As a botanist and ecologist - as well as a filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story of plant evolution - I can only offer my sincere congratulations on this beautiful, simple, educational and scientifically accurate video. Thank you!
I wish you the best of luck. You must have more patience than most. I like paleontology a lot, but when I look upon the sub-field of seed plant paleontology and the chaos that genetics left it in, only one word comes to mind: Oof
Vanilla is from an orchid!?!? I grew up on a corn farm, studied plants for years in university, worked with plants in three different labs... and I still learned things from this video. What a fantastic overview. Great work Dom!
Another fact that is amazing is that orchids are the most numerous group of flowering plants yet we only eat the fruit of a single species of orchid... The vanilla and thhe rest of them are just pretty to us humans.
@@isaqkampp4044 There is actually another group of orchids being used for food, some of the genus Orchid. Their roots are made into Salep, which is used to make ice cream.
@@isaqkampp4044 Various orchid species are consumed all over the world, including in Turkey, Central Asia, and much of Africa, although it's usually the tubers being consumed and not the fruit. It takes a lot of labor to produce orchid fruit, so consumption is rare.
The channel UsefulCharts has a nice, bigger picture "map of life" which includes animals and fungi. But I would love to see Dom's more fleshed out and artistic take on it!!
I’m in my last semester of a bachelor’s in Plant Science and I have not seen such a comprehensive and clearly explained taxonomic tree on plants. Took me four years to learn what you summed up in this video. Thank you!
The Sapindales which contain Maples also include more than you would think, notably; Citrus, Cashews, Mangos, Frankincense, Myrrh, Mahogany, Horse Chestnut, and many others…
Yes good point. Would've been good if video had more (or better) examples within each plant order. Rosales contains edible fruits like apple, peach, pear, cherry, apricots, blackberry, strawberry, etc are all in the Rosaceae family within this order. Probably should have mentioned that too!
@@Americansikkunt in the bible's story of Jesus' birth he is visited by the 3 wise men/magi and they give him gifts. These gifts are gold, frankincense, and myrrh. OP mentions that frankincense and myrrh (among other substances) fall under the Sapindales order, and the comment you're responding to makes a joke about how 2 of the 3 things Jesus received are effectively tree sap.
I was already rather fond of plants and fungi, both for their aesthetic diversity and also because I learned that a "tree" was a type of plant "shape" rather than a type of plant itself. BUT NOW!!! Now I'm so deeply intrigued that I have to go forth and learn more on my own! Thank you for this wonderful video!
The Fungi map is highly needed. I have been expecting this one on plants for some time. For some reason I thought you already had a map on fungi. Thank you for your videos.
I don't know why, but it fills my heart with joy knowing that many familiar species we grow on our neighborhood streets, keep in our gardens, and stock in our pantries are all closely related in the Rosid and Asterid groups 🌱❤
Depends on the area of the world where you're from, I suppose. I thing the Asteraceae family is the most common plant family in Europe. Not sure about the rest of the world. Also, why does this fact fill you with joy? I'm genuinely curious. I myself quite like the Lamiaceae family, as it's got many medicinal plants and herbs that are used in cooking.
@milamila1123 It's a fact that has a cuteness about it I suppose. It puts the personified image in my head of the plants saying "Hey, I know you!" to each other while growing 😅
The brassicas are such an incredible family. Like the video mentions, a single species can produce cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and others. But also in the family is mustard, turnip, rutabaga, rapeseed (canola), radish, horseradish, wasabi, arugula (rocket), watercress, and many more plants that can produce food, ornamental flowers, and dye.
I once did a presentation on this exact kind of thing (focused mostly on the phylogenetic differences between trees called 'cedar' just to narrow it down, but did some comparison within the other conifers, and within angiosperms including the rosids and other eudicots as well), and it's so incredibly amazing to see this as a whole video here on youtube. This is a topic that fascinates me and I love it!
Very cool! One 'snub' is the characterization of Alismatales as pond weeds. Although many of the groups are in fact 'pond weeds' and 'sea grasses' (~500 species) - Alismatales also includes Aroids which have 140 genera, over 4000 species. Including the most familiar houseplants (monstera, philodendron, anthurium, peace lilies), food crops (Colocasia - Taro) and the Amorphophallus titanum famous corpse flower (worlds largest unbranched effloresce).
That was absolutely excellent! Simplifying plant taxonomy is a task that almost everyone who has ever attempted has failed. Wow, I almost wish I was a teacher just so that I could show kids this video. Just subbed great job 👍
great video, one nitpick: apples and strawberries absolutely are fruits, botanically. Apples are Pomes, a kind of accessory fruit, and Strawberry are an aggregate accessory fruit. it's good to distinguish them from ~berries~ which they are not, but they're absolutely fruits
Came here for this comment / explaination! Agreed 'not a fruit' is too stong, wrong. The fleshy part you eat of an apple/strawberry is not "the fruit" is the meaning i understand now. I think thats consistent?
