True Facts: Plants That Explode
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Credits:
Dr Justin F. Jorge
Dr Dwight L. Whitaker, Pomona College
The Patek Lab
Dr Philippe Marmottant, LIPhy CNRS Grenoble
Dr Tom Lindtner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Callin Switzer, University of Washington
Dr Simon Poppinga, Botanical Garden, TU Darmstadt
Dr Robert Deegan, University of Michigan
Dr Shuto Ito, University of Kiel
Dr Dennis Evangelista
John Innes Centre, Germplasm Resources team, led by Dr Noam Chayut. The GR is supported by UKRI-BBSRC
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Matpat actually did a theory saying that the Minecraft creepers are plants, they are green, they sound like leaves, and the evolutionary advantage of exploding like that is that an unalived Steve can make for good fertilizer, and if he survives, then he can distribute the seeds as he walks around
I've never been this early hi! Could you do another vid on sea creatures or shrooms?
If your Hairy Wild Petunia feels itchy, you need a Manscape sponsored video...
You didn't watch to the end
Is there a place where one can listen to the music you make? There's a tune you used to have on some older videos that I KNOW I have heard in a full song format but cannot find anymore
Also I love your content ♥
there's something fucking hilarious about an educational channel getting tired of telling you the names of things
When people are too lazy to do their own search typing....this is validation. The struggle is real
so true!
"I'm on to you, science hippies." 😆
I remember a day when True Facts contained no actual true facts. :D
@@andrewfleenor7459 is that the one about the backwards hippo? I still have nightmares about that one
Squirting Cucumber sounds like a bad euphemism
It's also a good name for a rock band.
of all cucumbers that i know only the real one that cant squirt
Not your average veggieTale😂
It sounds like the other end of a euthanasia 🤷♂☠😂
It sounds like the other end of a euthanasia 🤷♂☠😂
I swear, whenever science fiction comes up with alien species, they are so much less weird than what's already going on on earth.
God is indeed an amazing Creator!
This video certainly made The Day of the Triffids seem a lot less fantastical.
i think you need to watch scavengers reign, then
@sunnyd9884 I'm getting real sick of hearing exclusively good things about scavengers reign if you all don't stop I might have to watch it and we don't want that now do we
"Real life is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
1:20 "You don't want to be covered with baby juice."
You don't know how I like to spend my weekends sir
I would have hit like on this, but the juvenile part of me was amused the hit count was at 69 and I didn't want to ruin your weekend
@@wendywoo7031well it's at 99 now so you might as well hit like!
At least with your user name we can assume you'd be discrete
You can tell he was still smiling while saying this
His browser history must be pretty tame, if he thinks nobody wants to get covered in baby juice, by a squirting cucumber.
the sound effects for the flower launching mechanisms are just magnificent
Boioioing
"I'm not readdyyy....."
Right
They got better and better as the video went on 🤣🤣
THUPPAGEEJ
And the award for the most innuendos in 11 minutes goes to.
Idk. The 10 minute videos on "nudibranchs" and "proboscis monkeys" might have more.
But this one is definitely choked full.
You oughta check out an older one about armadillos...that comes out swinging right out the gate: "Here are True Facts about the armadildo...oops, that's a typo. Here are True Facts about the ARMADILDO...oh, I said it again." 😂🤣
and yet 'sowing wild oats' was completely left alone
@@MsVorpalBlade Hahahah Right???? How could he miss that???!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I didn't think he could beat his video on the corkscrew penis of a duck, but he outdid himself here 😂
" A jacket called 'who gives a shit what it's called'" is what made me giggle for the rest of the episode.
But what is it called
Yea that one caught me off guard too
same, I was just about to comment this 😂😂😂
When the naming committee has run out of coffee and just wants to be done with it.
Jerry was on vacation
It never occurred to me pinecones use dehydration to open up. This makes so much sense.
These videos are actually so educational. I love it
There is even certain pines whose pinecone won't open until there's a fire...a cool way to reseed after a forest fire!
me neither! I was surprised by that
About a decade ago I decided my pinecones were too dark, and bleached them. They closed right up and I thought it was my job to tell everyone I knew what happened. I was in awe of my closed, pale, pinecones.
Wait - is context necessary? This was for holiday decor. They dried out and reopened. I'm not bleaching pinecones on trees.
Those pinecones have a waxy exterior to keep the seeds safe during the fire.
