David Attenborough encounters the most DANGEROUS plant in the desert! #Video


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Did anyone else wince when they watched this?

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  • Frank Hodgson

    Your video on the Cholla plant is spot on. We have had more than one encounter with these little demons while off road adventure riding / racing Baja. We always carry a pair of needle nose pliers in our back packs, just in case.

  • Carol Segal

    Wow! That even hurt me!!

  • Bets

    I got 'stung' by one of those spines one day as I was innocently hiking in my sneakers. Before I knew it, I got one in my big toe. I understood that the plant 'senses' water and jumps onto whatever it senses - my big toe, right through the sneak! I had to go to the ER to have it removed because of those spines! It was really quite amazing!

  • Janet Meyers

    It was very informative!

  • Sherry

    I sure did but, I kept thinking that that plant and others like them would make great chair cushions in D.C.. I wonder if it would make it more effective?

  • judy

    interesting

  • Larry

    In Arizona & New Mexico, we called it "Jumping Cholla" as it seemed that all you needed to get stuck was to be near it. Nasty stuff!

  • mercedes

    I found this video amusing, since I live in Cholla country (Yucca Valley, CA ) Cholla is really quite pretty. It just needs to be respected! I've gotten stuck with it a few times. There is a Cholla forest somewhere in Joshua Tree National Park, and I believe that there is a path
    people can walk on through it.

  • Patricia Yager Delagrange

    wow - interesting

  • Gary Hunt

    Also referred to s "jumping Cactus".

  • Randy Ferguson

    This video made me wince. I believe, this is the first time in my life that I have used the word wince. :P

  • Patricia

    Fabulous info

  • Becky

    Yikes!! I'm sure glad we don't have those around here! If we had one of those in our yard, I'd get rid of it real quick.