Gross Science | The Strangest Plant In The World?! @grossscienceshow | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
PBS Digital Studios Survey! surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017
The plant Hydnora africana is a parasite that smells foul...and that’s not even the weirdest thing about it.
Subscribe to Gross Science! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com
↓Want more gross info?↓

Bolin, J., Maass, E., & Musselman, L. (2009). Pollination Biology of Hydnora africana Thunb. (Hydnoraceae) in Namibia: Brood‐Site Mimicry with Insect Imprisonment. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170(2), 157-163. doi:10.1086/593047
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/593047?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

More info and pictures of Hydnora from Lytton J. Musselman at Old Dominion University
http://ww2.odu.edu/~lmusselm/plant/parasitic/hydnora.php

--

Host, Writer, Animator, Editor
Anna Rothschild

Camera, Sound
Natasha Ishak

Many thanks to Dr. Lytton John Musselman for his help with this piece.

Gross Footage and Images

Original Footage
©WGBH Educational Foundation 2017

Images of Hydnora plants
Courtesy Dr. Lytton John Musselman

Host, Writer, Animator, Editor
Anna Rothschild

Camera, Sound
Natasha Ishak

Boom Town
Music Provided by APM

Road In Summer Beautiful Forest.
Pond5/Kinomasterskaya


Sun Shining Through Green Walnut
Tree Leaves, Natural Energy Hd
Pond5/viggo

Green Little Plants Growing
Pond5/Kolosigor

Euphorbia caput-medusa]
Shutterstock/Nadezhda Kharitonova

Dionaea muscipula trap
Wikimedia Commons/che

Corpse Plant
Wikimedia Commons/liz west

Rafflesia 80 cm
Wikimedia Commons/Steve Cornish (cornstaruk) from Marlow, UK

Hydnora africana Sachs
Wikimedia Commons/Julius Sachs (1832-1897)

Flickr - Rainbirder - Golden Jackal
Wikimedia Commons/Steve Garvie
HydnoraAfricanaKarasburgDistrictNamibia2002Musselman
Wikimedia Commons/Lytton John Musselman

HydnoraJohannisUmBaronaWadMedaniSudanMusselman
Wikimedia Commons/Lytton John Musselman

Gross SFX

Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark­
(used with permission from author)

Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S

Wink
Freesound/bennychico11

Male drinking slurping aaaaaaaaaaah small belch
Freesound/Anton

Slide whistle down 01
Freesound/joedeshon

Slide whistle up 01
Freesound/joedeshon

Flying Mosquito
Freesound/zywx

Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios