I won one of these in an auction… I know the whole house will smell but I really hope I can get it to flower! It went through a dormancy and has been chilling as a leaf for the last six months. It’s from a 2018 seedling, so I’m getting closer to that 7 year mark!
I never saw such a passionate person to sacrifice his whole life for preserving nature to whole of humankind. one of the greatest person i ever saw on earth. Great respect to him from myself. He is the inspiration person to me for preserving nature to our future generations for human survival on planet earth
Props to the foley artists on this one! So captivating to "listen" to the blooming of such a magnificent flower! Also, appreciate that Sir David mentioned "probably" carion beetles, recognizing how much we still have to learn about these fabulous life forms!
We call it Bunga Bangkai in Indonesia. It is because of its smell like carcass. We can also find it in Borneo too not only in Sumatra. Thankyou Sir for the amazing documentation. Love it.
Do all of you know he is the brother of great Grand old man who was the head of Scientific research in Jurassic park series. Such a great siblings with a distinct talents Their all family is gems of United Kingdom
No, no, young one! His brother is "Roger", the Allied officer in charge of "the Great Escape", movie w/Steve McQueen, David McCallum, James Garner, etc---we are just in different generations! 🥰. (and, yes, of course, an accomplished family..!)
@@christinatweet6580 sorry but as per I searched That jurassic park old man is his brother if I am not wrong May be u are right, I am not exactly clear.
Who has not grown up with this great man as a kid in 45 and jve watched almost all my life he is possibly one of the greatest human beings that have ever existed love from a massive fan in New Zealand
I saw this plant in bloom in a botanical garden in Copenhagen some years ago, and the smell is honestly so vile 😅 Spectacular sight none the less, but a slightly uncomfortable experience if you have a sensitive nose.
Amorphophallus or VooDoo Lily or Devil's Tongue. I've grown them, but far away from my deck. They're pretty awesome looking and yes, they do reek. You can buy bulbs online but they won't grow as large as the one in the hothouse. It would take years for the bulb to grow large enough for that to happen. If you break the name of the species down is sounds like lovemaking.
I just luv him!i still can't believe at his age hes still sharp n amazing!the world will miss him when his day comes!hope hes just living to his happiest every day!what a gorgeous flower!
He has been spending his days out in the field working everywhere from the tropics to harsh deserts to the arctic. It takes a lot of stamina to do that, so I imagine his body is conditioned towards longevity. Hell of a man.
@@meisteremm so crazy u say that i honestly was thinkin bein an nurse with more experience with all ages but mosty elderly n dementia alzheimers n ive had a pt no head issues live to 103 so i wonder if hed be(depending)..ito live to over 100..i could see maybe 101...i just wish our world had more carin luvin ppl like him...we wouldn't be rushin around to get a glimpse of certain critters or things worryin if next generation will have a chance to see without bein a pic..so much already endangered n ready to be extinct..very sad!😪
....It went without saying that this flower is possibly mimicking a dead person/animal in order to attract the insects that usually decompose a body, to pollinate, and that's metal af
You know it's so fun to watch these videos because I live in Wyoming and a lot grows here but not like What is shown on these premiers. I'm a military brat I moved around a lot and I lived a lot down South when I was a kid when let's just say Mr. Lotta the fauna when I moved up here but got to appreciate the beauty of the high Alpine tundra that is Wyoming °~•.♡.•~° I'd just like to say thank you for showing me some plant life I once got to enjoy when I was little.
Lmao I was like “oh okay that was sudden but alright” I wasn’t spooked or anything but like “e-e” You’re right though it should’ve been quieter and longer into the video, not 2 seconds from his last words on the video
That flower is a lot on the island of Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, and is the endemic flowers.. and behind my house have been found with a very smelly aroma, but the flower is very beautiful
I seen one of these bloom when I was a kid and I went on a field trip to the Chico State University and I can confirm that it smells like a rotten corpse. That’s why they also call it the corpse flower it’s got a smell that just hits in the back of the nostrils and hangs in the back of your throat, that was 35 years ago and I can still vividly remember what it smells like
The New York Botanical Garden has had Titan arums bloom several times recently, in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Before that, they hadn't had one bloom since the 1930s. The first couple of blooms made a lot of news and I saw & smelled it in 2016 and 2019. It was bad, but I've smelled worse. (Stroll by Newtown Creek on a hot summer day sometime.) Last year's bloom, by the same plant that bloomed in 2016 and 2019, didn't make the press at all. I knew nothing about it until afterwards. I guess we get jaded quickly.