Biologists have always explained it to me the way he does here. So I think he was just sharing the way biologists define fruit. In daily life, of course strawberries are fruit. Just like cucumbers are vegetables.
Isn't the word 'fruit' used in botany to describe a plant organ. The vegetative are: root, something (stem? no idea how to translate it), leaf, and the reproductive are: flower, fruit and seed. Right? In my language, there are seperate words for the plant organ and the opposide of a vegetable. 'Fruit', as in 'thing that is opposite of a vegetable' is typically an agronomy term, rather than a botanical one.
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Some inaccuracies: wild carrots being inedible, apples not being fruits because they don’t form from the "plant ovary" (also inaccurate) and therefore being “false fruits” (even though they’re accessory fruits the same way as cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, figs and many others), plant sexual reproduction (see alternation of generations), the number of edible plant species, etc.
I noted those as well. My understanding is that three out of four plants are edible and medicinal. I know that wild carrots are edible, though not very tasty. I enjoyed everything I learned, but it does allow me to remember that there is so much more to learn before we reach a consensus.
@@avermontlife Many plants are grow specifically for human consumption, but I'm not sure 3 out 4 types of plants would be edible. Many people don't even realize, some of their own common tropical house plants are listed as toxic. Others contain sap that can be harmful if handled without gloves.
I was thoroughly enjoying this, but had to pause when you stated that there are more toxic plants than nontoxic. My understanding is that three out of four plants are edible and medicinal, meaning 300,000 out of 400,000. It goes to show how diverse our understanding of plants is, and how much more we need to learn in order to reach consensus. I love the map.
A clearer definition of toxic would have been useful. Nictoine is case in point, I believe tomatoes and eggplants have nicotine, but whether they're toxic is situational.
Great Video! I'm a botanist and you did a great job giving a drive by explanation of plant diversity! Although, I wish my favorite group, the ferns, got a little more attention. Lol.
I did my undergraduate degree in Botany. This video reminded me of all the fascinating things I got to learn in college, and made me realize how much of it I'm yet to explore. This was absolutely wonderful. Also! I checked out the Gunnera leaves after this, woooooah!! ❤
@pietajunior3437 lol, I meant between when this video aired and before doing a fungi video. How'd it take me so long to see this reply? Buggar! This was a golden misunderstanding I could have had fun, poking fun at myself over!
This was probably one of the most amazing things I learned about plants over the years - especially because it implies that for any given plant, there may well exist related forms varying from enormous old growth trees to miniscule ephemeral herbs, all of which may have recognizable congruent structures in flower, leaf, fruit, or seed, in addition to similar edible or medicinal characteristics. This may also imply that, say, even though there may never have been a tree form of a strawberry, the genetic potential to create one is likely extant in current herbaceous forms.
well done. Exactly the kind of plant map I've been looking for, not overly simplified and drawn in a way that someone with little understanding of plants can interpret the relations between plant groups.
I hope someone who doesn't believe in evolution sees this video. I mean, we can classify pretty much everything with it. It gives us a trackrecord of what features live got and when.
You did a great job! I was a biology teacher, and did some botanical fieldwork. I was impressed with how much good information you packed into a short time, and your beautiful art also!
I find it very interesting that gourds and pumpkins are so far away from potatoes and nightshades, considering how similar their flowers, fruit, and growth as a vine are.
By that logic all vines should be the same species. There’s really absolutely nothing even remotely similar between the two groups, besides the basic vine shape. The flowers are drastically different, the leaves are different, the trichomes and rooting habits are different.
Squashes ("gourds and pumpkins") truly look and grow nothing like nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, etc.). I'd encourage you to visit a farm or market garden some time (or grow your own food); it's truly rewarding to get to know these plants beyond their immediate utility to us, as served up in grocery stores.
This is one of the best overviews of plant taxonomy I've seen, being both comprehensive and concise in covering such a large amount of material. Well done!
Wonderful! I learned some of this ages ago and thus was surprised by the change from "dicots" to "eudicots". One of my most enjoyable courses at university was field identification of plants. A typical lab quiz would consist of 50 sets of twigs and leaves, daring us to come up with their latin and common name. I'm forever grateful to Professor A. F. DeWerth at Texas A&M University for imparting his vast knowledge on the subject of floriculture. Thank you for this entertaining and clear summation of the incredible plant kingdom.
