The Rarest Milkweed in Texas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ธ.ค. 2021
- Finally we catch one of the US's rarest milkweeds - Asclepias prostrata - in flower. This bizarre and cryptic plant can go dormant for years, only appearing sporadically in a few scattered populations in the hot and sunny Tamaulipan Thornscrub of South Texas and Northern Mexican Scrublands when conditions are right, like after a rain. Growing on sands eroded from the Eocene Jackson Group sandstone, this plant can lay dormant for years waiting for amenable conditions.
Twice in the last two years we've come out here to see that the entire population had been seemingly destroyed by the frivolous and unnecessary grading of the road. It always feels like the end of the line for this plant, but somehow those rhizomes survive and it always pops up again later on. Eventually they'll pave this road and this will mean the true end of the line for prostrata. Another population nearby was set to the border wall (fence) built right on top of it, but the border fence has project has been put on hold for now.
*Flower damage probably due to caterpillars, not rabbits as stated in the video, as you can see the frass (shit).
Notable about this species are the undulate margins (probably am adaptation to sun exposure), prostrate habit, cryptic nature, long dormancy, leaf and stem coat of tiny hairs, and red pigmentation on the margins of the leaves. The flowersa are extremely fragrant.
If you're curious how milkweed flowers are pollinated or what the shit is going on with these flowers, look up "milkweed pollination" on TH-cam. I did a video explaining it two years ago.
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Mom, there is a man yelling at a caterpillar in the bushes.
I'm not over eating, I'm cooking up carbs to store in my underground tuber so I can flower next year.
The repeated display of plant names is AWESOME for learning retention. Asclepias Prostrata!
As a Texan that grew up in the monté from Freer to corpus Christi (and now lives in Austin), I LIVE for these Texas videos.
You are the single best thing to happen to botany in the last century. Thank you for the AMAZING content.
The fart during the land clearing part totally threw me off, I thought my partner had just ripped the loudest fart ever
I planted 100 milk weeds this fall on our organic farm, we had a dozen wild ones pop up. Really hoping to see a monarch army next year
Do a controlled burn and see the power of common milkweed
@@fredhall8089 im a big fan of control burns.
th-cam.com/video/nheNhjWY4-w/w-d-xo.html
That’s so cool! My Grandparents in the 20’s to late 50s had them growing in their ditches just to help the monarchs and other species that like it.
I just have 2 hackberry trees in my backyard, full grown. I see snoutnose butterflies and others all the time
I love this guy. No nonsense knowledge about all things.
I clicked on this video so fast because I remember last time when you shared a bit of a rant after a fresh grating left no sign of the milkweeds. So glad to see them sticking it out still.
Mark Fishbein was my first plant taxonomy teacher back in 2002! Great guy and THE MAN on Asclepias. Glad to hear his name mentioned.
Sometimes our milkweeds in vermont will grow a purple phenotype. I always spread the seeds around, as far as I can throw em. Many more people are growing them for the butterflies.
I just picture Tony watching where he's walking at all times, don't want to step on some poor bastard tiny rare plant of some kind.
It would be an honor to be your friend Tony, keep recording thoes bangers!!!👍👍👍👍👍
"Do YoU lIkE iT wHeN iT's NiCe?"
(Nature immediately knee-caps him)
what an amazing milkweed. the leaves and flowers are other worldly. you can't drive by at breakneck speed and observe the wonders of nature. thank you for sharing.
Excellent documentation of the 956-area botany. The continued coverage is appreciated too!
Seriously. #puro956 😂
I was so excited when I saw this video because I was hoping you were filming back in the RGV! This year I had a personal project to try and photograph native bees and wasps and the plants they preferred. I have had an easier time remembering plants since watching your videos. Thank you for the education that actually sticks with me!!
Thanks Tony, you rock dude. Keep up the good work
"You like the fuzzy stem?...ya prick.?"
lol that one made my day
Best content available on the internet. Thanks Ton
You got a great location to film. Thank you for showing the wild peyotes. I hope you collected the plastic waste.
Nice one Joey! Glad to be along for the ride when you finally saw it!
Thanks for everything. I really enjoy the map zooms at the start of the videos and the still shots of the flowers throughout. The quality just keeps getting better and and better.
Keep rockin on!
Thank you for the long drawn out fart noises
I would love you to eventually explore the Sonoran Desert, its such a good place to observe desert botanical diversity.
Edit: a little bit of digging revealed that he already covered the Sonoran Desert
I'll put ten bucks hes willing to go back.
Congrats on finally seeing the Asclepius Prostrata in bloom! What an exciting moment. 😁
“You got a fuzzy stem. You like the fuzzy stem??? Ya prick” 🤣😂🤣
That A. prostrata is probably a species that thrives in disturbed areas.
Good video, those panda express sound effects tickled my funny bone.
Curley dock is like that, trying to find one thats not on a road is difficult.
That bag is invasive.
