
I managed to kill one of the Unkillable Plants when I was a kid! I forget how I did it. Probably left it sitting in water or something.
Also, impressive show of self-restraint not comparing Lithops to butts.
😂
Now I get why my Mom used to say as old as "Methuselah"!! 😂😂I was today years old when I found out 😂😂!
I have lithops. They are weird but pretty plants. You absolutely have to be careful about watering them. One of mine flowered this year
Really easy to grow from seed.
I bought some this fall, I didn't water them, now a few are kind of wrinkly and two seem to be splitting.
The advice online is conflicting for watering, what would you suggest? Do I water them or wait a couple more months until spring or do I hope they are all going to split and not water, they are all in the same pot.
@nicoleperron3315 if they are wrinkly I would give them a little water just until it runs out the bottom. If they are blooming you don't water
@@jamiemittermuller6470 That could be interesting but I seem not to be blessed with 'green thumbs' 😶
I just got my first Lithops! IDK much of anything about them, but want to give them a good try! Any tips??
We have a corpse flower here in Milwaukee at the Domes of Mitchell Park..
Been to see it? How is it in person?
These are weird plants but they are so awesome
My only stinging nettle experience was on a school field trip. We were on a nature trail that started to narrow and I was nudged into them. I guess it made the trip more memorable 😅
Thanks for sharing such interesting plants! The Darth Vader one was new to me.
My pleasure 😊
I used to "encounter" them very often as a child growing up in England, always a painful experience! I learned to use the leaves of the Dock plants that always grew nearby to help relieve the pain of the stings.
Do not plant mimosa pudica outdoors. Will take over garden and very difficult to eradicate.
Talking about orchids, I feel one of the world's interesting, less known yet extremely common plants is vanilla. Like how many are consciously aware vanilla is an orchid? Let alone the flower and seed pod it produces? And that the seed pod is dried and washed in alcohol. And that's where the extremely unique flavour comes from, that is often ridiculed for how boring it is, because imitations and synthesizations have been put in every product (and that most don't even know that the sharp aromatic flavour is not what real vanilla tastes/smells like, but is actually a rich and nuanced taste). And that the real vanilla is rather finicky, picky about where it grows so that only a couple of places outside Madagascar produce it, and in Madagascar it creates the vast majority of the people's economy, which is somewhat painfully hurt by 1. refining companies reaping the most profits 2. refining companies controlling the market price 3. other regions producing it for cheaper conquering market space 4. companies switching to imitations and synthetics for cheaper costs. When Madagascar tried to set some sort of minimum limit for the price of vanilla "bean", the companies would stop buying and instead of guaranteeing the farmers livelihood that would be easily affordable in the product chain, it just messed things up worse. The whole sphere around vanilla orchid is fascinating and full of nuances.
I didn’t know that
Maybe giant corpse flower rare here in it's native land but we have the other kinds of corpse flower that give us edible tubers and or high economical value. And even smaller one that's just everywhere spreading rotten rat corpse so we call it rat's tail. And gimpy2 to. So nice to have a walk in our forest,eh? 😂
My mum has a similar arum 8n her garden, dragon arum. Smells like rotting seafood. But the flower looks amazing... It does spread though!!
I thought you were going to talk about the deadliest tree on earth, the Manchineel tree 🥺 there's a few where i live and in the Caribbean. My friend bit the fruit once and spat it out, had bloody diarrhea for days 😭
One for another video
Yikes!
I really enjoy your videos, but I noticed that you left the "r" off Vader, and swapped the a and the e... just sharing ❤
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Great video i watched it twice. Hinora africana does have a... disturbing appearance 😂
Thanks!
I have 2 resurrection plan
hi
Aristolochia is not an orchid. It belongs to Aristolochiaceae family not Orchideace
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""Avoid being eaten" Exactly, it can't run away.
Most plants contain oxalates, lectins etc. for the same reason. What does that tell you about what to ea t?
The singular of lithops is lithops. I learned the hard way over on Reddit when I asked for tips to grow my lithops. Boy people got up in arms at me.
🙂
I was amused to hear you say that the mimosa pudica can be bought and planted at home. Where I live, the mimosa pudica is everywhere and is considered as weed to many. I do like them a lot and often touch them when I am out for my runs.
Fun fact, many ficus are considered a "Strangler Fig". If you have a ficus Audrey or an Altissima at home, you have a strangler fig!
My Audrey's roots keep on trying to escape, either through the drainage holes or even over the side of the pot!
