Gondwanan Cypress Bogs & Patagonian Tarantulas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Pilgerodendron uviferum and the Chilean Ocelot Tarantula appear in this episode, as well as the rare Podocarp Lepidothamnus fonkii (surely grew on Antarctica 50 million years ago). Drosera uniflora and Astelia pumila make an appearance in these nitrogen-deficient peat-and-sedge soils. The fern Lomariocycas magellanica (a Blechnum that looks like a cycad) is abundant in this habitat, a long with Baccharis magellanica and Chusquea montana.
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Closed captioning on your words is like a shroom trip. LOL cc can not spell out your botany verbage. Gotta laugh. Love your content.
This reminds me of an expedition I made to Southern Chile around 10 years ago. We went to a natural area in front of Chiloé, to an area of southern temperate rainforest in search for reptiles and amphibians. We walked through an awful path to an area where Rhinoderma darwinii had been seen. A place of giant millenarian (however is spelled) alerces. Some of them had been cut in the 1950's.
I have a picture with two more people inside of a hollow stump of one of those trees that were cut 60 years before. Some botanists were with us and had taken a sample of that stump the year before.
About that stump: They counted over 1500 rings in that section of wood (not taking into account the hollow area that would fit 3 people, which was over half of the diameter of the tree) and, through dendrocronology they dated the youngest ring of that tree at around 600AC. So that specific Alerce started growing probably much before 2000BC, died on the year 600AC, and keep standing dead for 1350 years more years until it was cut by a bunch of loggers.
I miss Chile.
I always love it when you’re in Gondwanan territory! Nothofagus, podocarps, Blechnums, Astelias and weird-ass monocots: those make me feel at home.
Me too! the New Caledonia series is still my go too! even though ive seen them too many times already!
I needed this, plants in birds always cheer me up. I'm not gonna lie I've been depressed for quite a minute I needed this
Thanks again for going everywhere and recording it, and naming it all, and so often! And here I am in my same old bed lapping it up. Fucking dreamy.
No! he was cremated and his family keeps his ashes: coward even in death :) but don't worry, us new generations feel exactly the same as you :). On a nicer note, I adore alerces, being amidst them makes me feel tiny and free at the same time
What a cool landscape. Looks like something you would expect to see some dimetrodon walking around in. Those drosera were badass!
Funny because I was just watching walking with dinosaurs. Pretty sure they filmed part of it somewhere in that area or one similar to it.
Another place that makes us dream of such incredibly ancient landscapes, thanks for showing the gleichenia this time & the lycpophyte
Watching this from Australia with my mum who bush regenerated for 48 years. We just love seeing the Gondwana plants because it feels like we're almost, not entirely, home ...thrilling and strange.
2 species of Lepidothamnus in NZ and 1 in Chile but none in Oz ...WHAT!!?
so cool. great video - the night sequence was crazy good. That Pilgerodendron-Fitzroya forest bog was simply magical under the full moon. There's fossil Fitzroya cones from Tasmania. Tony, your videos are always a treat 👍😀 and lift my day. I recommend them to all my botany and palaeobotany friends.🦖🌴
All these Callitroid lineages (the clades Austrocedrus-Libocedrus-Pilgerodendron and Diselma-Fitzroya) probably diverged around the time of the Eocene separation of South America and Australia from Antarctica according to the molecular phylogenies. There's some fossil shoots very much like Pilgerodendron about to be described from the Miocene of Australia. Yes, touch my Lepidothamnus fonkii. 🐊🤠
Yes being able to see Diselma was a special treat. The recent lumping of Pilgerodendron with Libocedrus and Neocallitropsis with Callitris bums me out though. I don't think it's called for, lol
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt the discussion around whether they all belong in Libocedrus or stay as seperate genera or something in the middle ground is pretty heated. They should all just chill. Me, I just think they are all just damn cool and am much more interested in appreciating their glorious beauty. Looking forward to your next Chilean video!
