Always love this bit from the the Welwitschia Wikipedia article: "Plants in Angola are better protected than those in Namibia, because the relatively high concentration of land mines in Angola keep collectors away."
What a welcome surprise. As a Namibian, I approve of this video. BTW, the locust at 4:55 is called an armoured corn cricket. They are herbivores in youth and later become cannibalistic. When one is run over on the road, others pour out to devour them. Gondwana broke up along the S. Atlantric ~130MaBP.
We have crickets in the western US that do that. Plus these 2-inch-long cannibalistic katydids called Mormon Crickets that cover the roads so thick that they cause car accidents when the cars hit a swarm and slide off the road because their guts make the road slick.
Tony, you are one foul mouthed cynical heart filled with Gold. I now walk past trees, bushes, flowers, rocks and soils, with respect to their evolution. Thank you.
First-keeping your family in my thoughts Joey. Thank you for showing us these amazing plants, I love the weird ones almost as much as you and that Welwitschia is the top of the charts. Also thanks for answering a nagging question about what may have lived on the land mass before the continents split- that still lives on in some form today.
You are funny...not even my sun flower behaves "normal" or is tame. My orchids demands serano ham and are bigger than an igloo. I have peyotle here which don't bother to have roots. ~6 years since the grafting stock died but they are aight without any roots...just chilling. One day I would LOVE to see a plant which is NOT wicked or teenager-like :)
I’m glad you finally got to meet your bucket list plant. It’s a shame the occasion was dampened by devastating news. I hope your kid responds well to treatment.
At last! Welwitschia. I've been waiting since the first South Africa video. That plant has to be at the top of any botanist's list of plants most unlike anything else , anywhere. Thanks for the video.
Namibia has an excellent petrified forest national park with knowledgeable guides that share some of the fascinating natural, geologic, and botanical history of the area.
Keeping you in my thoughts Joey, nothing hurts worse than ur kid being unwell & not being able to fix it. Hope better news is coming your way. Edit: think about letting ads run folks, even if ur a Patreon supporter
Greetings....from the Western North Carolina Mountains....! Thanks.....that was great. I feel privileged to see a botanists "bucket list" plant..... very cool. Thanks for sharing..... (and please remember....waterfalls are healers).
Happy you mentioned the conservatory at UCD! It was great to see it when I went there for ecological management and restoration. Welwitschia mirabilis in the wild is a bucket list plant for me as well; however, seeing it at the conservatory will likely be the only time I see it. It’s such a neat lil weirdo.
Love the videos. Thank you so much for bringing us so many interesting plants. Your way of putting things together your comments, love them, take care and my bes wishes.
Seeing a Welwitschia in its proper habitat is one of my life long dreams. I know I'll never be able to actually go see them so I've been growing them from seed. I have several that maybe close to finally throwing up some strobili. I'm in the central valley of California and they seem to do really well, as long as I protect them in the winter. One thing that really surprises people whenever they ask me for growing advice is how much water they actually need. They need a lot! especially when they're young seedlings. For about the first 6 months or so after germination they don't really tolerate drying out. So you have to keep them somewhat moist inbetween waterings. I'm so happy to see the fog they get you showed. So thank you so much for showing that. That is a part of the Welwitchia habitat not often seen/shown/discussed in some of the videos I've seen on them.
welwitschia is ALWAYS the craziest kid in the room - and everyone enjoys the heck out of him! and then this madlad is literally in namibia showing us a whole patch of em live :D what a hero!
Happy I got to my bucket list plant vicariously through your efforts! Have appreciated Welwitschia since the teacher of my first botany class gave me seeds. Great video, thanks!
I hope there's some better news for you in the near future (edit: just figured out what the "expressly" poor news was, so sorry to hear that). I always love learning about plants and CPBBD is the best place for that in my personal opinion. Keep up the great work!
Hope all is well with your family! I saw the title of this episode and immediately was jazzed to watch it. Saw our crazy 2 leaved plantt at the ZA Cape Town botanical gardens and was happy. Didn’t know it was at UCD but that’s where I first learned about it in Evolutionary Botany (think that’s the class). While Botany may not pay, it’s hella cool.