How fitting that one of the more dramatically-exploding plants is called the "impatiens". I, too, explode all over the place when my patiens runs out.
cof cof that's hot.
Ahhhh the popper, I'm distraught.
Dam you speedy
@cozmoos Hmm. 14 hours ago huh? It only 'came out 14 minutes ago. Odd.
I found a giant popper in my mom's room when I was a kid. She wasn't happy I was playing with it...
@brianbrian1769 It was released members only first. I love Zefrank content okay lol
@ja.ies6337 How'd you manage to comment 13 hours before the video was 'released? You came too soon. Can you explain that to an old science hippy?
I never thought seeing spores walk could bring me so much joy
Liverwort is about to become an exam problem the next time I teach intro mechanics. I'm always happy to find a reason for making watching YT a workplace activity.
"Yay~!"
"Whoppie~!"
"Woohoo~!"
"I'm not ready~!"
I can't! 😂
literally took me out 🤣🤣
You better begin to can!
I want to like this, but it's at 69 and I'm not about to ruin that
😂😅😂🤣🤣👍👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm of the not ready variety, never did like amusement park rides.
It's the sound effects of the spore propulsion that really makes this video.
Agreed. There's something so satisfying about knowing you aren't the only one that makes sound effects no one asked for but everyone NEEDED.
I am struggling to not try to replicate the sounds, in the crowded airport.
@@Erhannis dooooo iiiittttt
@@Erhannisbetter in the airport than in the crowded plane....
I was about 10 years old and home sick one week. The Southern Magnolias were blooming by my dad's work. He brought home one bud and put it in a vase beside the couch where I was napping, and it smelled great. Then, in the morning, it POPPED open and threw what I assume were stamens across the room. I'll never forget that - it was such a shock and made me laugh. 😊
0:33 These are called “gemmae” and the inverse nipple is called a gemmae cup. A gemma is essentially a clone that will grow into another liverwort. Liverworts also produce spores but that is after they do sexy time.
So a developing gemmae is a behbeh gehmmeh?
imma call one of my friends a sphagnum today as a social experiment
you had best tell us here how it goes!
...
please and thank you!
Yes you gotta update us
Leaving a comment cause i wanna see what happens
must tell us how it goes
Enunciate very carefully.
"You don't want to be covered with baby juice"
Sounds like a threat, it's quite effective...unless you are a Emporer shrimp.
Or enjoy bukkake
😳I wouldn't mind getting covered in baby juice...
Or that one girl i knew.
Plant bukkake.
Fresh water mussels know this trick all too well.
I love how you acknowledge people being upset about the popper not popping.
I also find it very funny. I think it's very fitting for a video that was about reproduction of plants, plants that explode. No one was completely satisfied😂😂😂
"Its like backstage at the nipple" has got to be one of the best opening jokes ever
They're called "get off your lazy ass and google it" LMAO
I actually lol'd
I shall put that on my exam
Today I learned that leaves could be jealous of flowers and try to copy them. I guess you could say they're green with envy 😎
I'll see myself out
🤣
I guess you should leaf after that joke
And never come back
Ok, leaf, go where the wind takes you, but never forget your roots
You could say they're green with envy but the ones showcased were anything but!
Took botany in college. It was not boring and your video proves it. All Life is amazing. We used to pop the operculum to watch the spores blow out. I love your humor Ze. Behbehs get me all the time!
Will be watching this at least twice more. Thank you!
Those plants are just amazing. Any NASA space engineer would be jealous of those incredible mechanisms that they use. Nature is just unbeatable and humans still have so much to learn.
It always surprises me how alive plants are
My cucumber is very alive, it can throw its seeds surprisingly far.
@@Alfred-Neuman Sir this is a Wendy's
@@TiredofGaming
Yes, I know.
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
It's cus there so damn slow
yeah that's why im a carnivore, plants are too 'alive' for me
oh thank god, the popper actually popped. Ze Frank isn't a PSYCHO.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, LOL
i was hoping it wouldnt, but some people just wanna watch the world burn, i guess.
Yah... that totally didn't bother me until he MENTIONED that it might bother me. Then it TOTALLY bothered me...
I was starting to sweat a little towards the end there. 😂
Your channel is the only channel i dont skip the advertisements.
I wish my friend was around to watch this video. RIP Brian, I miss you my dear friend. You introduced me to ZeFrank and taught me so much. I'm forever grateful to have met you.
ah yes, my childhood entertainment, back when we didnt have mobile phones, pc's.
just go around poking random plants and the ones that blew up became my favourites.
