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Today we're talking about the weirdest trees in the world, from the psychedelic rainbow eucalyptus, to the dragon's blood tree, to the jabuticaba that grows delicious fruits on its trunk.
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Rainbow eucalyptus is also common in Hawaii now I believe
Use metrics! Dont say acre. This is not understood by non-americans.
Hey I must say: I tried Magellan and the majority of the content is hilariously out-dated and/or low quality. But, if they pay the bills, more power to you. Just some constructive criticism ❤
You missed the golden opportunity to say "Treenager" instead of teenager
05:04 it sound like cauliflower…..
I live in SoCal, and there are Yucca trees literally EVERYWHERE! It's illegal to cut one down, and one man bought a lot that he wanted to build a house on. But there was a problem. Right in the center of the lot was a Yucca tree, and he wasn't allowed to cut it down or even move it. So he redesigned his home with an open-air patio in the center of the house.
Yep. I live there too. They are unique.
I love them
Must be an awesome house
@@mandrakejake I would love that house
@@xXJoeyXxcoooool me too
Last week: Everything is actually a fish
This week: Nothing is actually a tree
😂
And shrubs don't exist.
On the up side, we are all Africans which is nice.
You forgot Eons' everything is and will be a crab.
@julianshepherd2038 I genuinely love the fact that we can trace all of humanity to one proverbial Eve from prehistoric Africa. So freaking cool!
memento mori
"Its like a tree that eats trees" the excitement on his face🤭
Well, we all know that old saying, _"It's a tree eat tree world"._ At least that's what the talking vegetarian dogs say.
Wait until he finds out about kudzu!
3:46
@@elisebrown5157surely, Hank knows about Kudzu?
Before large plants there were fungus that could grow up to 6 meters tall and possibly even taller. It likely has something to do with competition that modern mushrooms can't grow that tall.
My parents were born and grew up in Rio, Brazil. My father told me that when he was a kid, jabuticaba trees grew all over and they used to pick the fruits and eat them right off of the tree. He also told me that the juice stains EVERYTHING and is really difficult to wash out, so it was hard to hide the fact that he and his brothers were out snacking between meals.
I would love a "Bizarre Beasts" style channel or video series which focuses on weird and wacky flora/plants !
Freaky Flora!
@@Abdega This is a much better name than what I first thought of, "Bizarre Treests" >_>
Floral Logic does some. Offshoot of Animalogic
@@TragoudistrosMPHmy thought exactly
@@TragoudistrosMPHI came to say this!
Tree is a ~lifestyle~
this is actually accurate XD
A *_vibe_*
Ah, druids...
@@greenben3744 "Did you say 'transport these plants' or 'transport via plants'? I might have misheard... yeah, I'm in Canada now, so what?"
That doesn't even make sense. It's a shame the world is getting dumber even though education is just a click away.
I knew Jabuticabeira would be here as soon as I saw the title. Jabuticaba is actually the name of the fruit and the taste is alright - you just gonna be careful looking up cause as you can imagine all those little berries popping means the bark itself is pretty brittle…. when I was 11 had to go to the hospital cause a piece fell into my eye 😂
Jabuticaba are also mainly water. Since birds etc eating the fruit will often poop while eating, but their droppings are are a much more highly concentrated form of nutrients, hence it's a win for the tree overall.
I'm surprised jaboticaba still haven't been introduced and naturalized here in the Philippines and rest of SEA.
@@nunyabiznes33 they have been in Hawaii. Although they don't really invade like albezia or guava
They are delicious. Only rarely have I seen plumb-sized ones. Most appear like a grape with an extra thick skin.
I had no idea dragon's blood was endangered, which makes sense since I'm seeing it used everywhere. This definitely opened my eyes and now I want to educate others to try and save that wonderful plant. Thanks, Hank.
Talking about seeing it everywhere, if you look up dragon tree you'll find that it's a super common houseplant and you might even have one. They're from the same genus as the dragon's blood tree, will look about the same when they mature, but they don't produce the resin.
I'm a horticulture student and I love your plant based videos! Thank you for making plants interesting for people.