I found you when i was looking through a garden magazine from 1950 that belonged to my grandmother. I googled the plant and found you. Yeah I’m a geriatric but I was fascinated by this video. Im not sure if you mentioned that the welwitschia is an evergreen retaining their two leaves for their entire life. Im hooked on your videos.
One of my favorite plants that I have, through methods varying in morality, tried to grow on and off for years. Allegedly easy to care for once it's about a year old according to a guy at UC Davis who would sell seeds to fundraise
Been thinking about this wonderful plant ever since I heard you mention it a few years back (in a podcast?? cant remember). So glad you got to see them in habitat & treat us to some primo footage.
"anyone who knows this plant is pretty enthralled by it" I've finally gotten my hands on one grown from seed and im just in awe of how huge the ones in this video are........................
The UC Berkeley Bot Garden has a Welwitschia growing in their arid house. The story is that about twenty years ago a volunteer decided to “trim the leaves” and cut off many, many years of growth. Oops! What an awesome plant and a cool ecosystem.
You should do a video/ take an excursion to the Santa Cruz Sand Hills Biome. That is when you're back in the bay area. I'm a huge fan of your work, and would love to see your interpretation of the unique biosphere that exists only in Santa Cruz county, in the Santa Cruz mountains. If you're unfamiliar, the Sand Hills Biome is a very unique pocket/islanded ecological zone, surrounded by the coastal redwood forest. There are several locations including in the small communities of Bonny Doon, and Zayante. There are many species there that occur nowhere else locally, like ponderosa pines, that are normally only found at higher elevation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, hundreds of miles away. Many species within the sand hills may be there own divergent subspecies, endemic to only these small pockets within the smallest county in California. Silver leaf/blue leaf manzanita being just one of many examples. The Sand Hills have been historically exploited out of shear ignorance of their unique nature, and even now they are surprisingly unknown or unrecognized, even by locals who have spent time in them. Efforts to conserve them are always in need of positive exposure. Thank you for the excellent content! Go fuck yourself, bye!
This plant inspired me, so I say: Cell division is a blessing and a curse. It is too amazing how slows down time - any quantum guy like me has to love 'em. Einstein approved, you see?!
@@14beans youtube is one of the last places I can be relatively anonymous, I mostly use this to talk shit on fascists, but am delighted when I encourage my favorite people to do cool shit. wanna prove metasequoia was in antartica back in the day? wanna yell at penguins? I'll give the man 15 dollars to go to the least plant infested outcrop to talk about how we're all gunna die from climate change. Thanks for the bump, I hope tony feels the love. he made botany accessible, the slob.
Video suggestion: Playing GeoGuessr and seeing if you can identify the location by the local flora... Thanks as always for providing us with this incredible visual source of information.
Always love this bit from the the Welwitschia Wikipedia article:
"Plants in Angola are better protected than those in Namibia, because the relatively high concentration of land mines in Angola keep collectors away."
Now your giving me ideas😂
Do you know any good DIY on land mines?
@@Mohammad__M__ no but you can probably hit up Henry Kissinger for some old surplus stock
@@gloverelaxis Great idea! Knowing him, as I'm on the weaker side, he'll deliver those to me himself!
Find an original printing of "The Anarchists Cookbook"! Watch out for any printing after the first edition!@@Mohammad__M__
What a welcome surprise. As a Namibian, I approve of this video.
BTW, the locust at 4:55 is called an armoured corn cricket. They are herbivores in youth and later become cannibalistic.
When one is run over on the road, others pour out to devour them.
Gondwana broke up along the S. Atlantric ~130MaBP.
Thanks for the nightmares
We have crickets in the western US that do that. Plus these 2-inch-long cannibalistic katydids called Mormon Crickets that cover the roads so thick that they cause car accidents when the cars hit a swarm and slide off the road because their guts make the road slick.
Tony, you are one foul mouthed cynical heart filled with Gold. I now walk past trees, bushes, flowers, rocks and soils, with respect to their evolution. Thank you.
