We grew up playing with these plants. Here in North East India, we consider this plant as a weed. These plants are available in abundance all around my area.
I once played with these in grandma's garden. I loved popping the seeds without knowing it is invasive. I got so addicted to popping it that I often didn't have the patience to wait and ruined many pods by squashing them. In a few years it was exterminated because I didn't let the seeds mature enough and often crushed them before they could do so. A few also popped up in front of aunt's apartment. Needless to say, it was also exterminated in 2 years by the kids popping its seeds before they mature.
I'm from northeast India , State Arunachal Pradesh , here in our locality we name it parrot flower . They grow in river side and small stream 😊 it's very commonly seen everywhere . So we count it as wild plants .
I really want to see a video explaining the physics behind the exploding seed pods!! I’m so curious about the transfer of kinetic energy and how the plant has developed that system!
Traditionally, scientists thought that explosive seed pods used tension built passively by differential contraction of the pod walls as they dried. However, it still works with hydrated cells. The actual mechanism, as the 2016 article "Morphomechanical Innovation Drives Explosive Seed Dispersal" found, is that the outer layer of the pod walls uses their internal pressure in order to contract and generate tension. The cell walls in the seed pod are made of lignin, which is rigid but contains groves that act like hinges of a door, allowing it to open. At maturity, the wall of the seed pod wants to coil along its length to release tension, but it has a curved cross-section preventing this. This is similar to how a slap bracelet works. When the cells in the seed pod are pressurized, they expand in depth while contracting in Iength; like the way an air mattress expands in depth, when infIated, but contracts in width. When the seed pod is physically disturbed, the cross-section of the seed pod wall flattens, causing sudden mechanical failure of the structure and explosive coiling.
We have yellow and orange here. We always called them Touch-me-not or Jewel Weed. Never really seen it as a pest, though. Excellent for bees and butterflies. It has medicinal benefits, too. We have always crushed the stalks and leaves to rub on poison ivy to soothe and eliminate the rash or hive.
Mom grew a variety of balsams and as a kid, I loved touching the seeds and watch them burst. She only has one variety now and it scatters its seed everywhere, growing in other flower pots and choking those plants. I'm the one who usually pull them out, because Mom likes the flowers.
All species are "invasive" and their territories will expand as possible. It's a nonsense term used for species humans find inconvenient (often introduced by other people).
I remember having fun playing with the explosive seed a long time ago when I was a kid, I love how it explodes in touch and played these things like were in a war. Time sure flies
when I hear about a species used to wipe out another species I always fear the worst: once the other species is wiped out the first species goes amock and kills everything else.
and over the course of time that single species will naturally differentiate itself depending on climate and enviornment so you'll eventually have a diverse population again as far as geological time is concernred
There are multiple types of rust diseases affecting native British plants and non-native ornamental species, off the top of my head pretty much every plant family I can think of has a rust which prefers to attack them... so I think introducing another to the mix is likely to be low risk considering the problems created by simply leaving the plant to spread uncontrolled.
The winters here in Canada take care of most invasives. But I found that in Australia, saying "That's a pretty flower" will usually get the response "Oh, those are invasive. We hate them."
@@Joe_Potts This implies that the Australians are secretly used to everything trying to kill them, and bothered by the plants not because they are invasive, but because they are not dangerous and out competing more dangerous plants. Perhaps Australia is actually, like, the pro league human survival server, and the real reason it's so dangerous is the people are actively eliminating organisms that aren't dangerous enough.
Theres also a type of clover that has tiny upright okra shaped seed pods about 1/2 an inch tall, when ripe and touched they fire off the tiny seeds like a mini machine gun. Its normally a weed in gardens and empty lots, sandy ish areas and usually overlooked by most people. They sure are fun!!
There's a native (to the US) impatien relative that looks fairly similar, but it's orange ☺️ it's called Jewelweed. Personally, I think it's prettier 😁
Interesting! I remember a plant recognition app recognized a plant in a forest near me as Himalayan Balsam. It had the same leaves, no flowers or seed pods at that time though. Didn't know it was an exploder like that.
@@anothercomment3451 My visual recognition and memory is abysmal, I did barely pass my species recognition exams (I'm a biology major). Neuroscience and biochemistry are my strengths lol.