Did you watch the crash course on botany? It might interest you even if it is rehashing stuff you already know. It was awesome for me as a mycologist, and the presenter is delightful.
@@dxthehardyzway1997 Yes, I loved that series!
I love The Happening and unfortunately the masses scoffed at the chemical dispersal. That movie should have gotten people interested in plants.
As a librarian at an arboretum, THANK YOU for agreeing that trees aren’t real, Hank and SciShow!
Let me tell you that was a weird moment of realization two weeks into my fancy new plant librarian job.
Vegetables aren't real either.
Okay, help me out here. There are non vascular plants (mosses and the like) and vascular ones. And don't the vascular ones at least get divided in monocots (grasses) and dicots (plants with distinct stem and leaves like herbs, bushes and trees)? I get that we likely won't find an evolutionary distinction between trees and bushes and probably even little herbs, but what is the lowest clade that we can confidently say "here are all the trees. Plus some other plants too, but no trees beyond this"?
Dude that sounds like the most incredible job ever
@@cavvieira Yeah, this video is incorrect in saying there is no such thing as trees. Yes, there is no 'Taxanomical definition of a tree', but there are CERTAINLY defining characteristics of trees. Shrubs are included in trees. They require woody stems, and must be perennial. That's the basis. The Yucca listed in this video looks like a tree, but it's absolutely not a tree. It doesn't have a true woody stem, just a dense herbaceous one. Trees cannot be succulent or herbaceous following the definition of distinct woody bark.
I'm treed.
Edit: ( a couple other trees than the redwood too)
I'm honestly kind of suprised redwoods aren't on here. they might be pretty mainstream as a 'cool and weird tree', but there's a lot more than just them being tall. not only are they the tallest trees, they also support a variety of organisms ONLY found high in their canopies; bacteria, vertebrates, mosses, and even other trees that only grow out of their already existing high branches. they also grow roots straight out of those canopies to catch the mist coming off the pacific coast, on top of being one of the only known conifers to be a clonal species; like the Joshua tree in this video, they can grow 'new trees' (genetic copies) of themselves, straight up from their roots. because they're rhizomous, (and we don't know if this is something specific to clonal conifers, or just the coast redwood) when one gets cut down or dies, a 'fairy ring' pops up around the stump, which is essentially just those new rhizomous trees from its roots, but in a perfect fairytale-esque circle around where the tree fell.
Baldcypress trees are also a very weird tree. they are one of few deciduous conifers we know of (think pine tree that loses all its needles in the winter like maples, oaks, locusts etc.), and they also almost exclusively live in swamps. because of this, they have very wide bases with TONS of large 'spikes' sticking up through the water connected to their roots, called knees. nobody really knows why they grow these knees, some people think it's because they pull in oxygen, but the trees showed no lethargy in growth when they were cut off in multiple studies (my personal theory is that it's because they were evolved to break up big waves that could knock the tree over in the swamps they are native to.)
quaking aspen are another amazing tree. they have white bark, just like paper birches, and with beautiful yellow, nearly circular leaves in the winter, and yes, they are also clonal with their rhizomes. however, while this sounds like a normal tree, one in particular is technically the OLDEST, LARGEST KNOWN, AND HEAVIEST LIVING ORGANISM IN THE WORLD. and while this sounds ridiculous, there is a 'forest' in Utah, which is just one individual quaking aspen named 'Pando' ('I spread' in latin) which has grown to a size of 110 acres, weighing 13 million pounds, with more than an estimated 50k individual trunks, all connected to the same root system. there is no way to know, because each trunk only lives for 50-100 years, but scientists estimate it is also the oldest living organism, at somewhere between 10k-15k years old, which would make it not only older than the pyramids, but also alive at the same time as wooly mammoths, sabretooth tigers, giant ground sloths and many other now extinct species from both north America that likely walked through it, and from all over the world as well.
I came into the comments specifically to bring up the quaking aspen. They grow around here and they look and sound so pretty.
This is awesome, thank you!
@@kathleendavidson3316 You learn something new ever day. Today I learned that if it looks like like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quaks like a duck, it might be a quaking aspen. Hooda thunkit? Go figure.....