First-keeping your family in my thoughts Joey. Thank you for showing us these amazing plants, I love the weird ones almost as much as you and that Welwitschia is the top of the charts. Also thanks for answering a nagging question about what may have lived on the land mass before the continents split- that still lives on in some form today.
You are funny...not even my sun flower behaves "normal" or is tame. My orchids demands serano ham and are bigger than an igloo. I have peyotle here which don't bother to have roots. ~6 years since the grafting stock died but they are aight without any roots...just chilling. One day I would LOVE to see a plant which is NOT wicked or teenager-like :)
@SHIIEEEThuh? what you praying for? do you like just being on ur knees or something 🤔
I’m glad you finally got to meet your bucket list plant. It’s a shame the occasion was dampened by devastating news. I hope your kid responds well to treatment.
What🥺 what happened
@@mjade1673 his kid has cancer
At last! Welwitschia. I've been waiting since the first South Africa video. That plant has to be at the top of any botanist's list of plants most unlike anything else , anywhere. Thanks for the video.
Agree, its my fav plant
Namibia has an excellent petrified forest national park with knowledgeable guides that share some of the fascinating natural, geologic, and botanical history of the area.
Keeping you in my thoughts Joey, nothing hurts worse than ur kid being unwell & not being able to fix it. Hope better news is coming your way.
Edit: think about letting ads run folks, even if ur a Patreon supporter
Maybe click on some of them
What's going on with his child? There's a child?
A singular donation will do much more than the few cents (or so) each ad does, so I just subscribed on the Patreon...
Beautiful plant tour! Thanks for the trip to Namibia! 🌟☀⭐
Just found this channel. Where has it been all my life!!
Good job tony your spirit is far from evil you do good brother your a good person
Thank you! This is 1000% more information on Welwitschia than I ever got while seeing it in person.
You were just in Namibia for the food scene?
Thank you Joey for taking us to see this particular plant in it's native habitat. I got a lot out of this.
Your vocabulary is astounding. I could watch your videos all day. Just let me grab my pocket dictionary really quick.
Wishing you the best with said shitty news.. You are probably the most awesome dad in the entire world (at least one of them)
Greetings....from the Western North Carolina Mountains....! Thanks.....that was great. I feel privileged to see a botanists "bucket list" plant..... very cool. Thanks for sharing..... (and please remember....waterfalls are healers).
your channel is one of my favourite things ever brother. thanks for sharing your passion and enthusiasm with the world
Happy you mentioned the conservatory at UCD! It was great to see it when I went there for ecological management and restoration. Welwitschia mirabilis in the wild is a bucket list plant for me as well; however, seeing it at the conservatory will likely be the only time I see it. It’s such a neat lil weirdo.
Love the videos. Thank you so much for bringing us so many interesting plants. Your way of putting things together your comments, love them, take care and my bes wishes.
Seeing a Welwitschia in its proper habitat is one of my life long dreams. I know I'll never be able to actually go see them so I've been growing them from seed. I have several that maybe close to finally throwing up some strobili. I'm in the central valley of California and they seem to do really well, as long as I protect them in the winter. One thing that really surprises people whenever they ask me for growing advice is how much water they actually need. They need a lot! especially when they're young seedlings. For about the first 6 months or so after germination they don't really tolerate drying out. So you have to keep them somewhat moist inbetween waterings. I'm so happy to see the fog they get you showed. So thank you so much for showing that. That is a part of the Welwitchia habitat not often seen/shown/discussed in some of the videos I've seen on them.
The absolute best episode of Crime Pays I've ever watched. I've come back to it and watched the whole things a few times at this point I guess.
I like the camera close-ups of the plants and that cool insect, your voice is enjoyable,
you speak clearly and I like hearing the Latin names, thanks!
That creature at 5 minutes in was insane! Incredible!!🌱
Oh. My. God. The best channel covering the best plant
i really enjoy your videos and adventures. and most importantly, your use of proper botanical nomenclature. Ive learned and laughed a lot. thanks
"Look at those two bugs just bangin on the megastrobilus". *Zooms in*
Where's etsywitch? We need a remix! 🎶 Bangin' on the megastrobilus 🎵
Such beautiful scenery!!
