Longleaf Pines of Southeast Texas 

This is my local ecosystem! I can't tell you how happy I am to see you talking about all the plants i grew up with.

I cannot overstate how absolutely phenomenal this guy is. Also, if you get a bad urushiol rash, try this: - apply warm compress to rash to affected area to open pores (1-2 min) - apply rag soaked in vinegar to rash. Let sit about 10 minutes. - wash with cold water and soap. I've found that this method of self-pickling helps shorten the duration and diminish the intensity of the rash. And always wash with cold soap and water after possible exposure to minimize the allergic reaction.

Hey man I just wanted to let you know that you inspired me to leave my desk job and become an arborist

Absolutely mandatory to experience a nice relaxing shower with a sumac rash. Should be on everyone’s bucket list. Friendly reminder to not pee in the woods unless you’re sure your hands are clean.

“These massive orb weavers are everywhere.” As a Texan I can tell you horror stories about those spiders being literally EVERYWHERE lol

I was today years old when I realized you’re saying “basal leaves” instead of “basil leaves”. I’ve always thought they never looked like basil when you said it...

I've been waiting for a Longleaf Savanna video by you for absolutely ever. Fun fact when the Longleaf Alliance was formed in 1995 there was only 3 Million acres of Longleaf ecosystem left of an original 90+ Million. Today there is that much in Florida alone

Ya, I had 5 old long leaf pines in my front yard . Really beautiful until Hurricane Sally came through Foley, Alabama and they all fell on my house. It was unexpected but we had 10 days of rain soaking the sandy clay soil and the strong hurricane winds took them down. Scary stuff! We are slowly rebuilding. Their rings showed that they were approximately 70 years old.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I want to try out some of those needles!! I just started learning how to make pine needle baskets and I’m obsessed with this new craft. Every long needle tree has different colors and textures to play with. 😍

I lived in west Louisiana for about 10 years, same latitude as Jasper county. Cool to see so many familiar plants! Over where I used to live they would do controlled burns through the longleaf forests every so often to keep things healthy.

Thanks for making a video on this part of Texas. I grew up playing in the piney woods of Liberty County near there in the Big Thicket. Wonderful memories of that area.

Aw man- if you’re ever back out in Mississippi, the Crosby arboretum has a wonderful setup- we actually did controlled burns for the pines, and for the next few years you’d have pitcher plants and a slowly evolving ecosystem. Love this video, the pine belt in MS (and the native focused Crosby arboretum) are what got me into conservation and ecology- beyond consuming nature and into participating

We were there right after you. Just spent the last ten days with my conservation crew working with NPS there - worked on the two t trails you look like you were on and off too. I feel like I know exactly where you were at for some of those shots and plants. Thanks for not blowing up spots with specific locations. Great time to be out - lots of great mycelial activity rn

I would love to see a movie on the Pine Barrens here in New Jersey. This content is both fascinating AND entertaining. Well done sir.😁

As a graduating forest management student, the longleaf-wiregrass forestland is my favorite to study the management and restoration of.

Southeast Virginia reporting in: We have a bunch of Long Leaf Pine stands botanists and local groups are trying to restore here. Especially around Suffolk (Norfolk adjacent) and Newport News is beginning to do the same. Great content!

I love longleaf pines! The drive down to Florida was made less miserable by the fluffy looking, bright green trees. They’re so cute in their bottle brush stage. I didn’t know bladderworts lived that close to pitcher plants. The bladderworts I’ve encountered in Wisconsin are huge underwater plants that have so many bladders they look like leaves, and they tend to like the water a little deeper.

Dude, I’m down here with a crew of Arborists doing disaster relief for lake Charles! This is so neat because we were wondering about the holly trees just the other day. We are actually hauling debris 30 min from Jasper off highway 190. We try to watch every morning the reception isn’t shitty. Seen lots of hogs, a road runner and tons of nutrias.

Joined Patreon! You take me to places I would never dream of going, have broadened my horizons, and made me learn shit. Thank you.

LOVE this guy and love my longleaf pines. Many thanks.

well, you're just down the street from me. i'm in fredtown, in an airstream behind the valero by the heb. c'mere and i'll make tamale soup. thanks for all the videos. i enjoy them so much. love to feed ya...

