Was ready to light some shit on fire after spending 30 seconds on twitter. Had to balance it out with 30 minutes of milkweeds and dunes. Fantastic as always
Yá'át'ééh (hello) from the Navajo Nation. Keep the videos coming, I'm learning a lot while laughing my ass off. Life on the Rez can be kinda shitty but like the native botany we're pretty resilient, goddamm invasives.
Some feedback: I dig it when you describe how things smell. And when you provide temperatures, elevations, those kinds of details. Thanks for making these videos, for doing the work. I find them inspiring on many levels. GFY.
what a visually stunning place! the light, the shadows, the plant etchings, the mules' ears...I love how they grow in troops. So much beauty ! (deserts and psychedelics are old pals) love the colors, love it all, thank-you!
Man, your enthusiasm is contagious, I swear. Thanks for the tour of the Martian-like landscape(with flora bonus). I am thrilled that you took us along.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I remember reading about that. They thought it was two different species of Psilocybe and after sequencing it wound up being the same. Kinda like how P. ovoids are found in the U.S. north east and the north west with none in between for thousands of miles. Kinda makes you wonder what happened there. Did they get separated over time by environmental changes or is this part of the homogenocene?
@@AlAllerton probably been there for hundreds of thousands of years if not millions. Not sure what substrate they're digesting though. When we saw them on Nevado de Toluca they were growing beneath a massive Asteraceae shrub, Senecio cinerarioides.
16:14 "Can you imagine being here on mild psychedelics?" The smell of some sophora flowers ARE mild psychedelics, such as Sophora secundiflora (Texas Mountain Laurel) in the Hill Country. Don't know about this one, S. stenophylla, but most members of the genus have toxic seeds and foliage.
Really awesome vid. Great shots of all kinds of flora and fauna in this one. Loved seeing the plants from the dunes with cameos from the insect life that also inhabits the ecosystem.
I suggested to my friend to get the ruler tattoo. He has a foundry, and sometimes he wants to know the shrinkage of the pattern. I just told him to use a slightly different body part.
About eating milkweed: I’ve heard never to eat any milkweed species west of the rockies due to toxicity. Eastern common milkweed is quite pleasant when young, a bit like broccoli. Lovely video. I live in Colorado, a long day’s drive from this landscape but the desert might as well be a different planet from the mountains.
I just cant... there is literally NO OTHER channel i could ever sit and watch of any other man walking through the desert talking bout plants and bugs for 30 minutes like this guy ova here...i just cant💜
THIS GUY!!! Your knowledge is amazing and astounding! I would like to mention that the survival of the Monarch Butterfly depends on Milkweed. We tried to eradicate milkweed as a farm weed many years ago. Now we find that Monarch populations are endangered. If you want Monarch Butterflies in your area, plant Milkweed. They have a huge migration path that extends to the east coast as well.
Wow to see a Tradescantia in the desert! If that species is anything like the several species farther east (not just T. ohiensis), they only flower from mid morning until about noon. So if you're too early or too late, no petals for you! ;) Does Eriogonum not have ocrea like most members of Polygonaceae? I didn't see any, maybe some reduced ones but not much. Maybe they're on the basal rosette? Love that Scabrethia! The milkweed, gorgeous leaf hairs, guessing that's a herbivory deterrent. Crazy how different the seedlings are from the adults. Love the Sephora too . . . The moving sand . . . O_O Suddenly realized the danger of sand dunes collapsing . . . Beautiful vistas. Thank you for this video, fantastic! :)
I love when my wife throws you on speakers. I yell from across the room, This fjuckin gui. I love your candor though, its actually got me lookin at these flowers now.
I'm sure I've been here! It's a beautiful area, the sand seems to act almost like snow, muffling sound. Hiking around in the dunes is surreal. It's a beautiful place and it ought to stay protected.
Milkweed here at my house in Detroit just beginning to bloom. I can smell it inside the house. I haven't found any monarch caterpillars here yet, but I found 3 at work.
This week is the second time my house has had to go into isolation. With these videos I at least feel like I am going for a walk myself, and always learn a thing or two too!
Wow! i never would have guessed that Eriogonum alata was in the buckwheat family! that Scabrethia and the Sophora are great candidates for horticulture! love the color of the sand too. another great vid!
I love your schooling man - we need this, these plants are unique and magical, exquisite miracles of life. A desert full of jewels. Thanks of taking us on this adventure of discovery.
beautiful plants, beautiful scenery, beautiful little insect bastards, some philosophical takes i gladly watch this. really is almost therapeutic. awe and comtenplation. i hope ya keep doin whatcha doin. thank ya
Should I assume that those cliffs in the background will be those dunes in fifteen thousand years or less? I’m glad to see all the bugs too. And the footprints.
