True Facts: Stinkhorns
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- Published on Nov 19, 2019
- Gleba.
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CREDITS BELOW:
Dr. Kathie T. Hodge - Dr. Hodge was kind enough to spend time with me on the phone walking me through the incredible complexity of these creatures. She also granted me permission to use the Cornell time lapse footage.
Stephen Thornton - thexvid.com/user/steevots... - Stephen has captured amazing time lapses of the stinkhorn and it is very worthwhile to go to his channel and see them in their full glory.
@freymanbg - freymanbg - amazing instagram featuring all sort of fungus and mushrooms.
Gio Lopez - thexvid.com/channel/UCE1r... - Gio has a channel called Myco Gio on which he goes into lovely detail about mycology. His explanation of the stinkhorn was extremely helpful - as was the amazing footage.
Cathy Whitfield - www.flickr.com/photos/1465500... - Cathy is an amazing photographer and happened to train her eye on a stinkhorn egg!
Rudi Langer - www.flickr.com/photos/rudi-la... - Also a wonderful collection of colorful photography!
Björn S... - www.flickr.com/photos/4094826... - a wonderful collection of microscopy and wildlife!
@mugrooms - mugrooms - Pictures of mushrooms and other fungi, as well as the occasional slime mold.
Kent Loeffler - Kent was the original photographer for the Cornell timelapse!
Jason Hollinger - www.flickr.com/photos/7147684... - Incredible images of Lichen and other wonders.
Arne Christensen - thexvid.com/user/arkchris... - wonderful collection of biology time-lapse and human anatomy.
David Noble - thexvid.com/user/davidnob... - a traveler and wonderful videographer
Bernard Spragg - www.flickr.com/photos/volvob12b/ - incredible photos, some of which Bernard has offered into the public domain
Peter Kuttner - thexvid.com/channel/UC4NE... - channel featuring all sorts of biodiversity!
@bealeiderman - bealeiderman - a collection of images that show the magic in your backyard!
@myceliummagic - myceliummagic - adventures in the Australian rainforests!
@mushrooms_inigo - mushrooms_i... - featuring the mushrooms of Spain!
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If loudness were silence they would be the loudest birds
i must say i agree with u
an adult voice with the humor of a 13 year old. my kind of guy. lol
So true 😂
@Lilly Aarhaus
Did you catch my edit? I was editing while you were writing me (damn, you fast girl! lol).
Did one of you guys blow the other off, or did shit just happen? I hope you joyously reconnect again.
heh. heh.
@Anti - Ethnic Cleansing we haven't talked in awhile but I still think about him and hope hes doing well
You two should get a room and kiss each other all over ur bodies
The biology teacher every student dreamed of. 😂
I had a really cute Biology teacher in high school. If she was saying this, I wouldn’t have survived.
@Melle Mellowski . Thanks for the information but I find it sort of funny that you tell me to not take everything a stranger says on the internet seriously all the time...after you took my comments seriously. I was partially joking with my comments ;-;
@TheLordOfToast u seem a bit prudish, or very young, but heads up! because it's not everything l i t e r a l l y about sex, it's more like almost (see i already don't just say "everything") everything can be broken down to sex. evolution? ye more like what does help you to have more sex than everyone else in your species. bacteria - well ye they reproduce by cell division, but even bacteria sometimes extrude parts of their cell to other bacteria and exchange plasmids (have a read and google "bacterial conjugation", the pictures are hilarious), so yeah even bacteria might have "sex" at some point of their existence. you like fruits? well newsflash pal, you're eating genitals of plants. the white, eatable tissue of a coconut is called endosperm. btw we are discussing this below a video displaying a variety of fungae genitals. a chemical you use in DNA extraction is called spermidine (take a wild guess how it smells). if you want to study biology, go for it, it's fun. but don't expect to earn your living by looking at some plants of delving through the ocean. you'll most likely end up in some kind of super lame lab where you will do the same sh*t day in day out. i've seen phds doing analysis of drinking water. and for my closing words, don't take everything some stranger on the internet might say so serious
@Melle Mellowski would you not suffer spending every biology class learning about y o u k n o w w h a t ?
