Jorge Luis Borges has a short story about a guy who has this weird obsession with the line between real and fake things and how our perception can be tricked. In particular, after noting how we spend all this time trying to make flowers that look real but are actually fake, he spends all this time looking for real flowers that never the less look like they're fake. I mentioned this in my plant ID class, and one of the teachers comes in a couple days later with one of those goddamn paper daisies. Extremely weird, but very cool plants!
I feel like a giddy teenager watching you explore my backyard. I hope you visit other parts of the Overberg as there are some great endemic species here too and you'll get a taste for the Riviersonderend mountains.
New Camera? Your focus game is on point, congratulations I know how much that pissed you off. Thanks for all of the videos and even cool t shirts and hoodies.
Perfect time of year for this visit to this beautiful place of flowers. Soak it up! Thank you so much for sharing with us. Edit: do I hear frogs ? Something singing...insect? Sounds like frogs.
The incredible botanical diversity, not to mention beauty, of this arid, rocky landscape is a prime example of the truism that "Nature abhors a vacuum".
the more interesting the plant the higher Tony's voice gets. So listening to how high his voice gets is a good metric to how interesting a plant potentially is.
I cant believe this guys is an amateur. This is my new favorite channel and it will be for a long time, seeing as how theres tons of hours of content. I love ya, Tony! Never stop exploring
Interesting side note: the winter rainfall stops and transitions quickly into all year rainfall from around about there further east except for the highest mountain peaks. From Mosselbaai eastward the summer half gets more rainfall than the winter half but only slightly. From East London it turns into a almost complete summer rainfall pattern. Hope you're trip goes all the way to Knysna forest and the Big Tree.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt that would be epic. The transition over the mountain to the Karoo from where you where is incredible not to mention the plant adaptations you see in the Rigters veld and Boesmanland next to Namakwaland. Glad you are putting us on the map 🌿🇿🇦
First time I've seen a plant in your video I am growing at home! Oscularia Deltoides or the pink ice plant. Can't wait for mine to get that nice pink color from the sun stress, Mines just that pastel blue/green color but summer is coming!
The protea cynaroides (king sugar bush or honeypot) & phaenocoma prolifera (pink strawflower) are incredible. Just absolutely fascinating. Thanks for this gem Tony
your videos are like a guided tour through some beautiful places in nature that i would probably never get to experience otherwise. thank you for your work. :)
Thank you so much! .The geography, blue sky, detailed beauty and diversity of the flowering, non flowering foliage and critters on planet earth are amazing....
This is one of my favorite places in the planet. I’ve spent many times in Betty’s Bay and walking in the fynbos. Thanks for sharing this unique landscape and flora with the world
I tried really hard not to like you. But your knowledge is so extensive I can't help but to give you respect. You have also given me a newfound respect for the flower. I teach gardening. Thanks for helping add to my knowledge
When you we’re excited showing us the leucospermum flowers , I knew I had seen these in person, but I couldn’t remember . Then it dawned on me, I’ve bought stems of these at Central Market . They’re awesome .
I have such a crush on this guy, it’s stupid. Who else laughs their ass off whenever he goes off about anthers? There’s a guaranteed one spout off about anthers in every video. Get a room, Santore.
Yeah It's really attractive watching someone talk about something they're knowledgeable and passionate about, botany is awesome and he's got a good way with words.
Thanks T. I'm surrounded by Proteaceae, all doin' that amazing flick to open from that mass.[Melbourne] Stenocarpus sinuatus, Banksia praemorsa, Hakea francissiana - bringing in the birds for that free sugar hit. What a family.
Just found your channel through a post on r/NoLawns and absolutely *love* that the first vid I see on your channel is from my country. Thank you for such interesting videos! :)
I really love that you show the botanical name and their family. It's really interesting seeing all those families of common native (where I'm from) or cultivated plants produce the craziests plants.
Great episode man, thanks. So many interesting bastards! I also really like your insects/animals/birds/what the shit, interviews! I could use a whole episode of interviews. Shine on brother.
Very impressed with your fynbos knowledge! Its so strange having you talk about all our local plants. Now come to the bushveld next. I know the megafauna of the Kruger Park is not your thing (its not mine either) but you would love the bush veld trees.
It's amazing how the chemistry of the land has effected the plant species and location. Those plants that choose quartz are the most amazing to me. Do those species on quartz have a long history?