This is sick as hell, thank you so much for writing this. I didn’t know about pando. Comments like these are why I actually bother to read the comments on scishow (I don’t usually bother on TH-cam)
Thank you very much for this lesson! Awesome!
I am an arborist in Hawaii and we have all of these trees. jaboticaba taste like a grape and a plum. Banyan are regularly one acre in size out here
Hi from syilva arb UK
Hi, retired arborist/urban farmer here. I was surprised to find that a banyon can actually outgrow an aspen!
@@nickiemcnichols5397same principle but banyan have mostly aerial roots that spread
When I almost threw up when I first saw jabuticaba tree because I thought the tree was infected with some vile parasite (the fruits). I've never felt comfortable eating it.
Dragon's Blood tree resin has also been used for varnish specifically for wooden musical instruments, such as violins.
There's a recipe in the old mechanics handbook that reads the a witch's curse. It's titled "varnish for philosophical instruments" and "best dragons blood" is one of the ingredients. (Along with crushed glass and other wild ingredients). Look out up
Look up the Red Violin. It’s weird.
My favorite story as a kid was le petit prince (his home planet get overwhelmed with baobabs) so i started one from seed 10years ago and as been my pride and joy since then 😁
Don't forget the pisonia trees native to Lady Musgrave island, that make their own fertiliser by trapping birds with an abundance of sticky seeds and letting them die and decompose.
'straya.
(Annother Australian one, many of our wattles technically don't have leaves; they grow the stipules of the leaves to be large enough sizes to photosynthesise instead.)
Trees, crabs, moles. These are the shapes we should've been learning as children!!!
That's right! It goes in the square hole!
personally my favorite shape is crab. cool little guys
The face Hank makes at 3:46 😭😭😭"It's like a tree that eats trees"
Lol, paused to post exactly that. Like an excited kid. Love the energy.
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂
Yes I thought the same 😂😂😂
I remember visiting Hawai'i and getting to see rainbow eucalyptus trees in person. They're even more stunning than in pictures.
I saw them in Costa Rica - a bunch together that were like an enchanted forest!
Im genuinely surprised the sandbox tree also known as the dynamite tree didn’t make the list. It’s perhaps the most dangerous tree in the world as literally every part of it wants to hurt or kill you. Its fruit literally explodes into pointy bits of shrapnel and its sap is so poisonous it can cause severe burns.
Just went to Hawaii and saw two of these beautiful trees! Rainbow eucalyptus and banyans
Neither is native to poor invaded Hawaii, sadly. I, too, am lucky enough to have experienced both without going to SE Asia or India.
My toxic trait is every time I see an interesting tree, I want one
Eucalyptus trees are a big problem in California. Their oils are flammable and cause wildfires.
@@blakake o…kay?
@@blakake So you're saying I should make firewood farm with them.
I'd love to have a baobab
Some "normal" trees also produce saps and resins that resemble blood. I saw it on a tree as a 12-year-old and actually called the police because it genuinely looked like someone's head had been smashed against the trunk repeatedly, it was so gruesome. The cops were very worried/shocked by the scene as well until a sample was taken. That sure scared the hell out of me!😂
Another Seussian tree: Look up the boojum tree! Fouquieria columnaris grows only on the Baja California peninsula and one small isolated population in Sonora, Mexico, and it is so weirdly awesome!
Fun fact: Banyans make great houseplants, and are available at most plant stores under the nickname Ficus Audrey
When I read Ficus Audrey, I immediately remembered Little Shop of Horrors! Oh my.
OTOH, I now have a desire to try weird fruits.
Here in the Canary Islands we have a relative of the Socotri dragon tree (dracaena cinnabari). Ours is called "drago" (dracaena draco), and it also bleeds.
I was surprised to come upon a planting of rainbow eucalyptus trees at the Dole pineapple farm in Hawai'i. I'd never heard of them and stepping into a Crayola-like forest was the most magical experience. They're much more multi colour in person and do look painted!!!
missed opportunity at 5:30 "treenager"
Agent Chapman reporting for Missed Ops
who is this treen and why does someone/-thing want to age it? /j
@@Dzdzovnica It is Groot.
youtube.com/@atreeager
The Bristlecone Pine should be included in this discussion. It’s a tree that lives above the tree line and can live four to five thousand years. Their longevity and their habitat are closely related. The lousy soil conditions (high and dry desert) necessitate a long life to produce enough seedlings to make life worth living.