@TheLordOfToast why would you suffer?
I finished a whole bowl of chili watching this video and I didn't even hesitate for a single bite out of sheer willpower. I just want you to know I'm really proud of myself for succeeding at that.
@pimpasskilla281 bro what??
why would you said that bro that's racist
"It's in the tip of both of our tongue."
"If it comes to you first, just spit it out."
"I just can't put my finger on it."
"You can't put your finger on it all day, and when you're in bed at night, it just pops up out of nowhere."
It’s a geoduck
a pen is good for that 😂
A pen that never runs out would be genius 🧞♀️
@RRios0027 yes
@I. VA a pen is it
I never get tired of hearing him the word “babies”.
Bebes and biurds
bebes. I love it too.
Me too babes
@Nick C
To be fair, he does pronounce that last one correctly
2:09 is so funny. The little "oof, im sorry" gets me every time
I am both fascinated by and love the look of fungi. I love going out and looking for them and have many guides that i read. My favorite is “North American Mushrooms” by Dr. Orson K. Miller. Of all the species, the stinkhorn to me looks the coolest. Definitely not the smell though! I like the look of the white latticed veil.
Can we just talk about how the actual body of fungi are a bunch of strands, and the actual physical part we all see (mushrooms) is just their fruiting body!?! Like that has always astounded me for some reason.
"Can break through concrete"
A few seconds later
Buckles under own weight*
@YouNeedHealing Too and two are two different things too
It snagged on whatever that background is when it was growing. It kinda proves it's strength rather than disproves it. Certainly didn't break from It's own weight.
@YouNeedHealing yeah but they mostly CORRELATE
Some species can
Sounds accurate.
Loving all the innuendo and double entendre...and just to finish it off, the colloquially-named stinkhorn is more correctly called _Phallus Impudicus._ Which is a bit of a mouthful...no, that didn't sound good at all. :-P
As the common man might call it -- the Sassy Wang. It is high on my list of Great Scientific Names, just for the humor value.
Yup
@aussiebloke609 Thanks, mate! ( Good thing funny never gets old! )
@The Funkosaurus Wish I could give more than 1 thumb-up - that's been a favourite joke of mine since I was a kid (a _very_ long time ago!) You win the interwebz for today! :-D
My very first college professor showed us “true facts about the owl” back in 2013. It calmed me down a lot and made me laugh! Thank you ☺️
A "pen is "useful to have next to your bed
Just got that joke took me almost a year
@DeRicco
I've never heard it before.
What kind of friends do you have?
@Amy Smith same
@Amy Smith lmao i dont feel like ill understand it bc i think its not told correctly, or its just not funny. the pen is joke has been told so many times and this is the worst way ive ever seen it executed. "a pen is useful to have by your bed" sounds more like hes talking abt a pen than not
I'm picturing you sitting there and then randomly a year later out of the blue--- "ohhhhhhhhh now i get it, hahahahah"
@DeRicco i never get it. I used to, but then we got married so now i don't.
"A pen is...useful for you to write things down... Y'know, so you don't forget it."
That subtle hinting xD
You write down your DNA with than pen. Yes. You know it. My wife knows it. My son has not known that yet.
I dunno why people try to quote things from videos on TheXvid and still manage to entirely misquote the whole thing
Yes, he said pen is
Hehe, yeah
See, if this is how they taught all subjects in schools, the lessons would stick with us a lot longer.
"True facts is not appropriate for children, or adults who don't act like children." -Zefrank
Hahahaha
*are not
👀
Because children 1000% understand what he is joking about
@capt Obvious ... Haa Haa..so funny
He never fails to make me laugh while watching each of his videos
As always, well done. Love the videos, very educational, and the narration is superb. True facts about the Aye Aye and true facts about the sloth are still my favorites. Absolute gold!!! Thank you
I found some stinkhorns growing near a tree when i was playing outside, probably 8 or 9 years old. The first thing i did when i saw it was lean down and smell it. It was actually so horrible to me at the time that the rest of the memory is blocked out in my mind. I remember actually getting scared hahahahahaha
I love stinkhorns! I picked a ton of eggs this summer. 3 of them literally came out of their eggs in my house. Jesus Christ, the smell! I mean I already knew the smell is bad because I touched one and smelling my fingers made me gag and the smell went away after 3 days. The eggs are delicious though. Slice, salt generously, add pepper and fry in abit of oil. You can keep the gel to use as a face mask. It's amazing. My favorite mushroom ever.
