STUNG by the Gympie Gympie! (World's Most Painful Plant Sting)

Brave Crew – an important note about this episode. The plant we feature, known as the Gympie Gympie, is nicknamed 'The Suicide Plant' due to the horrific pain it can cause to those unlucky enough to touch it. The trichomes of the Gympie Gympie inject venom straight into the skin, which can leave a person in unbearable pain.

While 'The Suicide Plant' is just a colloquial term for this stinging plant, suicide is a very serious topic that should not be taken lightly. If you are experiencing mental health issues or are having suicidal thoughts, please seek advice from a medical professional or legal guardian immediately.

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STUNG by the Gympie Gympie, aka The "Suicide" Plant! It's the most painful stinging plant in Australia, and maybe the world. This week, Coyote Peterson takes on the sting of the Gympie Gympie plant, in order to showcase:

a) Exactly what the innocuous looking leaves of the Gympie Gympie plant look like.
b) Why you should treat the Gympie Gympie plant with respect, never handle it, and only view it from a safe distance.
c) That it's incredibly important to know about and pay attention to your surrounding environment... lest you run into a plant like the Gympie Gympie, and endure its incredibly potent and painful stinging power!

Massive thanks to Ryan, Ses and Kevin the Gympie Gympie sniffer pup, for leading this adventure!

And thank you to Meredith Joyce-Houghton for creating the incredible artwork in this episode! IG: @joycehoughtoncreative

 
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[BraveWilderness]

Should Coyote do more stinging plant episodes?? Let us know below!

[MDHorror]

You guys should get a thermal camera to show the heat of the skin compared to what happens normally. Would be very interesting to see how the human body reacts to all these different types of stings.

[zEricGaming]

4 months later and STILL feeling symptoms of that plant. Honestly, that's insane. He waited 4 freaking months to upload this, just to be able to tell the world how long an estimated recovery is. This plant could be effective for life.

[trevorslinkard]

This guy’s resistance to cursing and talking to the camera is something to be impressed by. You brave soul.

[pepsimandisapproves]

The most impressive feat about this guy is that no matter how much pain he gets into, he never curses .

[Arpeggio_G]

Hey YouTube, this is educational! As a Wildlife Ecology Major and a Research Scientist, this guy is honestly amazing ! Much love Coyote!

[GogetaBlue]

This guy is going through limits we didnt know were possible, sooner or later he will be able to overcome rabies

[viobliterator]

Your ability to keep your language clean in the face of absolute agony is legendary

[X-Gen-]

It always astounds me how Coyote is able to focus and speak clearly to the camera despite being in absolute agony. Huge respect.

[adampannell]

You know its gotta hurt when YouTube links the suicide hotline on this video. Mad respect for this guy.

[pyrteknks]

Imagine your entire job being to go around the world and basically self administer the most burning pain imaginable. Coyote is an absolute legend.

[maxhugen]

Been stung by the Gympie Gympie bush on one leg, foot to knee, in the Whitsundays, QLD Australia. Pain was excruitiating. Had to drive myself to a doctor, nearly blind from pain. He used a scalpel to remove outermost layer of skin (which is dead) to reduce number of needles. I felt pain for months, especially in the shower. Far far worse than box jellyfish, redback spider, etc! 😮

[cartoonhead]

Please, never let that plant leave Australia.

[chengsaechao]

I like how Coyote is in the middle of what's considered the most painful plant induced pain and he goes on to educate us about the similarities of pneumatophores in jelly fish stings. What a legend.

[supertotoro]

Its insane how he can keep his words child friendly throughout this. If that was me it would just be a constant bleeping.

[priscillachisoro]

His arm is like "Dude? this again?"

[WilliamDow-wxoo]

Thé fact that there is a viewers discretion is insane big respect for coyote

[Alex]

I think the most terrifying thing about this plant is how innocent-looking it is. It looks like any other ordinary plant you might come across while on a hike or something. Truly scary.

[mlbAct]

“it’s almost heart shaped, there’s no love that come from the gimpie gimpie, only pain” such a hard like/quote

[saitamablackgoku]

Bro his immune system has to be insane with the amount of poison and venom he’s put his body through throughout the years this man is a legend 😭