It's basically a tree extremophile, but it isn't very obviously different or extraordinary like these others. It's recognizable as a pine and less obviously unique
Next to a path in the field where I live, there was a single rowan tree. The person who owns the field didn't like how big the rowan tree was getting. So they cut it down. Now there's close to 100 rowan trees which have grown from the roots and I feel like, it's a bit overkill but that tree certainly made its point.
1. LOVE banyans! I saw a ton of them in NOLA on a walking tour in early 2005. They were majestic! Them and mangroves are 2 favorites because of how they grow
2. Also love that rainbow eucalyptus. It's so beautiful.
Roots are so fascinating. The vanilla orchid has adaptable roots like banyan trees. The roots start as arial roots but can turn into terrestrial roots, in the right conditions.
And supposedly trees can communicate through roots, too.
I was rooting cuttings of Winterberry holly at home, and saw these strings growing off it all up and down the stems. I thought it was a parasite like dodder, but it turns out it was so humid in the box, and they love water so much, that they were sending out roots from every node above ground as well as below. I was able to double my number of successful cuttings that year.
There is not that much difference between "aerial" and "terrestrial" roots actually
@@jhndr0nia the function similar, but the difference is present. The terrestrial roots on Vanilla develop fuzzy Mycelium which assists in the symbiotic relationships between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi. Areal roots on vanilla don’t possess mycelium and can’t access all the benefits from the mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis. Specifically in Vanilla, areal roots provide mechanical support to anchor the vine. The difference might seem small, but the jobs are different. One sucks water from air, uses photosynthesis, and anchors the plant. The other can break through to inaccessible nutrients deep in the soil. Not much of a difference, but enough to have separate titles.
3:46 "It's like a tree that eats trees" You were way too excited there ...lol...
You can see strangler figs in the palm beaches and south. Quite a few on the gumbo limbo nature trail (its between the Atlantic and intercoastal in boca raton if anyone cares). They also rescue sea turtles etc there
@@duanesamuelson2256 Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Thanks!
In Brazil, "jabuticaba" is sometimes used as a pejorative slang for something unusual that "only exists in Brazil"
To be fair, the fruit jabuticaba exists in many other countries
@@hugoiwata To be fair, Jair Bolsonaro is also a native Brazilian who has existed temporarily in other countries.
Hank *spooky voice*: Blood coloured sap!
Me: Ooh, I hope that's Dragon's Blood. It smells soooo good.
Years ago i bought 'Dragon's Blood' watercolour paint, because i liked the name. I didn't know at that time it was made out of dragon's blood resin.
Anyways, it's beautiful rich red color that have bit of 'rusty' tones to it. Works really well if one intend to paint blood
Jabuticaba is my favorite fruit. Our family farm have dozens of it 😊. Sad part is it takes about
10 years to start giving fruits and grows very slowly. Also a popular exotic bonsai tree outside Brazil.
I am surprised he didn't talk about Giant Sequoias. The tops of some of them are so large that they have "top soil". They actually have other species of trees growing out of this soil.
That is one of the coolest things I've ever heard about plants. I knew about the soil. But I didn't know there was enough to grow other trees.
0:10 being a tree is a lifestyle and philosophy!
I've heard it's a branch off budism
This is the first video ive seen where youre back and it feels so good to see you well
Your hair looks good, man!!! Keep up the Good Fight!!!
I hope you guys cover Madrona trees one day. They’re so cool.
4:06 small correction- they are the largest trees *above the ground* that's an important distinction because there are trees like Pando in the world.
At one of the two colleges I attended, we had a rainbow eucalyptus on campus. It was beautiful to walk past each day! And right behind it was the library, underneath which... was a Dunkin' Donuts 😂 The juxtaposition of beautiful nature and delicious human achievement.
The only way I can get my shots and blood drawn is talking to the doctor about trees. So now I have more trees to entertain them with.
