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Northern California's Only Native Cactus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- On the rocky banks of a gentle-moving waterway, in a landscape composed entirely of volcanic rocks and Juniper trees that smell like cat piss (Juniperus occidentalis), we cross a mosquito-swarmed river to find Northern California's only native species of Cactus - #Opuntia fragilis - in full bloom. This vicious little bastard grows as far East as Wisconsin, yet it's only occurrence in California consists of this small population in the Shasta Valley near a massive dormant volcano of the same name.
Now, when imprisoned in a biogeography dungeon ™ of this sort, one must ask "How the shit did this disjunct population of this plant end up here?". Was it an errant seed that germinated after being deposited by a migrating shitting bird ten thousand years ago? Was a cladode (a cactus stem) attached to a shit-dreadlock of a species of now-extinct megafauna and it somehow dropped here, later establishing a colony? Or is this population all that's left of a once-larger and more widespread population that is now extinct due to the end of the ice age or the last two hundred years of human agriculture?
Bonus footage includes #Ascelpias cordifolia and a Sphinx Moth Money Shot to soothe your homicidal thoughts. #Anemopsis californica makes an appearance in this vid, as well.
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Fuckin what ??
That thistle is gorgeous
Umbilicaria cardealeria: the only lichen that emits the uncanny scent of a used car salesman drenched in cheapass cologne.
Sounds better than a plant I discovered in the high elevation country in Arizona. I took some of the fuzzy little balls on the plant that emitted the smell and let my friend sniff 'em and he said, "Whew! That smells like Martina Navratilova's jock strap!"
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Stinging nettle does actually taste good, makes a nice broth.
Yo, fry it up with some eggs, better than spinach imho
makes a mean nettle queso dip
The same species of cactus grows rampant here in Kelowna, BC! I saw the first bloom on one yesterday, super cool to see!
Wild Edibles yeah it’s mostly only found in the dryer areas, I use to live on the coast and didn’t see any till I moved up here. Whenever I see it near me it’s usually at higher elevations and in areas with a lot of rock and little soil
@@artificialecosystems5874 -Opuntia grows around the Salish Sea, usually near the shore on rocky headlands-it likes the salt chuck spray.
Dude, I love seeing your videos in northern California so much. I love seeing IDs and concise descriptions of plants I encounter on my hikes. Youve helped me ID at least a dozen species in your past 3 videos.
Good evening my salty botanist friend
I hope your weekend is doing good
As always I love the video
As a master gardener I have cultivated thousands of flowering plants for my enjoyment without ever giving much thought about the complex adaptation of native species in "impossible" soils. You have opened my eyes Sensei that there is nothing in nature that is "impossible".😌that it takes millions of years of adaptation to eke out a living in the conditions Mother Nature presents itself to life on Earth. The miracle is in how patient plants are to Her lessons and how disrespectful humans are to life on Earth in return. In a split second we destroy what took millions of years to create. Right there; in that one spot; with those soils; light; moisture; heat; cold. The vast loneliness where no human ever tread. Life thrives without us.🌏
This world is not our own. We are only passing through.
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-paranoid libertarians that smoke too much weed-that species is also pervasive in southern oregon
Pretty prevalent in British Columbia.
I'd say it's prevalent everywhere
Not common here in the Mid Atlantic, but one used to be my boss.
State of Jefferson brah
I came for the nature but stayed for the commentary
hey now that youre in northern california, go check out the darlingtonia cobra lilies
That would be an amazing video!! I think they grow on the serpentine, too, so bonus geology dungeon
Pretty sure he already did that. I saw it in his videos last year. They aren't lilies though! They're in family Sarraceniaceae, with the other American pitcher plants.
@@dynastesgigas6996 I dont see a video of his on Darlingtonia, but im probably just blind. And I know that they arent related to lilies, their common name is cobra lily, because they look like a cobra. I personally dont really see the resemblance.
I feel spoiled. We got 3 gfys goodbyes
But goddammmmn that milkweed was gorge. Reminding me a bit of Red Valerian with the leaves and umbrels, no comparison with those flowers though. Jfc
I love all the content, but the stuff about CA is always my favorite.
