Gary Baxter: I’m sorry, but I didn’t intend to insult you. I was just trying to pass on factual information. He’s titled another video “Tony Santoro’s Guide to Botany.”
Thanks! I referred to him as Jack in another comment section, until I discovered that is the name of his dog!!! He totally sounds like a Tony, if you know what I mean.....
Ya know, I was also thinking, get out of the sun, go visits some fronds. Always makes you feel a little umbel in the presence of all that selagi and stiff rachis.
"Have you had enough?" Hell no! I need more, this is unreal! Maybe even fantastic or stellar, running out of lame complements here, just beat me with that rachis!
Hey man. You make me smile. I’m not a plant guy, well I wasn’t. Anyway, you make me smile, mostly cuz, you’ve got a way about ya N’such. I’m kinda an asshole most the time on account of people shooting at me and seeing terrible stuff n’whatnot. Anyway, you should be happy knowing that you bring joy to people. I for one appreciate what you’re doing!
can't remember who said it (i'm an old) but it went something like this: "people only use 10% of their brains because if we used the whole thing, the first living thing we set eyes on we would just sit and stare thinking 'WOW, look at that!" you, sir, are in danger of using more than that 10%
The whole 10% thing is bs, but yeah, the creative intelligent people still have that sense of awe that kids have as they are swatting in the mud as it rains.
Chirst. New Caledonia is fucking amazing. It's like a trip back to the goddamn Jurassic. I don't know how I'll do it, but I have to make my way there someday. Bucket list shit. Also, this is officially my favorite of his videos ever. I've watched it like three times already. That little ravine is a fucking time machine.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has wanted to spend the night in the Fern Room at Garfield Park Conservatory. Never occurred to me to try it, though.
They say some people never know when to come in from the rain, but in your case I am glad you staid to show and botanize some exotic plants I will never see. Go get dry on the outside and wet inside with a cold beer. Thanks again
I could listen to you for a very long time. Even though you're from Chicago or thereabouts, you sound like someone from home, which is near New York City. I love it that you have this abiding respect for plants and have learned things on your own. This shit matters. You are right, life on Earth would be very different if plants evolved in a different way. I like finding out how things work and why, and plants don't actively lie like some people do. I just like learning stuff and especially when I respect that what I'm hearing is the truth as far as you know it. What a world. I hope we don't blow it up. We already do enough to our environment by shitting where we live. We need to use our brains, but we've been "educated" not to. Thank You. I'm off to fuck myself.
This was a particularly horny video eh? Really nice. Loved the eusporangia money shot. Love following you around through geologic eras, into dungeons and refugial valleys. Hope you are having the time of your life man!!
Omg 😂 I'm watching as I work on a macrame chandelier. I was looking away when you said "Oh, look at that, somebody's working on some macrame!" That was a weird moment for me. Hahaha
13:17 A hoya was my first houseplant. Got it around 2017, it stayed the winter-half-year by a north-facing window in the small apartment I shared with another student, then moved in with me where I live now where it has spent the last 2 1/2 years perched upon a random shelf. Still lives. Cut off parts of it several times in attempts to propagate it. Never repotted. Never flowered. I think it's holding on by spite alone.
good afternoon. i get to remodel on my own you angelic potty mouthed person. . anyway where we differ but i have gotten raunchy too but with my older sister who doesn't get it sometimes . she teaches little ones her whole life. does a good job. boy the president could use her as a sounding board and would nt rattle her. amazing.
Nice to see all the New Caledonian flora- really familiar but odd looking from a Southern Pacific perspective. Cool Eleocarpus. There are a couple of species in New Zealand. The one that is the easiest to remember is Eleocarpus hookerianus. :) yep...
the heavy chicago accent makes this so much better because it makes you sound like such a dad. im basically imagining a chicago ned flanders teaching me about plants
Joey, do you use a key before you make these vids? I have a hard time accepting that you just know all of these off the top of your head. What's your process when you go into a new area to make a vid?
would you be open to opening your subtitles/cc to community contribution? It helps to have something to read along while you watch, and I would be perfectly willing to help as well
I use the google translated captions and they do well with all of his videos. Not perfect but very good considering the subject matter of the videos.. The taxonomical names it may have trouble with but there is usually an on-screen card to spell it out close by.
Where Hoya nicholsoniae occurs in north eastern Australia it has been re determined as Hoya potsii. There is a group of related Hoya species in the south west Pacific including Hoya samoensis from.... Samoa.
I likes me a big tree fern! I dig the natural camouflage the insects have developed. Brilliant! It seems like every leaf on every frond has sporangia pods lined up next to each other completely outlining/following the leaf contour. Must be thousands of 'em per frond. Is this why they've survived so long thru the ages?
Amborella joy! :) I was just about to talk about this plant in my botany course, great timing. ^_^ But for the future maybe some Selaginella strobili? Maybe? Some gametophytes would be tight. Swimming plant sperm under the microscope? Totally awesome. I've had this dream of a spore bearing plant documentary, but I have no money and not even good access to the plants required. ;)
Fascinating stuff about the Amborella, Thanks! About the Geodorum and their habit of bending their spike over- its yet another way to position the lip lowermost, for most efficient pollination. Looks like its pollinated by a bee or a beetle . By the way the name (Geodorum) means gift of (or for) the earth; probably refering to the flowering habit.
I love these old lineages, beautiful. I like your video's Tony. It might be the accent, bit did you say 22feet is 3m? 1 ft is 30,48cm making the length 6,7m or something.
