“Like someone was trying to bench press more than they can do and they just prolapsed their own rectum,” is the best description of any mushroom I have ever heard. If it isn’t in the textbooks, it should be.
The footscrubber is to prevent the spread of kauri dieback disease. If we can keep it on pause long enough then the trees will stay alive while scientists figure out a more long-term way to prevent it. I'm so excited to see you in Wellington! I'd love to see you connect up with some of our local plant nerds and we could all traipse around blurting out Latin plant names :)
thats what he said... its there to stop Phytophthora or know in new zealand as kauri dieback disease. i know its as just root dieback disease in australian
@@espalier My go to is cherry tomatoes. Found that one out by accident before a physical therapy appointment and had to warn them that I might shit my pants.
I’ve been watching your channel for years and I absolutely love your content. Seriously the best channel on TH-cam. I can mindlessly watch your content and still take stuff away from it when I’m done. Not enough people know too much about this sorta stuff and I think the knowledge of our environments and how much people can impact it in different ways is far more important than writing a 6 page essay on why different styles of speech are important. Anyways I hope to see you get over a million subs doing this kind of content
Great to see you here at last amid our damp and teeming ngahere (forests)! Indeed, there’s not a lot flowering now, but kohekohe (recently recircumscribed as Didymocheton spectabilis) is in flower in some parts of the country, and it’s a great example of cauliflory with the inflorescences coming straight out of the trunks. Looking forward to see what you’ll find next.
Mr. Tony, I grew up in Central Florida and we have our own species of the oderiferous mushrooms, same color, not as large. I always found the scent to be more interesting than foul, but I knew what the scent was for and enjoyed seeing insects buzzing around and landing on them.
@@greencoffeemug12 Exactly! I lived on 12 heavily wooded acres near Sanford and during certain times of year they were to be found everywhere. You can smell them many feet away and my dogs always wanted to have a good sniff of them.
Well, I don't think he's working as a botanist except for on TH-cam here. My understanding is that he is/was a truck driver who got into botany for fun. What I'm saying is, he's just taken an interest in something, and is good at presenting it in videos. Just about anyone can find a way to do this.
Seriously never thought you would come to our little country. This is great. Been watching your content for sometime now and always thought itd wicked if you came here and made a video. Learnt alot from your channel. Hopefully you'll drop afew more video's from your time here.
Aw fuck off you're in my area, Cheers guy. You got me into lookin at plants and appriciateing nature and shit so yeah good stuff glad you got to take a look around.
Had a yard full of dog vomit slime molds and stinkhorns after spreading out woodchips to choke out grass. Looked like the landscape of an alien planet. I dealt with the dirty diaper smell as it really helped break down those woodchips.
Depending on what sort of wood chips you have, and where you're located, another option is to inoculate them with section cyanescens _Psilocybe_ mushrooms. Or, possibly _P. ovoidiocystidiata_ -- or if you're in a more subtropical location, the newly described _Psilocybe niveotropicalis_
Man I love the Cretaceous like forests of Zealandia, its so cool that you've now checked both New Caledonia and New Zealand off the list! Maybe you could some day finish off the whole continent with Lord Howe Island (though it has a lot more influence from other regions like Australia and Vanuatu) and the Chatham islands (basically just New Zealand... but still worth it I'm sure). The South Pacific as a whole really is a botanists dream, _especially_ if you happen to love conifers, magnoliids, tree ferns, and anything nice and ancient.
@@stevenbryant3055 Well, that would be essentially impossible for a reasonable time frame, you gotta respect the effort to at the very least show off most of the notable plants and the typical ecosystems of each region.
Glad to see you in our fair land. Tis a pity you came in winter as our alpine flora is crazy. It is a privilage to hear you destroy our place names, very funny. also you should ask a local for advice on how to pronounce maori names like Totara.