Seen 2 , and smelt them , in the Wellington Botanical Gardens , "lady Norwood" Glass house and Rose Gardens . Despite it's aroma , it's a beautiful flower to behold .
This isn’t entirely correct. The titan arum isn’t the largest flower. That title belongs to the rafflesia (also called a corpse flower for the same reason). The titan arum is the largest inflorescence, or cluster of flowers. Each of those little yellow bumps is a male flower. Beneath them are the spent female flowers (the female flowers go first so the plants can’t self pollinate). Pollinating captive specimens of these requires a lot of coordination between facilities capable of growing them (they’re tropical jungle plants, so they like it hot and very humid). When two have a plant preparing a bud at the same time, whoever’s plant goes off first tries to ship pollen to the second plant to cross pollinate and make babies. Their fruit cluster is actually quite lovely, too. It’s covered in little red fruits like a jack in the pulpit seed head but more organized, so less horrifying to people with trypophobia The plant also doesn’t have a tuber. Its storage organ is called a corm. It’s basically short, fat stem tissue. Gladiolas and crocuses have corms, too. A tuber is stem tissue but more like a potato.
People ask who would you have narrate your life. Most people is Morgan Freemen and I would 100% agree. But I think I would like Sir David to narrate mine. Cheers!
I love the titles "David found...." "David encountered..." As if these aren't in an obvious greenhouse. Love that tho. Don't need to give me click bait titles I'll click on David's videos no prob
"a Titan Arum, with a huge *tuba* that emerges from within the plant once every seven years!" Picture this: you're walking through a jungle and all of the sudden you hear a sousaphone accompanied by the stench of death. You turn around expecting... well I dunno what you'd expect, but certainly not a ginormous, strangely warm, flower playing a tuba, that's for sure.
I have two mother Konjac, they don't het as big as this one. But it does look like a tree for about 3 weeks, and than dies off. Than becomes a stinky flower. Right now the biggest one I have is in tree form.. should flower again after the tree,leaf form dies off. They do smell gross. They are very beautiful though.
Correction, the biggest/largest flower is rafflesia arnoldi. The enormous flower featured is titan arum. Despite its size, it consist of a cluster of many tiny flowers. It should be mentioned in the video sir.
A. titanum does not produce the "largest flower in the world" - that would be the Rafflesia arnoldii (with notable exceptions from Rafflesia kerrii) (which coincidentally also smells like a corpse and is native to Sumatra) It's not even the largest inflorescence in the world - that would be the corypha umbraculifera, the "talipot palm". A. titanum holds the rather specific designation of "largest unbranched inflorescence". Well they did mention the flowers in this video, but called them "hundreds of smaller structures" at 3:57 :(
This video gives a nice close-up look at both the male-bearing and female-bearing flowers (and features botanically-correct narration): th-cam.com/video/ki7AAOgNY7w/w-d-xo.html
These videos are new, but not filmed in 4K... Or just not uploaded like that? If any kind of videos should have higher resolution then it would be things like this. New nature videos
His narration will live on forever I swear. It’s so captivating
I won one of these in an auction… I know the whole house will smell but I really hope I can get it to flower! It went through a dormancy and has been chilling as a leaf for the last six months. It’s from a 2018 seedling, so I’m getting closer to that 7 year mark!
Update me please! As soon as it blooms just reply to this comment and post a video if it doesn’t inconvenience you!
We need updates!
Just make sure to tell the neighbors so that they don't start calling in Welfare Checks if they don't see you after a while.
I would like to see this.
now that someone who live their life their way....
I never saw such a passionate person to sacrifice his whole life for preserving nature to whole of
humankind.
one of the greatest person i ever saw on earth. Great respect to him from myself. He is the inspiration person to me for preserving nature to our future generations for human survival on planet earth
1:58 - I love how the time lapse makes it look like all the other plants are bowing to it.
It's a Ritual they are summoning it
A couple of the fan palms looked like they were leaning back, aghast at the smell!
plants go through sleep cycles like humans when the leaves sag the plant is sleeping and transfering auxins
Props to the foley artists on this one! So captivating to "listen" to the blooming of such a magnificent flower!