"Don't pop the seed pods to stop the plant spreading" -> proceed to pop 40+ pods for this video :-P I think the makers had too much fun popping them to resist :D
There are a lot of plants like these with varying degrees of seed explosion. We used to put these seeds inside our mouth until it exploded and we felt that shock. We explore more unusual things in childhood.
When I was a tiny human, I went camping with my family. We came across this huge meadow filled with these flowers, and I loved popping them! But I never figured out what the flower was, until now! Thank you!
The orchid tree also has seed pods that explode, has medicinal properties, and SUPER pretty purple flowers when in bloom, that take the tree over in color. The seeds can shoot like 20’ easy the seeds lol
I had this plant at my parents place, I used to touch it and loved to see the seeds explode. I was about 7 years old. Now I'm 34 years married woman. I'm extremely inspired by plants and I grew lots of edible plants and trees in my yards.
These? The cultivated Touch-me-not Balsam is very much cultivated here in the Philippines, especially in the countrysides. They come in a wide range of colors and after the old plants die out you almost never need to reseed them, since the seeds they explode practically sprout a week after. . . .and yes. They spread quickly.
Wow.. finally after 4 decades of my existence, I get to know the name of the plant I regularly played with during my childhood. I never got to learn it's name then, no one knew. There was no mention of it in my Biology books either. They would pop n make a child happy 😊
Years ago my neighbour planted these in his garden, noticed how they spread and had them removed within a year, but in the meantime it had invaded my garden and all his other neighbour's, without us knowing what it was or where it came from. It jumped over fences, meters far in our gardens. I'm disabled and can't work as much in the garden as I would like, so I'm still pulling them out now, years after, and almost feel like it's a lost battle as they come up EVERYWHERE, also in places in deep shadow where I normally never have to come, so they grow unnoticed, untill they spread into the actual garden again... If only *one* comes up, it has so much seed, it starts all over again... and again... :(
We have the smaller ones where I grew up. I never knew what they were called, so I nicknamed them "seed-spitters". We have neither variety where I live now, but we do have many other invasive species.
I just picked my habeneros today. I live in Canada and usually have a huge awesome garden but I was in a hit and run and got ran over last year. Crushed my femur to dust. I couldnt garden this year let alone walk so I grew a Habenro plant on window ledge with some Aloe and some vines. Im going to make hot sauce. I had no idea how much water pepper plants take. I have never had to water a plant as much as a hebenro. I mean it would droop and then id water it and bam its back baby. I had to water 5x more than my normal house plants. IMakes sense its growing fruit and they are very juicy. It only takes one spring and summer to destroy a garden. Its gone now. Its filled with so much weed. Those huge purple ones with burdocks on them.Next year ill have to rent tiny baackhoe and just tear it out and buy some redclay and topsoil.
Thank you for this video. I've seen lots of these plants where I work and I've been wondering what they are. It also makes me feel better about the fact that alot of them were removed recently.
Weirdly i love the smell of this plant. Reminds me of being a kid, in the summer we used to jump off bridges to cool down. We were fearless. 20ft drops!
I kept replaying and replaying the slow mos of the seed exploding. It's mesmerising!! It turns into these little curls, blasting the black seeds everywhere.... nature is so amazing!!!
Doesn't really make a difference because they're so prolific that they pop up everywhere. A bit like these sinister new ID laws around the world they are trying to impose to create a two tier society.
This plant grew in patches all over my aunt's land. Beautiful flowers and so much fun to touch and watch them explode when I was a child. Didn't know they weren't native.
This plant is spread across the foot hills of Himalayas. It's literally everywhere and they grow from nowhere. Out of the blue you would find one among other plants.
In my collection of carnivorous plants, there's a little plant that never grow beyond three inches tall with little heart shape leaves, in clusters of 3 leaves per petiole. They make long little seed pods, after they flower. But when I touch them, the pods explode! Never thought much about it other then I find them curious. They don't readily grow on my pots but some managed to flower & seed, so never thought of them as pest in my experience.
Touch me nots are one of my favorite plants, it has amazing properties that I've always used the yellow milk from stems on Warts and skin defects, a week of applying 3 times daily and Gone like magic!
I know this plant as jewel weed and understand its leaves can be used topically to treat poison ivy rash. So if you’re clearing it, consider offering some to a local herbalist.
