I'm 25 years old and your channel has gotten me into plant biology! I am taking workshops and getting plant identification books. Your channel is hilarious and very informative! Thank you and keep up the great work!
Dude.. I love your channel, subscribed some time ago. I live in the northern part of Europe so not much of the plant life you're showing exist here, but I love your knowledge and the way you're presenting it to us. What I wanted to say is that I've discovered an interest in my local fauna and wild life, all thanks to you, thank you for that.
Thought about putting a sarcasm disclaimer in there since I've been living in a state where people frequently fail to grasp the concept but I got lazy. Now just waiting for the stupid comments to roll in.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt dude, in these days and age (when its way better to overestimate the general level of fuckism in the brain) I'd worry more about cars with guys in suit parked on the other side of the street kinda stuff
This sonora series is amazing thanks for showing the beauty of our deserts, if you come back next year get a local guide, it sounds dumb but this way you have someone who has contacts and you wont have any trouble doing your reserch exploring what you want. I can't thank you enough for putting the leg work in and producing these vids providing the general public with an avenue of education thats easily understood and that is also comprehensive. Keep the fight going for our misunderstood and overlooked plants that get little to no recognition, best channel on YT.
I'm a botanist, but gave it up to teach environmental biology at the college level. There's a wasted life. Now I'm relearning my botany with you. Keep that virus in mind! Keep up the good work!
1:50 .....DEJA VU! I remember that! The road from Magdalena to Cucurpe, 1976. One of those landscapes that you never forget. I hope while you were in the region, you got to sample some bacanora, best moonshine on the planet, made from a small blue agave they call "lechugilla" but it's not the green vertical spiky lechugilla. I love rock gardens!......... also in 1976 did a lot of ecological research in a little canyon in Tucson Mountain Park, it was just off of Gates Pass road but you couldn't see it from the road. Amazing, maybe 5 miles from downtown Tucson and virtually no sign of human activity, no beer cans, nothing. Had the place to myself and the deer herd that liked the seclusion and the CCC watering holes constructed in a little side canyon. ......I was impressed at how many different ferns there were, growing up in California I thought of ferns as being plants of wet places. Also at least two species of wild onion, another plant I hadn't expected to find in the desert. During '76-77 I was also becoming an expert on jojoba, plant density and seed yield in relation to precipitation and also the amount of labor needed to harvest wild stands. All on my own, no college education but I learn better in real classrooms than artificial ones. There were narcos even back in 1976, over toward Arizpe. They didn''t know who we were and damaged the road expecting that my 2-wheeled truck would not be able to proceed. Didn't directly threaten us though, why make enemies unnecessarily? Well, I had the best driver on the planet, he could get that truck damn near any place you could get a Jeep and some places you couldn't. We got through. When they saw we got through we stopped to chat. "Really good truck you've got there !" Arturo: "It's not the truck, it's the monkey behind the wheel." They figured out that we weren't there to mind their business, just some guys going to do a bit of gold mine development work. Never had any problem with the narcos after that.
@@TweEkc Hmm, a botanist who's tattoo'd up.... I'm thinking mafia. He's the guy who makes people disappear. Cash up front and he'll morph from a botanist to a pizza purveyor in Chicago. We'll call him *"Hot Sauce"* or *Bitacuss*
This "obnoxious, heavily tattooed Italian" is probably the most therapeutic RU-vid channel most of us have found to watch in a long time. Your work is so wholesome! Honestly! Start a patreon so we can fund you doing this stuff all over the world!
I just watched your clip on a Chicago news channel and I had to come back here and say damn, you sure are good-lookin! I have watched your videos for a while now so it was pretty neat to see the guy behind the hands.
It's nice to know your interest in botany and making videos prevented you from developing a virus that would exterminate all of humankind. Kind of a close call for us, though.
I love many of your videos Joey. This time i got a belly laugh out of that line, you should have been working in a lab making virus'. You are so funny sometimes!
Love your videos! I work as a gardener in Texas keeping way too many non-natives alive in the disgusting heat. In terms of scientific classification knowledge though I mostly know spider species. So, keep teaching me plant species you wonderful Italian!
The text overlay on this one was particularly good. I always appreciate the text especially since so many of these latin words are not spelled the way they sound. Real nice.