I would like to see a map of the roots of the tree of life. I know there are five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungus, and two microscopic kingdoms. What I would like is something a little more detailed explaining the relationships between these five kingdoms, those creatures that don't fit neatly into one of these five kingdoms, and perhaps a little about the subkingdoms and superphylums. (No, I do not expect you to talk about all the different phylums of worms).
I'm always amazed at how families like the Rose Family (Rosaceae) include such a wide range of plants... Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Apricots, Almonds, Rasperries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Hawthornes... When I was younger if someone told me that cherry trees were a member of the rose family I wouldn't've believed it. But then you look at the leaves, the flowers, and a lot of other features and it all starts to make sense.... but it's still so wild.
Clicked on the video because I like plants and the picture looked nice, stayed for the interesting content and because I realized this video makes me learn without actively trying to learn something. Thanks for making this beautiful map of plants!
Stumbled upon a replay of your TED talk at xVan over 7 years ago and it made such an impression then that this time as I listened, it seemed important to detail to myself your 4 Principles of relating a detailed scientific or other complex set of transactions. That was when I also tripped onto a video you had made and posted on TH-cam, December 31, 2023 on Domain of Science, Dominic Walliman. I was excited because this set of circumstances reminded me a those 'scavenger hunts' my own generation used to engage in for parties and play. I had carefully watched the full video Map of Plants, in preparation for a complex climate-smart agriculture and nutrition education project which will span a number of years to come, hopefully. All the while engaging groups of likeminded or interested parties all along the way. Please accept my humble appreciation and of course, May you and yours...Be In Good Health. 😎
Happy new year! I love that this Channel is still going strong after thisany years. Fantastic educational Videos that will find their way into so many curriculums or student cram sessions :)
Thank yu so much. I was a forestry major back in the 60s and we did not have any study materials even close to the clarity of this video. They have changed many of the names since then as well. Please continue your work. P.S. definitely subscribed
All through high school and college I thought botany was one of the dullest subjects imaginable, but then I somehow got into it and realized how fascinating it really is. It's not just what is known, but what is still unknown; finally DNA is resolving some of the relationships which were only guessed at before. Also the incredible diversity, just when you think you've got a handle on what variety is possible, there's a new plant which upsets your expectations. Did you think you had to visit an alien planet to find a life form with three genders? Nope, there's a plant right here on Earth (purple loosestrife).
@@vaniaoliveira1365 Per Wikipedia:"The flowers are reddish purple, 10-20 millimetres (1⁄2-3⁄4 in) in diameter, with six petals (occasionally five) and 12 stamens, and are clustered tightly in the axils of bracts or leaves; there are three different flower types, with the stamens and style of different lengths, short, medium or long; each flower type can only be pollinated by one of the other types, not the same type, thus ensuring cross-pollination between different plants." References are listed there, but I first heard about this as an example in "Origin of the Species".
@@vaniaoliveira1365 try google scholar, or if you're in uni, jstor might have something. you could always google it and see what resources people link to
Oh BOY! I loved this! Kept exclaiming ("Oh wow!", "No way, really?!", "That's SO cool"), and can't wait to share this with my other plant friends xx I really dig gardening & foraging, so this was very enlightening~
Fantastic work! This video does a great job of explaining plant relations. You somehow make it novice friendly but detailed enough to surprise and interest the more advanced as well. Would love to see this expanded - this quality on the economic and major families with distinguishing and important features...
The story about the primordial cell that got eaten by another cell but didn't die and instead just started simping for the first cell was so relatable.
I would love to see a map of fungi!! This video was amazing, I'm starting work in an herbarium, so I've been watching anatomy and taxonomy videos like crazy (I never took botany), and this one was really helpful!
Great work! As a professional plant taxonomist, I've rarely seen plant diversity portrayed in a more accessible manner. One thing: there's a typo in the heading at 13:21. Monocot is misspelled as "Monoct."
From a horticulturist blog on apples. "...The ovaries at the base of the stigma.7 And the hypanthium8 - that develops into the ‘fleshy’ part of the apple; the part we actually eat - has just begun to swell. The fertilised ovaries, in which the apple’s five seeds, or ‘pips’, will develop, is now encased in the growing hypanthium, which will continue to swell and eventually ripen, to become a deliciously edible apple fruit."
This is something that settles something deep in my soul. I've always loved ecology and pretty flowcharts. This is both. Something I've wanted since forever but couldn't find .
This is fantastic, i hope you do more on aquatic plants, fungi and lichen!! Although the apple bit has me miffed. It is a fleshy product formed from a flower with seeds inside it that can produce another apple tree. How is that not a fruit???? Also you can totally eat wild carrots, Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota) is a biannual bloomer and the root is a wee whiteish carrot. If you pinch the greens they smell just like the carrot greens in the grocery store.
Hi. Enjoyed this one a lot. Was kind of refreshing as it was something not so much in my subject area. If I am not mistaken, SUGAR CANE and BAMBOO are also grasses, at least this is how a learnt it. It happens so no worries, but did you realise that in the heading at 13:21, the word 'monocot' is incorrectly spelt? 🙂 It doesn't take away from the video at all. You mentioned 'white carrots'. Here in Trinidad, there is something we call morai, which basically looks like a white carrot. It is eaten by some down here, but not so much by myself. The taste is totally different though - strong and slightly pungent to me. Have a good upcoming year.
Dear Dominic, your illustrations are simply amazing. I would absolutely love for some of your maps to be in the form of jigsaw puzzles. It would be great fun to make these charts and it would promote deeper learning of the maps. It would be much cooler to then put these complete jigsaw puzzles on the wall. Please do consider as I would love to buy some of these puzzles❤❤❤ Keep up the great work😊
Fantastic video! I really appreciated the time line and how you included side notes such as fungi, what a fruit is, and the different broccoli variants. Made it so much more relatable.
I really appreciate your work! Please do some more series on statistics, a subject with multidisciplinary applications that many people find challenging to grasp. You can utilize examples from various fields of study to illustrate how statistical models are employed. Thanks!
I've lost track of the number of "huh!"s and "really?!"s I had during this video! It's so fascinating to see how so many seemingly-disparate plants are connected in unexpected ways. Great work!
17:42 Netherlands mentioned implicitly! :-) I was blown away as a kid, when I learned that "trees" are not related but rather a niche that most plants can fill. They seem so different!
Sometimes following a rabbit hole on TH-cam throws up some fascinating information, like this, that is not just engaging but superbly presented. Thanks for new learning this Saturday morning!
You are the man! I have been writing a long story on the evolution of the nervous system and brain. I recently started drawing my “map” out too. More so the animal lineage relevant to humans. Love this!
I like seeing the different iterations of the taxonomic charts it helps to see things in different ways. Didn't realized that euphorbias are closer to roses than to cacti. 🏵🌹🌵
1:40 just a clarification here, single celled, or multicelled and microscopic algae aren't all diatoms. Diatoms are a specific group of algae that are microscopic and characterized by carbonate coverings that are symmetrical (either radially, like how a starfish or a mandala pattern looks, or on only one plane (bilaterally)). These coverings fit together in two parts, with one partially going underneath the other one due to its slightly smaller size. Actually the most prevalent form of algae are cyanobacteria, which don't have chloroplasts (but do still photosynthesize using chlorophyll and other light-harvesting pigments, which is why some of them appear greenish), and are the main scrubers of CO2 from our atmosphere ((also cyanobacteria are largely responsible for our atmosphere having an abundance of oxygen instead of carbon dioxide-- they were so productive millions of years ago that they paved the way for organisms that use oxygen- like us!)). Okay I went a little farther than intended there, but hopefully someone will have a fun time reading that. Just know that there are many different structural options for algae, and that only some of them are closely genetically related to plants.
Insightful is little to be told and together with thanks it comes a huge virtual hug… We thank you for the enormous effort put on this amazing video and shared with us!
Wonderful! This physical scientist has never learned any botany, this was very helpful. (We only need basic biology for our degrees, and there’s never time enough to study everything we find interesting, even in my six years of university).
You didn't mention olives, but I mistakingly thought you did, and I looked them up. I just learned they are related to the mints and herbs within the astrids! This video is very helpful!
im in the sciences and i always want to tell my mom what im learning about but she didn't get a good science education (she didn't know snakes were reptiles, because she thought reptile was just another word for lizard, she never even thought about what a snake was other than a "snake" for example) so sometimes i want to tell her stuff that's way past her level videos like this are great for background information on what a plant or animal even is in science and now we can talk about more stuff!
As a botanist and ecologist - as well as a filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story of plant evolution - I can only offer my sincere congratulations on this beautiful, simple, educational and scientifically accurate video. Thank you!
I wish you the best of luck. You must have more patience than most. I like paleontology a lot, but when I look upon the sub-field of seed plant paleontology and the chaos that genetics left it in, only one word comes to mind: Oof
Vanilla is from an orchid!?!? I grew up on a corn farm, studied plants for years in university, worked with plants in three different labs... and I still learned things from this video. What a fantastic overview. Great work Dom!
Hey hey, thanks very much!! 😁
Another fact that is amazing is that orchids are the most numerous group of flowering plants yet we only eat the fruit of a single species of orchid... The vanilla and thhe rest of them are just pretty to us humans.
And I didn't know Brassica oleraceae had so many varieties!
@@isaqkampp4044 There is actually another group of orchids being used for food, some of the genus Orchid. Their roots are made into Salep, which is used to make ice cream.
@@isaqkampp4044 Various orchid species are consumed all over the world, including in Turkey, Central Asia, and much of Africa, although it's usually the tubers being consumed and not the fruit. It takes a lot of labor to produce orchid fruit, so consumption is rare.
Please do one on fungi!!!! This was amazing!
And then animals!
YES! I second this!!!!
The channel UsefulCharts has a nice, bigger picture "map of life" which includes animals and fungi.
But I would love to see Dom's more fleshed out and artistic take on it!!
Good luck their speciation might not be linear in all cases. 😅
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I’m in my last semester of a bachelor’s in Plant Science and I have not seen such a comprehensive and clearly explained taxonomic tree on plants. Took me four years to learn what you summed up in this video. Thank you!
The Sapindales which contain Maples also include more than you would think, notably; Citrus, Cashews, Mangos, Frankincense, Myrrh, Mahogany, Horse Chestnut, and many others…
Yes good point. Would've been good if video had more (or better) examples within each plant order. Rosales contains edible fruits like apple, peach, pear, cherry, apricots, blackberry, strawberry, etc are all in the Rosaceae family within this order. Probably should have mentioned that too!
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@@Americansikkunt in the bible's story of Jesus' birth he is visited by the 3 wise men/magi and they give him gifts. These gifts are gold, frankincense, and myrrh. OP mentions that frankincense and myrrh (among other substances) fall under the Sapindales order, and the comment you're responding to makes a joke about how 2 of the 3 things Jesus received are effectively tree sap.
@@adm22531 ah, I see. Thank you
Studied botany for years and i can safely say this is honestly better than anything I was ever shown in a lecture, bravo to you.
A map of bacteria and one of archaea would be awesome too!
Well, now were tapping into the unknown.
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I was already rather fond of plants and fungi, both for their aesthetic diversity and also because I learned that a "tree" was a type of plant "shape" rather than a type of plant itself. BUT NOW!!! Now I'm so deeply intrigued that I have to go forth and learn more on my own! Thank you for this wonderful video!
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The Fungi map is highly needed. I have been expecting this one on plants for some time. For some reason I thought you already had a map on fungi. Thank you for your videos.
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Yes, I'd love a fungi map too!
I don't know why, but it fills my heart with joy knowing that many familiar species we grow on our neighborhood streets, keep in our gardens, and stock in our pantries are all closely related in the Rosid and Asterid groups 🌱❤
Depends on the area of the world where you're from, I suppose. I thing the Asteraceae family is the most common plant family in Europe. Not sure about the rest of the world.
Also, why does this fact fill you with joy? I'm genuinely curious. I myself quite like the Lamiaceae family, as it's got many medicinal plants and herbs that are used in cooking.
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It's a fact that has a cuteness about it I suppose. It puts the personified image in my head of the plants saying "Hey, I know you!" to each other while growing 😅
The brassicas are such an incredible family. Like the video mentions, a single species can produce cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and others. But also in the family is mustard, turnip, rutabaga, rapeseed (canola), radish, horseradish, wasabi, arugula (rocket), watercress, and many more plants that can produce food, ornamental flowers, and dye.
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I once did a presentation on this exact kind of thing (focused mostly on the phylogenetic differences between trees called 'cedar' just to narrow it down, but did some comparison within the other conifers, and within angiosperms including the rosids and other eudicots as well), and it's so incredibly amazing to see this as a whole video here on youtube. This is a topic that fascinates me and I love it!
Very cool! One 'snub' is the characterization of Alismatales as pond weeds. Although many of the groups are in fact 'pond weeds' and 'sea grasses' (~500 species) - Alismatales also includes Aroids which have 140 genera, over 4000 species. Including the most familiar houseplants (monstera, philodendron, anthurium, peace lilies), food crops (Colocasia - Taro) and the Amorphophallus titanum famous corpse flower (worlds largest unbranched effloresce).
There we go! I was wondering where all those fit in!
I love visual mind maps so much!! Thanks for all of these. I also love that you critique the strangeness of it all along with it.
That was absolutely excellent! Simplifying plant taxonomy is a task that almost everyone who has ever attempted has failed. Wow, I almost wish I was a teacher just so that I could show kids this video. Just subbed great job 👍
The fungus map would just be a giant circle that says "Who Knows?"