Will you ever take us to see the red woods? That would be pretty amazing.
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If you haven’t seen them in person I totally suggest it at least once. Would love to see him do a video in a redwood forest.
Isn't that boring. As a resident of the Auburn Foothills he is showing the better more interesting parts of the state that get no love. Everyone is like duhhh Sonoma, Redwoods, duhh Yosemite, or Tahoe. Go visit Mono Lake or other more INTERESTING spots
@@behindenemylines3149 as a resident of east bay I agree there are a lot more interesting spots out here, but if you've never been then those popular spots are definitely worth the visit.
@@behindenemylines3149Not everyone here is from the United States, we would love to get a sneak peak and stuff to spot before visiting for real.
@@inkarn8915 I'm from the East Bay too. Grew up on the delta
I died at the shit-dreadlock mega bison part. Love this channel.
I grew up in Siskiyou county and your assessment of Northern California was succinct and accurate. Thank you
i wanna smell the rock :(
Clearly we need a techological breakthrough: "scratch-n-sniff" video
It made me want to try and distill oils from it
After being sauteed for 3 minutes stinging nettle is great. I love how it makes your hands Buzz, sometimes for a couple days after picking it
Man, you make my day.
Great vid my man!!! please show us more of the water if you dont mind, I saw lots of floating plants and maybe some V. americana in the river/muddy area. would love to see more in the wild!
edit: just saw the R. aquatilis part, Thank you!
You have good eyes. Veronica americana and Ranunculus aquatilis both present here.
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't that’s good to hear! It’s nice to know native populations are still growing and water pollution hasn’t killed everything yet :) .Aquatic plants are always a treat to see in the wild for me, lots of potamogeton natans around here. have a good night my friend!
I use to do a lot of trout fishing in southeast Minnesota and since 1995 or so the aquatic plants have gotten out of hand. Many areas of the cold spring fed creeks are over run with it..due to,like you said, fertilizer runoff. N/phos/potassium. The last two cause deadly and annoying alge growth everywhere else (people called it "watercrest" which I'm sure is not correct)
There are western juniper over 1000 yrs old growing on the Devil's Garden, according to the Tree Ring Lab.
"Here's hopin", too good my friend.
i look at that volcano every day with fingers crossed. Thanks for your videos you're awesome!
Commentary is by far the best :)
Banger of an episode. Cali is so weird, big green trees everywhere and practically no ground cover
4:15 I *just* planted a 1 gallon potted cirsium occidentalis outside my shed to keep people from breaking in or camping in front of it. Super glad you featured it in this video, I've been trying to learn more about it.
"Some people like that, some people need that in their lives" This sounds like it's coming from years and years of personal experience.
That cobweb thistle is astounding, so is that Opuntia fragilis. I love that little cactus. One of the few cactus you can grow outdoors year round in Canada :D Nothing like a cactus garden where it shouldn't be.
Standing invitation to come relax with the sarracenia in the back forty here in Redding! Thanks again for all your thirsty work.
@Bob Frapples my home region is pretty and quite biodiverse (for being urban) but is urban (and German so a little far from his stomping grounds)
I'm glad you found that cactus population again, they're lovely!
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I come back to this one again and again. "Nice biomimicry, you prick."
Nailed it in the first 48 seconds.
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I just discovered your channel here and am really enjoying it. Hilarious and informative commentary plus a cute dog. Especially the California videos. It's amazing to follow someone who points out all these plants that I have seen my while life but never knew anything about. The Big Basin video in particular was good to see. I'm from just down the mountain from there and I had no idea about the Butano Cypress grove. Thanks for these. It motivates me to get out more.
Spent the last 2 days just south of the Seven Devils in Idaho and I couldn’t help but thinking about this channel while I was there. It’s perhaps one of the most ecologically and botanically interesting places I’ve ever been in my 20 years in Idaho. The area has the easternmost occurrence of Pacific Yew on earth and a coastal Washington vibe, which subtends a classic Idaho sagebrush steppe. Holy fuck, Tony. If you’re ever in Idaho, hike the Rapid River Trail south of Riggins, but do so in May or August-September. Otherwise you’re fighting rattlesnakes in a riparian zone that would be at home in the Hoh Rainforest (which, if I can point out, might be the only fucking place on earth where that combo occurs).