Rainbow euc! This is a banger! Literally an album drop. This vid is 🙌🏼
I saw a Mindanao rainbow gum eucalyptus, I click. I am a simple man
Great to see you branching out into interesting plant topics. Gotta love trees!
Another "tree" that fits this complete botanical weirdo profile is native to the Galapagos ( of course): Scalesia pedunculata
Basically the world's tallest daisies.
When you mentioned the bleeding trees, I was hoping it'd be the Bloodwood Corymbias (in the same Family as Eucalypts)
If anyone's curious why they're called that, look them up - and just remember it's only sap.
Fascinating video. While not as wild as the trees on this list, I'd also add Ipe and Cumaru wood which is so dense it is nearly fire proof and so hard you typically need to cut it with tools usually reserved for metal.
Im from Brasil and Jabuticaba is awesome! I'm like to make a liquor out of it, it's just cachaça (Brazilian run ) and you just throw a bunch of Jabuticaba fruits on the bottle and leave there for a while. It's the best liquor that I ever had!!
I've been meaning to look up trippy trees to use for landscape paintings so thanks. This is awesome.
So many cool tree forms but I think one was missed. The world spanning varieties of Arbutus. I have only seen, and touched, the type in the Pacific Northwest and can report that the exposed skin (where the bark has been shed) does mostly feel LIKE SKIN! Dear Hank, you need to go to the Oregeon or Washington coast to experience this tree that looks like a supersized rhododendron. Love your stuff, so glad we get to have more time with you in the world.
The awesome Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii)! They are actually related to the Rhododendrons, but more closely to manzanitas!
"Pando" a quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, laughs at your 5 acre Banyan tree. It is the world's biggest tree and spans 106 acres! It is the world's biggest single living organism.
In Costa Rica they make a park full of the Rainbow trees. I remember them from childhood and there were a lot of them, basically a small artificial forest. They cut them all very recently, because they are not from Costa Rica and well… all the animals hate them
Never knew Rainbow Eucalyptus is the main source of white paper here in the Philippines. Nice to know.
The first three trees on the list are all common where I live in Hawai‘i!
I found a Banyan tree in Sri Lanka. It only spread to an acre, but was like a jungle. It was so cool underneath, even at 35°C (95°F) outside
There are so many other really weird trees you could've easily made a top ten, wether that includes Manchineel, Gingko, Bristlecone pine, Cashapona, Sequoia, Pando, sandbox tree... I could probably do a whole essay about the topic. I could teach you how to care for succulents too Hank ;D
Fantastic video! I knew some of these things already, but somehow, the one that really stood out to me is that the baobab is a succulent. I never heard that before!
im so glad you beat cancer you Champ!! keep up the amazing science spreading Hank!!
Trees aren't real... got it
I love that this episode came out of someone finding a bunch of cool tree photos and deciding it needed to be a video 😁
dragon's blood tree is a living proof that we can't have nice things. when you're too useful you'll be exploited to extinction.
Jabuticabas are just the sweetest in looks and taste! When they are not fruiting or blooming they are all spoted and cute! Just the best fruit tree ever :3
A lovely and fascinating video, as always. A speculative suggestion, nothing more, but it struck me during the fruiting tree bit that maybe the team could use lines closer to "why this mutation (might have) brought this species success" instead of variations on "why this tree developed this trait/strategy" to better fit/normalize/inculcate the actual processes of evolution vs creationist (or animist, I guess) mindsets?
Sooooooooo cool! Thanks for the video Hank! :D
Has anyone here heard the Tragedy of Death of the Cycads? It’s not a story the Angiosperms would tell
I know you guys covered it in a different video, but I'd love a shout out to Pycnandra acuminata, the New Caledonian tree that absorbs nickel from contaminated soil and bleed bright teal/blue sap.
So happy to seeing you do well
Scientifically speaking... Trees don't have Bark{s}... They "Meow" instead, but this is mostly heard when a tree falls in the forest, and they are left alone. 😉
SOMEONE SEND THIS MAN TRUNK FRUIT.
Bless the SciShow. Stat healthy Hank
4:53 The concord grape gets its name from the town of Concord, MA (Yes, the same Concord of the famous ride of Paul Revere), where it was developed in 1849. If you ask any local, they'll tell you the correct pronunciation is identical to the word "conquered" (with or without the Boston accent).