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great video, one nitpick: apples and strawberries absolutely are fruits, botanically. Apples are Pomes, a kind of accessory fruit, and Strawberry are an aggregate accessory fruit. it's good to distinguish them from ~berries~ which they are not, but they're absolutely fruits
I think he meant it more in a "the fleshy part is not the fruit but rather a covering of fruits" way than "this is not a fruit".
Came here for this comment / explaination! Agreed 'not a fruit' is too stong, wrong. The fleshy part you eat of an apple/strawberry is not "the fruit" is the meaning i understand now. I think thats consistent?
Biologists have always explained it to me the way he does here. So I think he was just sharing the way biologists define fruit. In daily life, of course strawberries are fruit. Just like cucumbers are vegetables.
Isn't the word 'fruit' used in botany to describe a plant organ. The vegetative are: root, something (stem? no idea how to translate it), leaf, and the reproductive are: flower, fruit and seed. Right? In my language, there are seperate words for the plant organ and the opposide of a vegetable. 'Fruit', as in 'thing that is opposite of a vegetable' is typically an agronomy term, rather than a botanical one.
Some inaccuracies: wild carrots being inedible, apples not being fruits because they don’t form from the "plant ovary" (also inaccurate) and therefore being “false fruits” (even though they’re accessory fruits the same way as cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, figs and many others), plant sexual reproduction (see alternation of generations), the number of edible plant species, etc.
I noted those as well. My understanding is that three out of four plants are edible and medicinal. I know that wild carrots are edible, though not very tasty. I enjoyed everything I learned, but it does allow me to remember that there is so much more to learn before we reach a consensus.
@@avermontlife Many plants are grow specifically for human consumption, but I'm not sure 3 out 4 types of plants would be edible. Many people don't even realize, some of their own common tropical house plants are listed as toxic. Others contain sap that can be harmful if handled without gloves.
I was going to say, apples definitely have seeds inside of them. So, isn't that by definition a fruit?
The cores of pears and apples are fruit, the rest is not
@@Tim3.14the outer part most people eat is not a fruit, the core is
I was thoroughly enjoying this, but had to pause when you stated that there are more toxic plants than nontoxic. My understanding is that three out of four plants are edible and medicinal, meaning 300,000 out of 400,000. It goes to show how diverse our understanding of plants is, and how much more we need to learn in order to reach consensus. I love the map.
Medicinal, though, is maybe a useful kind of toxic? And some of those poisons are pretty fun....
Technically, anything is toxic at the right dose lol
@@seanrrr preponderance produces a powerful placebo
It is possible that they are all edible or medicinal, but people do not know how to prepare them properly for those tasks.
A clearer definition of toxic would have been useful. Nictoine is case in point, I believe tomatoes and eggplants have nicotine, but whether they're toxic is situational.
Great Video! I'm a botanist and you did a great job giving a drive by explanation of plant diversity! Although, I wish my favorite group, the ferns, got a little more attention. Lol.
a map on ferns would be pretty fun too
I did my undergraduate degree in Botany. This video reminded me of all the fascinating things I got to learn in college, and made me realize how much of it I'm yet to explore. This was absolutely wonderful. Also! I checked out the Gunnera leaves after this, woooooah!! ❤
"I should probably do a map of fungi as well"
Yes please! And the Lichen in-between, maybe?
I wouldn't call lichens in-betweens. More like both at the same time.
Definitely the lichen too!
@pietajunior3437 lol, I meant between when this video aired and before doing a fungi video.
How'd it take me so long to see this reply? Buggar! This was a golden misunderstanding I could have had fun, poking fun at myself over!
Lichens are classified within fungi
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This was probably one of the most amazing things I learned about plants over the years - especially because it implies that for any given plant, there may well exist related forms varying from enormous old growth trees to miniscule ephemeral herbs, all of which may have recognizable congruent structures in flower, leaf, fruit, or seed, in addition to similar edible or medicinal characteristics. This may also imply that, say, even though there may never have been a tree form of a strawberry, the genetic potential to create one is likely extant in current herbaceous forms.
well done. Exactly the kind of plant map I've been looking for, not overly simplified and drawn in a way that someone with little understanding of plants can interpret the relations between plant groups.
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Thanks so much! I dream of a day when we show the wonder and awh of evolution by taking better care of our planet and the plants we share it with.
I hope someone who doesn't believe in evolution sees this video. I mean, we can classify pretty much everything with it. It gives us a trackrecord of what features live got and when.
You did a great job! I was a biology teacher, and did some botanical fieldwork. I was impressed with how much good information you packed into a short time, and your beautiful art also!
I find it very interesting that gourds and pumpkins are so far away from potatoes and nightshades, considering how similar their flowers, fruit, and growth as a vine are.
