This is the World's Loneliest Tree 

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Great, now I feel bad for a plant.

"Let's give this tree a friend"-Bob Ross

If he can talk, imagine all the story' he can tell

"It'll have me to keep him company." (Happy brass music) This made my day

I never thought i'd feel so sorry for a tree. Hang in there buddy.

Tree : i want a girlfriend before i die Genie : granted Tree : nothing happend Genie : you're immortal now

I immediately came back here after reading an article about a cycad found in Masungi Georeserve in the Philippines. I’m so proud for my country having a tree that is at least a piece of the past.

"I've looked after him for 20 years" That's a serious flex.

Damn that tree about to die a virgin feels bad...

poor tree, I bet his girl is out there somewhere...

That botanist is a lovely gentleman, I never thought I would feel sad for a tree being lonely but I'm genuinely glad the tree has such a kind and dedicated friend 💚

My mum's house in South Africa still has three healthy cycads, and several others in varying stages of wild growth - so I'm assuming this is a special variant talked about in this video. They're quite the menace to maintain if you want a good looking garden. There was lots of trimming off of long dead leaves in favour of the living ones, and the prickles/teeth on the leaflets are not at all kind to bare skin. Was surprised to hear animals loved to perch on top of them

“Everyone needs a friend... even a tree.” - Bob Ross

what if there was a female and it got cut down by someone who doesn't know how rare it is.

Every teenager watching this: maybe I'm a plant

I have never felt so much emotions about a Tree.

"In the meantime, he'll have me to keep him company...." Tree: "I appreciate the offer mate, I really do - but I don't swing that way. I'm flattered though."

Today’s Valentine’s Day and I can totally relate with this plant

Learning about trees and plants is really interesting. After you learn about all your local species, once in a while you find something youve never seen before in a local forest and you can appreciate the rarity of a plant by itself where no others grow and wonder how it got there. Did some bird travel 1000 miles and poop a seed or is it a plant that grows only in the most niche of conditions, or did some settler plant a small garden 200 years ago with seeds he brought from another continent?

Random British guy: wow nice tree Also him: imma take this to England

_"In the mean time, it'll have me to keep him company"_ **sad tree noises**

That tree : is lonely Me : "maybe I'm an encephalartos woddi myself"

This tree in Kew Gardens is NOT the original Woods cycad that was found. This is a cutting from that tree. The original tree was moved to the Durban Botanical Gardens in South Africa where it’s now grown to the size of a palm tree and grows alongside at least five other Woods cycads that, like the Kew Gardens one, are cuttings of the original tree.

“In the meantime he’ll have me to keep him company.” What a bro👊

Why do I feel like they are gonna find another one of these and it's going to be male aswell?

As I write this comment, it is January 10th 2021. I came to this video immediately after I read an article of this Cycad tree is now reappearing, the rise in global temperature is thought to be the cause of the sudden appearance. Not only that, they found a female cone! Now this lonely tree isn’t so lonely anymore.

Imagine being a botanist called Wood, naming newly discovered species after you. Badass!

"carefully removed a small potion of it" Translation : Took the whole tree.

Bob Ross wold not be happy about that

Imagine chopping one of these down because it doesnt flow with the rest of ur landscape not realizing that tree is a literal national treasure for its rarity

As someone that is involved in global afforestation effort, I feel so intrigued and bad for this tree. Its hard to be the last of a kind.

"Carefully removed a small portion of it" **Took the whole tree**

*Me who was single in 10 years Tree: pathetic

So loved for the style of this film,thank you for this

This actually makes me sad yet fascinated ❤️❤️❤️ I hope they can save it

why do I feel so freaking bad for this tree

Plot Twist: We find another Woodi but its also a male. GG

The original E.Woodii is still standing, here, at the Durban Botanical gardens.

I love this clever way of presenting to me such a subject.

No one: RU-vid recommendations: wanna see a rare ass tree Me: well of course

That one guy in the comments that says there's one in my backyard then they take a picture and it's just a palm tree

Tree: *Lonely* Also Tree: wassup fellow trees in this garden

I hope that one day, we can genetically recreate a female partner for him

I just found my spirit plant.

What a hardcore 'What if everyone disappear exept you'.

The video gives the impression that there is only 1 in existence. _Encephalartos Woodii_ is very rare, but not that rare. There are around 110 male clone plants in botanical gardens and private collections around the world, grown from the original E.woodii.

This channel was very informative and helpful Sadly they don't make videos anymore

"Trees are like all of us, they need friends" -Bob Ross

He's got wood and nobody to share it with. Poor fellow must suffer from a nasty case of blue bark.

There are actually four left. My father, being an exotic plant trader, placed one of them in the San Diego zoo. Right above the “Africa Rocks” sign. It’s still there today

This showed up in my recommendations. I feel a little attacked...

year 2030: explorers: *we found another tree!* scientist: *its a male*

just imagine if they actually find a female E.woodii. that will make my day

I remember thinking about this tree I saw in cnn in class for 4 years and im happy to see its still alive

He's not lonely! He has his best friend trees all around him!