I saw one of those stinkhorns in South Carolina. Apparently they “hatch” from little gooey egg-like things that look like eyeballs (which are considered a delicacy some places)
Fuck yeah,new Zealand! I love the convergent evolution in the Celery pine, I wonder why that shape has been favorable. These patterns you see in nature and how some of them repeat. Really cool, old plants
I love all your content, so entertaining and informational… Nice to see you in New Zealand shedding light on some of the native plants (and introduced) most people would never know about. N i known I’ve commented this before but please please come out to Hawaii and do a video on some of our beautiful native plants and you could even touch on all the horribly invasive species we have here. (I’d be more than glad to suggest some areas or spots to visit and some native plants you may find interesting.)
1:36 Man, that makes me feel better - I made the *exact* same mistake when I first saw those! They really do look so much like a Cordyline. Still not as bad as me misidentifying a Metasequoia as a Taxodium when the two were growing less than 10 meters apart (these were cultivated), they even had some old cones laying on the ground.
Trees such as your malformed Phyllocladus trichomanoides are often tied with a knot to be made into walked sticks, at least in New Zealand. Looks like someone forgot to return to that one... The Asplenium you have there is A. bulbiferum notice the large amount of bubils which A. gracillimum usually lacks. Cheers
What a great video! I've been in New Zealand and seen many of these plants, among others. I was also interested in the Nothofagus species in New Zealand, which are abundant in many areas. Along with New Caledonia (I just watched your other video, made near Chutes de la Madeleine), New Zealand, Australia and Chile (which resembles New Zealand in many way), I've seen a lot of coniferous species! BTW, that shot at 3:09 looks almost like a colony of the tropical Asian honey bee Apis dorsata!
When I was a kid, one of those fungi popped up in my neighbors' garden (in Italy) while I was playing there with them. We were shocked, we had never seen anything like that.
Possum don't generally defoliate mature totara, it is unpalatable for them, however they will eat the fruit(modified cone) and any new sprouts on the forest floor.
Pandanaceae. Now I finally see something from the family of the plant that the blueberry yucca in your Tasmania videos is named after. Couldn't remember so looked it up. Richea pandanifolia. I can see the resemblance.
Nice to see a decent foot scrubber, the parks around me have the same cheap one for sale in box stores for $20 and the bristles collapse very quickly, its rare to find any remotely functional.
I keep hoping some of your plant knowledge will sink into my thick skull. Haha. I feel like I should be in an episode of neature walk whenever I talk about plants😂
ALSO if you're headed to Wellington definitely check out Otari Wiltons bush and native garden. The botanic gardens there have a huge selection of our natives! Also I know you're a yank and that's a good excuse to not pronounce te reo maori correctly but here's a tip, roll your r's(once) and learn the vowel sounds and you can do basically all words phonetically.
cool mushroom. hope i can visit new zealand some day, been seeing it in so many horror movies after those hobit movies and the plants look out of this world
Wondering...if that mushroom imitates this: when a mammal dies. It's corps explodes from the rectal area or any weak orifice due to the decomposition and the gas release?? Leaving such a blow hole behind🤔🤔🤔 it understood that flies would be the best way to carry its sporacles
Tony another fantastic quite interesting video that tree however with that strange knot was extremely unique I bet there is so much photography that can be done that no one even bothers to do I know of a couple professional TH-camr photographers that could do some of that quite Justice They just have a better eye than I do although I do tend to see things differently I just cannot get the photographs that I want and to share
Ngl I found the pronunciation of our Māori words a bit tough to sit through, but the description of the fungus made it worthwhile 😂 Found a bunch of basket fungus in a corner of my garden recently, they look pretty cool but man the stink 🤮
is banskii the inspiration from where Bansky took his name? What a fantastic excursion!! Goodness me... a walk in paradise. 😍dang! You weren't kidding when you said the grossest mushroom in the world. That is so nasty!! 🫢🤪
Holy shit, this guy's smart. Fuckin Brainiac, far as plants. Ladies, here we can observe the Greater North American Botanicus Brainiacchus in its native habitat. Locally known for talking highbrow smack about vegetables weaker than himself.