And later realizing you're just inhaling straight shroom spores because you were pretending they were smoke bombs.
The sounds of seed pods exploding were unbelievably appropriate
Flllt-oing!
Pffffftt!
yay upi! Wuhu! noredi!
doooosh!
Bleerrrrh!
Like the sounds we made as kids popping the seed pods on the balsam flowers around our porch. Sproingigigig!
I love onomatopoeias. 😂
That third one was the voice of the seeds celebrating release lol
"Yay"
"Whoopie!"
"Woohoo!"
"I'm not ready! :("
MINT!NEWT!
This was honestly one of your best videos to date. This must be a personal best for sound effects too. You’re really challenging yourself to keep each explosion fresh. I appreciate that.
This is by far my favorite Ze Frank video (and there are alot of great videos) but people tent to forget how amazing and cool plants, lichens, mosses, and ferns are and this just goes to prove that. Awesome video as always.
I don't know what's better - the sound effects or the "it's called nunya business" bits xD
Looking forward to the Creepy Dave version of this, with him trying to justify why plants is best favourite animal
Best favorite plant!
I was not ready for the "I'm not ready"! 🤣😂
I felt so seen with the popper bit at the end 😂
I remember as as a kid (and mega-nerd) I found a patch of Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera, invasive in the UK, evil) by the local river.
I invited all the local kids round to see them - they weren't impressed (again, I'm a mega-nerd) - so instead of me showing them the cool seed dispersion... I got one of them to poke the seedpod - and being spring-loaded (the outside of seed pod curls up rapidly and fires the seeds up to 7 meters apparently)
Well, the kid got a fright and pushed me in the river.
Definitely worth it. =D
What were the other kids’ reactions?
"Invasive in the Uk, evil" got me cackling AND noddin my head in agreement invasive plants are in fact a prime evil that cannot truly be fixed 😔
we have them in western canada too, especially in roadside ditches and sloughs. evil lil bastards.
mum! mum! some kid at school shot me with a plant!!
i used to love popping them when i was a kid!
The perfect blend of silliness and education. It's beautiful
Indeed!
"Creeping Wood Sorrow" sounds like a creepypasta title, i love it
I think it's sorrel.
The added explosion sound effects made me smile. I thank you!
I've got a fever of 102 and honestly feel like death. But as long as I'm watching Ze Frank's creature madness, I noticed I can't stop smiling, regardless of how I feel. Thanks Papa Ze!
Hope you feel better!
Plants that have perfected the art of the money shot.
Bukake?
I would like this comment, but leaving it at 69 seems more appropriate
@@KarmaCadet 😅😅😅
2:31--sphagnum moss is well known to gardeners.
Or at least those of us obsessed with carnivore bogs. People who think only of Clematis probably wouldn't care.
@@erikjohnson9223 I use it for my orchids and carnivores.
I never realized just how Fascinating a few seeds could be. If my high school teachers would have communicated like Ze Frank does, I would have been much more excited to learn!
The glued wood bending when it loses its moisture is so interesting. I've always been curious as to why a pinecone in water is never open like the ones on the ground. These videos are fanfriggintastic 👏🏾
It's also something you need to account for when woodworking! Furniture has to have some wiggle room for the wood to be able to expand and contract without cracking.
Try leaving a sheet of plywood out in the rain. Or don't if you want to actually use it for something. 😁
There's far more to watertight barrels than one would imagine.
I'm so glad this built up to stork's bill, also known as filaree! I found out about this plant when they got all curled up in my dog's fur after a romp in a frequently mowed-to-death field that sprang up full of stork's bill. I was so amazed by them and excitedly brought the seeds in a little baggie to show my family. It was met with a resounding, "cool..." yet as foolish as I felt, my awe of the brilliant little plant didn't leave me! I still grab a pod every time I see it to play with the seeds. It really is a fascinating thing.
I have one in my new flowerbed and have let it grow, as I didn't know what it was and I'm curious. Now I know my entire yard will be covered in this plant for the foreseeable future and that's ok!
I show this channel to my friends who didn’t do much/well in school, I’ll tell you man the excitement and engagement from them is crazy. Gotta find a way to make a PG version for kids to learn in a new way.