Carcinization/convergent evolution!
@@Yuvraj. Carcinization is specifically about crabs lol
@@objective_psychology I know, but you can abstract the underlying concept no?
By that logic all vines should be the same species.
There’s really absolutely nothing even remotely similar between the two groups, besides the basic vine shape. The flowers are drastically different, the leaves are different, the trichomes and rooting habits are different.
Squashes ("gourds and pumpkins") truly look and grow nothing like nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, etc.). I'd encourage you to visit a farm or market garden some time (or grow your own food); it's truly rewarding to get to know these plants beyond their immediate utility to us, as served up in grocery stores.
This is one of the best overviews of plant taxonomy I've seen, being both comprehensive and concise in covering such a large amount of material. Well done!
This was just beautiful, Dom! I love the borders you did for each group, such a neat little touch 🤌✨
Happy new year! 🎉
I loved them, too.
Wonderful! I learned some of this ages ago and thus was surprised by the change from "dicots" to "eudicots". One of my most enjoyable courses at university was field identification of plants. A typical lab quiz would consist of 50 sets of twigs and leaves, daring us to come up with their latin and common name. I'm forever grateful to Professor A. F. DeWerth at Texas A&M University for imparting his vast knowledge on the subject of floriculture. Thank you for this entertaining and clear summation of the incredible plant kingdom.
I would like to see a map of the roots of the tree of life. I know there are five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungus, and two microscopic kingdoms. What I would like is something a little more detailed explaining the relationships between these five kingdoms, those creatures that don't fit neatly into one of these five kingdoms, and perhaps a little about the subkingdoms and superphylums. (No, I do not expect you to talk about all the different phylums of worms).
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
I'm always amazed at how families like the Rose Family (Rosaceae) include such a wide range of plants... Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Apricots, Almonds, Rasperries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Hawthornes...
When I was younger if someone told me that cherry trees were a member of the rose family I wouldn't've believed it. But then you look at the leaves, the flowers, and a lot of other features and it all starts to make sense.... but it's still so wild.
8:16 i honestly love your videos so a map of fungi would be very interesting to watch!!
Great Video! Please do maps for the other areas of life like fungi and animals
Clicked on the video because I like plants and the picture looked nice, stayed for the interesting content and because I realized this video makes me learn without actively trying to learn something.
Thanks for making this beautiful map of plants!
Protect your farmers at all costs. Happy new year DoS!
revising for my finals exams in ecology and this video is a god-send!!!! THANKYOU for explaining so clearly
In dutch we have a "vrucht", which has the botanical definition, and "fruit", which has the generic definition
I really loved how simply all the details are mentioned as a botany student I really appreciate your efforts
One smal correction: wild white carrots are edible and in midwinter turn fairly sweet.
Stumbled upon a replay of your TED talk at xVan over 7 years ago and it made such an impression then that this time as I listened, it seemed important to detail to myself your 4 Principles of relating a detailed scientific or other complex set of transactions. That was when I also tripped onto a video you had made and posted on TH-cam, December 31, 2023 on Domain of Science, Dominic Walliman. I was excited because this set of circumstances reminded me a those 'scavenger hunts' my own generation used to engage in for parties and play. I had carefully watched the full video Map of Plants, in preparation for a complex climate-smart agriculture and nutrition education project which will span a number of years to come, hopefully. All the while engaging groups of likeminded or interested parties all along the way. Please accept my humble appreciation and of course, May you and yours...Be In Good Health. 😎
this video insanely satisfy my fascination towards plants and botany, also the details on the borders are neat!
Such an amazing video. I’d love to hear more from your knowledge about cacti. Mysterious species!
Happy new year! I love that this Channel is still going strong after thisany years. Fantastic educational Videos that will find their way into so many curriculums or student cram sessions :)
Thank yu so much. I was a forestry major back in the 60s and we did not have any study materials even close to the clarity of this video. They have changed many of the names since then as well.
Please continue your work. P.S. definitely subscribed
All through high school and college I thought botany was one of the dullest subjects imaginable, but then I somehow got into it and realized how fascinating it really is. It's not just what is known, but what is still unknown; finally DNA is resolving some of the relationships which were only guessed at before. Also the incredible diversity, just when you think you've got a handle on what variety is possible, there's a new plant which upsets your expectations. Did you think you had to visit an alien planet to find a life form with three genders? Nope, there's a plant right here on Earth (purple loosestrife).
I think the most I saw was 5 genders. The lifecycles of microbes are unbelievable and huge advances in the field have been made recently.
Hi :) I was intrigued by that! Where can I read more about the three genders of purple loosestrife?