If I was hopelessly stranded in an apocalyptic armageddon, I'd start watching this channel and gladly forget about everything else.
CAN BREAK THRU ASPHALT; DAMN THAT IS A STRONG STIFFY.
I am unable to fathom why this needs to be in app caps but I'm glad it is godspeed sir.
Bri'ish
Stiffy is already from OzzyMan's lexicon.
That's just Tuesdays.
And this is why I read the comments section ☕️ For this quality gold. Thank you.
I can't....😂This *entire* video is brilliant. And yes a pen is useful.
This guy is so funny bro!!!
I love his sense of humor,
The only man with a voice that makes me WANT to learn something gross
@Cherry Well someone did.
Well........you're not wrong
@Crunchatize Me Senpai You’d better not. We’re at a good number.
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His videos always make me laugh and you learn something new.
i have a massive phobia of mushrooms.
thanks elsa, what you showed me was insanely cool.
Had these growing in the garden and I tell you now they really do stink I would say a 6-10 meters is how far and how strong the smell is
this man is genuinely making biology looks like a fun thing to learn... And I... am totally into it now
Me: "Oh mushrooms, my dad likes mushrooms, he will enjoy this one"
10 mins later me : "Jerry spit it out"
This is so cool!! I love plants/fungi that manipulate insects for their own needs!
I saw such fungi in the wild this week. Thanks for the interessting explanation. 👏
Ah Frank. You just never really grew up did you 🤦♀️. Lucky you’re hilarious & impart some science at the same time as giggling about naughty bits
That was really cool and genuinely informative! Thank you
I was not prepared for how horrifying and hilarious this turned out to be
No one ever is....
I had one of these in my garden the other week. We couldn't figure out what was giving off the smell of rotting flesh right until there was barely any of the slime left.... we were not happy about the existence of the mushroom
May I request more fungus related videos?
Fungi are basically like plants, but way more fascinating, like how worms and mollusks are more interesting than insects in most cases.
In my humble opinion anyway.
I love this so much & learned some neat things -- explains why some of the stinkhorns I saw today had gray on its cap while others were white. Gleba!
M-y-c-o-j-o-l-e-s
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I ran across one of those horrid smelling things one November, while out looking for where the local deer were passing through or hanging out during the afternoon. I first thought something had died and was decomposing there in among the little Sumac bushes. Surprised me a lot when all that stench was just from one little weird looking fungus. Looked like a bleached, half-dried Morel mushroom, but one could never get those two confused for very long! Whew, what a powerfully nasty odor!
True story: I was walking in the forest, blissfully unaware these things existed, and ran into an octopus stinkhorn. The smell and sight were truly creepypasta material, let me tell you
@Dennis W Great, factual and interesting observation @ Dennis W! You hear this often about the odor about these fungi.
Imagine someone unaware of these, walking through the woods. All of a sudden they smell rotting flesh, see this alien looking thing, and to top it off an elk starts screaming in the distance.
Just Google those, I would've thought that was an alien or something
For the last month, my daily covid hiking trail goes through a colony of common stinkhorns. It smells like the vegan version of a rotting carcass but what gets to me is the black goo on the tip.
@Lauren I could smell it from several meters away. Kinda like a cadaver but not really. Made me expect a dead animal anyway, maybe the size of a rabbit. It wasn't exactly a jump scare when I found it but I definitely gave it a weird stare for a good few seconds :)
You are by far the funniest dude ever...I love you and this channel so friggin much. Please upload more often, we are all deprived of your genius. I actually crave your videos...please end my suffering!
One grew in my garden some years ago and I was so confused like I wake up one day and see that and my mother just laughing in the backround
But hey my cat liked it since she was smelling it all the time so there is that XD
when you find the eggs in woods they re gelatinous and unpleasant ; supposedly edible at this stage but I ve never been tempted.As he said they stink once grown: the files cluster on the shaft and when you chance on them the flies take flight, so you re smelling horrid aroma, whilst being swarmed .