Jewelweed is native and has orange flowers while Himalayan balsam has pink flowers. Himalayan balsam doesn’t treat poison ivy and has limited medical value
I have a weed with a similar seed distribution strategy where I am. It’s a lot smaller and it doesn’t make flowers. The seed pods are arranged in a ladder pole pattern
In a tiny town in CT USA my gramma's house hugged the woods and lining the edge of her property was tons of jewel weed (spotted touch-me-nots) and all of us kids through 3 generations would gently touch all the pods and squeal when they pop.
I honestly can't believe that this plant originated in the himalayas, but conquered the whole northern hemisphere (even Swalbard fr?) Still can't beat The Dandelion...
Seed dispersal through " wind, water, animal, and EXPLOSION " !! one of the first things we were taught in elementary science lessons back in the sixties ?
This is balsam plant & I used to play a lot with it's seeds pods ... just touch it & seeds will burst out. It's leaves crushed made in to a paste, applied on the palms , give Hina like colour to the hands
Hlw.....l am from Chhattisgarh India and this plants called in our locality "chiraiya" ...it is very common flowers plants in our village and also it's have many colours like orange, pink,wight,red. .
It's called Jewel weed where I'm from. Played with it a ton as a kid. Was told that the native Americans used the leaves as a poultice for insect bites,stings, poison ivy, sumac, or oak. I've found this to be true.
My mom always told me that I should rip them out, before the seeds could grow ripe. I remember how my pants would always smell like a perfume factory because my pockets were filled with those capsules and their seeds during forest walks
We have the yellow jewelweed version here. my first experience was getting knocked into the bushes while playing with friends and being spooked at the random explosions around me.
An amazing script writer describing a beautiful fragrant invasive weed. A gifted word smith with an inimitable, original skill to produce a fine copy..
In Wisconsin we have a related native species that is orange or yellow. They have explosive seed pods too. I grew up calling them touch me nots but they are also called jewel weed.
Balsam tom thumb seeds also blow up easily - without you even realizing that you touched it. 🙃It was fun as a kid - I used to collect seeds and grow more. I grew up with beautiful flowring Balsam tom thumb. It's very common in our part of India (west bengal) and grows naturally in many houses and sometimes in streets. The colorful flowers always attracted bees, and other pollinators. It remains one of my fav till date.
Someone should build a few dozen Indoor Greenhouses with this plant, then introduce honey bee's. [Perseverance + Resourcefulness] > Finding a way to make use of an otherwise useless resource. [ Prudence + Conservation ] >> Establishing a symbiotic environment to aid in growing the declined honey bee's population...
I used to play a lot with this in Colombia, it’s in most rural areas where people go to hike or just enjoy nature, it’ll always be there and there will always kids popping the seeds like I used to do hahaha
I grew up with the North American indigenous variant, called Jimsonweed. I loved making their pods explode! Never encountered its Himalayan cousin, though.
There´s two types of people in the world: those who think plants are boring and those who know better.
Yeah
Hell yea!
Yep, agree
Botany and what the shit 🌱
Every living thing is interesting if you research hard enough.
Even in Germany, these plants are everywhere. As children we played a lot with the explosive seeds. They are even edible.
Even in Austria 😁😋
I'm also German I loved to play with these to
I only saw them like a decade ago, though Europe has its own version since times immemorial.
Can i get the seed posted to me?
We usually call them jewel weed since they grow everywhere with much running water and it's quite wet in Michigan
We grew up playing with these plants. Here in North East India, we consider this plant as a weed. These plants are available in abundance all around my area.
Samee
Send seeds pls. Purple, pink and orange ones..
Assam?
@@oishd6077
😀
In Kashmir as well.
I once played with these in grandma's garden. I loved popping the seeds without knowing it is invasive. I got so addicted to popping it that I often didn't have the patience to wait and ruined many pods by squashing them. In a few years it was exterminated because I didn't let the seeds mature enough and often crushed them before they could do so. A few also popped up in front of aunt's apartment. Needless to say, it was also exterminated in 2 years by the kids popping its seeds before they mature.
That plant's plan backfired because of kids, heh.
@@caroswolf286 You'd be surprised how many plans can be ruined by meddling kids😏😉
I'm from northeast India , State Arunachal Pradesh , here in our locality we name it parrot flower . They grow in river side and small stream 😊 it's very commonly seen everywhere . So we count it as wild plants .
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I really want to see a video explaining the physics behind the exploding seed pods!! I’m so curious about the transfer of kinetic energy and how the plant has developed that system!
I GUESS that its like stretched elastic band. It contracts when touched slightly.