Thanks for the info
Funfact your Rose of Jericho is Not the original one, yours is a specimen from around Mexico. The original Rose of Jericho is Home in the middle east an Looks a bit different. The one we all can buy is just more easy to reproduce an sell in a larger scale
New bucket list item: wander around the jungle with Rich looking for the stinking corpse flower. I think you could gather up a group to do that! :)
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😅 how fun would that be
Count me in!
Count me in too!
Me too!
For anyone curious about carnivorous plants I would highly recommend them even for the slightly less experienced! I've found them easy to keep alive and so wonderful to watch grow. The main thing is the right type of medium and only using distilled water or rain water. Apart from that they're very happy little things and they keep your house bug free!
I have a venus fly trap outside. It did very well over the mild Phoenix winter. It's starting to warm up now and my vft has lots of new little traps popping up.
@@gauchesymbiote1039 oh I bet they would love arizona, IIRC they are native to california? My personal favourites are nepenthes - but they generally need high humidity. But if you get the humidity right it's amazing to see the little cups grow, eventually you get some that you could almost fit a chihuahua in!
I believe I've watched this video before, so please excuse me if I've already posted a similar comment! When I was little, we had Mimosa pudica growing wild all around our woods. This was in the late 50's & 60's. IDK if it survived the years, but the last time I remember seeing it was in the 70's. However, that's because I haven't been in the woods more than 2-3 times since. Now I CAN'T go because I'm a fall risk on a flat floor! Anyway, I used to play with it for a minute every time I came upon it! I love the little puff ball flowers! It seems to me ours were more lilac in color than pink, but I could be misremembering! We had lots of neat things down there. My ridge forms a small cove. I wish I were able to go, but 1) it has grown up terribly, I'm sure, 2) Mama sold her old pines for lumber before the beetles got into them & the trucks left 3+ft deep canyons as ruts! & 3) my woods, well most of them, don't belong to me anymore! I have just less than 2 acres left. If you were here to go down there, no telling what you could find! I have the Mimosa trees too. They were beautiful this year!
Watermeal....aka duckweed😊
😂😂😂😂
Plant the hotlips next to the lipstick plant
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mimosa pudica ( Touch me not ) is a very common plant found everywhere in india at nurseries for 40 INR which is 0.48 USD . They are actually a herb plant and they bear very cute flowers
I think you misspoke - Aristolochia salvadorensis is in the Aristolochiaceae, not the Orchidaceae. Dracula orchids need very cool (50F or so) temperatures and high humidity so I don't recommend people try growing them at home. But otherwise this was a wonderful and very fun video to watch, thank you!
Heh, not sure you pronounced Amorphophallus quite right there but never mind! Titan is too big for the amateur to grow but there are smaller spieces that are house friendly, errm, except for the period they flower. I'm just about to pot up my Amorphophallus Konjac tubers, as they have just started shooting after their winter rest. They are not quite big enough to flower this year though by the looks of it, as usually they need to be around the size of a grapefruit before they will put up the inflorescence. (The tuber getting larger each year). Until that time, they throw up an increasingly taller mottled stalk topped by a fan of pinnate leaves. From past experience, in the year the stalk/leaves reaches around the 5ft high mark, there's a good chance that once it dies back in the autumn, the tuber will finally be large enough to flower the next year! (and stink out the home if indoors at the time)
As for Welwitschia, back when I had greenhouses (I no longer have access to that luxury where I now live) I did try growing them from seed. Back then getting the seed was hard work (maybe it still is), requiring me to write (the old fashioned way before the internet) to Botanical gardens and ask kindly if they could supply me with some seeds. Thankfully someone in the botanical gardens in Windhoek, Namibia sent me some a few times. As well as someone from the Huntingdon Gardens in America. They were fairly easy to germinate but very difficult to keep alive after that, being very prone to fungal attack and rot. Most of my Welwitschia seedlings died young but I did keep one plant going for around 8 years before I slipped up one year and a cold spell killed it off before I had moved it indoors from my unheated greenhouse. I'm too old now to try growing one again if I could get seed, given how slowly they grow! (plus I don't have a greenhouse as mentioned)
What a very interesting video.
The last time the Amorphophallus titanum flowered here at the Botanical Gardens in Adelaide, South Australia was in Jan 2023 I would have loved to go into the city to see it but unfortunately was unable to. Perhaps next time. 🙂
I was very lucky to see a Corpse Plant in bloom. It was located at the University of Connecticut's greenhouse. Yes, there was a line.