Also, appreciate that Sir David mentioned "probably" carion beetles, recognizing how much we still have to learn about these fabulous life forms!
Adam
@@___meph___4547 look at my birds
@@___meph___4547 The sound reminded me of a large rocket like a Falcon 9 taking off from the launch pad and made me smile. :-)
Love all the episodes with David Attenborough
Me too
I love the ASMR sounds these plants do when they grow
We call it Bunga Bangkai in Indonesia. It is because of its smell like carcass. We can also find it in Borneo too not only in Sumatra. Thankyou Sir for the amazing documentation. Love it.
Ini sy lagi nunggu mekarnya juga dihutan desa, g sabar pengen cium aromanya😆
@@muhammadfadli1535 ditunggu dokumentasinya mas... Pengalaman yg langka 🙏
@aprilFirstMoon perkembangannya sy upload di fb, sebelumnya nemu raflesia juga ug mekar sempurna
That's a lot in the Philippines too.
You are a great man sir, you provide a distinct sight of nature and living beings which a normal person can't look ....
Do all of you know he is the brother of great Grand old man who was the head of Scientific research in Jurassic park series.
Such a great siblings with a distinct talents
Their all family is gems of United Kingdom
No, no, young one! His brother is "Roger", the Allied officer in charge of "the Great Escape", movie w/Steve McQueen, David McCallum, James Garner, etc---we are just in different generations! 🥰. (and, yes, of course, an accomplished family..!)
@@christinatweet6580 sorry but as per I searched That jurassic park old man is his brother if I am not wrong
May be u are right, I am not exactly clear.
Who has not grown up with this great man as a kid in 45 and jve watched almost all my life he is possibly one of the greatest human beings that have ever existed love from a massive fan in New Zealand
I saw this plant in bloom in a botanical garden in Copenhagen some years ago, and the smell is honestly so vile 😅 Spectacular sight none the less, but a slightly uncomfortable experience if you have a sensitive nose.
Amorphophallus or VooDoo Lily or Devil's Tongue. I've grown them, but far away from my deck. They're pretty awesome looking and yes, they do reek. You can buy bulbs online but they won't grow as large as the one in the hothouse. It would take years for the bulb to grow large enough for that to happen. If you break the name of the species down is sounds like lovemaking.
"uncomfortable" or "memorable" i wonder
Awesome what does it smell like?
@@MerlinOpeth Rotting meat. It's very very uncomfortable 😆
@@Lumimyrsky lol thanks .
Photography was second to none
When he speaks it's like listening to your dad or your grandpa that you love
Binoy
Why is this video cut off ??
In mid-sentence while David is explaining the pollination process it ends !!
The people who filmed this using all sort of advanced tech...hats off to you,👍👍👍👍👍
Timelaps of nature is always so entrancing to watch
Amazing plant, terrible noise at the very end. Stop ending your videos with it.
jup
Could be the sound of the flower burping...
😅
I'm pretty sure it's an elephant
Can’t have nature bites without a lion sound
Props to the camera man for standing there for 2 months!
🎥🚶
😂
An amazing plant. The film impressed.
Made my day at work better, now I know somewhere out there, I just gotta look closely and nature shall amaze me.
Nature is always amazing!! So much beauty!!
Thank you David for All you do to educate us!!!
My love of plants grows by each of these wonderful videos
I just luv him!i still can't believe at his age hes still sharp n amazing!the world will miss him when his day comes!hope hes just living to his happiest every day!what a gorgeous flower!
He has been spending his days out in the field working everywhere from the tropics to harsh deserts to the arctic.
It takes a lot of stamina to do that, so I imagine his body is conditioned towards longevity.
Hell of a man.
@@meisteremm ya ik!hes awesome!
@@NaNa-j7b2q May he live to be one hundred, as long as his quality of life is good.
@@meisteremm so crazy u say that i honestly was thinkin bein an nurse with more experience with all ages but mosty elderly n dementia alzheimers n ive had a pt no head issues live to 103 so i wonder if hed be(depending)..ito live to over 100..i could see maybe 101...i just wish our world had more carin luvin ppl like him...we wouldn't be rushin around to get a glimpse of certain critters or things worryin if next generation will have a chance to see without bein a pic..so much already endangered n ready to be extinct..very sad!😪
Natalya
....It went without saying that this flower is possibly mimicking a dead person/animal in order to attract the insects that usually decompose a body, to pollinate, and that's metal af
😲Woow! Neverovatno 🤩 lmpresivno...