I love longleaf pines, I've seen them in the wild in North Carolina, when I took a trip out to some carnivorous plant habitat in a nature preserve.

"Tacky heinous shit" !! Haaaa... I love it. So true. LA House Flipper [lispy-douche voice]: ..."Lets do a bunch of Pampas grasses along the back fence with Iceplant on the slope below that, and Lantana along the top of the retaining wall... and, let's see... We'll put a row of Scotch broom along the side of the garage, and ooh, lets do Oleanders and Privets along the side fence. Then Ivy goes around the chimney base - obviously... and I think Heavenly Bamboo with Feathergrass and Fountaingrass would look nice in the side yard planters. We can put a couple Hydrangeas on the North side of the house, with Calla Lilies and Periwinkle in front of those... We have to plant Cannas and Agapanthus and Daylilies around the pool, cuz they won't make a mess... Oh and some Lavender and Mullein for the kitchen herb garden.... OMG, we must put a pink Bougainvillea on the front trellis! And I know Creeping Jenny mixed with purple Petunias would look lovely in the hanging baskets on the deck. There's already a Boxwood hedge along the front walk, but we need a climber or two for the arbor- how about Star Jasmine and Clematis? or maybe Wisteria and Morning Glory? IDK... but for sure white Daisies and orange Tulips will go around the mailbox, and I definitely want red Rosebush standards along the white picket fence... and what else? ...I want a Japanese maple here, and a Crape Myrtle tree there, and a row of Italian Cypresses somewhere... maybe a Palm tree? To make it feel more tropical, you know? Would a palm tree be too much out front? Fine, put a couple palm trees behind the pool chairs in the backyard! And what else? uhh...hmmmm.... Everything else can be lawn! Let's head to Home Depot!" No. Kill me.

Spent many years in Southeast Texas - so cool to learn about the botany back there!

Damn, guess I gotta learn to live with spiders if I'm going to be out looking at plants

You’re in my neck of the woods there. Texas loves you! I must say, as far as I’m concerned, top of the list of “horticultural atrocities” is that sweet gum tree.

I just recently moved out of Florida but one year while down there I planted 12 Longleaf Pines around some water restoration land that I was monitoring (These went up on the sandhill near the pond, so not too wet, not too dry) After 4 years I lost access to that property but they were still in the bunchgrass phase last I saw them, which was pretty good because at least they were not dead and stuff. Wonder how they are doing now. But yeah, you should check out the Florida Native Plant Society (of which I was a member). The different chapters usually put on some really great native plant sales, so worth the trip.

I love this man

I’m happy you see Texas for the Magnificence it is! Thank you. I love my home too! ♥️🇨🇱

Watching this with captions is a blast! They actually get a surprising amount of Latin right, but also the translations that they miss are absolutely laughable. It adds a whole nuther level of humor to this. Great episode!

Those really are beautiful trees. I love the videos from around the world but the videos from north America drive home how awesome the ecology and botany of the continent we live on is. Thanks for always bringing us along!

SOuthern Georgia looks like this. In fact, Bartram described this ecosystem hundreds of years ago when he traveled through SE Georgia.

It brings a guilty pedantic smile to my face that among all the highly technical plant part naming there's a fairly (though quite common) inaccurate reference to human lady parts.

I love this one. I'm from the east Texas area and this footage of a beautiful wooded landscape puts me at ease. Great shit.

Same ecosystem, different state! Crazy to hear you talk about familiar plants for once

This episode makes me want to go outside and explore for sure.

Here at under 1K, I SO enjoy these...

Thank you very much for taking us to this really wonderful interesting place and sharing the knowledge you have of it.

October is the magic time A rainbow visits our Jersey state vine. Yellows, green, red and purples too Poison ivy will tantalize you!

That Eupatorium at the end was so beautiful!!

Love those baygalls and bogs in the longleaf woods... :)

Omg the way your dog was taking a piss was hilarious :)

Finally a guy talking about plants that doesn’t make me want to fucking cringe.

"Georgia O'keeffe couldn't have done it justice" 😂 This is the best botany video I've ever seen.

Phylotactic Spiral is the name of my new smooth jazz band. I actually do grow native plants in my front and back yard. I have to have landscapers come next spring because the Monardas have gotten completely out of hand and out competed the other native plants I had.