@@ruvedita8412 [[9
I think it has something to do with turgidity and osmotic pressure.
Smarter every day already made one
Traditionally, scientists thought that explosive seed pods used tension built passively by differential contraction of the pod walls as they dried. However, it still works with hydrated cells. The actual mechanism, as the 2016 article "Morphomechanical Innovation Drives Explosive Seed Dispersal" found, is that the outer layer of the pod walls uses their internal pressure in order to contract and generate tension. The cell walls in the seed pod are made of lignin, which is rigid but contains groves that act like hinges of a door, allowing it to open. At maturity, the wall of the seed pod wants to coil along its length to release tension, but it has a curved cross-section preventing this. This is similar to how a slap bracelet works. When the cells in the seed pod are pressurized, they expand in depth while contracting in Iength; like the way an air mattress expands in depth, when infIated, but contracts in width. When the seed pod is physically disturbed, the cross-section of the seed pod wall flattens, causing sudden mechanical failure of the structure and explosive coiling.
We have yellow and orange here. We always called them Touch-me-not or Jewel Weed. Never really seen it as a pest, though. Excellent for bees and butterflies. It has medicinal benefits, too. We have always crushed the stalks and leaves to rub on poison ivy to soothe and eliminate the rash or hive.
Thank you for your positive feedback on this beautiful plant. Mother earth must like it too ... to fill vacuums of barrenness/lack WE allow!
THOSE plants are native to North America. They are not a pest. Play away! My dad has them all through his property.
Mom grew a variety of balsams and as a kid, I loved touching the seeds and watch them burst. She only has one variety now and it scatters its seed everywhere, growing in other flower pots and choking those plants. I'm the one who usually pull them out, because Mom likes the flowers.
It's like the mother of thousands plant, which actually lives up to its name lol. The little sprouts end up *everywhere*.
@@huldu yep my grandma has them and she just won't ever get rid of them, they killed off all of her Aloe.
Wait you guys call it balsam? Its herb or..? As a kid i thought this is just random explosives seed weeds.
Aww, I have always LOVED popping those seed pods, though! So conflicted to hear they're actually an invasive species!
All species are "invasive" and their territories will expand as possible. It's a nonsense term used for species humans find inconvenient (often introduced by other people).
I remember having fun playing with the explosive seed a long time ago when I was a kid, I love how it explodes in touch and played these things like were in a war. Time sure flies
when I hear about a species used to wipe out another species I always fear the worst: once the other species is wiped out the first species goes amock and kills everything else.
and over the course of time that single species will naturally differentiate itself depending on climate and enviornment so you'll eventually have a diverse population again as far as geological time is concernred
There are multiple types of rust diseases affecting native British plants and non-native ornamental species, off the top of my head pretty much every plant family I can think of has a rust which prefers to attack them... so I think introducing another to the mix is likely to be low risk considering the problems created by simply leaving the plant to spread uncontrolled.
Humans basically
Can you English please?
Of course that has supposedly already happened on earth over the millenia time after time after time..survical of the fittest.
Damn I remember seeing plants like these in some parks in Poland, they were always so fun to explode the seed pods 😅
I was a part of the problem 😔
Lmao you helped them spread
There are 1,000 species in this genus and they live all over the world, so it's more likely you were helping a native Impatiens species.
It's kind of like dandelions seem to cry "Blow me!"
They would've exploded either way eventually, so you didn't do too much harm lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The winters here in Canada take care of most invasives. But I found that in Australia, saying "That's a pretty flower" will usually get the response "Oh, those are invasive. We hate them."
If it's not tryin to kill ya it's not australian
@@Joe_Potts This implies that the Australians are secretly used to everything trying to kill them, and bothered by the plants not because they are invasive, but because they are not dangerous and out competing more dangerous plants.
Perhaps Australia is actually, like, the pro league human survival server, and the real reason it's so dangerous is the people are actively eliminating organisms that aren't dangerous enough.
@@thecallankids4718 so you saying Australia is just a Rust server
@@bb_lou Lol
They grow wild all over Ontario
Theres also a type of clover that has tiny upright okra shaped seed pods about 1/2 an inch tall, when ripe and touched they fire off the tiny seeds like a mini machine gun. Its normally a weed in gardens and empty lots, sandy ish areas and usually overlooked by most people. They sure are fun!!
And tasty, too!
@@alexcarter8807 yess
@@alexcarter8807 you'll need a LOT for a decent meal though, . Like a few hundred maybe?
