He is hilarious! I love listening to him with his even match of intelligence and I don't give a shit attitude! He is that kind of person that everyone wants to have as a best friend! 🤣😂
@@cricketj15 so funny, guy has a satirical bumper sticker that I don't agree with so I make a satirical statement and still people are uptight.... Ha ha ha
The chemotherapy drug you're thinking of is taxol (generic name paclitaxel). It inhibits cell division, which is a good thing if you're trying to keep cancer growths from spreading. Nowadays, it's made from the leaves of the European yew (which contains a compound which is 3 steps from paclitaxel itself) or in a bioreactor by culturing Pacific yew plant cells.
Yes, paclitaxel (and docetaxel) is a mitotic spindle inhibitor, similar to other plant-based anticancer drugs called 'Vinca alkaloids' made from Catharanthus roseus.
In response to the question at 12:21 the answer is in the affirmative for both. I am in fact learning while simultaneously being amused by your accent. AvE suggested your channel and I've watched every video you've released since then. My Aunt C. Lynn Raulerson was a biologist/botanist and professor at the University of Guam and littlerally wrote the book on the Trees and Shrubs of the Mariana Islands. When I watch your videos I feel like I'm a little closer to her. That, and your jokes make me laugh.
I watch your videos because I'm a farmer and I never received a suitable botany education, so your stuff keeps me engaged and learning more. I love em, they're great. That lizard was a cutie. I'll throw you some cash once end of summer harvest is up and we're rollin in dough.
I'm so glad you talked about low-intensity controlled fires in order to help the ecosystem thrive. Really interesting stuff as always, thanks for sharing :D
Hey man, I love your vids! I’m a forester and your spiel against fire suppression warmed my heart. Do you think you could do a video on the basic trees of the Sierran Mixed Conifer Forest? I think it would be great for some students to see!
Yes, I’m learning a crapton. Thank you for adding the Latin names and definitions with captions. It helps a lot. I also appreciate your descriptions of the geology you encounter. I come from a family of geologists and remember as a child stopping on the side of the road to look at specific geological features on road trips. I’d like to donate, but I don’t use Venmo.
I'm going to pick an easier safe word to remember next time I'm in an orchid dungeon. lmao. That's a good way to get your stamen damaged. Them orchids take kinky to a whole new level.
I'm an amateur botanist and herpetologist here in southern California and I've got to say that the 'skeptical looking' Alligator lizard you found was just incredible! I've seen a lot of them (I'm 66 yrs. old) over the years but never a blue morph like the one you found. Good thing you didn't reach out and try to catch that dude with your hands, these guys are 100% guaranteed to bite and not let go. The pitbulls of the lizard family! Also, thanks for the update on their Latin name from Gerrhonotus to Elgaria. I can't keep up with these fuckin' taxonomists changing the Latin names on everything all the time! So, thanks for that too.
So much information.. Over load!!! I'll have to watch this a few more times. Would have loved to have had you as a teacher in school. Spend all day out on the land and getting up close to the plants. The learning and information. Can't forget the teacher, excellent descriptions. You're fun!! And would make class enjoyable. Your family must love having you around. You are definitely easy to listen to. Up beat. Funny. Thank you for catching my attention. Really wish I had a teacher like you when I was in school. You would have been the pie piper botanist for students. "Did some one say field trip?!"
Two of your videos ("Lophophora williamsii (Peyote) in Mexico and redundant facts" & "Public Service Announcement from Jake Wozcak and Crotalus Oreganus" ) got posted on Reddit recently. You're my new favorite channel, and I'm stunned at how often you post new videos. 6:14 . I spit coffee laughing. :>
The video where you're talking to a plant growing on a barren cliff-side, asking it how the hell it lives there was something I felt I could really relate to. So it's not so much your accent as your passion that I think is cool.
I kinda recently subed this channel but I love it already. I am myself an amateur botanist and this is entertaining me alot. I am from Sweden so probably miss out alot of the fun stuff this man saying but waht I can translate and decipher gives me so much. Wish I had his talent of flowing speech and talk and I would like to do something similar from my country. Take care out there and you should all try go out and discover what you can find in neighbourhood and outdoors sometimes. Peace!
The Hawaiian Silver Sword is a fantastically cool plant, it's one of those things that you would expect to see in a sci-fi movie about different planets. They look like big sea anemone when they are little and then turn into towers of flowers 8'+ tall... Just amazing plants. Look 'em up if you are interested, you won't be disappointed.
Those alligator lizards do seem a bit bolder than say a fence lizards. I can pretty much walk right up to some of them in my yard and they'll just look at me like I'm bothering them. I wish there were more of them here in Southern California. I don't see them that often.
I can relate. " Hey that's fuckin poison ivy don't touch it". Of course I touched it, broke out later.. Dad busted my balls later I bet you don't do that again he says I told you not to touch it lol...
I dunno if anybody else has said it, because I'm not scrolling through all the comments. But those two crab spiders were arguing over territory. Spiders raise their front legs as a sort of pre-fight posturing, like a frat boy when he yells 'come at me bro'. The spider on the right is also raising up to make herself look larger. Oh, and they're both ladies.