I've read about this plant, and I can't think of a better person to show it to me. Thank you for doing so.
welwitschia is ALWAYS the craziest kid in the room - and everyone enjoys the heck out of him!
and then this madlad is literally in namibia showing us a whole patch of em live :D what a hero!
Welwitschia mirabilis is at the top of my list for plants to see in situ! Thanks for the video!
Welwitschia being a 'bucket list' plant is such a great descriptor.
I still remember seeing Welwitschia on the Itchy Boots channel a while back and thinking Crime Pays needs to check those out!
Thank you for the amazing video. Wow! What an adventure.
Cheers!
Take care good man.
Really sorry to hear about your bad news.
Amazing. Ive always been fascinated with these things. You went and saw them in the wild. Amazing
love you Joey.
Thank you for everything, always
Same to you and I hope you and yours are well, thanks from me and mine
It's like you have adventure game in real life! Thank you for this tour!
Enjoyed this video pretty thoroughly. Great job on keepin me edumacated
Finding one of these in the wild is on my bucket list!! It looks like mars where you found it haha What a find man! That locus was BEEF😂
Locust
So cool to see all the Welwitschia! I especially wanted to see the young one. Thank you!
Been catching up on your videos and now you upload a new one. Great timing!
Yay! VERY glad you liked the Welwitschia... knew you would appreciate it, thanks for the explanations.
An interesting environment and habitat I will never see on my own. Thank you.
we're blessed, you still took the time give us our fix
Happy I got to my bucket list plant vicariously through your efforts! Have appreciated Welwitschia since the teacher of my first botany class gave me seeds. Great video, thanks!
I hope there's some better news for you in the near future (edit: just figured out what the "expressly" poor news was, so sorry to hear that).
I always love learning about plants and CPBBD is the best place for that in my personal opinion. Keep up the great work!
What happened?
His kid was just diagnosed with some sort of cancer. Sounded pretty bad, it's mentioned in the latest Sunday Morning Rash.
@@hbabycakes Oh man, that sucks. Thanks for the info.
@@hbabycakes thanks for this info.
You amazing bastard! Glad ya made it to another continent, I know youve been looking forward to it!! grats bro. hope youre feeling better.
What a bizarre plant. I never tire of seeing pictures of Welwitschia.
I have a huge crush on this man.
Am I alone in this feeling?
I doubt it.
Hope all is well with your family! I saw the title of this episode and immediately was jazzed to watch it. Saw our crazy 2 leaved plantt at the ZA Cape Town botanical gardens and was happy. Didn’t know it was at UCD but that’s where I first learned about it in Evolutionary Botany (think that’s the class). While Botany may not pay, it’s hella cool.
I love that you do these videos! There is so much that I wouldn't even notice if you didn't point it out!
Love it.. Thanks for sharing..
Thanks for bringing the wondrous weird world to us...
Welwitschia is such a strange and unique plant, it's wonderful to see them still abundant in their natural habitat.
I found you when i was looking through a garden magazine from 1950 that belonged to my grandmother. I googled the plant and found you. Yeah I’m a geriatric but I was fascinated by this video. Im not sure if you mentioned that the welwitschia is an evergreen retaining their two leaves for their entire life. Im hooked on your videos.
One of my favorite plants that I have, through methods varying in morality, tried to grow on and off for years. Allegedly easy to care for once it's about a year old according to a guy at UC Davis who would sell seeds to fundraise
The thumbnail literally looks like a wildstyle. These goddamn plants are amazing
I'm learning so many new words. Never cared for Botany but I'm going to change that.
Can't freakin' wait to get your book. With all the drawings and whatnot.
Been thinking about this wonderful plant ever since I heard you mention it a few years back (in a podcast?? cant remember). So glad you got to see them in habitat & treat us to some primo footage.
Amazing stuff one of my favorites. And you seem calm. But I like a rant every once in a while. GFY
Keeping ya in my thoughts homie.
Working at UGA botany greenhouses was enjoyable and educational.
We had a gymnosperm collection...
Ephedra, Gnetum,Welwitcia. And more.