It's actually an Oxalis. I have a cool maroon strain I found in the woods a few years ago, also comes in yellow.
Sour dock, or sour clover. These were always fun.
There's a native (to the US) impatien relative that looks fairly similar, but it's orange ☺️ it's called Jewelweed. Personally, I think it's prettier 😁
Interesting! I remember a plant recognition app recognized a plant in a forest near me as Himalayan Balsam. It had the same leaves, no flowers or seed pods at that time though. Didn't know it was an exploder like that.
Hey, which is that plant recognition app?
@@LevineLawrence I have one, I haven't used it yet but it's called Yuka.
an APP?
I prefer books ... and actually Learn more, about more things, at the same time. :)
@@anothercomment3451 My visual recognition and memory is abysmal, I did barely pass my species recognition exams (I'm a biology major). Neuroscience and biochemistry are my strengths lol.
@@anothercomment3451 you read a book while I point my camera at a plant and instantly get a full description about the plant
"Don't pop the seed pods to stop the plant spreading" -> proceed to pop 40+ pods for this video :-P I think the makers had too much fun popping them to resist :D
This species has several non invasive relatives that basically have the same seed pods, so they might have popped those.
They might have done under controlled conditions.
Do it for the video
haha
The pods don't need touch to explode. I already had balsaminas.
There are a lot of plants like these with varying degrees of seed explosion.
We used to put these seeds inside our mouth until it exploded and we felt that shock.
We explore more unusual things in childhood.
When I was a tiny human, I went camping with my family. We came across this huge meadow filled with these flowers, and I loved popping them! But I never figured out what the flower was, until now! Thank you!
Always knew it as “poor man’s orchid” was always a favorite at my great grandmothers farm. Somehow she kept it pretty contained.
Lol. Never knew it was invasive in other continents. Loved playing this plant during my childhood.
Who knew Pokemon moves had some accuracy?
They do show how accurate the moves are
The orchid tree also has seed pods that explode, has medicinal properties, and SUPER pretty purple flowers when in bloom, that take the tree over in color. The seeds can shoot like 20’ easy the seeds lol
I had this plant at my parents place, I used to touch it and loved to see the seeds explode. I was about 7 years old. Now I'm 34 years married woman. I'm extremely inspired by plants and I grew lots of edible plants and trees in my yards.
These? The cultivated Touch-me-not Balsam is very much cultivated here in the Philippines, especially in the countrysides. They come in a wide range of colors and after the old plants die out you almost never need to reseed them, since the seeds they explode practically sprout a week after. . . .and yes. They spread quickly.
Can you get me some seeds lol I like colors and nectar
I dare Floral Logic to talk about Durian.. the tree and the fruit. How bizarre it is, even tigers seem to enjoy eating them.
But they also stink to high heaven. I know people eat them, but they have a reputation for being smelly.
Wow.. finally after 4 decades of my existence, I get to know the name of the plant I regularly played with during my childhood. I never got to learn it's name then, no one knew. There was no mention of it in my Biology books either. They would pop n make a child happy 😊
Kudzu needs to be the October Floralogic, it like a horror movie.
My grandma had this plant in her garden and it was awesome to experience the bursting pods in person as a kid! 👌
Years ago my neighbour planted these in his garden, noticed how they spread and had them removed within a year, but in the meantime it had invaded my garden and all his other neighbour's, without us knowing what it was or where it came from. It jumped over fences, meters far in our gardens.
I'm disabled and can't work as much in the garden as I would like, so I'm still pulling them out now, years after, and almost feel like it's a lost battle as they come up EVERYWHERE, also in places in deep shadow where I normally never have to come, so they grow unnoticed, untill they spread into the actual garden again... If only *one* comes up, it has so much seed, it starts all over again... and again... :(
Great episode! In my back garden we have a small version of them they have smaller white seeds though and are more like small plants not shrubs
We have the smaller ones where I grew up. I never knew what they were called, so I nicknamed them "seed-spitters". We have neither variety where I live now, but we do have many other invasive species.
I just picked my habeneros today. I live in Canada and usually have a huge awesome garden but I was in a hit and run and got ran over last year. Crushed my femur to dust. I couldnt garden this year let alone walk so I grew a Habenro plant on window ledge with some Aloe and some vines. Im going to make hot sauce. I had no idea how much water pepper plants take. I have never had to water a plant as much as a hebenro. I mean it would droop and then id water it and bam its back baby. I had to water 5x more than my normal house plants. IMakes sense its growing fruit and they are very juicy.