For a while i thought you were wrong about the hideous mushroom and thought it was Clathrus archeri instead, but Aseroe seems paler and has more tentacle thingies haha
I was just wondering about these! In ESO in Vvardenfell (dork gamer nonsense words) there are mushrooms that look like this. I knew they had to be based on something real, so cool. I stop and stare at them in game and now I know what they are.
“Like someone was trying to bench press more than they can do and they just prolapsed their own rectum,” is the best description of any mushroom I have ever heard. If it isn’t in the textbooks, it should be.
I’m taking a shit right now
That's some real nightmare fuel. It's like a corpse flower and a lobster mushroom had a 3 way with an alien facehugger.😖🤢🤮
He said it looked "heinous" so we could go further to say a "heinous anus".
I CANT BELIEvE YOU'RE FINALLY HERE IN NEW ZEALAND! YAAAY! I hope the country treats you well!!
The footscrubber is to prevent the spread of kauri dieback disease. If we can keep it on pause long enough then the trees will stay alive while scientists figure out a more long-term way to prevent it. I'm so excited to see you in Wellington! I'd love to see you connect up with some of our local plant nerds and we could all traipse around blurting out Latin plant names :)
thats what he said... its there to stop Phytophthora or know in new zealand as kauri dieback disease. i know its as just root dieback disease in australian
I’m watching this while prepping for a colonoscopy and I’ve never related so much to a mushroom. Your description doubled as my narration.
too much frozen food?
@@espalier There is no such thing
@@Nancys_on_fire i recently ate a big bag of Raisinetes to prep for mine.
@@espalier My go to is cherry tomatoes. Found that one out by accident before a physical therapy appointment and had to warn them that I might shit my pants.
I once threatened “I’ll shit in your pants” to an asshole coworker. He never spoke to me again. WIN!
I’ve been watching your channel for years and I absolutely love your content. Seriously the best channel on TH-cam. I can mindlessly watch your content and still take stuff away from it when I’m done. Not enough people know too much about this sorta stuff and I think the knowledge of our environments and how much people can impact it in different ways is far more important than writing a 6 page essay on why different styles of speech are important. Anyways I hope to see you get over a million subs doing this kind of content
i like tony's videos too
Great to see you here at last amid our damp and teeming ngahere (forests)! Indeed, there’s not a lot flowering now, but kohekohe (recently recircumscribed as Didymocheton spectabilis) is in flower in some parts of the country, and it’s a great example of cauliflory with the inflorescences coming straight out of the trunks. Looking forward to see what you’ll find next.
Whenever i get excited about a plant i see i hear a narration in his voice in my head about it. Best botany channel ever.
Mr. Tony, I grew up in Central Florida and we have our own species of the oderiferous mushrooms, same color, not as large. I always found the scent to be more interesting than foul, but I knew what the scent was for and enjoyed seeing insects buzzing around and landing on them.
Clathrus columnatus! I live in Orlando and still see those growing here, love finding them. They're like stinky Easter eggs.
@@greencoffeemug12 Exactly! I lived on 12 heavily wooded acres near Sanford and during certain times of year they were to be found everywhere. You can smell them many feet away and my dogs always wanted to have a good sniff of them.
I am high af right now and have no idea why this is in my recommended but I’m all here for it 😂
i love the land before time type places that you go to. i'm a poor botanist who farms as a living, its awesome you get to ply your trade.
Well, I don't think he's working as a botanist except for on TH-cam here. My understanding is that he is/was a truck driver who got into botany for fun. What I'm saying is, he's just taken an interest in something, and is good at presenting it in videos. Just about anyone can find a way to do this.
Hey Tone, here in Hawaii we also have no native land mammals except for bats, but you probably already knew that. Cheers.
Much younger island (chain) though. Was never part of a super continent, etc.