Sending best wishes and best of luck, bought your book today.
superNICE! Thanks for this video and greetings from germany
This is my first time watching this guy. Fascinating! I got to say, is this guy from Chicago or WHAT?!
Cheers brother, mind blown once again. ✌🇦🇺
"anyone who knows this plant is pretty enthralled by it" I've finally gotten my hands on one grown from seed and im just in awe of how huge the ones in this video are........................
1:50 those beautiful flowers look like little owls getting ready to take out some gnarly prey! 👀 🦉
💯🌼😎👍🌼💯
Tony wasn't lying, that plant can shaped
very cool weird plant. this is on my bucket list to see
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ sending good vibes as needed....
Amazing!! Nice to see more African stuff.
The UC Berkeley Bot Garden has a Welwitschia growing in their arid house. The story is that about twenty years ago a volunteer decided to “trim the leaves” and cut off many, many years of growth. Oops!
What an awesome plant and a cool ecosystem.
Beautiful and archaic
Amazing, thanks for sharing!
The Welwitschia! My favorite plant
Need to make a plush toy outa that mint family flower
Looks like mini snowy owls inside
So does that mean it's "blooms" are modified precursors to pinecones? I love learning unneeded botany information from this guy!
What an interesting video! Greetings from Italy
One of the coolest videos I've ever seen
I love 💕 your videos 🌵🌳🌴
I always prefer welwitschias to naysayers
Everywhere you go it's like visiting an alien planet, so much diversity!
For sure the most incredible plant I’ve ever seen
I always get something from your videos. What you are doing is important for conservation. We are just observing and trying to remember the latin
wow - what a great flora. Do you have an age estimate on the huge Aloe Littoralis at 3: 25 ?
Those Welwitchia are truely fantastic.
You should do a video/ take an excursion to the Santa Cruz Sand Hills Biome. That is when you're back in the bay area. I'm a huge fan of your work, and would love to see your interpretation of the unique biosphere that exists only in Santa Cruz county, in the Santa Cruz mountains.
If you're unfamiliar, the Sand Hills Biome is a very unique pocket/islanded ecological zone, surrounded by the coastal redwood forest. There are several locations including in the small communities of Bonny Doon, and Zayante. There are many species there that occur nowhere else locally, like ponderosa pines, that are normally only found at higher elevation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, hundreds of miles away. Many species within the sand hills may be there own divergent subspecies, endemic to only these small pockets within the smallest county in California. Silver leaf/blue leaf manzanita being just one of many examples.
The Sand Hills have been historically exploited out of shear ignorance of their unique nature, and even now they are surprisingly unknown or unrecognized, even by locals who have spent time in them. Efforts to conserve them are always in need of positive exposure.
Thank you for the excellent content!
Go fuck yourself, bye!
Yes! Was going to ask about this one!!
This plant inspired me, so I say: Cell division is a blessing and a curse.
It is too amazing how slows down time - any quantum guy like me has to love 'em. Einstein approved, you see?!
The episode I've been waiting for!
Absolutely love the book BTW.
I love welwitschia!! I learned about it from that youtube show with Tasha the Amazon on it.
That one part when you were like who the shit are you at the the beetles. I giggled.
Cheers from southern ontario Canada 🇨🇦. Thanks for keeping my entertained and informed 😀 👍
This guy is amazing, instant sub
You're new here? Welcome. You have a world of enjoyment before you.
I really want to see you talk about those one or two species of grass that are native to Antarctica.
bump
@@14beans thank you
also no one would like that.
@@14beans youtube is one of the last places I can be relatively anonymous, I mostly use this to talk shit on fascists, but am delighted when I encourage my favorite people to do cool shit. wanna prove metasequoia was in antartica back in the day? wanna yell at penguins? I'll give the man 15 dollars to go to the least plant infested outcrop to talk about how we're all gunna die from climate change. Thanks for the bump, I hope tony feels the love. he made botany accessible, the slob.
Incredible.
Video suggestion: Playing GeoGuessr and seeing if you can identify the location by the local flora... Thanks as always for providing us with this incredible visual source of information.
I live in Southern Africa, we call them black jacks. Amazing how they can weave themselves into you clothing!