It only takes one spring and summer to destroy a garden. Its gone now. Its filled with so much weed. Those huge purple ones with burdocks on them.Next year ill have to rent tiny baackhoe and just tear it out and buy some redclay and topsoil.
I'd love to see a video on puffball mushrooms- their spore dispersal is a sight to see!
Thank you for this video. I've seen lots of these plants where I work and I've been wondering what they are. It also makes me feel better about the fact that alot of them were removed recently.
Nostalgia... How much we used to play with this popping seeds of Himalayan Balsam . Known as Demdeuka(As it flies off) in Assamese(Assam, India)
Until recently the seeds were sold in garden centers and also marketed to kids as the Mr Noisy Plant.
I had no idea how many fast plants there are and yet here we are
I love Tasha's whole energy lol
🥰
Weirdly i love the smell of this plant. Reminds me of being a kid, in the summer we used to jump off bridges to cool down. We were fearless. 20ft drops!
I kept replaying and replaying the slow mos of the seed exploding. It's mesmerising!! It turns into these little curls, blasting the black seeds everywhere.... nature is so amazing!!!
I always love the way you people capture the photos and live motions of the nature.
Luckily, they're really easy to pull out of the ground. I like snapping them, because their stems are hollow. It makes an awesome snapping sound
Doesn't really make a difference because they're so prolific that they pop up everywhere. A bit like these sinister new ID laws around the world they are trying to impose to create a two tier society.
This plant grew in patches all over my aunt's land. Beautiful flowers and so much fun to touch and watch them explode when I was a child. Didn't know they weren't native.
This plant is spread across the foot hills of Himalayas. It's literally everywhere and they grow from nowhere. Out of the blue you would find one among other plants.
GG WP humans, maybe this plant needs to be merged in the next evolution patch
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Monokuma!
Imagine exploding genital when ur spouse touch it
No, thanks
@@KangJangkrik imagine exploding genital when your spouse sit on it... 😂
Reminds me of India. One touch and you end up with a population of 1.3 billion...
Its amazing how much you can learn if you arent forced
right!
In my collection of carnivorous plants, there's a little plant that never grow beyond three inches tall with little heart shape leaves, in clusters of 3 leaves per petiole. They make long little seed pods, after they flower. But when I touch them, the pods explode!
Never thought much about it other then I find them curious. They don't readily grow on my pots but some managed to flower & seed, so never thought of them as pest in my experience.
One important thing here is the fungus, that fungus can be brought by accident to the Himalayans where the plant natural habitat is. That's dangerous.
Touch me nots are one of my favorite plants, it has amazing properties that I've always used the yellow milk from stems on Warts and skin defects, a week of applying 3 times daily and Gone like magic!
OMG A palm tree shooting its seed across the football field. My sides. 🤣😭
Nature has it's own unique way to grow and prosper anywhere. Its beauty 🥰
We have a group this week, organised to balsam bash along our beautiful river Trent, Nottingham England.
that feeling when the beautiful pink flower is the villain and the crusty brown fungus is the hero
I know this plant as jewel weed and understand its leaves can be used topically to treat poison ivy rash. So if you’re clearing it, consider offering some to a local herbalist.
Jewelweed is native and has orange flowers while Himalayan balsam has pink flowers. Himalayan balsam doesn’t treat poison ivy and has limited medical value
Himalayan Balls : Can only grow on warm condition
Also Himalayan Balls : Don't invade tropical Asia
Now I can tell my wife I was not making stories. I played a lot with these plants in my childhood. They are really fun.
I have a weed with a similar seed distribution strategy where I am. It’s a lot smaller and it doesn’t make flowers. The seed pods are arranged in a ladder pole pattern
In a tiny town in CT USA my gramma's house hugged the woods and lining the edge of her property was tons of jewel weed (spotted touch-me-nots) and all of us kids through 3 generations would gently touch all the pods and squeal when they pop.
We really like the slow motion seed explosions. Maybe you can do an episode about all the plants that shoot their seeds !
I honestly can't believe that this plant originated in the himalayas, but conquered the whole northern hemisphere (even Swalbard fr?)
Still can't beat The Dandelion...
“Don’t touch this plant”
Well NOW I will.