@@tommypetraglia4688 I had left Jellystone, late August 1987 and meandered down 191. Near Arches I saw "Dead Horse Point...". The name drew me up. The road had Just been paved. $6 it was to camp....I walked to the point. A sign "hang gliders Please check in...". Please. Then I saw the goosenecks. The view. So I jumped on my Moto Morning 501 dual sport and wandered. I went behind Moab and 90 miles of dirt to 211 near Needles Outpost. Back to Dugout Ranch to Beef Basin. I was hooked. When I first saw Moab I was in love. But Suddenly I Knew ...."this is gonna be like The Vail Colo of the desert." By1989 mountain bikers were pouring in in late April. The building boom began 1991-2. I rarely go there since then. Beef Basin back to Alice Springs has many ruins. Ruin Park is in this area. It's amazing. From this area you can ascend the Abajos, past Duck lake, Dark Canyon (E. Abbey) , The Knotch, Kilgalia, down to Natural Bridges, Blanding. Blue spruce. You'll love it. All dirt, passable when rain free.
@@tommypetraglia4688 Dittos!! My first reaction to the area was "whata great place to die". Got this fantasy of finding a nice natural sepulchre....the Needles Outpost sold in 1992 for $250,000!! 600+ acres...I was freshly divorced....resold in recent past and is now some kinda hoity toity Gucci loafer place. So I'm gonna treat it like Moab. Do go up thru the Bears Ears, past Duck Lake to intersection that goes to Beef Basin...you can go to the Needles if you like. Climb up Elephant Hill. This requires Backing Up steep slopes maybe 3 times. A motorcycle can not make the turns! You must move the bike around the turn. But it's fun.
I've been watching your vids for about a year now, and i love them! A couple months ago I was out at the coral sand dunes with my roommates and we saw some weird guy with a camera yelling at the ground. Thought what the hell is this guy doing, just yelling at the ground and recording it? It wasn't until i saw this that I realized it was probably you! Thanks for pointing out the great smell of the sophora, nobody i was with could smell it!
Just started watching... man this is refreshing. Also a reminder to plant some more native plants in the yard (we're in northern NM, pinon / juniper mostly). Would love to get some SW native asclepias in the yard eventually.
Fantastic milkweed. I hope it has some protection order on it. Only 8 wild populations! Perhaps it could be brought into horticulture - it’s pretty enough - could be good garden specimen. It’s what they did with the Wollemi Pine here and, given we nearly lost the last wild stand in the January bushfires, it’s just as well. It’s not ideal, but better than being left with a few pressings in a herbarium.. Terrific video. I haven’t watched in a while but should have.
That red sand is unmistakable. Reminds me of the land around Page AZ. Haven't been out there since this bastard got me into plant id, but now I definitely wanna go back
About those white moths at 26:00 I was reading about other milkweeds tonight and an article mentioned Cycnia tenera, the dogbane tiger moth. [Copied from wiki...] It is a common feeder on Apocynum cannabinum (dogbane, Indian hemp) which produces a milky latex containing cardenolides, toxic cardiac glycoside that defend against herbivores. It also feeds on milkweed species, Asclepias, at least in parts of its range, but is most commonly reported from dogbane. Its interactions with bats have been much studied, but are an area of dispute regarding whether the clicks emitted by adult moths are disruptive of bat echolocation, or merely aposematic warning signals.
thanks man. your videos helped before everything got super weird so they are especially meditative now. also that place looks sick, might have to go check it out
I am currently studying Penstemon with the Forest Service RMRS and yeah... It feels like there are 100000 species haha. Love your videos, if your in Idaho our crew would love to show you around.
I love your videos. makes me want to go out but I dont know what im looking at ahaha. reminds me always of this proverb of hell: "To create a little flower is the labor of ages." -William Blake
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntwell yeah, thanks, I know, but like, what do I do, just go walking with a botany book? I'm a somewhat successful autodidact but with Botany I have no clue where to start. And are there even plants worth checking out here in Toronto? Wanna come visit sometime and get me started? You'll always have a place to stay up here if you need bro!
@@jesserivera9704 download inaturalist, start uploading observations, and when you learn what a plant is that you observed go read about it in Wikipedia and see what family it's in (and thus what it's evolutionarily related to) and any other pertinent informsiton that may be listed
Wonderful habitat and scenery! Thanks, Joey! As an aside, I thought I'd heard of Asclepias before, but in a different context. Actually it was 'Asclepius'. Linnaeus himself codified our native milkweed as Asclepias syriaca (though the plant is not from Syria) in 1753, naming the species after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. The classic rod of Asclepius and of medicine focusing on patients and used by many medical organizations worldwide is a single snake twined around a wooden staff.
I know you get tons of requests from folks asking you to come to their area. But, if you've never been to the cedar glades here in middle Tennessee, then you REALLY need to check them out. The flora is right up your alley. Rare and endangered species found no where else, and geology unique to this region.
As always, thanks so much for your awesome vids and sense of humor, man! These A. welshii look very, very similar to some milkweeds (that I haven't been able to identify) that I've seen growing in urban Managua. People call'em "dog's balls" plants, because the seed pod looks uncannily like a tight, green [air-filled] n*tsack! The ones down here are probably invasive, I'm guessing; I took some pictures of some I found growing in the street today because I remembered watching your video a few weeks ago.
Sniff some Pondorosa pines for me! I mean, stick your schnozz right up against that bark and have a good huff. Half of them smell like vanilla, and half smell like butterscotch.
You could start a patreon instead of sponsors. I'm sure people would love monthly downloads of your art and photos (assuming you photograph the plants too)