This guy is soooo funny.... I can't stop watching these videos!
This is both the grossest and most innuendo-laden episode of True Facts ever.
more like the more clever innuendoes
But really witty😂
It’s a new genre he’s starting: nature documentary erotica.
Disagree on the grossest. How koala babies eat. Didn't need to know that.
The duck one is a favorite for sure!
if you never seen an stinkhorn before, heres a clip of a kitten an puppy
best quote of the day
A great, well edited, highly informative and fantastically comical video as always! Now with the pleasantries out of the way let's talk serious- where the hell did you get that 0:18 puppy/kitten clip from, and what did you do with the rest of it?
Just found this channel. Can’t get enough. Keep them coming!
My school's field would have these puffball mushrooms that eject 'smoke' when squished. Strangely they were not connected to a stem or anything, they were just balls chilling out in the field
zefrank1: The world's first writer of nature documentary erotica.
@Quenry I assumed he meant 'Das Kleine Kreuterbuch" (1543) by Renaissance botanist Leonard Fuchs. Merely because the herbal by famous medieval nun Hildegard von Bingen talks a lot about plants used for abortions, but not a lot about parties.
Also of note, the steamy "flowery language" (pardon the pun) in the botanical writings of Joseph Banks, the botanist who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage to the Carribbean on the ship Bounty in 1768-1771.
Ooof, there's definitely a market for this. Rule 34 anyone?
The national heritage of Japan is really interested in showing you something.
I freaking love your content! You're so awesome!
I love that he apologized to the one that broke at 2:08. It felt like he legitimately pitied the poor thing.
This disturbed me very much. Thank you & please make more videos. It soothes me to know there are people more kooky than I.
Easily one of the best videos you’ve made, ever!
I could have gone my whole life not knowing these existed
@スノーハッピー Really!? The ones i find in my mulch covered driveway smell like week old sun baked roadkill!
@OpalescentRoses B.W. Had a bunch growing out of the permaculture garden at my university. And it smells like... like semen, left out for a couple days to rot. So actually that shape is very fitting.
These things stink. we get them in in georgia every spring.
Sure, if you call that "living" :P
The fungus rabbit hole goes deeper, friend
when he said Glebur, I had a feeling he was advertising a Plumbus.
Gleba* smh
Just commented it sounded like they were making a Plumbus haha
This is what happens when God spends Edible Sunday binge-watching Rick & Morty and retconning evolution.
Saaaaame 😂
I died
The commentary just made it all way to good. 10 out of 10 😂
The dialogue in this video is beyond excellent, also the chronometer interrupted cinematography is a pleasure to allow my rods and cones to interpret the reflected images along my optic nerve. The sensations my brain feels as it adjust my serotonin levels reminds me of something pleasurable. I HIGHLY recommend this collection of 1 & 0’s
You made my day, man. I love your videos
The genuine "Oof, I'm sorry" as the mushroom broke apart broke me.
Yeah. That's about when the tears started in the middle of laughing so hard.
We all have bad days, even mushrooms.
That was one of several parts of this video that had me in tears! So good 👍😂
Same here! It took me a minute to realize this man said "oof". I'm still laughing!
As a mycologist I love this content.
Just too funny! Great job keep up the good work.
"Well if it's on the tip of both our tongues, i'm sure it'll come to one of us sooner or later Jerry." My god, i'm done. DOOONNNE! *holds guts laughing*
Fungi are equal parts horrifying and amazing, have a mix of eye-pleasing and repulsive features, like the lacy tendrils dangling from the stinkhorn's penile head, and you'll want to preserve the structures and colors for posterity, all the while wishing God would drop an old flammenwerfer full of fuel onto your lap to flash-fry those mycelium threads before they wake up Cthulhu.
I love how right after he says “Oof, I’m sorry.” a third mushroom rises in a way that makes it look like it’s checking the other mushroom to see if it’s okay. 😂
It looked very concerned.
😂 I had to rewind to that part and you're totally right lol hilarious and slightly adorable 😆
Omg! I haven't laughed so hard in ...forever! Thank u so much for sharing! Lmfao!