He does have another channel that is child-friendly. Or friendly for those adults who don't act like children :)
Loving the OG "Here are true facts about..." intro.
dunno how common it is for little guys to use rain to propel themselves, but bird's nest fungi do it! they're tiny little fungi that look like tiny tiny bird nests with eggs in them, and the eggs are spore sacs that go flying when a raindrop hits the nest. some of them even have a sticky goop trail so when they fly, the goop can stick to a plant and the egg becomes spiderman.
sticky goop trai 😳
I've always wondered what those bird nest fungi do with their little basket of eggs looking stuff. They look like little forest fairy decorations. Nature is so freaking creative
"some of them even have a sticky goop trail so when they fly, the goop can stick...." so they not only look like birds' nests, but they also mimic the birds that fly over my car?! Nature can be so full of shi, er, goop at times!
Favorite comment ever
Broom plants pop their pods with such force that on a summer's day you can actually hear them cracking
My friend's Ring camera kept getting triggered by exploding wisteria pods.
@@janelj54 We had a huge wisteria across the front of our house. It would sound like kids throwing rocks. The seeds would wind up about 30 feet away, and when they were popping, you had to run from the driveway to the front door.
My Dad took some wisteria pods to work and gave them to his co-worker, who left them on top of a filing cabinet and forgot about them. In about three weeks, they exploded, scaring the co-worker and making my Dad laugh. Thankfully no one got hurt.
@zefrank Thank you for being the best thing on the internet. I can always count on you to make my day better no matter what.
I love this so much; not just the seeds that explode (I always loved playing with Jewelweed and Impatiens pods as a kid!), but the whole damn channel. Learning cool science sh*t while laughing yourself silly; now THAT'S edutainment!
Whenever Ze Frank says, stop it, after saying something that can be misconstrued, it’s like a college professor giving a presentation and they’re saying things that people laugh at 2:06
He's talking to me. Sorry.
When I was in college, my biology professor asked, "Does anyone know what capraphage means?" I said, "Eat shit!"
"Some plants are shady" 😂
No matter how bad my day was these videos are a 100% guarantee it’ll end with a smile. Thank you for all the smiles and laughs.
The elaborate adaptations are amazing in my opinion. Plus this dude's a comedy gold mine, so it's a win win 👌🏾
Oh boy, the mating song at the end should be a real banger..
Fr, Ze Frank should make full versions of his songs. I'm still waiting for "Cricket that don't give a fuck" and "Pigeon love"
You can genuinely hear how much fun Ze Frank had with the noises in this video 😁
The ideal balance of humor and knowledge. It's lovely.
The popper at the end. You are truly a man of your craft.
Death by exploding plant seeds is an episode of CSI I want to see.
Sandbox tree.
"Murder weapon?"
"Well, we think he deliberately planted these exploding seeds near the---where are you going?"
"Nope. Nope. I'm out."
Apparently death by chocolate is a dime a dozen according to police records.
@@kolbywilliams7234 Oh, thank you, that's new to me! And a good suspect.
CSI: Gotham
Please please please Ze Frank, please do a video on horseshoe crabs! I grew up by the Atlantic Bay and used to fish off a bridge. The horseshoe crabs would gather and breed at night and I remember thinking how creepy, fascinating, ancient, and bizarre they were! As always, your videos are amazing!
Excellent suggestion!
@@highgoat6474 thank you very much! Hopefully it'll happen eventually!
Petition signed. 😊
Pre mutated mirelurks. For sure.
Yes please
The fact that seeds use moisture as a way to power movement is amazing, I had no idea that the structures could generate movement with functionality.
The scientists making those biodegradable seed spinners to better spread plants are God damn heroes as far as I'm concerned
As someone with ADHD & not OCD:
That ending was hilarious, this video was 10 minutes longer than my regular attention span & I still managed to half-watch the whole thing while I folded laundry. ❤ thanks for brightening my day with your humor-tainment
Jerry really keeping his head down this episode
I haven't even heard of Jerry in a long time, like multiple episodes. Did he get fired?
@@castonyoung7514 No he was scolded a couple of times in the previous episode.
@@user-lf3kr1nq2d - Are you SURE he's okay? Sometimes ZeFrank sounds............ _dark._
This might be your best video yet. From the requisite enuendo to the sound effects to openly antagonizing the viewers... Bravo. But, for that unpopped popper, you will forever be remembered as a villain.
You must've missed it, then: it popped during the credits, just when you got to the point where you don't think it'll pop, off it goes.
sound effects are 5 michelin stars. cheff's kiss. top tier!!
