If you're still in the area, Crone's Cradle Conserve where I work has some incredible biodiversity as we're working on restoring the natural pine savannah here. It would be an honor if you came out. I run the greenhouse with dozens and dozens of well adapted medicinals and culinary plants.
Hellyeah From St Petersburg, on the mid- gulf peninsular county on the peninsula.....barely any native wildlife or elbowroom swimming in the monoculture of our assfaulty asphalt and cement jungle's bipedal ape
Ayyy yo! Grew up down there and moved out to the central Midwest near where this guy is from, so I have a little sentimental value to this video of his. Now I'm just waiting on his take on papaver somniferum and papaver p. Paenoflorum!
Thanks Joey. Next time you come to our backwards state, hit up the Lake Wales Ridge! Tons of endemics in the place that stayed above the water in geologic history.
I'm hoping he does the apalachicola area with Lily in the spring. They'd have the sarracenia, pinguicula, Drosera, the terrestrial orchids, and milkweeds blooming
Best vid you've done yet Tony, I am from So. Florida so obviously I am biased. Plz do more videos from down there to explain just how much invasive stuff has taken over. I am 15 years removed. So I love it ❤
The Florida landscape is enchanting. I've only explored it further north (Myakka River SP, in Sarasota county) but this brought back some nice memories. So different from the precambrian shield where I'm from. Thanks Joey
LMAO "I half-expected to see a pair of geriatrics in a golf cart getting chased by a naked tweaker trying to eat their faces off." Sounds like an accurate description of South Florida.
Lots of interesting forests and swamps to explore in FL. If you’re ever in north central FL you should check out paynes prairie. There’s also a bunch of nice springs you can go swimming in.
looks a lot like southeast louisiana, it would be cool to see you do a video around the new orleans area. there's still some areas leftover from hurricane katrina where the plants are taking over what used to be neighborhoods and stuff.
Ride on Much love from Port Charlotte...on lovely Charlotte Harbor... Great Vid..love hearing bout my local flora Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center is a must see if you make it over to our estuary..the needle rush marsh is a super hev
Thanks for coming to Florida♡ You should definitely do West Virginia. You'd love the Cranberry Glades (a mountaintop bog with carnivorous plants, and Bear Town State Park is absolutely stupendous, geologically and botanically. The tree roots melt over the sides of huge crevasses, and ferns blanket the rocks. Come in the warm months though. There's also enormous American Chestnut logs mid-decay, propped up and laying around.
Ahhh so glad your doing an ep in florida,so many endemics and weird biomes. Check out archbald scublands on the lake whales ridge used to be an island 200mil years ago and the plants still grow there and no where else
There's a big ass National Wildlife Reserve on Sanibel Island, and another undeveloped barrier Island a little north of there called Cayo Costa. You could probably do some excellent botanizing there. They did get hit pretty hard by Hurricane Ian, though, so not everything is open yet...
I have memories of my stepdad almost running us out of gas in the Ding Darling wildlife preserve during a family vacay back in the 70s. My mom was convinced we'd all be eaten by gators.
I have been waiting so long for him to end up in flawda! I hope there’s more where this came from. If you’re heading northwest, Weeki Wachee Preserve is an awesome conservation success story: 30 years ago, the 11,000 acres of mined land was in the early stages of being bulldozed when the Southwest Florida Water Management District stepped in to purchase & protect it before it was all lost. Now, it’s got some of the most beautiful, diverse, and secluded areas in central fl. If you head south out of Linda pederson, you get an awesome patchwork of swamp and sand hill. The pawpaw, shiny blueberry, penntyroyal are some of my favorites lining many of the trails. SWFWMD deserves some love for stepping in to protect so many thousands of acres from urban sprawl. They do awesome work with rural Floridians as well, purchasing historic cattle ranches and offering leases back to those families so that they can continue their way of life without slowly selling off their land to developers. public cow pastures = happy hikers 🍄
THIS is the guided nature walk I’ve been looking for since moving here. Thank you! Not sure where you plan heading, but the Atala butterfly is a little bit north, and some rare mint called Lakelas Mint on the Treasure Coast. Unrelated to the butterfly. Larvae eat Coontie 😉 And I just learned recently that the Sabal Palm is actually grass?? So Jurassic. Safe travels!
It blows my mind sometimes watching these videos. We have a common species on the east coast of Australia - Smilax australis and Trema tomentosa similar to the species shown in this video. I love seeing the different species, but also love seeing the similarities too.
It's so wonderful to see you running around Everglades and Big Cypress. I've met Lydia! Next time I see her I'm going to rant to her about being your guide. Heehee.
Thank you for visiting the Everglades. It's practically the only good thing we have to offer down here. As for the malaluca tree( or however you spell it); the tree was introduced because it drinks a shit ton of water and they wanted to drain the Everglades so they could farm tomatoes back in the day.