Angela
Wonderful documentary Sir David 👍
Qué gigante pero muy hermoso me gusta mucho.
Your voice always make me feel for nature..💚
You know it's so fun to watch these videos because I live in Wyoming and a lot grows here but not like What is shown on these premiers. I'm a military brat I moved around a lot and I lived a lot down South when I was a kid when let's just say Mr. Lotta the fauna when I moved up here but got to appreciate the beauty of the high Alpine tundra that is Wyoming °~•.♡.•~°
I'd just like to say thank you for showing me some plant life I once got to enjoy when I was little.
Could do without that bizarre jump scare at the end. It's completely unpleasant to hear an animal noise cut right into a video so soothing.
Lmao I was like “oh okay that was sudden but alright” I wasn’t spooked or anything but like “e-e”
You’re right though it should’ve been quieter and longer into the video, not 2 seconds from his last words on the video
I love the sound effects.
$hit$ crazy man. Just a bug old Bud coming right out of the ground what a trip!
In the Philippines, we called it Pungapong, and it smells good whenever I have mucus.
Awesome 😍
Amazing I love time lapse
Love from Sumatra, the island where he saw it for the first time in life.
It has been cultivated in our garden for a long time. A few years ago such a flower was in bloom.
A big, hot, rotting flesh smelling flower? How crazy is that?!
Melissa
That flower is a lot on the island of Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, and is the endemic flowers.. and behind my house have been found with a very smelly aroma, but the flower is very beautiful
@2:10-"The giant flower opens" ...And humans wished it hadn't. 😁
I never knew these were all once massive leaves. Thats insanely cool!
2:14 Surely the most astonishing sound ever made by a member of plantae.
I seen one of these bloom when I was a kid and I went on a field trip to the Chico State University and I can confirm that it smells like a rotten corpse. That’s why they also call it the corpse flower it’s got a smell that just hits in the back of the nostrils and hangs in the back of your throat, that was 35 years ago and I can still vividly remember what it smells like
Absolutely awe-some
thanks bro nice information
The New York Botanical Garden has had Titan arums bloom several times recently, in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Before that, they hadn't had one bloom since the 1930s.
The first couple of blooms made a lot of news and I saw & smelled it in 2016 and 2019. It was bad, but I've smelled worse. (Stroll by Newtown Creek on a hot summer day sometime.) Last year's bloom, by the same plant that bloomed in 2016 and 2019, didn't make the press at all. I knew nothing about it until afterwards. I guess we get jaded quickly.
I guess the plant got lonely
How awesome!
Solid and Awesome.
Now I'm waiting to this titan arum blooming in my village 😊
Seen 2 , and smelt them , in the Wellington Botanical Gardens , "lady Norwood" Glass house and Rose Gardens .
Despite it's aroma , it's a beautiful flower to behold .
David Attenborough, the plants 🪴 you show us ufff...
Oh how perfectly beautiful ! Gives glory to the Creator! Magnificent !’
What is the biochemical mechanism of heat production?
Subhan Allah
This has been on TV many times on his programmes.
Amazing
This man how i like how he's speaking....
Once in awhile i skip my job just to go to Bogor Botanical Garden to watch this flower bloom 🤭
Heat signature David Attenborough doesn’t exist. It can’t hurt you.
Heat signature David Attenborough: 3:04
Gosh, these videos end suddenly.
I was invested...then it ends. I need to know more! 😀
This isn’t entirely correct. The titan arum isn’t the largest flower. That title belongs to the rafflesia (also called a corpse flower for the same reason). The titan arum is the largest inflorescence, or cluster of flowers. Each of those little yellow bumps is a male flower. Beneath them are the spent female flowers (the female flowers go first so the plants can’t self pollinate). Pollinating captive specimens of these requires a lot of coordination between facilities capable of growing them (they’re tropical jungle plants, so they like it hot and very humid). When two have a plant preparing a bud at the same time, whoever’s plant goes off first tries to ship pollen to the second plant to cross pollinate and make babies. Their fruit cluster is actually quite lovely, too. It’s covered in little red fruits like a jack in the pulpit seed head but more organized, so less horrifying to people with trypophobia
The plant also doesn’t have a tuber. Its storage organ is called a corm. It’s basically short, fat stem tissue. Gladiolas and crocuses have corms, too. A tuber is stem tissue but more like a potato.