We always underestimate how plants can be so dirty.
I don't know why I need these "totally accurate exploding noises" to be my new text tones. I've been holding back laughing at work so hard I almost exploded like one of these seeds lol! Always fantastic content dude. Never fails.
This for me, is most likely the best channel on youtube. I can not imagine my life without trying to hold on my laugh while learning incredible facts about science, animals, plants and life and humor all in one. Thank you so much Ze Frank, you are unique!
This is too fascinating and amazing is an understatement. The complexity of Nature is beyond thought. The details, the precision and the symbiotic relationships between organisms and Nature.
All of this is thought out by something. It’s too perfect.
My favorite exploding pods from Philippine Mahogany. Its audible and the seeds have wings, so you hear a loud pop then the seed fly and spirals down. Beautiful sight to see during windy days.
You had me at wild hairy petunia and creeping wood sorrow 😂
The first an innuendo and the latter a band name
It’s “creeping wood sorrel” and launches its seeds in a similar way to oxalis, another yellow flowered invasive.
@SuziQ. "Wood sorrel" is a common name for many, if not most, species of Oxalis, at least in English speaking areas. It is not similar, it is identical.
Those were the names of the two bullies at my middle school.
@@erikjohnson9223 ,
We have many varieties of oxalis, some cultivated, but many are weeds. We don’t get the wood sorrel that looks like the common oxalis weed (probably because we don’t have much land that counts as typical forest).
The explosions sound effects were top notch.
OMG my favorite topic 😍😍😍
I feel like you missed a great opportunity here - the word for this is Explosive Dehiscence and most of the plants I know of that do it you didn't cover here. The most common in my area is a weed called Hairy Bittercress, which that right there is a perfect set up for a number of jokes. I think that's the clip that you said curls up like a mustacheio 😆 I have a video about it on my channel but I mainly cover how to weed it out without spreading the seeds.
Then there's mistletoe, which is not a romantic holiday decoration, it's a parasite that can shoot it's sticky seeds at speeds of around 40mph trying to hit a neighboring tree.
Then there's also a tree in the Eastern US with exploding seeds that will kill you if you get hit by one! Actually, everything about that tree will kill you. It's called the Sandbox tree. Freaking crazy!
You covered lots of plants I didn't know about though, and I always enjoy your excellent content!
Is it time for Jerry to get a raise yet? Thanks for all the content never fail to make me laugh.
Or a lowering.
The ending. Sweet release. You're such a tease, Zefrank.
we have jewelweed, aka "touch me not" around here. nothing is more fun than waiting for the seedpods to be ready and touching as many as possible at once
I use sphagnum moss in most of my reptiles' humid hides...I've never thought about how the sphagnum moss came to be before I bought it. Fascinating as per usual, Zeee Frank!
6:58 I'm not ready 😂
The explosion sound effects are killing me😂😂😂
3;04 was just... perfect! 🤣
One of the most fascinating episodes yet
I'm here for the ending credit music
Came to the comments to give props to the magnificent sound effects and I'm so happy to see that I'm not the only one who appreciated them. As always, your videos bring laughter with education which are my two favorite things in the world. Thank you, ZeFrank! 💜💜💜
8/10, very scary.
- an ant
How does the uncle feels though?
Thank you for popping it at the end. The relief! It's the most action I've had in years. I feel so much better now
This one might be my favourite of the recent true facts vids. So good!
Ze Frank I need you to know that I grew up watching discovery channel for the documentaries and before you I greatly missed their narration style. You are the adult version of my childhood and I couldn't imagine anything better. If anything happened to you I would riot.
DROP EVERYTHING BABE NEW ZEFRANK UPLOAD ABOUT PLANTS
😂😂 00:38 I had to rewind several times just to hear the splash noise that you made it hit the funny bone just right🤣🤣
That walking seed was insane.
OMG…. I always click immediately when notified ZeFrank has a new video. They never fail to make me laugh out loud. He is a treasure!!!
A new True Facts! All is right with the world. Thank you, Ze!
Impatiens is a personal favorite of mine. They grow wild here, but you can also get fancy color ones to grow in a garden. Poking the seed pods is so satisfying
Absolutely adore botanical true facts videos
I really appreciate the effort put into the sound effects in the subtitles.
Love how he mixes funny commentary & educational at same time 🤣🤣⚰️⚰️
This so freakin’ awesome!!! Thank you ZeFrank!!