@14:58
Wow those blooms! Milkweed going off! I'd have never guessed that plant making its home in the road was a rare milkweed. Beautiful! Just imagine what that area looked like before things like buffelgrass and grading.....
Someday, maybe in a parallel universe, Tony will come down here to the everglades and check out all the epiphytes!
This is the best podcast I've heard. Acutely accurate and informative. Awesomely unpretentious. Absolutely inspirational. Astounding
I totally agree Legalizing yote would help to preserve the species in its wild habitat, it’s actually easy to grow and in Thailand where it’s legal they grow it in mass numbers out of its natural habitat. What I’m saying is if people could cultivate it, the numbers of peyote would multiply and no longer be threatened.
Ahhh yeah! Love those milkweeds. Thanks so much, Joey & cheers, from Southern Oregon, where the quakes are rolling right now offshore.
They're incredible. I've only ever seen Canadian ones.
Love your south Texas video as a transplant to the area they're great for more native landscaping ideas
The farting noise at every mention of Panda Express really kicked it up a notch in my opinion.
Some thing 100 million years in the future would fight wars for this footage. Some kinda highly intelligent plant people looking for their missing link
I love the close up views. This area is truly a unique paradise. Thanks for the tour.
Plant some milkweed everyone please, nature needs us right now.
Joey is kinda like the Drill Instructor of Botany - He will yell facts into you. "This is just how evolution works, ya prick"
My asclepiuses might struggle here - 700m up in rich volcanic soil.... oooh. They haven't evolved for this. They're still going, but slowly. It's early summer here in Australia. Great video - all these little treasures underfoot..
Atherton area?😁 Townsville dry coastal tropics here. What Asclepius are you cultivating?
Me, personally, I love da treash on the side of the road, really makes me feel at home
loving these macros shots and so much info! Thank you always.
You may need to write an article for wikipedia on Asclepias prostrata because it’s missing entirely 😊
Not anymore!
@@Lunar_Capital There we go!
Best South African back to South Texas Morphology Evah!!! Solid Brother, wish my basic Ass Naturalist Skills were anywhere near your amazing observations and Commentary!!!
"Maybe the road grater is at it again" is going to be a phrase I say so much now
Love the energy, love the information. I love how you explain things. 👍 Informative, no pretension. Keep it up.
I have to admit I'm enjoying your videos a lot :D I like how raw and expressive you are. You make me want to go back, finish my Biology degree and become a Botanist ;) You just awaken that passion for plants again in me :D
They do the roads like that because if they don't spend all the money allotted to them by the feds they get less next year. Its the same with fed money recipients like, prisons, the military, others I'm sure.
The problem is that that's the best they can come up with. Depending on the he department in charge of them, surely there's something constructive to do? It still speaks, in my mind, to Tony's exasperation.
Applies to water usage as well. Use it & or lose it right?
They should spend their money on plant conservation instead.
Time to get creative 😂❤
Just found this channel and I'm already a big fan. Love all the videos and made me want to go outside and id some plants
Great vid!
Thanks for filming this, really looking forward to more Texas vids, you exposed me to great California botany, Texas should be a banger for arid plants
Asclepias with a tarantula hawk shout out- it just made my day. The tarantula hawk wasp is an amazing creature. Huge, blue, with orange wings and really rough on a tarantula. Hard to imagine, but this part of the wild kingdom can be found in Austin.
Personally, I prefer to have the Tarantulas hanging about.
As they do,
right outside of Austin.
@@gardengatesopen And in my yard just west of Mopac. I have seen a few dozen tarantulas over the years but just the one hawk dragging the tarantula along the curb. I got a bit too close and it let me know with a crazy display. Disturbing and beautiful.
@TheStereoClub
They ARE wild to see, I agree!!
I once was kneeling down, checking out a really big garden spider in the center of its web. It was one of those big ones with yellow on it.
I think people call them banana spiders?
Anyway, as I'm leaning in to get a closer look, this tarantula hawk comes swooping in from behind me and just instantly killed that spider, and then flew away with it!!
I admit, I was a bit shocked!
At the time, I didn't know about tarantula hawks, and honestly, I felt a little bit guilty, as if I had been an unknowing apprentice in that spider's demise! Like maybe I had been distracting the spider, and the T. Hawk took advantage of the situation!
Ha!
Of course, it would've happened with or without me!
I can't imagine having witnessed what you saw!
The size difference alone is just crazy!!
I live outside of Austin, on the Northwest side, whete the Hill Country starts, and I love seeing the tarantulas walking around over here!! They're really only seen during mating season, it's a real treat.
I wouldn't want to witness a tarantula hawk in its full hunting glory like you did!!
This conversation makes me uncomfortable. Also I’m pretty sure we got those blue wasps up here in the Chicago burbs.
I mean.. nah, I’ll leave the jokes for sommat else.