Thank you for commenting this i was going to as well. It's important to know the history of why they're there in the first place. As kids we called them the paper trees
Any plans on ever visiting Minnesota? I have 40 acres in the northern woodlands I would gladly let you explore. Its right on the crossroads of the eastern deciduous, northern boreal and western grassland biomes. I've personally ID'd over 50 species of plants and fungi with help of Seek app on phone. Really enjoyed your videos from UP of Michigan
Watching from Nova Scotia, Canada. Great to see some of our shared flora of the Atlantic Coastal Plain that are at the northern edge of their range up here!
About damn time you're in Florida, great video I learned a lot. Most of the plants I know are from Central Florida, there are some amazing forests and intact habitats here, Goethe state forest, Ocala national forest, chasohowitka, withlacoochee state forest, etc.
Finally made it man you should visit the fern forest nature center while you're here it's surrounded by city but its one of the most biodiverse places I've found in south Florida and try and find a pinus clausa forest there's some interesting shit in em!!
Thank you! It is so nice to see someone appreciate the wonderful ecosystems and diversity Florida has to offer. Highly recommend checking out different parts of Central Florida for even more wonderfulness.
Wow, can't believe you're actually on the east coast. Now get your ass to the barrens and cedar glades here in middle Tennessee. April - June is a great time to see the endemic plants. Dry and hot af in June, too. Just the way you like it :)
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Here's a good starting point (with a list of endemic species). Most of the glades are clustered around the Nashville area. I really do think you'd enjoy it. www.mtsu.edu/glade-center/teaching/CedarGlades%20brochure.pdf
Ah! Morella cerifera, good 'ole wax myrtle. I love this fragrant plant, if you crush the leaves it produces the distinct Mayberry sent that a lot of Yankee candles rip off😉
I have “ wild” physostegia and sisyrinchum in my central NJ backyard, love them- they just showed up years ago. They both are now available in catalogs. It’s amazing to know the sisyrinchum is in the iris family, one of my favorites. Based on what I’ve seen in your videos iris seems to have adapted itself to such a variety of areas, have to look into it more. Thank you for such botanically wonderful videos, the soil geology and the critters are also appreciated. 🌿
i would love to see you do a deeper dive on the everglades i know you did the panhandle pretty deeply but there's so much more to Florida. rent yourself an air boat and hit a couple different parts of the everglades. maybe Okeechobee and even the lake wales ridge region. id imagine that there would be unique varietals around some of the freshwater springs along the limestone shelf of Midwest Florida as well. there's a ridiculous abundance of diverse ecology in Florida and it'd be hard to do it justice by anybody but you. you're fuckin amazing man. thanks for the engaging educational videos.
I saved a couple Hymenocallis latifolia from being bulldozed and paved over in 2015. Posted and gave them up to a few cading folks when I moved across county for a job
I always buy mulch made of all the melaluca they grind up down there. Yeah, the spot treatment herbacide is great....bradford pear trees they have invaded up north. Lol
If you are still in here in South Florida, I would recommend the Fakahatchee Strand. It is is a hotspot for epiphytic plants. There are also many well preserved hardwood hammocks in the homestead area
We got to have an extended family type vacation, my first in 10 years last year. Shared a nice older Florida home in East Point, across the bay & way more kid friendly than Panama City. Lucked out with a wetland restoration area close enough to walk to & a visitors center which exceeded expectations in their displays. A nice boardwalk around the place too. This brings great memories but chasing a 4 year old would have upped the entertainment value 😂, great nephew but stays WFO until he drops from exhaustion. He put a shell in his pocket on the sly & learned about hermit crabs, yeah good times. Thanks as always Joey, damn you'd be fun to hang with. My family had a limited tolerance for my botanizing.
You filmed in my area I know that gator with white looking eye and you filmed what locals called crooked covert just past that gator the open water spot. Some the pine you where at is known as the old hump campground behind yellow gate I think .Love your CH I spent many years out there and you find some things I didnt know about like the white orchid on nxt video .
Ooooh man! Most of my succulents flattened to that cold blast! In zone 7b. Man… why can’t I grow cacti….in my garden in zone 7. Why….Tony…. - desperately trying to grow un-indigenous plants in NC
Finally some Florida shit. Carefully check Tillandsia in wet habitats for Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani, Florida's local member of unilateralis complex.
Try to find some Florida "upland" scrub habitat. We've got an incredible variety of Ericaceae species which are increasingly bulldozed over and replaced with sod and nonnative tropicals. Our Lyonia diversity alone would be worth a short video.
Hey, have you ever gone and done any of the true peat bogs in the Pacific Northwest, with Kalmia Oxycoccus oxycoccos, a fun one to say! Menziesia, Andromeda, Ledum, and you get the picture. There is a little bog a mile from my old house, less than a half mile from Hood Canal, where all these grow, and more. We used to go play a weird ball game with no rules while tripping our asses off, fun as hell, walking and running around on the big sponge like Sphagnum. I picked tiny cranberries every year for Thanksgiving, which would take a lot of time to get close to a pint, but the flavor so good, even my sister who didn't like cranberries, liked them!