The Mesquite tree's lateral roots that is has can reach out much further than the canopy ever will. Not to mention they happen to have tap roots that go very deep to get water well beyond 150 feet down, however 50 feet down is more typical.Apr 6, 2017
Wonder if you've come across any epiphytes when roaming around these Sonoran mountains. Supposedly Laelia aurea have been found as far north as Sonora, but I've never seen any maps that pinpoint any populations. Perhaps they've all been collected by now.
I believe its a little too dry for any epiphytic orchids in the North, but there is Tillandsia revurvata. Did not see any Laelia. But yes, locals will poach epiphytic orchids and sell them at tourist markets. Saw plenty of this in Oaxaca and Michoacán in previous years.
It's not a monarch (Danaus plexippus). Monarchs have only two sets of filaments. The one in his video has three sets of filaments and is probably a Danaus gilippus or queen butterfly based on his location. Looks like fourth or fifth instar.
So awesome that your channel is the first footage of that weird wrinkly plant !! I knew you were a real scientist, or at least you hang out with them...
I like the way you disdain the people who are obsessed with how they can use the plants. Ask not what native plants can do for you, ask what you can do for native plants.
I enjoy these a lot thanks an what the shit..ya know? I live in central AZ, Can't wait to get back out into the forest and learn more about the plant life where I live
15:42 You can't just throw words like "sky islands" to me like that!? D: How am I supposed to not think it's aliens if you don't edumacate me on sky islands???
"Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found near the southern borders of Arizona and New Mexico, and has extended to similarly isolated high-altitude forests. The isolation has significant implications for these natural habitats." - Wikipedia
Narcos are probably a safer bet than deranged Trumpsters. Obviously your timing is great with the monsoons and your routing. This is a climax year to see plants that don't always appear when the spring rains and monsoons are fickle. Here at 7700 ft in Northern NM the plant profile is outrageous this year along with the prolific monsoon flow. Safe travels!
1st sentence - I agree. Both have guns, but the latter are incredibly more idiotic and paranoid, which is a bad combination when tied with large caliber firearms.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I try not to but often find myself marveling at what appears to be the reverse of anything called evolution within the human species. that said, the narcos are a lot more clear and grounded with their routine than the Trumpsters.
How do these people even end up here 👆? Shouldn't they be planning how to shoot up the next shopping mall or something? Probably just came to hear the obnoxious accent 😂 😂 😂
Love the videos dude. Making my way through all the the older ones. Is there a functional reason for having the ruler tattoo on the middle finger and not the index finger? Is is so you give people the finger as you're trying to measure something? Apologies for stealing your style, but I think I'm going to get a ruler tattoo. So practical!
Yes. It is the only way to correct the tragedy of growing up being indoctrinated with the imperial system. If I ever forget how big a millimeter is (10 of them in a centimeter, and 2.54 cm in an inch), I just look at my finger.
0:03 I'm not sure how fast Saguaros grow when they're very small, but I was gifted one that was about two feet tall about 8-10 years ago and it's now almost 5 feet tall. So I would suspect that those little saguaros in the video are younger than 30 years old. (Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm genuinely curious. What I do know is that it takes around 50 years for a Saguaro to grow one arm.
In cultivation they grow much faster. When getting going from a seedling, they are extremely slow. I started some from seed ten years ago, they are not a foot tall yet.
Caterpillar at 20:02 is a relative of the Monarch (one of the Danaus), judging by pictures on blog.press.princeton.edu/2018/01/29/monarchs-milkweed-in-mexico/
Love your videos, and agree about the fucxing human race, we’ve been trying for a while to reduce the plastic we use, but the whatever goes to the store, WRAPPED IN PLASTIC! And don’t get me started on the Shix you get with Internet Shipping! Any way I’m from Wonderful Wet Wales in the UK and seeing these dry climate things is a treat! I used to read in Cowboy Stories about people hiding out in the mesquite (hope that’s spelt right) but HOLY CRAP you could hide an ARMY in that stuff! Could you show some Sagebush sometime? Thanks for reawakening my interest in Botany, my degree (as a mature student) was in Ancient History/Classical Studies and if you are ever tempted to do that, let me tell you it’s just a catalogue of human stupidity! ONWARD!
Any of those rock Asters develop a caudex? So,are Cheilanthes primitive ferns?..you know..just drop those uncovered spores straight down? The blue fern looks so much like our Cali Coffee ferns..same family I think. So go to local hills and see much the same..only green,not blue.
The Caterpillar on the asclepias is a monarch. One of the reasons monarchs are in trouble is because the caterpillars feed exclusively on asclepias, which the shittiest suburban residents hate and rip out as a weed.