If only I had you as my teacher doing my horticultural certificates. My learning level with you is a hell of a lot different to my ex teachers
I had luck with my teachers. Although this man is legendary for not being lazy and studying this matter into his soul. I get you
Thank you for giving exposure to these plant communities, an example to follow by. 👍
Love to hear you so excited to be in such an amazing location!
That Pilgerodendron looks a lot like extinct late Cretacous Cupressacea. Especially the cones.
Mesocypris is very similar. It was a dominant planr in Northern North America in the late Cretacous.
One of my most favorite episodes so far.
All those old spires of pilgerodendron look so awesome! i really need more and longer videos of this place its so amazing!
I find myself fighting the urge to plant a rogue Gondwana botanical garden in some highly similar environment up here in the PNW -- as a sort of gene bank.
Don't fight it; do it. If you're west of the Cascades, you've got a temperate oceanic climate. The exact same climate the Gondwanan species of Patagonia, New Zealand, and Tasmania are native to. Your Gondwana garden will thrive and will be absolutely beautiful. (It's a great idea and one I strongly share. I love the PNW, Gondwanan plants, temperate rainforests, oceanic climates. I currently live in the Midwest and am dying to move to the western Washington/coastal BC area. And acquire a piece of land and start my own Gondwana garden and arboretum. Replete with Nothofagus, Araucaria, podocarps, southern hemisphere cupressaceae...)
Touch my Lepidothamnus fonkii. I agree with the statement.
This entire ecosystem is crazy. From top to bottom that blew my mind. Moreover, it's been a second since I've verbally said "what the fuck" while watching a video. I was in the middle of folding clothes when that lomariocycas magellanica came on screen. Whatta mind blogger and so many banger plants!
Dude went back to the Cretaceous.
Man your videos really lift up my spirit! I am sitting here in cold ass winter 50°N in middle Europe in a major city, stuck in my depression.
Suddently i feel like its summer, listening to lucy in the sky, taking in all the amazing species ;) Thank you sir!
What a great tour of an enchanted and beautiful place! That Drosera was so mind blowing...
A lot of those Alerce look like they might have drowned, looks pretty similar to what happens to conifers in the PNW when they get flooded by a lake. Beautiful area, really reminds me of a southern analogue to the northwest but with more ancient lineages, maybe even more so than tazzie which is more typically seen as such.
Thanks Tony
👏👏👏👏👏 Very satisfying😊
Nothin' like a bhag video while I'm eatin breakfast
Man... this reminds me of my old drosera capensis I had for about 10 years. I gotta pick a new drosera up this spring!
Such different fauna...Wow! Excellent...
Ty guys 😊 i live with several type cacti and crap i suspect was brought in by cattle, also yucca. 😮
I appreciate this so much. Thank you.
Yes! Tarantulas!
Greetings from Chile, I love finding topics that I know so little about that half of the words feel like you made them up at the same moment, it motivates me to keep learning :)
Everything I know about botany is because of this channel
I'm here for more night botany! That was seriously cool.
I feel like every plant in this habitat is what every bonsai artist is trying to recreate
I appreciate you Bub. Your videos give me a nice breather from the hellscape that is my life
Too bad I can't fit fonkii into normal conversation because it's my new favorite word, at least for a week or so.
Fonkii is the sound you make when you're crouched over lighting your own flatulence on fire and singing about the Reince Preibus perineal massage parlor and his prince Albert piercing
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Thanks, that's the best laugh I've had in a week
beautiful place, thank-you!
thank you! great episode as always.
A lot of cool stuff there.
Man that is a cool place you are at, thanks for making an informative and enjoyable video on it.👋👏
3:15 👏👏
Did you see the shooting star at 13:11?! How beautiful… the full moon, frogs croaking, interesting botany…even the tarantula was cool 🕷🌝🌿
That looked like a bird to me.
I love swamps
nice episode
16:15 Maybe the possible nightjar was going after the bugs that were interested in the light from your flashlight?
Gorgeous tarantula.
Gorgeous spider!
Ferns!!! Thanks!