Did you try punching the leaves to get a sapling?

That tree after seeing a giant ball of light : Where did everyone go?

So fascinating.

Good to see you again

this channel should have millions of subscribers tbh

imagine of the last female burned in the amazon

The tree you show looks remarkably similar to one I encounter in the swamps of Florida unfortunately this was years ago and no idea if in fact they were possibly in the same genius.

Me after meeting this tree “you and I aren’t so different.”

is it possible to clone a female from the seed?

So, I just did some googling : E. Woodii is just one species of Encephalartos. There are many other Encephalartos trees that are not threatened in the wild. It has even made fertile hybrids with one of them, E. Natalensis, which brings hope to enable making female specimens by a technique called "backcrossing". In fact, some even consider E. Woodii not to really be an individual species, but more of a mutant E. Natalensis : there's about as much genetic variation between the E. Woodii specimen and E. Natalensis specimens as there is within E. Natalensis trees. They haven't really evolutionarily diverged. And it can also reproduce asexually by emitting basal shoots, which is why there are now many identical trees in various botanical gardens. So, that tree is pretty lonely, but not THAT lonely. And it isn't *the* last survivor of the trees that constituted the bulk of the dinosaur's flora, since that would also apply to the other species of Encephalartos trees, which, again, are thriving. It's a really interesting curiosity that they found a single tree that was the only member of its species, but they kind of blew it out of proportions in that video... I mean, if all those trees had disappeared within the last 65 million years, how likely would it be that THE last specimen would be alive within our time?

imagine the female is on north sentinel island

Palms usually pup from the bottom. There’s also a few chemicals that wouldn’t damage the plant but promote pupping. But I guess that would ruin their gig.

* people complaining about being single and lonely.* Tree: pathetic

Wish the old fella well on finding a broad. I'm sure there's at least one other fish in the sea...

These can be vegetatively propagated from offsets and there are currently over 500 specimens around the world. Apparently it's very vigorous for a cycad and easy to clone this way. It could also be backcrossed with a closely related species until you had a female that was 99.9% Encephalartos Woodii

Child: “Mommy, how are baby trees born?” Mommy: “well you see...there’s a something called Dioecious-when a male tree & a female tre...” Daddy: “uh uh, that’s enough honey”

Woodi took a small part of it and grew it.WAIT It means the original is still out there. THIS IS A CLONE.

*"I used to rule the world"*

Thank you for keeping the tree a company... Dear tree keeper...

"A true, lonely bachelor.", had me gasping for air haha. The way he talks is so funny. Great video! Edit: The way he talks reminds me of young Ron Weasley :D

Researchers: Found another tree Tree: Male Lonely tree: *gay*

Great big story: This is the loneliest living thing on earth. Me: hold my beer. Also Me: ok

Thanks for looking after it 😀

I actually feel sorry for that plant...

Tree: Lemme smash. Please Female Tree: No, Ron, your branch is small Tree: Wot? Swiggity Swooty?

People who say I am single my whole life The tree: amateur humans Damn 2.4k likes🔥🔥 thanks guys

There are 3 in my garden right now, and theres 1 in my grans garden. From south africa

In Malay this gentleman of a plant would be called "bujang lapok" (dry rot bachelor) the male equivalent of a spinster.

2:13 my autobiography in a nutshell

imagine they found a newone and is a male

There is a possible solution you have never tried. As a male plant, it produces pollen. In Science magazine before it was stopped, it had an article about using glucose at different concentrations to cause some of the pollen grains to rupture and growing into haploid plants. If you could take some of those haploid plants and apply clochine (misspelled), you could create a diploid plant that would be a female plant. Then you could have a possible way of continuing this species. Of course, it would have limited diversity.

There are too many comments so i don't know if someone pointed this before, but this made me remember the ents and their search for their entwives. Also, Tolkien was a very educated english and the cycad on the video is 117 years old; I even remeber the mention of cycads when he describen how Shelob scaped from Beleriand when it started to sunk. Could all of this be a coincidence?

Never felt sad for a tree but now ...

They find another tree: :D its a male: D:

Bruh, we have this tree everywhere, I think its a different species. BUT, it looks so alike.

I sympathize with you Mr. Tree, I'm so lonesome every day...

Male human: "no nut November" Tree: what am I a joke to you?

"What is your job?" Oh, my job is to look after a tree

Awwww I love this lil tree

Imagine finding another male

i just hope that we find a female of its kind before it dies

I only clicked the video to see "How a tree could ACTUALLY be lonely." Because this lonely person is watching a video about a lonely tree.... I'm such a loner.

I think i saw that tree native to the Philippines somewhere at t'boli it looks so much alike

This reminded me of the Ents from the Lord of the Rings, where the Treebeard said that the Entwives had been missing for a long time, and had never been found again