Growing the World's Largest Flower
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- When you imagine a plant, what do you think of? Lush green leaves, the sweet smell of a flower or maybe some roots? Well, the world’s largest flower doesn’t have any of these!
Rafflesia is a parasitic behemoth that has baffled scientists since its discovery. Taking years to grow from seed to flower, it undergoes most of its long life hidden discreetly on the forest floor. When finally ready, it explodes into the largest flower in the world.
As an incredibly fussy grower, Rafflesia is rare even in pristine rainforest environments. Armed with some creative thinking and an endless supply of patience, the team at Bogor Botanical Gardens embarked on an outrageous quest to grow the flower in the middle of a bustling city...
00:00 A surprise in the garden
00:23 Meet Sofi
00:47 The Beautiful Beast
01:37 Rafflesia's Lifecycle
03:11 Grafting technique
03:58 Planting from seed
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Nature is incredible right? There's so many interesting species living on land and in the ocean. Tell us some interesting facts you know about nature. 😯👇
My fact is: you'll find more nature facts in Indonesia that is just plain awesome! Heck, maybe create an entire series of Indonesia's Great Big Story
I recently learned, that some bacteria and mealworms naturally evolved to degrade plastics, which I found really cool! We often think about how vulnerable nature is to our human activity, but we should not underestimate its ability to evolve and recover💪 As a plant scientist myself, I just really hope plants will be able to keep up with our speed!
YOUR BACK, I MISS THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH
I saw something on CZcams where a mortician went to smell one of these plants and said it smelled more like rotten fish then human cadaver.
An adult gorilla’s penis is only two inches long.
I feel like I could step on that flower and I’d either catch a disease, or be yeeted into the air.
I thought the flowers would bite if I step on it
glory for grandfather
Well, if you played the PS2 game Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, one of those things would come to life!
Well.. actually thats the real story about this flower, where this flower comes from in the past local people believe that this flower is evil flower because it stinks like rotten corpse 😅
@@mattslip179first thing I thought of! Clicked on this video hoping to see this. Sick game
Sofi is an inspiration! To graft an infected section of vine to another vine in the hope of "transplanting" the Rafflesia was truly thinking outside the box. What a remarkable and dedicated person!
Im a Bogor citizen and just found out more details about Rafflesia in my town from this channel. I'm embarrassed and proud at the same time
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Bang udah bangg
Si paling bogor
salute to all botanist in the world
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What I like most about this channel is that whenever a speaker speaks, they don't dub it as what other channels do. They simply let the speaker speak comfortably and make the language/dialect known to others. It is a tiny detail that speaks a lot of inclusivity within diversity. Genius!
The Ivysaurs and Venusaurs are very grateful for Sofi! to grow their flowers! Keep up the good work!
do you think that means there's an undiscovered base Pokemon that's uninfected with the parasitic plant?
Isn't it Vileplume ?
@@diegostarwars2 Vileplume as well!
They use leech seed
Thank you for your work, ma’am! For those who are surprised that the flower exists in other place than their own, there’s actually more than one species of the _Rafflesia_ genus. The one mentioned in this video is _Rafflesia patma_ which can only be found in Java. This is also the island where the first _Rafflesia_ was discovered by the Western world in the late 18th century, specifically by a French naturalist named Louis Dechamps. Unfortunately for him, the British took away his notes and then hijacked his entire work. The crafty British went on to name the genus after their own governor general Sir Thomas Stamford *Raffles* 🤭
Ikr? In fact, I am pretty sure Indonesian ancestors have found it from 1000 years ago. But well... 🤣
Some botanical gardens also just put fake Rafflesia flowers for the visitors😅
@@gerrylaksono1222 they did write "discovered by the western world" not "discovered in general"
@@SoulForce22 I know. It's just western thing, you know. The name of the flower was supposed to be Corpse Flower before Rafflesia 🤣
The one that discovered by Rafles was _Raflessia arnoldii_ on Bengkulu, Sumatra, not Java.
You're correct, there are lot of raflesia species.
I love her use of the word freeloader.
What an amazing woman! She explained everything so beautifully and it's clear that her passion and intellect have and will make a difference!
The garden is really amazing!
Bengkulu native here. Had the experience of witnessing the flower bloom in its native habitat near Kemumu waterfall, Bengkulu. It was 2-hour-ish journey from my home. Initially we did not plan to see the flower, but once we arrived at the waterfall there was a sign that said there was a rafflesia blooming, so say no more. Seeing it live is really amazing, and I also found out that It was not as smelly as I thought. Overall, it was definitely worthed to see it once in your lifetime.
My grandparents have seen *alot* of this type of plant in their "villa" near the river, but sadly they decided to remove it, since the bad smell bothers them(they didn't know that it was an endangered plant, in Bali, (not even a rainforest). They also told me that my great grandmother tried to boil and eat the "tuber" of the plant(which probably a random plant that got the seed in its roots), and they said that her tougue got itchy XD.
Now I'm really happy that they bloomed outside their habitat, again!
