That’s like saying, look at those foreigners with their weird facial features. When in fact it’s not weird at all. In reality, you’re just heavily biased in favor of what suits your experience and are classifying everything else as “weird”. What’s really weird is how you don’t get that.
That's kind of a common view though that "weird" is relative to one's own experience, you don't gotta belittle someone for appreciating plants and saying what they think about it, that's a beautiful thing to me at least. Love and let love. They are very weird compared to the majority of plants and it would be true to say in the context of one culture that someone from another culture has a weird looking outfit or hairdo like the Minoans or whatever, doesn't detract from the value of the thing (the Minoans had some mad swag on they drip) unless it's meant to. I'm weird, we're all weird in our own way just some things seem weirder because we haven't grown to accept it as not weird.
"It's the same order as cacti, spinach, and beets." Sir, you accent charms me and your knowledge is delightful but the way you casually string together words I never would have thought were connected on any level truly makes me laugh and I'm going to binge-watch as many of your videos as I can.
"You get em to, you get em to land on there, and they stick and they die, then you secrete some enzymes, and you eat em nice. Oooooooooo look at that guy"
Criminally undersubbed channel here, I tell you what. Magical stuff. I like plants but I have a hard time paying attention when I try to learn about them. This dude makes it hella easy. Just by being himself. Major props.
That's a fucking cool collection, love these videos, I've always had trouble retaining a lot of the scientific terms for plant anatomy despite staring at guides, but watching you talk about them and point them out is helping me retain a lot more
Most interesting. Thanks! I got a small bog garden last summer with some pitcher plants and some venus flytraps. They made it through the winter. The squirrels were a bigger problem. They ate the pitchers to get at the bugs. Didn’t know the food chain would work that way. 😐
I’m from Venezuela. I have a book full of scientific articles and photography of the tepuy habitat that goes deeper into the native fauna and flors of the habitat, including these plants. It is truly amazing.
In many of your videos you mention that some plant or another was recently discovered, or something new about a known plant was recently revealed, usually when it is endemic to a small location. It seems like botany still has much room for citizen scientists to contribute by in-depth studying of a known species or genus, OR even finding new species! That's pretty exciting! We can play along at home, not just by learning existing info, but actually generating NEW knowledge. Bada Bing Bada Boom, THAT's how you Botanize. ^_^
A good book about botanizing and finding new species: "A Rum Affair" by Karl Sabbagh. It is about the too-strong desire to find new species leading to scientific fraud, and the oh-so-polite culture of the English botany community in the 1940's - 1950's. The author spins a good tale of John Heslop Harrison hunting sedges in the Hebrides, and John Raven uprooting his fraud.
kire nireves you’d be surprised on how little research is done about many plants and animals on earth. Why? Because they don’t feed the capitalistic agenda
I mean it's the first thing I thought of. Well, no. The first thing I thought was "that's fuckin' metal" of the plant with the spikes around the rim. The next thought was vagina dentata.
As RU-vid is some kind of crack for me I've been highly considering avoiding it. However I would still watch your videos. They are truly Kindred to my spirit. Thank you again... B safe xo me
Might have to try and visit that place sometime... always had a fascination with carnivorous plants, and it'd be nice to appreciate some of the more exotic and remote species up-close.
CaliCarns are so awesome, probably the best in the game in my opinion. Can't believe I've never stumbled upon this video, these are my guilty pleasure plants. Got tons, even some cultivars from this nursery! Awesome per usual stop humanity.
I really love your pronunciation. Its the same conventions i was taught but you keep the latin just a little gangster, just a little boston. I say this because I've met other botanists who I thought were saying things wrong and they were actually taught differently.
I love how he pronounces everything too, I've adopted a few utterances here and there just because I might as well and it gets the point across. I still like to say the Latin in my best approximation of classical Latin when it would sound cool tho.
Damn, amazing. I often tried carnivourus plant from the supermarket or so when I was a kid - they always died in a week or two. Now I have a vivarium that is doing great (and a bit more knowledge about plants), and I just ordered a nepenthes. Excited to see if she's going to be fine inside the vivarium.
Yo this was, no joke, the most simultaneously entertaining and educational plant video I've seen on here--and I spend a whole lot of my time (probably too much, if I'm honest) watching plant videos, so I know what the hell I'm talking about. Thanks for the rad video (I'm subscribing right this instant)!
@@katiekane5247 Yes, I'm going to order some more this fall for delivery next spring, I miss having them. I had a huge S. purpurea that my neighbor forgot to water while I was on vacation, in fact, I lost over half the plants I had. Love the S. Tarnock, the S. minor var "Okee Giant", S. orephilia, etc. Mostly species.
This is pretty nice. Recently read a paper that drew some comparisons between the digestive system of carnivorous plants and that of animals and found a lot of similarities. Textbook example of convergent evolution.
That takes me back. Visited California Carnivores about 15+ years ago. Sadly lost my whole collection of carnivores to time but recently got back into botany. I doubt I will rebuild my carnivorous plant collection though since it's arid in Colorado and the winters are a bit rough for them
That's exactly what I thought the first time I stumbled onto one of his videos I love that they're relatable and incredibly intelligent and willing to take the time to explain things in enough depth that you can understand what's going on without boring you or condescending to you And just real down-to-earth people good people
these plants are so different and interesting, i wish i could find something diverse and wild like this in the suburbs. all i got to look forward to is a bunch of invasive weeds that my dad will periodically spray with roundup
Man, I wish the guy who taught intro to botany had spoken like you do Sir. I might have actually taken the class instead of dropped it. Sadly, rather than sound excited about the plants and to tell his students about them, he spoke in a monotone that put me right to sleep.
yo this is a late comment but that info text about Nepenthes made me search up what species are in my country because I had no idea there were any endemic carnivorous plants here. made me super excited! thank you for that!
I didn't see a fungus gnat. Not in that place. In the bay area I would tell your viewers that Drosera binata is near top of the list easy to grow. I have it going over five years now. As far as pitcher plants? As always Tony,the more exotic looking? the harder to grow here. Go for most cold tolerant high mountain species. But,they tend to have drab pitchers. Now,I do have a large N.alata/ventricosa ( they always tell me one is the other on the internet boards) that is the one you see at Walmart every summer, its lived over three years outdoors here...and the last two with no pitchers. We just don't have the warm+humidity needed. The foliage does great.it's got many stems over 4'?...but what good is a pitcher plant with no pitchers?
LOVE your videos, man, and this is so far my favorite one by far, as I am a carnivorous plant enthusiast. Too bad that place didn't have any parrot pitcher plants or cobra lilies to show off! Very nice collection all in one place and very cool narration for an introduction to bug eaters! Keep that shit up!