That smell, that smell....
something about that smell, that volcanic legacy smell, smells like...
lichen
Better than Bradford pear (spits on ground) which smells like a diaper bucket.
Am i the only one that hates the smell of valerian root and habanero? Makes me fuckin hurl every time
That cactus is beautiful!
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Gorgeous Day! If you get a chance, visit the Shasta Caves! A wonder! I just love the Shasta area, cougars, deer, so much sky! Great place to watch the stars.
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You're the only person keeping me alive at this point. Bless your knowledge and your plants
Love It. Up here in B.C. some flowers bursting finally. NICE.
vids are always great! a number of the species in this are also waaay up here in southern BC, never gotten to see the cacti bloom though!
Thanks for including the bit about scotch (Spanish, whatever) broom. The island I live on is covered in the shit and we got literally thousands of volunteers pulling it up and trying to fight it back but it comes back so quickly it almost seems pointless. Remember for best results, "pull broom in bloom".
I found green milkweed in my neighbor's yard yesterday! Noticed it in the fire weed thanks to your vids!
A lot of green and blue lichens I find up in usptate ny smell like a sweet cologne too, with a very slight bitterness at the end, if that makes sense. I’m glad you pointed out the smell too, I haven’t met anybody that’s noticed that before, always surprises people that I show. Maybe that’s well known, I’ve just never looked into it, only smelled it myself.
Both the thistle and the cactus are really pretty :)
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Wow I never knew there was stinging nettles in California. They're all over the place here in Ireland, in the old days during British occupation we would make soup out of it. Still stuck till today, tastes great, all you gotta do is steam it to get rid of the nasty glass like spears that inject the irritant and hey presto you got yourself some good greens.
Appreciate the worry about my blood pressure, but I'm on meds, and I'm on your side. Gorgeous hike, thank you.
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O. fragilis is quite a rad little cactus! It grows in quite specific places here in western WI, but abundantly in those scattered spots. I've yet to see it in bloom though! Eric Ribbens has published some cool papers on the cactus I would suggest for fun reading!
I have seen Conium maculatum growing along the Norfork Southern railway through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Railways are interesting mechanisms for seed dispersal. Nice Bill and Ted reference.
What do the diatoms look like in that water. Carry a microscope take some samples. Are microbes in the soil like different marshmallow shapes in cereals?
Journey to the microcosmos at th-cam.com/video/wS2mdmt4JPw/w-d-xo.html
There's native cacti here in Canada. In the fall they dry out and lay flat against the earth and let the snowfall insulate them. Once the sunlight hours are right, they soak up all the spring thaw waters and just balloon back up to regular size in like a day.
Check out the Southern Ontario Carolinian zone some day. Niagara region up to Hamilton.
The amount of knowledge your able to.... convey in just 43 minutes is astounding. Good video, I watched the whole thing and now have a new appreciation for the usefulness of meth-heads, thanks.
The cactus may have hitched a ride on a bit of old continent. There's a geologic theory that parts of the west coast have moved north from Mexico, like what's happening west of the San Andreas fault, but many millions of years ago on a long dormant fault line up in central Washington.
My neighbor killed a red tailed hawk, the hawk had got caught in a tomato cage. He's normally a great guy, old, has a nice garden every year, but I raised my voice with him about the hawk. Only time in 25 years living next to him.
I'm sorry your neighbor is ignorant. My neighbor makes honey and he illegally killed a black bear that was destroying his hives. I almost went to finish what the bear started.
oh no! not only was that a tragedy, it was a very illegal one. All raptors are protected in CA.
you've given me many a laugh as well as education.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate it.
Amazing landscape
Joey you rock bro,thanks for enlightening folks regarding Rattlesnakes and nature in general.
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Those astro spatulas are one of my favorite chaparral bush-trees.
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Really interesting episode, cheers. That area seems to have many of the same weedy introduced species as NZ.
I am a moron, but with these videos I can be a very appreciative moron who is learning. Thanks for these videos! I wish I could've shared these with my stepfather, he loved botany even after he got really sick. Definitely sharing this video (channel) with his son and my friends.