Itu tanaman lain mas brow, yang kamu maksud itu porang, bukan raflesia, raflesia dengan porang itu tidak sama, kocak dah diri mu
@@gairahadam5304 tydacc mas broe, kata nenekku tanamannya bentuknya kaya gini dah, besar besar dia.
@@gairahadam5304 Dan kalau tidak percaya, tidak apa-apa. Karena tidak ada bukti fisik untuk membuktikannya, saya hanya ingin membagikan cerita dari nenek-kakek saya, dan mengutarakan komentar saya tentang video ini😁
@@gairahadam5304 berdasarkan riset sedikit rasanya di Bali ada spesies rafflesia yang bisa mekar di sana
ya bisa saja dulu ada yang bawa biji atau sengaja grafting bibitnya, kita gak tau karena pemahaman orang indonesia sendiri ttg tanaman ini juga minim. Bisa jadi dianggap sakral, unik dsb. Nature itu incredible sekali, kadang hal yang manusia sulit lakukan seperti pembibitan ini, eh diserahkan kembali ke alam mereka numbuh dengan sendirinya, yg membuat mereka semakin sulit numbuh itu kita manusia bukan alamnya.
yoo a parasitic plant that expands a root system INSIDE the host’s root system is crazy
reminds me of my ex.
isn't it?!
Aaaa another inspiration for Rule34 artists 🗿
It’s like a break in !!!!!!
@@meowmreowmeowHOMESTUCK PFP??????????
she's so inspring! i once saw raflesia in a rainforest and it was amazing
So glad it finally bloomed. 10 years is a long time to work on something waiting for results
The host plant, slowly being freed of this parasite: *visible relief*
They: Working to save the parasite
The host plant: YO WTF!?
Thanks for your hard work bu🙏🙏🙏. Semoga senantiasa menginspirasi peneliti lain di Indonesia
Wow! I cant believe my hometown is getting coverage from you guys. To anyone who sees this video, i don't think this video does the gardens justice of how beutiful this place is. You can also stop by the old presidential palace here.
I finally have an excuse to visit the park again because I genuinely had no idea they succesfully grew one! Thanks gbs!!
Videonya jelas tentang bunga Raflesia aja, bukan tentang tamannya
I saw this beautiful flower (the _arnoldii_ variant) at the outskirt of my city some years ago, grown naturally inside the jungle on the roadside.
The sightings are indeed quite rare, and becomes another source of the income for the locals.
Thank you bu Sofi, for taking care the Rafflesia and the nature 🥹🙏🏻
Pretty kewl. Glad you guys did a video on this. Worth the recognition. ;-;
very cool ! Thank you for filming this !
When you’re cosplaying Demogorgon IRL 😂😂😂
Indonesian here. I'm from Bengkulu and it's pretty common to see Rafflesia flowers here (most specifically the Rafflesia arnoldii variant). It's the national flower of Bengkulu. My dad and I once saw a Rafflesia arnoldii in a forest when we're in my late grandfather's house when I was a child. It smells awful but at least I got to see it.
Been here before, I recommend going there!!
We love that! When did you go? ☺
@@GreatBigStory i visited their gardens and their animal museum about 7 years ago. Very beautiful and interesting.
THEY EVEN HAVE A WHALE SKELETON THAT'S SO SO BIG!!
Definitely recommend doing a documentary on the animal museum!
ive been there too but didnt have the chance to see the whale skeleton nor the raflessia, but i love the garden, feels like something in between a garden and a tropical rainforest
@@abhigail quite a shame ngl, but yeah I agree the gardens are lovely there
I wasn't going to, but now that sunny popsicles recommends it in the comments I'm for sure booking a trip.
Vileplume!
I need to see this plant blooming 🙂What a great video, thankyou
Finally a documentary from my hometown city 😊
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JUST FOUND OUT YOU GUYS ARE BACK! MY CHILDHOOD, THANK YOU SO MUCH
Yesss we’re back and this is a huge compliment, thank you! 🫶
Wow, what a cool job!
Terima kasih ibuuk Sofi 😊😊
Keren Ibu Sofi!!
It’s so cute!
A big shoutout to the group!!
Not only is it the biggest, it's gotta be the most metal too
This some brutal sounding stuff as far as plants go
emang boleh sekeren ini Bu Sofi? ❤
So i don’t have to go to borneo to see this flower?!?! That should be my new bucket 🤩🤩🤩
Me: Oh, Vileplume.
You're an inspiration!!
This is truly an amazing story.
now i know where demogorgan was inspired of
That was the first thing I thought.
I'm Malaysian-Japanese and we are also proud that Rafflesia flower was featured behind a Malaysian 10 Ringgit money. The flower also a part of Malaysia's national symbol.
