"Look at that vulture. What are you doing here? Do you find road kill down there?" Vulture, thinking "Nice spot to check, you would be surprised how often over enthusiastic botanists drop down this cliff."
The pinhão is such a tradition down south, I'd know winter was coming as a kid because my grandma would boil them by the kilograms to soften the "shell" before handing it to me to pry it open with a knife. Almost sliced my fingers off as a toddler doing that, so worth it
Because we are seeing this, you must have made it out alive. One misstep and you would be fertilizer. That plant life is gorgeous! Especially being Winter! Yeah, I wonder what its like in the height of Summer. Thanks for sharing this with us!
These seeds of araucaria are very traditional in the festivals we have on june (festas juninas), and we call it "pinhão". I like it, it's cooked in water and some salt.
Goddamn those are some nice Araucarias. Shame that the Araucaria moist forests are one of the most destroyed habitats in Brazil, they're such nice trees I don't know how people could bear to cut them down. Whole Araucariaceae has some of the most majestic trees on the planet that always seem to end up with the most devastating fates...
Wow that is a place I have dreamed of visiting for so many years. A whole new frost hardy flora !! I have quite a few Arauacaria angustifolia here in Normandy for many years, some are getting a nice size. You could have made a film twice as long so many plants such as those gleicheniales that we only just glimpsed. Dream place sir !!
Araucária seeds nice. I usually cook them with salt and a pinch of pepper. Pretty decent winter snacks, with some cheese, salami, dark beer or the traditional hot wine thing. Good stuff.
Your videos would make any of those fake instagram people jealous because you actually know where to find amazing beauty in nature. I fell in love with plants when I my own directed study in college studying the evolution of carnivorous plants. Your videos are amazing and I thank you for making them. Content like yours is actually needed because it makes the internet a better place.
Great Video--I live in Santos,Sao Paulo State and I have taken a lot of hikes in the Serra Do Mar and the plant diversity is so amazing!!! Great to see that you are botanizing in the fantastic and beautiful Mata Atlantica!!!! Parabens Senor!!!!
I love that litho environment! Cliffs are one of my favorite biomes you're the only channel I watch that goes to these cliffs for reasons other than climbing. Thanks for your huge efforts
I can feel the scratchy lichen-on-rock underfoot just watching this. Complete with Rock Ferns. Some of the most rare and endangered plants exist in cliff environments.
@nathandale3415 Totally agree! When collecting spores I only ever take from established populations with 10+ plants and only ever take 1 leaf, so the ferns can March on.
My jaw dropped at that Lobelia thapsoides. What an absolute beauty of beast. Thanks for the sketchy rock face botany. I don't think I could ever do that.
I'm curious as to what the araucaria seeds taste like. A collab between you and Weird Explorer the fruit guy would probably be awesome. The flower on that orchid is crazy.
Oh, shoot!! I'll be honest, I'd love to see you go over to the Atlanta old growth forests in Georgia and let us know what exactly we'd be losing if the government succeeds in clearing it and building on it! 😮 They call it the lungs of Atlanta!
Thanks! Please come to Colombia, which borders northern Brazil on the Amazon river. We are the second most biodiverse country in the world, just right after our giant neighbor, and the first by square mile in diversity, you’ll love it here! specially the cloud forests and páramos ecosystems.
Oh shit, I stopped watching for a while and had no idea you came to Brazil. Would've pestered you to bring some department of unauthorized forestry merch otherwise. Shipping and taxes is killing me! Awesome to learn more about plants I see on a daily basis from you. Crazy stuff!
Wonderful content and informative! It helps to see orchids in its natural environment. My maculatum is being a complete bitch and this helped a lot. Thank you! You must plan another trip to South Africa again! You have to explore the amazing botany of Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.
I live in australia and its always so cool seeing these totally different species that share the same family as the unique native plants where i live, despite being an entirely different continent. Always felt a lot of comradory with south america because our history.
Tony! great show as always brother... Do you feel safe when you travel to all these amazing places? Also, make the steel bars at the end a short, lol..
Its not a landscape that people would associate when they think of Brazil, very spectacular monolithic granite You know why its worse going down, because if you go too fast its gonna hurt like hell all the way!
I wonder what the Castilleja is using for a host down there? For the native ones in my area it's like native fescue and some various Asteraceae like Oregon sunshine but in the rainforest I dunno.
Brazil is on another level! (Well I'm impressed. I suppose my being impressed isn't what puts some biome on a "level". Nah, heck, and gosh! It's on another level, by jingo!)