Have you considered trying to capture the 'soundscapes' of places you visit? I know it sounds like dumbass new age shit but lots of natural ecosystems like this one are changing and losing their distinct and scientifically relevant records of animal/insect calls. Loved the video!!
The male flower beetle at 11:37 is not dead at all, he is guarding a female, using those brutal hind legs to fight off other males trying to steal away his lady. There are quite a few studies dealing with combatant monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini).
If you've still got time in SA, you should head up to the quiver tree forest. It's on the border of the northern and western Cape. An absurd experience
love seeing some good convergent evolution. Seeing the convergently evolved encephalization of mammals via humans and cnidarians via octopi makes you wonder how many other encephalized organisms there are in the universe...
Drosera cistiflora is a beauty! I’m not sure I’ve seen one with that flower color before. I recall they are summer growers that go dormant into a bulb.
Please come to Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island and help us ave our remaining old growth forests ... you reach so many and the fight is ramping up til someone will be killed...
Argh my gawd! Those little frigging Brunia flower-head, fruity knobs @ 0:40! OHH! They look, almost, like little Lycoperdon mushrooms, supported, erect, not too thick, but not too tall, upon a wispy stem! JESUS! My cousin makes his living growing carnivorous plant beasts, basically owning title as the fly trap king of the east, here in NC, and I send him your wonderful friggin videos, from god-damn time to time, and what not.
Wow what camera are you using? Most all the close-ups lock in crystal clear! Fantastic work for poor bastards like me who will probably never see this in real life
These incredibly detailed close-up shots just keep getting better.
I agree!!!
I look forward to these videos more than any modern explosion fest coming out in the movie theaters these days
Same.
Jorge Luis Borges has a short story about a guy who has this weird obsession with the line between real and fake things and how our perception can be tricked. In particular, after noting how we spend all this time trying to make flowers that look real but are actually fake, he spends all this time looking for real flowers that never the less look like they're fake. I mentioned this in my plant ID class, and one of the teachers comes in a couple days later with one of those goddamn paper daisies. Extremely weird, but very cool plants!
borges is an absolutely bizarre mention in a cpbbt comment section. got a complete works coming in for christmas, excited to read more of the guy
I'll check him out, sounds like my type of reading
what a nice surprise on Sunday morning, thanks Tony
I feel like a giddy teenager watching you explore my backyard. I hope you visit other parts of the Overberg as there are some great endemic species here too and you'll get a taste for the Riviersonderend mountains.
Exactly what I need for my hangover. Nothing like eggs coffee and a solid botany video.
"Look at this weird fucker." Makes the botony lesson worth it.
11:29
It's cute how excited and happy he is. It would be so fun hiking with him. ❤ Come to Colorado!!!
So lekkr to have a modern appreciation of home! 🇿🇦 Thanks Joey, next time you come we braai ✌🏻❤️🌵
New Camera? Your focus game is on point, congratulations I know how much that pissed you off. Thanks for all of the videos and even cool t shirts and hoodies.
what a fuckin awesome video my friend...i have been subscribed for awhile but never received any notifications...but now i am here.
Thanks for the exquisite macro photography. I miss my near-sight vision. Your videos make me feel young again!
Thanks, Tony, for taking us through your “candy store”!! Amazingly entertaining!! It appears you are a fly therapist, too! Who knew??
Great work Tony! You have the zoom working so good it's like I'm there.
at 15:02 there was a cool little spider coming out of that flower Leucospermum prostratum.. you were holding
Perfect time of year for this visit to this beautiful place of flowers. Soak it up! Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Edit: do I hear frogs ? Something singing...insect? Sounds like frogs.
We call them reed frogs here. Small little frogs that call all day long. Very common in the southern Cape.
The incredible botanical diversity, not to mention beauty, of this arid, rocky landscape is a prime example of the truism that "Nature abhors a vacuum".
The Proteas are fascinating
thanks for sharing..
the more interesting the plant the higher Tony's voice gets. So listening to how high his voice gets is a good metric to how interesting a plant potentially is.
Gotta love a nice termite mound
I cant believe this guys is an amateur. This is my new favorite channel and it will be for a long time, seeing as how theres tons of hours of content. I love ya, Tony! Never stop exploring
Autodidact not an amateur.