Just loving your channel! Learning so much about plants and the earth in general. Also, a good belly laugh, from time to time, is so good for the soul! Thanks man. 😉
It's snotty and vaguely sweet. Also sometimes the poison gets into the aril by mutation or whatnot. One bush always has dead birds around here. Would not eat from dat one.
I got some of them crab spiders on my mum's pineapple sage, real ninjas. I spent an afternoon watching one sit inside the flowers and spring death on Chlosyne nycteis one after the other.
The Natives maintained the forest by setting low burning fires, much could be learned from them. When there are too many trees too close together, they become stressed, and that is when they are vulnerable to disease and insects. But then I'm preaching to the choir! You help a lot with the pronunciations. I know many of the botanical names from reading them so many times, but can't pronounce them worth a shit!
Someone always falls for the idiot wanting to plant trees in a hole on a sidewalk. Apparently they rarely walk them. They're baked and scorched and rarely trimmed or otherwise protected.
Sure does look like it. You mean the little black bump between his ear hole and his front leg, right? Sharp eyes ya got there! I had to rewind and take another look as I hadn't noticed it first time round.
Awesome walk through the woods.TY. The spiders looks like female Misumena vatia, and it has a bee fly (Bombyliidae)? The males are dark and half the size. Oospores, look up how to pronounce it, and apply it to zoospores if you didn't know.
My cats are mostly indoors, but when they do go outside they are supervised. Though, it's mostly because of the stray cats that are in the green belt behind the house.
This channel makes me happy. On the subject of the yew, if it is like taxus baccata, the aril is the only bit that isn't toxic. All parts of the tree are loaded with taxine including the seeds and roots+ all except the scary red "berry"...
Damnit now I want burroit. Food truck here I come. I love your channel, the latin names don't stick at all but I'm learning what to pay attention to looking at plants. Had geologist parents really (at times annoyingly) dedicated to teaching us, and I was always more interested in biology, so it's cool to learn ways they're linked.
Alligator lizards are some tough bastards, they will bite and they will not let go. He's probably just asking you to touch him so he can give you what for lol
5:30-I don’t think this is Himalayan Blackberry (which I don’t know anything about). This is Aralia Californica, a native, common name Spikenard (or Elk Clover, although it is not a clover at all). It can be used like the Rocky Mountain species, Aralia Racemosa, which is a moderately useful herbal medicine. The native Americans of the Mountain West would use this for “winter chest.” Our family keeps some of the root and some honey extract. We’ve taken both species for personal use. Racemosa might be better medicine. The Rocky Mountain variant is harder to find and pretty much only inhabits stream bottoms from 5000 to 8000 feet.
Aralia californica is from a completely unrelated family and doesn't have thorns on the stem. This is Himalayan blackberry, from the rose family. Aralia is in Araliaceae. It produces flowers in an umbel that look uniquely different.
I just found your channel, and I'm thoroughly enraptured with your depth and breadth of knowledge on kingdom plantae. Thank you for sharing, and keep making videos. I'll keep watching. PS: any chance you'll come down to Florida and do a few bits of commentary on our wetlands? I'm sure we can get you an honorary Florida Man certification.
The cancer drug made from Pacific Yew is called Taxol, by the way. A professor at Florida State University figured out how to synthesize the drug artificially. I'm from Tallahassee, it's kinda local lore around the academic circles there
The plant that is a parasite to fungi and has no chlorophyll,.. is that the same as "Indian pipe" or "ghost pipe" also known as the "corpse plant"? We have a lot of them here in Pa., But the ones here have a bell shaped flower that bends downward twords the ground, and when picked looks like an old time pipe.
The crazy shit that comes out of your mouth followed by perfect pronunciation of plant names and the state of said plants with occasional up close shots of animals is the shit
Mono trips uniflora, is also mychohetrotrophic. Ur so brilliant when it comes to Brittany. Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant (or ghost pipe), Indian pipe or corpse plant, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to temperate regions of Udmurtiya in European Russia, Asia, North America and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas.[1][2] It was formerly classified in the family Monotropaceae, but is now included within the Ericaceae. It is of ephemeraloccurrence, depending on the right conditions (moisture after a dry period) to appear full grown within a couple of days.
We call one of the genus Leylandii (spelling) everyone hates it because it grows so fast, but it makes nice thick hedge if you maintain it. I read that vikings used it as evergreen hedge to protect their animals against freezing wind.
To answer your question for the viewers: I learned that plants are sketchy as hell. They are always trying to pull a fast one on the insects and animals.
YES i enjoyed this video and YES my girlfriend and I are going to look into joining a botanical garden, now. We live near Chapel Hill NC so there is something called Duke Gardens in our area. Thank you Joey.
A wonderful fuckin' plant. Do you provide backyard consultations? I don't own land yet, but when I do, I'd like to have someone's number in my back pocket for some good advice for native species and fire suppression.