I almost forgot ... the other pronunciation is reserved for the supersonic plane with the French name, the Concorde.
So I read that as concerned ape... I was very confused as to why the video game developer for Stardew Valley was being talked about on this kind of video.
@@meganperry1388 LMAO
8:58 "are you suggesting seeds migrate?"
I live on Hawaii island, and the banyan trees are amazing to see! The rainbow eucalyptus are beautiful ❤️
Not even mentioning that Dragon's Blood trees are related to lots of houseplants like "lucky bamboo" and those living posts with pompoms of leaves. And a bit more distantly related to snakeplants, yucca, Joshua trees, and *asparagus* !
Growing fruit on their trunks also relieves trees of the need to use resources for growing branches strong enough to support the weight of that fruit, an advantage that anyone who has ever propped up the branches of a backyard fruit tree cultivar to keep them from breaking or touching the ground will appreciate
Great video, as always! These trees are super interesting, and I'm glad I got to learn about em!
I love trees, and particularly weird ones. I am growing three Dracaenas and one Baobab at inside my home in little pots. Unfortunately I live in Sweden so they don't get as much sun as they would need. Grew them all from seeds! Also have a ginkgo I'm very fond of.
Redbuds, a very common species of native and planted tree here in the US, also produce pink flower buds on the stems. These flowers are edible and taste like sweet peas! They can be a nice little snack on a walk :)
Very surprised Scalesia weren't included on the list, they are some of the only trees on the Galapagos islands and are actually types of Daisies!
I think you should have also included Hura crepitans, a.k.a. the dynamite tree, because it's fruit explodes when ripe.
Always informative, thank you.
My horticulture professor, bless her heart, was obsessed with Africa and the Baobab tree (which sounds really wrong when you say it).
Bless her, the university forced her to retire.
The Baobab is such an important tree to local tribes across Africa.
Coco (chocolate) does the whole growing from the trunk thing. Here in PNG they grow Coca and vanilla in the same orchids. Cool isn't it.
What amazing trees. This was a particularly interesting episode.
Like the jabuticabeira there is a tree here in Australia called illawarra or davidsons plum, and it grows blue-ish purple heart shaped fruit on its trunk and branches with rich red flesh, and soft fuzzy seeds, the fruit itself when raw is so sour its like eating a sour warhead or toxic waste lolly/candy, that being said i still enjoy them fresh off the trunk, making jams or syrups requires alot of sugar to balance its sharp sour taste, just thought this would be interesting to share😊
Thank you very much+++ . Wonderful lesson, stunning pictures!
I've seen Jubuticaba here in Jamaica, introduced. They're delicious. Jack fruit, which are massive, also come straight out of the trunk.
As does chocolate.
And papaya. A lot of tropical trees seem to have this strategy of growing fruits on their trunk.
This just reinforces that I really like trees (not trees?!?). So many distinct plant forms that have used the tree shape to help its survival. So very cool 😎!
A tree trunk is just a plant stem. Blowing my mind again Hank! Also, I’m surprised you didn’t mention the sandbox tree, another weird one. Great video tho. 😊
i have that rainbow eucalyptus in our yard. Its so mesmerizing and I put the fresh leaves next to a fire to extract the oil and deter flies and mosquitoes. They dont like the smell but its aromatic
Some other fun ones worth looking into:
Gnetum gnemon
Welwitschia mirabilis
Myrrhidendron donnelsmithii
Dendrosicyos socotrana
Idiospermum australiense
Phytolacca dioica
Cycas ssp.
Fouquieria columnaris
Adenium ssp.
Pachypodium ssp.
Ficus malayana/uncinata
Asimina triloba
Nuytsia floribunda
I'm the first one here lol I didn't know I could be at a video before it's uploaded
Rainbow gums are one of my favourite trees of all time. Toppled only by the paperbark gum and tea trees
Note that the American native redbud tree also blooms directly on trunk and branches, as well as normally, but only produces the seed pod from normal flowers.
My wife and I saw the Rainbow Eucalyptus and Banyan trees on Maui. Amazing plants