What a pretty spider
You keep referencing Antarctica lately and it makes me laugh. The wildlife biologist on the Antarctica trip i went on joked that he could put "specialist in Antarctic botany" on his resume... because there are 3. Two lichens and a grass, or something like that. Bit of a long way for you to go to geek out over 3 plants but at least there aren't any invasive species there 😂
As a Tasmanian i would feel at home there.
The narration is similar to AvE on TH-cam.
Fantastic information.
What kinda flashlight is that by chance? (another amazing vid!)
Not sure. Some shit I thought on scamazon that's got a UV light and red light on it as well. It's rechargeable.
Joey, Pilgerodendron uviferum has been renamed Libocedrus uvifera due to genetic studies on them.
I refuse, lol. Seriously why do the lumpers have such hard-ons for ruining things that have such a distinct morphology, distribution and physiology? Pilgerodendron looks notably different from Libocedrus in both foliage and cone. Having seen three species of Libocedrus in-situ in both New Caledonia and New Zealand I can say so. I honestly think the nerds that do this just don't like doing field work.
Did you see the shooting star at 13:11?! How beautiful with the full moon, frogs croaking, and interesting botany…even the tarantula was cool 🌝 🌿
Geez this posted in replies my bad
@@grannyplants1764 might've just been a bug
Very interesting plants. It’s not every day one gets to see a bog!
"...I bet they would let us kick it with them."
Not sure if just Ozzie thing, but having a bog, refers to a number 2 here lol
Hell yeah, love sundew!! Except for vegetation itself, there's so much similarity to seasonal swamps near me on east coast NSW
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10:45 looks either like some kind of mosquito native to Patagonia, or crane flies
Def Tipulidae family-crane flies
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Yeah, I guess "basal" is the preferred nomenclature, these days, rather than "primitive."
Between your recent podcast episode and your videos I think you might just actually go sh*t on Pinochet’s grave 😂…
It sure as hell needs fertilizing!
what podcast?
I love conifers!
Primitive or maybe ancient key innovations that stuck around!
Sphagnum
should really visit Parque Nacional Queulat or nedavo queulat no pasa naa en la junta but puyuhuapi is pretty chill like a pirate cove town.
bro would take a trip to ancient antarctica if he could, what kind of crazy predators would be trying to pick him off if he did?
10:46 they look like they’re stealing some nectar holy shit that’s cool
4:06 Just goes to show if evolution lands on a something that works it can stick around for a long time
Lightning damage on that dead tree,
14:33 It is Myrteola nummularia, a Myrtaceae. Apparently the fruits are very tasty: th-cam.com/video/CODecBeOxvs/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=WeirdExplorer
7:52 Tepuy flashbacks.
fuck it keep calling them primitive and ancient it makes it more fun and even adds some taxonomic context if I may say so myself
Most of those forest were burned at some point, as alerce doesnt burn they would just burn the whole forest to make it easy to extract the Alerces.
10:44 looks like a pair of some cranefly species mating, with what's likely a second male trying to get in on the action. If I'm right about them being craneflies, many of the adults in the species have such short lives they don't eat at all, though some will eat nectar or pollen, so they very well may be trying to grab a snack on top of mating!
I was thinking that small succulent heart shaped perennial with entire edges could have been a primrose or another pingicula or another fen loving carnivorous plant. Any ideas botany people ?
According to Wikipedia: "Pinochet's body was cremated in Parque del Mar Cemetery, Concón, on 12 December 2006, according to his request to "avoid vandalism of his tomb", according to his son Marco Antonio."
hey what elevation were those drosera at if you happen to remember
What is weird about this that it looks like Finland but if someone swapped out the plants. You can still see what is the heather, the juniper, the pine et.c..
South American baag.
The fact is when they needed to have a live location look like it was 120 million years ago in Walking With Dinosaurs, they chose South America.
Also Tasmania
@@meikala2114 oh no you've reminded me of the polar allosaur...
Crane fly?
Thank you for the comment about Pinochet. All Americans could do with a bit more education on that bent.
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