😁
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and travels.
just before i went to bad. Thank you
love it when you film in starr county, I get to see so many plants that are also found up in duval and mcmullen where my ranches are
Thanks again Tony
i love how no matter where you are in the world, way out in the boonies, or at the bottom of the ocean, you'll always find a good ol trash bag... ahh reminds me of home
Your videos are the best.
Always wanted to know what these were.
I’m so seeing this desert area in a new light. Thank you! This video is fantastic.
I was always looking at it as a wasteland. This is so amazing and I can’t thank you enough. I can’t wait to go exploring again and see things in a different light I never expected.
I am delighted whenever you talk to bugs
I freaking love this plant so much. Thank you, brother.
Excellent video brother
As always, great camera work !
The Panda Express farts threw me so hard lmao
Yay, New video from Joey!
This is so awesome!!! I love the accent. So great and funny! Love this guy ❤️😆❤️
I need more Joey Santore common names in my life. There could be a whole book of them
What amazing structure on the Milkweed flowers. 😍
There have been very few jaguar and ocelot sightings in Texas but i know they have Mountain lions for sure, as far north as Castroville and around the Hill country
That is right. The Texas brush lands and the brush lands of Arizona are especially great places to find and see unusual animals (and plants) from the tropical south. jaguarundis and bobcats like to live in those places as well!
Oh definitely. We'd here them near the Frio year after year. Also we've had ocelot sighting as far north as necessary county in recent years!! Exciting!
This is an excellent video as usual
Thank you so much for sharing your video. What interesting plant life. I hope all of this land does not go the way of the road grader.
@FilthyDankWastemanFabuless Sad
Good to see you got folks to see this before it went on the list
oh man, your videos are so good....
Hello from a fellow South Texan. Nothing like 85 degree weather in December huh, yay climate change. Though we did finally just get a small cool front.
wonderful vid so much sht people just look over and never see thanks for putting this out.
Showing the general area your at with the little map zoom. So good !
Oh you are such a good laugh my man.
Right from the get go.
Love from Sydney Australia.
Gosh that's a beautiful one! I really love milkweeds!
A banger of a rare specimen this trash... : ) I really love milkweeds...so trippy!
What a trip were in the same county come visit my ranch Tony!
Sure thing. Email me crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com
beautiful little caterpillar! the Pipevines really are a crowd favorite, and that one looked far along. Maybe fourth or fifth instar. Also just wanted to say caterpillars chrysalize, which you are correct in saying metamorphisize as chrysalizing is a form of metamorphisis
I'll plant some this spring... very interesting!
If sht hits the fan, I want to thank Tony for teaching me what the fuk to stay away from when plants come into play. Thanks, Tony. GFYS bye
Love your channel.
This might be an odd request, but could you do a video about aquatic plants?
I run a fish discord and have been getting into aquariums plants pretty hard.
I always forget to water plants and guess what happens to plants in tanks.... You never need to water them. XD
everything is out of stock! love your youtube channel!
Love it. All of it. Thanks
Those Panda Express farts though...
Panda Express is, in essence, a fart
man, those flowers are wild ! very beautiful and unique !
Thanks, Tony/Joey.
"[A man is] going to take the opportunity to go drive the vroom vroom around and what the shit." Predictable to the core.
Welcome home, l worried about you in S.A. Thanks though for sharing your journey abroad!
Don’t know how much I’m retaining but I’m entertained
Those flowers are gorgeous
Yo Tony I didn’t get where the locality you are in is at, but in Janos (Chihuahua) las registered jaguar killed was les than 20 years ago, one of my university teachers Dr. Gatica registered this for the North corredor, the UACJ has part of the cranium (having the whole thing would make it illegal for the university to posses without a permit) and we did some really good work field botanical inventory if you are interested this was under the name “inventario multitaxonomico de medanos de Samalayuca” I was part of it and we registered a fuck load of cool shit (botanically speaking) UTEP & NMSU collaborated with us.
Excellent thanks a lot for the heads up
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt thank you dude, I have learned a lot from you’re videos, the simple explanations with right terminology makes it simple to know what to look for, I have to add much of the terminology since I studied in Mex. comes some what difficult but nothing a good scientific terminology book can’t solve. Keep the videos coming and please keep looking into Asteraceae these are the ones I work with most.
the cacti shots were lovely
Sorry if someone has already said this but: yes the changing of a caterpillar to butterfly is called metamorphosis. However, butterflies do not use cocoons. They use a chrysalis. But what's the difference, you may ask? Allow me to tell you! A chrysalis is made of hardened proteins that the butterfly makes and then hardens when ready to pupate into a butterfly. A cocoon is woven with silk that a caterpillar makes before curling up inside and becoming a moth.
@21:08 You must have gone to Panda Express.
Butterflies make chrysalis. It's hard and crunchy. Moths make cocoons. They are soft and fluffy. Thanks for the ample ramble through the brambles.
I thought pipevine swallowtails were only a florida thing. That's pretty cool
They're here in San Antonio Texas alot
I was in South Africa when you were and I live in south Texas you make the world small Tony