Thanks for coming Joey. Wish I got to see that forest too now, awesome video.
Had to go read about native mammals of New Zealand and New Caledonia after this. Mind blown!
🦇🐳💚
It's a short read eh
Seriously never thought you would come to our little country. This is great. Been watching your content for sometime now and always thought itd wicked if you came here and made a video. Learnt alot from your channel. Hopefully you'll drop afew more video's from your time here.
Aw fuck off you're in my area, Cheers guy.
You got me into lookin at plants and appriciateing nature and shit so yeah good stuff glad you got to take a look around.
Bro same. I flip leaves every time im out on a walk now 😂. Never thought he would come here though.
Had a yard full of dog vomit slime molds and stinkhorns after spreading out woodchips to choke out grass. Looked like the landscape of an alien planet. I dealt with the dirty diaper smell as it really helped break down those woodchips.
Depending on what sort of wood chips you have, and where you're located, another option is to inoculate them with section cyanescens _Psilocybe_ mushrooms. Or, possibly _P. ovoidiocystidiata_ -- or if you're in a more subtropical location, the newly described _Psilocybe niveotropicalis_
Man I love the Cretaceous like forests of Zealandia, its so cool that you've now checked both New Caledonia and New Zealand off the list! Maybe you could some day finish off the whole continent with Lord Howe Island (though it has a lot more influence from other regions like Australia and Vanuatu) and the Chatham islands (basically just New Zealand... but still worth it I'm sure). The South Pacific as a whole really is a botanists dream, _especially_ if you happen to love conifers, magnoliids, tree ferns, and anything nice and ancient.
He’s crossed them off the “visited” list but not the “fully documented” list
@@stevenbryant3055 Well, that would be essentially impossible for a reasonable time frame, you gotta respect the effort to at the very least show off most of the notable plants and the typical ecosystems of each region.
@@StuffandThings_ I do respect the effort I was pointing out that he’s got a reason to go back
Glad to see you in our fair land. Tis a pity you came in winter as our alpine flora is crazy. It is a privilage to hear you destroy our place names, very funny. also you should ask a local for advice on how to pronounce maori names like Totara.
Such differences in the trees/plants of the world. Interesting as hell!
So stoked you came to NZ to talk about the flora! Learnt a lot, will look at the forest a little different next time i'm out :)
I saw one of those stinkhorns in South Carolina. Apparently they “hatch” from little gooey egg-like things that look like eyeballs (which are considered a delicacy some places)
My 'Kill Your Lawn' cap arrived yesterday (it's real nice). I'll be sure to wear it on any future guerrilla gardening expeditions 😁
I'm hoping I bump into you on a walk in new Zealand that would be the best lol
Fuck yeah,new Zealand! I love the convergent evolution in the Celery pine, I wonder why that shape has been favorable. These patterns you see in nature and how some of them repeat. Really cool, old plants
Greetings from the South West of Australia. Thank you for another brilliant, engaging and irreverent presentation 🙂
I love all your content, so entertaining and informational… Nice to see you in New Zealand shedding light on some of the native plants (and introduced) most people would never know about. N i known I’ve commented this before but please please come out to Hawaii and do a video on some of our beautiful native plants and you could even touch on all the horribly invasive species we have here. (I’d be more than glad to suggest some areas or spots to visit and some native plants you may find interesting.)
we might not have the line about 'things rank and gross in nature' if old shakespeare had stumbled on one of those
At 5:05, nightmare fuel; it's like a lobster mushroom and a corpse flower had a 3-way with an alien facehugger. 😳😖🤮
Gold. Glad you came here ❤ great stankhorn, better narration. Take care
1:36
Man, that makes me feel better - I made the *exact* same mistake when I first saw those! They really do look so much like a Cordyline. Still not as bad as me misidentifying a Metasequoia as a Taxodium when the two were growing less than 10 meters apart (these were cultivated), they even had some old cones laying on the ground.