Also huge shout out to Sofi for the hard work to protect the flower from extinction
It might be featured in your currency but it grows, blooms, and well-researched in our country 😂
@@rhs_0938lol... Done claim
@@ridzuand.monkey272 💩
@@rhs_0938 don't be like that. The flower also grow in Malaysia, so they also have the right to be proud of it, or assigning it as their national flower, if they want to. Sakura is so iconic to Japan, doesn't mean it doesn't grow in China. After all we are close in location, it is natural that the flower grows in Malaysia well, and be loved by them as much as we Indonesians love it. No need to have a mentality of ownership olympics like 'it's mine not yours, we study it more, we use it more' etc while we both indeed have the flower naturally grows on our soil, both love the flower equally, both have profited from marketing the flower, and legally no one can't own a species (we can only own the individual specimen grown in our yard), finally religiously, both nations believe all nature is God's. It's comical we act like kids goading for a cool toy that we didn't even buy, God gave us both the flower, fckin enjoy it together will you.
GBS Nice 🏵️
This plant reminds me of that super Mario plant.
The reason why the flowers look so red and bumpy like this and smell so bad is because they are trying to mimic rotting flesh. I've actually had some other flowers that used this same type of attraction to be successful for getting pollinators to do their work. I just have nothing but the highest respect for these dedicated scientists and botanists as the continue their long and dedicated work to save these very strange and beautiful ❤️❤️ life forms from being lost forever! Habitats like this are being sacrificed to Development and we will never know what possible medical treatments or other valuable resources we could have squandered if only we had been able to preserve these wild places intact for just a few more years. My undergraduate degree is in Biology premedicine cum laude, so I do feel qualified to speak on this topic.
OMG this is so amazing! since 2015 that I saw 2 spècies in the wild I beleived it was totally impossible!
keren Bu ❤ n' thank you
GBS NICE!
What a great lady!
Bro boutta spawn the whole island of Indonesia with this video
I remember I painted one of these in elementary school
This flower is also called corpse flower due to the smell
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Had to look it up: Bogor is a city in West Java, Indonesia.
I didn't know Vileplume were so hard to make!!!!
so thats the origin of the oddish family's (excluding oddish and bellossom) flower
So happy that we got to see them in both Sabah & Sarawak last time trip!
WOW!
i came to know about this flower in the 90s because my cousins gave me childcraft books. Im from india and i learnt a lot from those books about the world and foreign festivals. We didnt have internet and i got internet in 2007 so im so happy i know about all this before anyone else near me knew.
imagine you took years of work to bloom a single Rafflesia and then one person trip and fell onto the flower 💀
I live in Bali and really hope some day could see the real one
Hooray i love my country 😊😊😊
Over here in peninsular Malaysia you can see them in taman negara.
You can stimulate seed growth by doing it as natural as possible
1. Don't wrap the seeds.
2. Don't presoak it.
3. Plant it on a young root where it is still moist when you cut it.
Think like a fly. If you're a fly with a rafflesia seed why would you go into a dried exposed root?
You guys are back?! I thought you guy shut down. No way
Venusaur!
If you see any game with big ass red flowers.. this flowers are it.. It's everywhere yet nowhere at the same time
That is just top of Venusaur 😜
Vileplume I raise you!
This is Vileplum from pokemon :O
Straight from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
This makes me think about that pokèmon which has that flower on the top.
Vileplume
@@mrfamous333 Yes that one, Thanks.
The Venusaur and Vileplume flower
Ice age ahh flower😊
Most women with green finger growth plant such as pretty flower, fruit, vegetable.
But these ladies gone to the wild plant.... Rafflesia (large & stink yet near extinction)
What a Legend
wow
Wow
1o years of research finally bloom
GREAT BIG STORY IS BACK??!??
This flower is literally me(smelly parasite)
This might be a stupid statement, but would knowing how the seeds are naturally deposited onto trees help? For example, if they normally eaten by small animals and pooped out, would putting the seeds in a nutrient rich paste and wiping that paste on a tree work?
I DIDNT RWALIZE U GUYS R BAXK??? HWAT???? GAHHH IM SO HAPPY
ALSO this place is actually in where I live !!! :]
"Well, we have this flower which is parasitic, looks like rotten meat, and smell just like that too!"
Indonesians: Appropriate! Let's make it our national flower!
Thats no plant, that is a disguised pokemon
You guys are back?
FEED ME SEYMOUR!
Seeing it in person in Cameron Highlands (Malaysia ) was really cool!
It took 6 years to bloom in a non-natural habitat, damn.
This gives me Animal Crossing vibes lol
Ooh.... 😩👃🦨
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Thumbs up
And probably its most strangest
Wait I thought the largest flower n the world title belonged to Amorphophallus titanum
WHY IS SHE SO SAAAD :(((((
I believe the corpse flower may be larger than this and stinkier.
The only way to get Rafflesia to bloom from seed almost every time is to keister stash a small quantity for 4 to 6 weeks. Upon evacuation, the seeds will have germinated a little bit and are ready to be inserted into a host plant. It's a long story, how I know this. I was stranded in Indonesia and had to hike out and took some of the seeds, though they are illegal to take and the punishment is stiff, so, I'll let you figure out the rest.
that's what she did tho. it's in the video. She combined multiple techniques, and it had been blooming 17 times.
This flower promotes a unusual semse of uncomfortablility in me 😅
These scare me as a kid when I saw them in books.