Loved this one!

thanks for sharing

Love these vids bro, I learn something new every time

That's a different looking Liatris! Very cool.

Welcome to our wonderful corner of Texas, and greetings to Adam Black.

I live in The Woodlands. Can't wait to watch this one.

Guy: How did you get so fuzzy? spider: I got it from my momma

Thank You !

Very enjoyable. Thank you for the tour.

I love your tours through nature, Buddy

As a Georgia native it’s nice to see him showcasing the wonderful floral diversity we have in the southeast. Longleaf pine wire grass savannas are my favorite ecosystem by far

Thanks Man

thank you

Nice to see you cover my part of Texas.

My whole life and I never knew pitcher plants were native to where I grew up! Edit: Also spiders like that one on the water traumatized me as a child 😂

Hour away great to have ya.

I'm in GA right now, we're experiencing a population boom of the Joro spider, looks very similar to the Orb but has red spots under the thorax and a golden colored silk

Thanks Joey

Amazing pines :)

Thanks for the bog survey! Awesome to see so many CPs in situ... keep it coming!

Dude your awesome! I. So glad a friend recommended your channel ! Thank you for all the knowledge much appreciated 🙏🌱💚

your the best. 😀

Top notch vid!!!

My local ecosystem and my favorite ecosystem! Love it! Fire dependency is amazing to me!

That eup and your camera triggered a pleasant flashback! Thank you for the awesome service

Thats my home county fam. Hope you enjoyed the catfish. Tasty catfish down there.

I do love the outdoors too pal. And the Long Leaf Pine savannahs are my favorite ecosystems in the Spring of the year. No telling what you might see.

dude this is so cool

This is my local ecosystem in south Mississippi! I love going out to the long leaf pine forests.

Thats my neck of the woods! So cool

Hell yeah Thursday just got way better.

Welcome to the Piney Woods... please stay awhile. There’s a Girl Scout camp in the region that may show more native plants also!

Pretty cool to see you in my hometown area, I recognize everything you are seeing.

Awesome to see you botanizing in my area, Tony! I helped with rare plant surveys in western Louisiana, so a lot of the plants you covered have a special place in my heart. Love your videos, and keep up the great work!

What a great video, you get extra bonus points from me for showing and talking about BladderWorts and of course one of my favorite plants Sundews

What a stunning environment . Doubt I'll ever see it , but appreciate you showing it to us . Thank you

Been waiting years for this one

C'mon, do a video on fire adapted plants! Local grandpas here in Northern California are getting triggered when I tell them the fires are not actually the end of the ecosystem!

a sight for sore ears - the sulty tones of CPBBD!

Thanks for this! I'm always struggling with pine familiarity and was hungry for some longleaf pine tutorial.

Thanks for coming out this way. I ride through the Angelina National Forest all the time. It's a pretty cool place out here. Lot of cool plants and wildlife.

I am learning so much from these vids. Thank you and I guess you would feel better if I say it, sooo gfy

I hope that area is protected somehow...wonderful tour! thank-you.

i grew up not far from there and have been there many times. never knew it has such diverse flora.

I grew up in Florida so I'm more familiar with the Sandhill environments but it's so nice hearing you talk about plants I'm familiar with! Erythrina is one of my favorite Florida natives. Tip for growing from seeds: I've found lightly cracking the seeds allows water to enter and the plant to sprout. I gave some to my dad and they lay dormant for 4 months in soil but he took them out, cracked them, and they sprouted in a week.

nice

24:29 The way it’s legs are leaving those egg shaped displacement depressions ...... Cool.

Smarter Every Day did a nice video about these pine forests and the animals they support, and the people who are working to preserve them. The gopher tortoise is an indicator species.

nice video my guy

Western most extension of the Eastern Pine Forest. Bastrop state park, like you say fun to see the pines.

My neck of the woods 👍

Longleaf pine is the most botanically diverse habitat in the United States. Endless possibilities for exploration. Maybe you just need to take a propane torch to the longleaf you planted in oakland, they won't shoot up without a good burn :D

Long leaf pine - the pine that built the south! A great video on a very important but endangered ecosystem!

HENRY WINKLERI's lookin pretty good!!! EYYYYY!!!!!!!

This is my home ecosystem. I grew up down the road in Tyler County East Texas. I miss 'dose pines.