9:04 the petrified forest imo more neat than the grand cannon glad i went to both but really glad i went to the forest.
thank you for teaching me about this neat fact
Trees such as your malformed Phyllocladus trichomanoides are often tied with a knot to be made into walked sticks, at least in New Zealand. Looks like someone forgot to return to that one... The Asplenium you have there is A. bulbiferum notice the large amount of bubils which A. gracillimum usually lacks. Cheers
correct was in A H Reed Park we use to tie some for that reason 50 -60 years back place still looks good
That view from above with the tree ferns and palms looked prehistoric.
Come to taranaki! I'd love to meet you there's some awesome spots here
I've seen that mushroom species in Florida! It was standing its ground in a Maga cap.
I heard Cordyceps is responsible for maga zombie behaviour.
I can think of a couple of people I'd like to send an aseroe ruba to for Christmas.
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I'm so glad you like whangarei and have been enjoying the sights around the north island.
Trounson and tutamoe might be an interesting stop for you
Jesus, this Mafia Boss knows his shit! Love him!
Mushrooms never cease to amaze.
Fascinating and beautiful. Thank you!
Unreal! This whole tour 💓🙌
What a great video! I've been in New Zealand and seen many of these plants, among others. I was also interested in the Nothofagus species in New Zealand, which are abundant in many areas. Along with New Caledonia (I just watched your other video, made near Chutes de la Madeleine), New Zealand, Australia and Chile (which resembles New Zealand in many way), I've seen a lot of coniferous species!
BTW, that shot at 3:09 looks almost like a colony of the tropical Asian honey bee Apis dorsata!
Hey there tone, i was near there back in 1977, at christmas time! looks better now, except for the kauri trees,
You first saw a Nikau palm in San Francisco? That's quite cool. Am so stoked you made it to NZ to shoot this bad ass footage!
I thoroughly enjoy the trips you take us on! Thank you!
When I was a kid, one of those fungi popped up in my neighbors' garden (in Italy) while I was playing there with them. We were shocked, we had never seen anything like that.
Absolutely murdered the names but we'll forgive you
Interestingly at 6:00 that looks like a little solitary wasp with those long antennae.
Hiked quite a few trails in N.Z. Really liked the huts an the way they did the trails. Saw Matagori trees, reminded me of acacia in Africa
finally to learn about my countries forests via my favourite youtuber 😊
Possum don't generally defoliate mature totara, it is unpalatable for them, however they will eat the fruit(modified cone) and any new sprouts on the forest floor.
“Go fuck yourself, bye. Looks like we’re about to get pissed on here” is possibly my favorite exit statement from here on out
Pandanaceae. Now I finally see something from the family of the plant that the blueberry yucca in your Tasmania videos is named after. Couldn't remember so looked it up. Richea pandanifolia. I can see the resemblance.
Nice to see a decent foot scrubber, the parks around me have the same cheap one for sale in box stores for $20 and the bristles collapse very quickly, its rare to find any remotely functional.
I keep hoping some of your plant knowledge will sink into my thick skull. Haha. I feel like I should be in an episode of neature walk whenever I talk about plants😂
Every state and national park needs that shoe cleaner.
yo you gotta come to the south island. we have huge swathes of southern beech forests and amazing alpine stuff.
ALSO if you're headed to Wellington definitely check out Otari Wiltons bush and native garden. The botanic gardens there have a huge selection of our natives!
Also I know you're a yank and that's a good excuse to not pronounce te reo maori correctly but here's a tip, roll your r's(once) and learn the vowel sounds and you can do basically all words phonetically.
cool mushroom. hope i can visit new zealand some day, been seeing it in so many horror movies after those hobit movies and the plants look out of this world
Your sign-off makes me feel flirty.
Man, I knew I should've steered clear. I was eating breakfast. Tentacle prolapse!!
Stunning flora, and poignant commentary, as always.
According to my Lion`s Mane I have a donkey face...which I won`t deny...but my wife will confirm.