I love how every 15 minutes or so he pans over to his dogs just standing and looking at him like "what the hell we doin here, dad" 😆
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From what I've read, nettle is supposed to be quite nutritious, very high in protein for a leafy green. It's supposed to be great for farm animals, but it must be dry or cooked before they'll eat it...
You should do an episode in Chaparral, or Sage Scrub/Coastal!
I find you are often near water
Ever think of carrying one of those survival straws? Can drink right from the river and they are pretty cheap and last awhile
Much lighter than water
I love your channel.
Wow it's a new record, four species in this video that I'm familiar with in Missouri, Achillea millifolium, Dipsacus fullonum, Verbascum and Conium maculatum. Of course two are invasive but . . . Last time I saw Opuntia fragilis was in Michigan! I'm actually a fan of wild roses. I've always wanted to see the desert species, Rosa minutifolia and Rosa stellata. Those are fantastic scorpiod cymes! So much love for that Asclepias cordifolia, beautiful plant. :)
I love this channel! if I had teachers in school like you when I was a kid I might not have dropped out! ( I went to school in the inner city so swearing while teaching would have been normal, lol) Seriously though thank you, for the videos bro!
That same cactus grows near Fort St. John in British Columbia, Canada. In Ontario I've seen prickly pear cactus at Point Pelee National Park.
The golden cream color of their flowers are beautiful.
Weird, but there's a single observation of that Opuntia in Orange County on Calflora. It's suspiciously near somebody's backyard fence.
Not that hundreds of people should do so, but I agree with the occasional transplantation of potentially at risk species to nearby areas to which, had they been given time, they might have been able to "migrate." There's a trillium patch I poach every five years, which is about to be overrun by kudzu here in East Tennessee. Only one of the two species has persisted in my NWF wildlife habitat, T. lutea, which smells like lemons. Anyway, be well.
@@injunsun Thank you and Bless you!
@@injunsun , right on , I found a pink flowered one , in the patch of green behind my work, only seen white ones
I just stumbled upon this channel today and yooooooo who is this man? I wanna drink beers and smoke joints with him and just let him talk 😂
Oh look who's fucking back geez thanks for stopping by Tony
My man! I fuckin love going on nature walks with you.
Tweakers are an invasive species...
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Tweakers are your neighbors, and are the sons and daughters of your friends. The problem is their dependence to meth, and those who supply it.
@@jamesdriscoll9405 you're absolutely right. The people themselves are not the problem but trying to remedy their underlying issues the people submit themselves to toxic substances from which they most likely do not escape unscathed.
@@jamesdriscoll9405 and the sociopaths out there that care more about money than people.
Speaking of moss, and nitrogen, I wonder how Louisiana, and the gulf are doing from all the farming run-off.
The Opuntia must need..what? In the lava rock? Iron?..sulphur? Strange it needs to be near water. The whole northern valley is like some Pleistocene holdover area. Many unusual plants.
I liked the water Ranunculus..Not often if ever you see thriving freshwater(submerged) aquatic plants in streams in the bay area.Looked like some kind of Myriophyllum next to it. Try a Go-pro for submerged plants..like the carny Utricularia and the like.
Any particular reason Manzanita wood is red? You don't see many other red trunked plants other than say Gumbo Limbo in the Caribbean.
Awesome video. Thanks.
Amazing place and scenery
Nice little vacation, thanks!
I don't know how much of this is true, but it is said that in Mill Creek, in Mark Twain National Forest, in Phelps County Missouri, there is a transplanted population of McCloud River Rainbow Trout, a local subspecies, that was native to the McCloud River in Shasta River area. It is possible that the native population was lost by the construction of Shasta Dam. The odd population in Missouri was said to have been brought here 100 tears or so ago by railroad workers.
The plains prickly pear cactus also grows in Northern California and all the way up to British Columbia Canada.
Wow, wouldn't expect to see Urtica dioica in place like that. Must be ample water indeed.
i like ralphies punishment the life boy soap, i have been stung by stinging nettle. i was admiring the flower. that pain lasted well into the night. thanks. pacific northwest temperate rain forest