In this episode we check out some of the rare species of fruit being sold in this market in Puyo, Ecuador. We explore little known families and some lesser known genera of plants, as well as palm beetles and caffeine replacements like Ilex guayusa.
2025-02-12 04:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like I've had people telling me to read this for the last decade and a half but only recently that I finally crack it open. Here is a copy of it. "One River" about the ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes. It's not just about the Amazon, there's an entire chapter about peyote. It's a pretty fascinating read. File is in...
2025-02-11 18:46:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A conversation with Alan Rockefeller about Amazon Fungi, biodiversity, AI, using inaturalist, and a host of other topics.
2025-02-10 20:43:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Five minutes of Martin Grantham 's Rambling..
Martin is a good friend of mine whom I've known for fifteen years. He's a great botanist, knows plant physiology and Taxonomy and systematics like the back of his hand, and can grow anything. I would frequently drop by his house just to lurk and see what he's got growing, o...
Arachnitis has been on my list of bizarre and unusual plants to see for a few years. It is a plant that parasitizes fungi - a mycoheterotroph - specifically mycorrhizal fungi in the endomycorrhizal fungal genus Glomus (Glomeromycota/Glomeromycetes).
Even more bizarre, the closest relatives of Arachnitis live in Austra...
In the foothills of the Andes in Chile's Nuble region we check out some of the keystone plants that compose the Sclerophyll Forest here, like
Gevuina avellana (Proteaceae),
Nothofagus alpina,
Nothofagus dombeyi,
Lapageria rosea (Philesiaceae)
Proustia pyrifolia (Asteraceae)
Drimys winteri (Winteraceae)
In this episode we spend some time with some of the Viejitos of the Conguillo area at 4800' elevation on top of a cinder cone, with a substrate composed of black pumice. Escallonia alpina, Nothofagus pumilio, Chusquea culeou & Alstroemeria aurea compose the understory.
2025-01-30 01:12:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Miguel Moya is a naturalist and designer who produces field guides and posters for native plants in Chile. In this episode we talk about the sclerophyll forest, the temperate rainforests of Chile Island, indigenous communities in the Southern region, Araucaria forests, Gomortega kuele, Ancient Gondwanan disjunctions, Citronel...
2025-01-29 18:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Araucaria araucana is the dominant species on the forested slopes of Conguillo National Park in Southern Chile, and in this video we take an inventory of some of the species we encounter here, as well as the pumice substrate they grow on.
Other species featured here are
Prumnopitys andina
Archidasyphyllum d...
I've been trying to upload this for 3 days but the shitty patreon app won't let me attach photos to posts, so I just did it through Google photos. There's 250 photos of plants in here, somewhere duplicates if you're curious what something might be and it hasn't been captioned yet please comment on it.
2025-01-27 21:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we talk about Alerce Forests, Ocelot Tarantulas that live in bogs in Temperate Rainforests, Why the Rosulate Form Makes sense in Alpine Habitats, and the extremely weird mycoheterotroph, Arachnitis uniflora.
2025-01-25 20:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Pilgerodendron uviferum and the Chilean Ocelot Tarantula appear in this episode, as well as the rare Podocarp Lepidothamnus fonkii (surely grew on Antarctica 50 million years ago). Drosera uniflora and Astelia pumila make an appearance, as well. The fern Lomariocycas magellanica (a Blechnum that looks like a cycad) is abundan...
2025-01-22 04:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Illegal Trespassing and a Botanical Inventory of the Mapocho River in downtown Santiago, Chile during the summer season in late January reveals a host of exotic invasives as well as a few native plants, like Lithraea caustica, Beilschmiedia miersii, Cryptocarya alba, and Quillaja saponaria.
Despite the color, the river...
Nico Lavandero is a Chilean Botanist who has described 8 new species of plants in Chile and is in the proc of describing many more. In this podcast we talk about a diversity of subjects, from Chile's 1974 Forest Law that incentivized the destruction of native forest for pine plantations, why plants take on dwarfed rosulate g...
2025-01-21 17:18:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Some photos from yesterday, at 38° S, 4800' (1200 m) on a cinder cone. Araucaria here estimated at around 1,000 years old. Nothofagus pumilio, dombeyi and antarctica were present here, too. Sadly we did not find Arachnitis, the bizarre mycoheterotroph. The genus Escallonia is big down here though, a sister order to Asterales...
2025-01-16 12:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Pilgerodendron uviferum is another rare and threatened Gondwanan conifer, found in much wetter areas than Fitzroya. It's basically a bog plant. We found it at the Northern end of its range here near Osorno, along with Azorella diversifolia (Apiaceae) and a forest of Nothofagus pumilio.
Pilgerodendron is dioecious...
2025-01-15 01:27:22 +0000 UTC View Post
A few photos from today East of Curico, Chile, in a climate that feels remarkably similar to California.
2025-01-10 02:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostWe're headed to Chile to film, from Santiago South to the Alerce Forests of Puerto Montt. If anybody has any requests, leave them here. And thank you to everybody for the support, I'm grate as hell for it
Joey
Thelypodiopsis shinnersii (syn. Mostacillastrum vaseyi) is a rare annual mustard that's seemingly much more rare than previously thought, most likely due to the same old culprits of habitat destruction and invasive grasses.
It was put on my radar by a friend who spotted it growing in Harlingen, Texas and couldn't figur...
Austin Miller runs Birdsong Landscapes, a native plant landscaping company and Natural History page based out of Southwest Ohio. In this episode we talk about continents as ecosystems, the natural history of Ohio, the Hopewell Culture and the Eastern Agirculture Complex, injecting native plant awareness into popular culture, ...
2025-01-03 20:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we talk with Jared Westbrook, a geneticist with the American Chestnut foundation, about the issues with the transgenic American chestnuts that have been produced in the last decade or two, as well as what might be The best way to move forward with the process of creating a blight resistant American chestnut tr...
2025-01-02 17:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we sit down with Kyle Elmore of the youtube channel @popmilk for a two hour talk about herping (lurking for reptiles and amphibians), creating habitat, passionately obsessing over milksnakes, why Indigo Snakes are so chill, self-education, embracing the living world as a side-hobby, coping with habitat loss, n...
2024-12-31 19:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we check out Indigo Snakes, Milksnakes, and more.
2024-12-31 11:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Ad-Free Episode of the Ruined Christmas Episode of the Podcast
2024-12-30 20:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