Wondering...if that mushroom imitates this: when a mammal dies. It's corps explodes from the rectal area or any weak orifice due to the decomposition and the gas release??
Leaving such a blow hole behind🤔🤔🤔 it understood that flies would be the best way to carry its sporacles
Makes sense to me. Natural selection over such a long time yields some wild results lol
That's... horrible, but probably accurate.
Always love your passion in these videos. I’m curious how long you’ve been into ecology? You’ve got such great general knowledge.
Most hilarious description for a mushroom.
We had this mushroom once growing at our local playground. they were spreading everywhere. but did not return the years after.
Have you ever been to europe? Love your videos, recommended them to a college professor
Please come to banks peninsula we would love to say hi. We have some amazing native bush too.
Tony another fantastic quite interesting video that tree however with that strange knot was extremely unique
I bet there is so much photography that can be done that no one even bothers to do
I know of a couple professional TH-camr photographers that could do some of that quite Justice
They just have a better eye than I do although I do tend to see things differently I just cannot get the photographs that I want and to share
NZ has the trippiest forests, imagine back when moa and other birds still roamed.
Ngl I found the pronunciation of our Māori words a bit tough to sit through, but the description of the fungus made it worthwhile 😂 Found a bunch of basket fungus in a corner of my garden recently, they look pretty cool but man the stink 🤮
I love watching this guy and have for ages but the pronunciation had me like 😮
Yep, that hurt!!
I would guess Māori folk find Euro Kiwi pronunciations of Māori words a bit rough from time to time.
Exited to see u in nz
is banskii the inspiration from where Bansky took his name? What a fantastic excursion!! Goodness me... a walk in paradise. 😍dang! You weren't kidding when you said the grossest mushroom in the world. That is so nasty!! 🫢🤪
very nice forest 10/10 would walk again
Looks (ofitis claytis) to be possible marker tree, is there a spring nearby?
Only an Illionian from Chicago can make an insult sound like a compliment.
I thought it was awesome when I'd find these, but I just called them by their common name "poopy fingers"
Just had a come back to gawd moment as I witnessed the universe laugh it's arse off with that mushroom. So much for evolution!
Saving you for Sunday. I lied. =D
Was lucky enough to meet one of these hideous bastard mushrooms in the wild once. Just an all around good time.
That aseroe rubra looks like it should be the mascot for Taco Bell
I like the foot wash station. Better than nothin
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Holy shit, this guy's smart. Fuckin Brainiac, far as plants.
Ladies, here we can observe the Greater North American Botanicus Brainiacchus in its native habitat. Locally known for talking highbrow smack about vegetables weaker than himself.
Sopranos Tony out picking disgusting mushrooms to place on his enemies pillow?
Between all the unique conifers and the actual dinosaurs (birds) New Zealand definitely seems like going back 65million years
Is there an ID for that moss the zombie beetle was sitting on next to the prolapsed rectum? It’s really pretty.
6:02 Looks like a sarlacc pit.
1st road signs.. bent trees!
For a while i thought you were wrong about the hideous mushroom and thought it was Clathrus archeri instead, but Aseroe seems paler and has more tentacle thingies haha
Most excellent!
Wasn't there an underwear bomber on some flight? It looks like one of those went off.
Tree tried to squat too much
Lotta nice stuff 👍🏼
For the algorithm. Terrific stuff!
Taco bell octopus
I swear for a second I smelled it, than I remembered I farted under the blankets and it got delayed 😂
Yes, bathe in it, my friend. No shame. Bathe in Aseroe, too
I was just wondering about these! In ESO in Vvardenfell (dork gamer nonsense words) there are mushrooms that look like this. I knew they had to be based on something real, so cool. I stop and stare at them in game and now I know what they are.
Great video! GFY!
I found a stinkhorn in central Georgia one time not know what it was and i was dumbfounded.
Enjoy your time I'm in porirua ✌️