Those shy plants are all over my lawn
I've been in the tropical house at Kew when it's in flower. It absolutely stinks, disgusting. Ridiculous looking thing too
Great vid, love it. "Mickey Mouse / Foxface" is another bizzare plant that I first saw in the Philippines and I have touched one of those moving ferns out there too! They are very cool to see. Our British Ghost Orchid is one the rarest over here, I wish I could see one of those one day too 🍀
So cool!
I used to have a mimosa. I loved watching it go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning, it was adorable. Then some spider mites found it and it was dead before I even realized that something was wrong 😢
Oh no!
Thank you for this interesting video ❤ I love those strange plants.
You bet!
Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI has one. There was a huge line to see it when it bloomed and no I was not one of them. 🤢
Mother Nature has such a weird sense of humour!
Hi,
I wonder if you have a section in your channel, that might cater for your viewers in Dubai... hot^humid weather. I d like to be able to buy exotic plants' seeds. Please assist if you would.
Thank you
Kind regards ❤
Of course the most painful plant grows in Australia😂
I had a rose of jericho... had... I killed it. I kept forgetting to moisten it to keep it green and get it to grow. The result was a persistent half dormant half active state and it died.
So. not indestructible then..... 😢
My aunt calls the lithops a stone plant
I have some lithops love them although only ever found the brown ones I've seen some beautiful colours of them. The pitcher plant and monkey orchid looks so cool definitely ones I'd pick up if I see them at a garden centre TFS
I’ve had a lithops plant in my window for about a year now
I've had mine for about 6 months and it lives outside. It did very well in the Phoenix winter!
@@gauchesymbiote1039 I actually just checked mine and noticed the leaves are splitting! This will be a first for me so wish me luck
The mimos pudica is a grass in Puerto rico i told my sister that they sell that plant in usa she didnt believe in my gradmother house her yard is full ok it and my auncle move the lawn and we remove it and dump it like grass
Stinging nettle? Bull nettles in East Texas will cause hard blisters that never stop hurting until it’s gone
i haven't watched the whole video yet but i how you mentioned the flying duck orchid
I have one of these in my basement right now! We call it a voodoo lily around these parts.
I've experienced that first flower that smells like rotting flesh first hand at the University of Chicago greenhouse many many moons ago. Was also able to see their Century plant in bloom as well. It's a succulent that only blooms every 100 years. When it does, it sends up a shoot that grows about 4 inches a day or so. We joked that you could probably see it grow if you watched it closely enough.
Cool
Thank you for a video on such interviews plants! You’re always so informative and entertaining!
Thanks for watching 😁
I really like the look of lithops and thinking of being my next purchase, there just so unique looking and very different compared to other succulents you see
Totally agree!
I have the momosa pudica how do you take care of it 😢
Never had it
The corpse flower is at the huntington library in LA
I was in oahu one year for the corpse plant. They arent kidding about the stink.
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The sensitive plant grows wild here....so does the stinging Nettle.
Tennessee/USA
Gympie?
@@SheffieldMadePlants yep
Very interesting video Mr Sheffield. Who knew such scary 😮plants existed!!!
I'm trying lithops, I've tried a sensitive plant but it died, twice. I can't find my rose of Jericho 😔 but I am going to keep looking! It's got to be somewhere, I can't believe I forgot about it!!!
They are some wonderful looking plants; I’m trying to grow a bat plant from seeds. I have need seen an actual one in person. The spiral aloe looks to be a stunning plant, it’s like a Spirograph drawing (also got 2 that’s growing from seed).
Mimosa pudica defo my favourite greenhouse plant ever. Used to grow them every year.
I use to live near a garden, that had lots of trees and plants. In this garden was a Strangler Vine, it grew along the ground and grew up on trees or anything it found. I was told it would kill the host plant in time, by strangling it to death. That was the first time I had seen one. I live in Queensland, Australia. 🇦🇺
Grim 😬
@@SheffieldMadePlants Too right it was grim. I’m just thankful it wasn’t in my garden. 😟
Amazing 😮
Thanks 😄
I have some lithops. They’re amazing. They take some special care though. I’m fortunate to live near Longwood Gardens in the USA. Their conservatory is wonderful and has a large orchid room. I love learning about new plants. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for watching 😁
Amazing and quite interesting.
Amazing plants 😀🇨🇦
Oh, I believe. I've seen people feeding their plants with milk, there's little surprise left to be unveiled…