Interesting side note: the winter rainfall stops and transitions quickly into all year rainfall from around about there further east except for the highest mountain peaks. From Mosselbaai eastward the summer half gets more rainfall than the winter half but only slightly. From East London it turns into a almost complete summer rainfall pattern. Hope you're trip goes all the way to Knysna forest and the Big Tree.
I left, but I will certainly be coming back. Already looking into securing funding to do an entire series on Namaqualand and Klein Karoo.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt that would be epic. The transition over the mountain to the Karoo from where you where is incredible not to mention the plant adaptations you see in the Rigters veld and Boesmanland next to Namakwaland. Glad you are putting us on the map 🌿🇿🇦
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Ooooh Namaqualand ...
orographic rainfall n what the shit
i watch your videos when i fall asleep like asmr, and all the knowledge goes into my subconscious. thanks!
First time I've seen a plant in your video I am growing at home! Oscularia Deltoides or the pink ice plant. Can't wait for mine to get that nice pink color from the sun stress, Mines just that pastel blue/green color but summer is coming!
The protea cynaroides (king sugar bush or honeypot) & phaenocoma prolifera (pink strawflower) are incredible. Just absolutely fascinating. Thanks for this gem Tony
wow! the plant communities are mindbending. you're in heaven, my friend. thank you for sharing with us.
This cat is awesome. Just discovered his channel last night and I'm already hooked beyond help.
I coughed on my joint laughing at the GG Allin dig - god I love this channel so much
Tiny protea! Adorable!
your videos are like a guided tour through some beautiful places in nature that i would probably never get to experience otherwise. thank you for your work. :)
Very nice to see this novel (to a Californian) flora up close. Endemics and carnivorous plants even!
Great to see you finally in SA. The Roridula was a real treat.
Thank you so much! .The geography, blue sky, detailed beauty and diversity of the flowering, non flowering foliage and critters on planet earth are amazing....
Thank you, sir, for the best-worst pet name I've heard today: Sugarbush.
Beautifull walk! It’s a very interesting region and very similar to the mediterranen.
syncarpha speciosissima , so nice. Enjoying the S. Africa series, thanks for your good work
This is one of my favorite places in the planet. I’ve spent many times in Betty’s Bay and walking in the fynbos. Thanks for sharing this unique landscape and flora with the world
I tried really hard not to like you. But your knowledge is so extensive I can't help but to give you respect. You have also given me a newfound respect for the flower. I teach gardening. Thanks for helping add to my knowledge
He grows on ya like a fungus 😁
What a way to make a morning in LA better. Much appreciated.
Guy, whatever you learned is paying off. Keep it up. You're a success story.
This is a great episode! Thanks Tony!
When you we’re excited showing us the leucospermum flowers , I knew I had seen these in person, but I couldn’t remember . Then it dawned on me, I’ve bought stems of these at Central Market . They’re awesome .
I have such a crush on this guy, it’s stupid. Who else laughs their ass off whenever he goes off about anthers? There’s a guaranteed one spout off about anthers in every video. Get a room, Santore.
Yeah It's really attractive watching someone talk about something they're knowledgeable and passionate about, botany is awesome and he's got a good way with words.
Ahhh yeah! Thanks, so much! Those paper daises are a trip. Cheers, from Southern Oregon.
Thanks T.
I'm surrounded by Proteaceae, all doin' that amazing flick to open from that mass.[Melbourne]
Stenocarpus sinuatus, Banksia praemorsa, Hakea francissiana - bringing in the birds for that free sugar hit.
What a family.
Still crossing my fingers for a visit to the Weltwischia on this trip
Namibia is far far away. Not the same country.
Just found your channel through a post on r/NoLawns and absolutely *love* that the first vid I see on your channel is from my country.
Thank you for such interesting videos! :)
I really love that you show the botanical name and their family. It's really interesting seeing all those families of common native (where I'm from) or cultivated plants produce the craziests plants.
Mate your format is class, defo going to be sticking around for more of this
Great episode man, thanks. So many interesting bastards! I also really like your insects/animals/birds/what the shit, interviews! I could use a whole episode of interviews. Shine on brother.
Very impressed with your fynbos knowledge! Its so strange having you talk about all our local plants. Now come to the bushveld next. I know the megafauna of the Kruger Park is not your thing (its not mine either) but you would love the bush veld trees.