I had a stinkhorn in my backyard once. Weirdest thing I've ever seen
Everyone needs to watch this. Please. 😂 educational and fun. That is all.
For a moment the stink horn "fruit" looked like a Graboid, personally
When the steam corn is growing from the soil and ejects it slime the innuendos are very comical.
I'm sure it went over many people's heads.
"It's in the tip of both of our tongue."
"If it comes to you first, just spit it out."
"I just can't put my finger on it."
"You can't put your finger on it all day, and when you're in bed at night, it just pops up out of nowhere."
A pen is use to have by your bed side
I would love for this guy to narrate the whole Planet Earth series. 😂
"Fleshy origami" I will never see that the same way again
“If it comes to you first Jerry, just spit it out.” I laughed so hard omg
Gabi me too 😂
Love the combination of flippancy and fearlessness of big words.
TRUE STORY Half an hour ago I happened upon this video (I've seen it before, but it came on after something and I love ze). Fifteen minutes ago I hauled in some stuff from my car and walked around the outside of the house...and found a ?outbreak?, ?stand?, ?village? right up against my house. Serendipity or Synchronicity in my life is a real thing.
What an amazing design!
I want the round planet series continued with zfrank working on it
Only Zefrank can eloquently make a sexual reference in his vids while still sounding like it wasn't.
I liked your comment the 69th time. Nobody like it now or you will be assassinated using 0.06% of shrek's power.
And he's not a dick about it, either.
All of us know where he was going with that joke and personally I found it hilarious
I am glad you raise the problem, sometimes can you be afraid to blow it especially if it's at the tip of your tongue but sometimes do you simply have to suck it all in and bite the bullet, on other times can you maybe grab the root of the problem and with a stroke, let it all come to you. :-)
You are a freak, Frank. Good job, keep it up!
I got a load of firewood from a different guy last year. All of a sudden in the summer the outside of my house smelled like ROTTING MUSHROOM ASS. I had no idea what those things were until this video!! And they came up crazy quick, every day there was a fresh rotting mushroom ass at my door. I sprayed them with vinegar. Never again.
I thought Elsa was an injured turtle at first, would’ve been horrifying if there was no audio
Lmao
It was horrifying...I left my headphones connected and forgot about it...
~Teenage Mutant Ninja.. * *hurls* *
@Stephanie Logan Those are tortoises.
I did to ;-;
these shrooms look like something out of "the thing" one of the good ones tho, with an 18 year old with the most gorey mind making the practical effects, not the one with bad CGI.
"Some are strong enough to push through asphalt." Reminds me of an old X-FILES episode. The mushrooms would pop out of people's chests, and anyone nearby would inhale the spores. Then the cycle repeats... It's been a couple decades. My memory could be off.
You're correct, that's how it worked in that episode. It was one of my favorite episodes because of how horrifying it was.
He Without a doubt makes LEARNING FUN and EduFuckincational... love it to the Core wish i had him as a Teacher
This man has voice of a National Geographic narrator and the satire of hugbees
The fact this guy did the research on this proves he has a strong stomach
I like how birds are completely unrelated however "byurd" analogies are always relevent and unforced whilst unexpected.
I can't take this mushroom seriously when one of them snapped in half as it grows.
The rest I took seriously enough though.
The level of genius nature embodys, and we just destroy it.
I have these around my house, and didn't know what they were. Thought it was dog poop then noticed it was a mushroom
My wife and I love your commentary! You put our faces everyday!. Beebies!
“A pen-is useful to have at your bedside.”
Wordplay at it’s best.
Mutinus Caninus in the family Phallacaea. That is the scientific name of the dog you know what looking one. The funniest etymology I've ever come across, the naming scientists either were in on the joke or were complete you know whats...
"A person with a sinus infection put an M80 in his nostrils"...Oh man that phrase *CRACKED ME UP!*
A "pen is" useful. Clever play on that, Ze. Haha
Thanks for leveling me out with kittens n pups, Frank
Finally I got to learn about gleeba...looks like Emma became a scientist after all
Ross must be so proud
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