Shout out to the cameraman filming for 2 months straight
We have a lot of this plant in our mountain in the Phil.but flowers rear to bloom.
3:23 What does the word "SPA" mean?
These titles make it seem that David is constantly running around finding new plants and species
Did they film the Amorphophallus decus-silvae too? Its even more beautiful and more rare
This plant native to my country,the stalk were edible,taste like a tapioca or sweet potato,we called this plant lekir
Powerful smell and the heat 😁
What an absurdly disruptive noise to follow a voice as soothing as David Attenborough's. At least don't make it so loud.
Was having "Little Shop of Horrors" vibes watching this.
People ask who would you have narrate your life. Most people is Morgan Freemen and I would 100% agree. But I think I would like Sir David to narrate mine. Cheers!
I just love his voice , i feel like wacthing ducumentary movie 🤩
3:24 When my mom says the sketti’s ready
I love the titles "David found...." "David encountered..." As if these aren't in an obvious greenhouse. Love that tho. Don't need to give me click bait titles I'll click on David's videos no prob
I love nature even though I am only 9 years old
Saya juga punya bunga jenis ini,banyak tumbuh di kebunku
Blimey!
"a Titan Arum, with a huge *tuba* that emerges from within the plant once every seven years!"
Picture this: you're walking through a jungle and all of the sudden you hear a sousaphone accompanied by the stench of death. You turn around expecting... well I dunno what you'd expect, but certainly not a ginormous, strangely warm, flower playing a tuba, that's for sure.
This looks similar to elephant foot yam, whose tuber is edible and very healthy for the body!!!
I have two mother Konjac, they don't het as big as this one. But it does look like a tree for about 3 weeks, and than dies off. Than becomes a stinky flower. Right now the biggest one I have is in tree form.. should flower again after the tree,leaf form dies off. They do smell gross. They are very beautiful though.
Correction, the biggest/largest flower is rafflesia arnoldi.
The enormous flower featured is titan arum. Despite its size, it consist of a cluster of many tiny flowers. It should be mentioned in the video sir.
The roar at the end of these videos is like a bloody jump scare. Who thought that was a good idea?
A. titanum does not produce the "largest flower in the world" - that would be the Rafflesia arnoldii (with notable exceptions from Rafflesia kerrii) (which coincidentally also smells like a corpse and is native to Sumatra)
It's not even the largest inflorescence in the world - that would be the corypha umbraculifera, the "talipot palm".
A. titanum holds the rather specific designation of "largest unbranched inflorescence".
Well they did mention the flowers in this video, but called them "hundreds of smaller structures" at 3:57 :(
This video gives a nice close-up look at both the male-bearing and female-bearing flowers (and features botanically-correct narration): th-cam.com/video/ki7AAOgNY7w/w-d-xo.html
Nice
4:30 What's that scary whoaaaaaa
Well, it's not really a single flower. It's a inflorescence with a lot of tiny flowers inside of it.
I had no idea that there are plants that generate heat!!!
Isn't that Mr. Wilson's plant in the 1st "Dennis the Menace" movie?
This is me in the morning 🤣
Di pulau borneo indonesia tanaman ini raflesia/ mayou/ porang hutan.
Wow what a magical plant 🇵🇰🎄
جميل 🌹🌹🌹
Must have a pretty good root system
Welcome To Sumatra
I don understand. What happened to the whole tree looking thing? Why did it suddenly disappear and you have this bud growing now?
These videos are new, but not filmed in 4K... Or just not uploaded like that? If any kind of videos should have higher resolution then it would be things like this. New nature videos
the logo with loud roar at the end of the video is annoying AF ! but content is amazing! mother nature is a true miracle..
no wonder i can't find this flower in Bogor Botanical Garden.
We have it growing around our house naturally we did not plant it. I will wait for the flower to bloom. I live west of Indonesia
What do they do to it that it blooms only once every 7 years?
Mine blooms EVERY YEAR and I literally ignore it in the garden
Check out Stewart Mcpherson. He’s the David Attenboroughs of plants!!