Excellent presentation as usual!
"The GG Alin of proto-carnivores" is both a sentence I never thought I would hear and the best sentence ever.
Same, I had a good chuckle
That suck fly being interrogated for its life decisions gets me. lol 32:13
How am I in love with a channel I just met? The host has a sound perspective, and a warm voice. THAT'S how!
Warm? He would say “hot as balls”!
Always informative and entertaining. The GG Allin reference cracked me up.
It's amazing how the chemistry of the land has effected the plant species and location. Those plants that choose quartz are the most amazing to me.
Do those species on quartz have a long history?
good morning uncle tony!
Have you considered trying to capture the 'soundscapes' of places you visit? I know it sounds like dumbass new age shit but lots of natural ecosystems like this one are changing and losing their distinct and scientifically relevant records of animal/insect calls.
Loved the video!!
Lmaooooo, insect has been corrected
the drosera ones are beautiful in this!
10:35 now he's down to slapping flowers, this is real raw uncut natural science nice.
YES
Your knowledge of plant are outstanding but what a pity I can't say the same of your choice of words you use.
That GG Allin reference got me...😆
Nice to see that endemic species, lickemspermum phalicacedae!! Cheers from Colorado.
one of the greatest films ever
I want a paper daisy so bad now
All those bugs just absolutely lost in the sauce...delightful!
of course you ve been around here👉🏼🇨🇷❤️🇵🇸❤️North Costa Rica has many interesting plants during dry season❤ love this channel❤15:14 Epidendrum spp?
Another fine tour of the country in some other country. 👍
Wow! Just a beautiful ecosystem.
The male flower beetle at 11:37 is not dead at all, he is guarding a female, using those brutal hind legs to fight off other males trying to steal away his lady. There are quite a few studies dealing with combatant monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini).
Great to see South Africa's flora getting featured!
I have roamed those hills for years . Very eye opening.
That Harveya looks just like Incarvillea species!!
Beautiful place
so glad you made it to the Fynbos!!!!
If you've still got time in SA, you should head up to the quiver tree forest. It's on the border of the northern and western Cape. An absurd experience
love seeing some good convergent evolution.
Seeing the convergently evolved encephalization of mammals via humans and cnidarians via octopi makes you wonder how many other encephalized organisms there are in the universe...
Another great video,
Can't wait for the next one!
Hey take care Joey...
Qué hermosas plantas y flores.
Am so glad you got to come down to SA! Hope you had a great time!
GG Allin reference even, nice
Thank You for the great videos hope your trip is going good 👍🏼👍🏼
Drosera cistiflora is a beauty! I’m not sure I’ve seen one with that flower color before. I recall they are summer growers that go dormant into a bulb.
Never thought I would hear G.G. Allin used to describe a plant.
When I'm having a bad day I'll just pretend Joey is describing me like one of those plants. I'm proud to be a massive old bastard. 😅
"It's like the GG Alin of proto-carnivores" Best line of the video
Uyy qué hermosas flores.
@18:17 ...Whoa!! What? Look at that! Beautiful!!!
Please come to Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island and help us ave our remaining old growth forests ... you reach so many and the fight is ramping up til someone will be killed...
Argh my gawd! Those little frigging Brunia flower-head, fruity knobs @ 0:40! OHH! They look, almost, like little Lycoperdon mushrooms, supported, erect, not too thick, but not too tall, upon a wispy stem! JESUS! My cousin makes his living growing carnivorous plant beasts, basically owning title as the fly trap king of the east, here in NC, and I send him your wonderful friggin videos, from god-damn time to time, and what not.
The G.G. Allen of protocarnivores. I almost shit myself! 😂
I know it’s a pain in the ass to edit, but I love the voice over format with in field recordings intermixed
I wants a paper daisy!
Cheers mate. Fuckin' spettacolare!
25:48 who dat?
Great as usual.
Wow what camera are you using? Most all the close-ups lock in crystal clear! Fantastic work for poor bastards like me who will probably never see this in real life
so awesome to see Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't running around in the fynbos.
There's also a species of king protea east of there closer to Gqeberha(Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape side of the fynbos region, that is pink
Yes! I was also thinking "damn, you need to see the big pink ones - this one's actually a bit meh!" 😂
(not that anything ever seems to be meh for Tony, so let me not incur his wrath! 😬😂)