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 elevations between 6,000'...
2024-06-11 21:43:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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 and the ...
2024-06-06 14:21:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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/poster
This is a genus I fell...
2024-05-31 13:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
....and Geothermal Mushrooms
2024-05-16 23:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 employees are doing ...
2024-05-15 04:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostPart 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).
2024-05-10 06:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-04-29 04:22:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-04-29 03:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 had been root-plowed twenty years p...
2024-04-23 05:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 on the nutrient-poor, ancien...
2024-04-07 02:22:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2024-03-30 22:20:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-03-24 09:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmed over a year ago but finally stitched together and edited. Better late than never.
2024-03-23 20:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post