Many people don't know that when they're not ripe, the stems give a satisfying crunch when twisted
(sorry for my poor wording)
As early as I’ve ever been
Same here
You mean as early as you have ever *bean
Seed dispersal through " wind, water, animal, and EXPLOSION " !! one of the first things we were taught in elementary science lessons back in the sixties ?
This is balsam plant & I used to play a lot with it's seeds pods ... just touch it & seeds will burst out.
It's leaves crushed made in to a paste, applied on the palms , give Hina like colour to the hands
There is actually a breed of cattel that loves to eat them which is used as a means to clear areas in which it grows in germany.
Yes played with these during childhood..its still facinating!
Speaking of exploding plants, our yard was covered with Hairy Bittercress. Those things are like a grenade of seeds
Hlw.....l am from Chhattisgarh India and this plants called in our locality "chiraiya" ...it is very common flowers plants in our village and also it's have many colours like orange, pink,wight,red. .
Jewelweed is are native version of this in the US. Very similar but the flowers are orange.
Back then we use those thing as an earing.
It's called Jewel weed where I'm from. Played with it a ton as a kid. Was told that the native Americans used the leaves as a poultice for insect bites,stings, poison ivy, sumac, or oak. I've found this to be true.
We used to have this plant before, but now they are no where to be found near our neighborhood.
I can't help but laugh at the image of palm trees hurling coconuts the distance of a football field.😂😂😂
My mom always told me that I should rip them out, before the seeds could grow ripe. I remember how my pants would always smell like a perfume factory because my pockets were filled with those capsules and their seeds during forest walks
👉🤣🤣 As a child, I played with these plants up to 10 years old.... pigs love these plants to eat, they contain a lot of water...
"Don't touch this plant!"
*Proceeds to touch it*
i think there was a similar plant that explodes when in contact with water, it brings back soo many memories
The gnomes forgot their Molotov bombs in our garden again.
“Don’t touch this plant “
:starts off with a compilation of ppl touching the plant 😂
We have the yellow jewelweed version here. my first experience was getting knocked into the bushes while playing with friends and being spooked at the random explosions around me.
"don't touch this plant" *proceeds to play clips of people touching the plant*
The juice in the stock can help with poison Ivy. Just rub it on the poison ivy , and it helps dry it out, and helps with the itching.
An amazing script writer describing a beautiful fragrant invasive weed. A gifted word smith with an inimitable, original skill to produce a fine copy..
In Wisconsin we have a related native species that is orange or yellow. They have explosive seed pods too. I grew up calling them touch me nots but they are also called jewel weed.
"Don'nt touch this plant"... proceeds to touch plant
Balsam tom thumb seeds also blow up easily - without you even realizing that you touched it. 🙃It was fun as a kid - I used to collect seeds and grow more.
I grew up with beautiful flowring Balsam tom thumb. It's very common in our part of India (west bengal) and grows naturally in many houses and sometimes in streets. The colorful flowers always attracted bees, and other pollinators.
It remains one of my fav till date.
A PSA video of an invasive plant that you shouldn't touch and there's nothing but plant touching
Someone should build a few dozen Indoor Greenhouses with this plant, then introduce honey bee's.
[Perseverance + Resourcefulness]
> Finding a way to make use of an otherwise useless resource.
[ Prudence + Conservation ]
>> Establishing a symbiotic environment to aid in growing the declined honey bee's population...
Close-Up shots are so clean
I used to play a lot with this in Colombia, it’s in most rural areas where people go to hike or just enjoy nature, it’ll always be there and there will always kids popping the seeds like I used to do hahaha
"Don't touch it."
Proceeds to touch*
Our neighbor had these in his garden back in the day. He would let me explode the pods. It was a lot of fun.
I remember when I was younger in Bamberg Germany and there was plants like this in the woods. Some actually hurt when they explode.
I grew up with the North American indigenous variant, called Jimsonweed. I loved making their pods explode! Never encountered its Himalayan cousin, though.
I am from odisha,India and this plant is called as haragoura....It's very common here in India ...I remember we used to play with these...
The title says "dont touch this plant, lady touches it like 50 times lmaooo
Not gonna even try. The innuendos write themselves here.
There's a similar plant in the northeast US with orange flowers, they call it Jewelweed.
I renember some of these growing at my old art school in Vietnam, they were pretty fun to pop
the beauty of this video is it probably broadcast 10,000 seeds. very clever.