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Central Mexico Recap Episode Ad-Free
This episode sponsored by Fiberpad, where you can glue duct-taped wheatgrass and fiberglass to your face in order to clear up any blemishes nice. What can limestone do for you and how does it form?A long, winding rant through the mountains of Queretero about habitats and species encountered at eleva...
Some recent Mexico photos
Some recent photos and only a fraction of the ones I've taken during a brief stint recording in Mexico the last few days. I was invited to join some friends on a trip they had already planned. The giant cacti are Isolatocereus durmortieri, at an elevation of 5'000 feet. The mountain scenes a...
Gunnera is just so goddamned Weird...
For those of you unfamiliar with this long lonely branch on the Angiosperm family tree, take a look at these photos. AFterwards, go find Gunnera on the angiosperm phylogeny poster at www.plantgateway.com/posterThis is a genus I fell in love with years ago after being exposed to Gunnera tinctoria at ...
Fake Redwood Forests of New Zealand
....and Geothermal Mushrooms
Carnivorous Plants Unedited Video (Patreon-Only)
Hey All,I've been super short on time lately, as usual since I'm always burning the candle of both ends, but this was such a great operation to visit that I wanted to share it immediately since it will still be a few weeks before I can get around to editing it. The work that Drew and all his...
Limestone Sinkhole Botany
Part Two of the Edwards Plateau Series sees Salvia roemeriana and a cool limestone ridge above a limestone pour off that drains to the Pedernales River (and the aquifer beneath, as well).
Death Valley Botany Podcast with Matt Berger
In this episode we talk about limestone endemic plants, death valley ecology, a newly discoc species of Asteraceae, desert shrimp, cool bugs and more with botanist Matt Berger.
Some photos from the last few days
In other news, we are putting a down payment on over 100 acres of Thornscrub Habitat on Tuesday. We should be full owners (with a mortgage, but whatever) within three weeks. Thanks everyone who donated for making this possible.
Thornscrub Sanctuary Update
Well, we've looked at three properties so far. The first one, and the initial one I originally did the video about ended up being way too much money. The landowner wanted 7500 an acre for it, and I just couldn't justify it with the amount of buffel that needed to be removed (half the parcel ...
Convergent Leaf Traits in Minas Gerais Brazil
In this episode we make a trek to see the recently-described xerophytic bromeliad Encholirium agavoides in the mountains of Minas Gerais, Brazil but get distracted by the evolutionarily-convergent leaf morphology exemplified by all these incredible goddamn plants. Plants take on otherworldly forms o...
Podcast #188 Ad-Free
Rants about riding trains in Mexico, trying to settle cactus beef between different friends, neighbors of killed lawns coming over to the right side, AA sponsors, good wisdom & samurai swords, etc
Baja Fungus Jaunt
In this episode we check out the fungi growing in the Southern End of the Southern California Floristic Province as well as the odd breeding system of Lemonade Berry, Rhus integrifolia.
Sandsheet Endemics
Filmed over a year ago but finally stitched together and edited. Better late than never.