@@vaniaoliveira1365 Per Wikipedia:"The flowers are reddish purple, 10-20 millimetres (1⁄2-3⁄4 in) in diameter, with six petals (occasionally five) and 12 stamens, and are clustered tightly in the axils of bracts or leaves; there are three different flower types, with the stamens and style of different lengths, short, medium or long; each flower type can only be pollinated by one of the other types, not the same type, thus ensuring cross-pollination between different plants." References are listed there, but I first heard about this as an example in "Origin of the Species".
@@deltalima6703 you should look into fungi. they have so many
@@vaniaoliveira1365 try google scholar, or if you're in uni, jstor might have something. you could always google it and see what resources people link to
Oh BOY! I loved this! Kept exclaiming ("Oh wow!", "No way, really?!", "That's SO cool"), and can't wait to share this with my other plant friends xx I really dig gardening & foraging, so this was very enlightening~
You should indeed, absolutely do a map of fungi as well. I would very much appreciate that!
Absolutely INCREDIBLE
I would love to see you try to do a map of Fishes, particularly the ray find fishes
A map of fungi would be sick!
Fantastic work! This video does a great job of explaining plant relations. You somehow make it novice friendly but detailed enough to surprise and interest the more advanced as well. Would love to see this expanded - this quality on the economic and major families with distinguishing and important features...
The story about the primordial cell that got eaten by another cell but didn't die and instead just started simping for the first cell was so relatable.
I would love to see a map of fungi!! This video was amazing, I'm starting work in an herbarium, so I've been watching anatomy and taxonomy videos like crazy (I never took botany), and this one was really helpful!
Great work! As a professional plant taxonomist, I've rarely seen plant diversity portrayed in a more accessible manner. One thing: there's a typo in the heading at 13:21. Monocot is misspelled as "Monoct."
This was an amazing video. Super informative, visually entertaining, and easily comprehensible. Thank you so much!!
From a horticulturist blog on apples. "...The ovaries at the base of the stigma.7 And the hypanthium8 - that develops into the ‘fleshy’ part of the apple; the part we actually eat - has just begun to swell. The fertilised ovaries, in which the apple’s five seeds, or ‘pips’, will develop, is now encased in the growing hypanthium, which will continue to swell and eventually ripen, to become a deliciously edible apple fruit."
This is something that settles something deep in my soul. I've always loved ecology and pretty flowcharts. This is both. Something I've wanted since forever but couldn't find .
Next: Obviously "ANIMALS"
I wish I could have sat with my grandmother and watched this, talked to her about it, she would have enjoyed it so so much she loved plants.
I love your map videos. I would also love to see a part 2 to your reaction to physics in movies. ❤
Yes please do one for fungi! I'm a nature guide and these sorts of simplified top-down comparisons are great
Fungi Map please ❤
Super didactic, well conceived, well explained. Loved it.
Please don't stop making these videos. It has been a while since the last video 😊
This is fantastic, i hope you do more on aquatic plants, fungi and lichen!! Although the apple bit has me miffed. It is a fleshy product formed from a flower with seeds inside it that can produce another apple tree. How is that not a fruit???? Also you can totally eat wild carrots, Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota) is a biannual bloomer and the root is a wee whiteish carrot. If you pinch the greens they smell just like the carrot greens in the grocery store.
Hi. Enjoyed this one a lot. Was kind of refreshing as it was something not so much in my subject area.
If I am not mistaken, SUGAR CANE and BAMBOO are also grasses, at least this is how a learnt it.
It happens so no worries, but did you realise that in the heading at 13:21, the word 'monocot' is incorrectly spelt? 🙂 It doesn't take away from the video at all.
You mentioned 'white carrots'. Here in Trinidad, there is something we call morai, which basically looks like a white carrot. It is eaten by some down here, but not so much by myself. The taste is totally different though - strong and slightly pungent to me.
Have a good upcoming year.
Right, the grass family has a huge variety including sugarcane and bamboo.
Yeah, bamboos are just giant grasses. I wish he would've mentioned that.
The daikon (= morai I think) is a rosid, carrots are asterids!
What an amazing job!!! Learned so much!!!
Fun fact: Palm trees aren't trees, they're grasses.
My mom and i talk about how brilliant and personable you are all the time. Thank you Wallyman.
So heating oceans equal less oxygen for us.
first time seeing this channel as french guys. The drawing...ect, looks soo good ! pleasure to watch
Cucumber is a fruit, apple is not. I've been lied to all this time! 😅
Dear Dominic, your illustrations are simply amazing. I would absolutely love for some of your maps to be in the form of jigsaw puzzles. It would be great fun to make these charts and it would promote deeper learning of the maps. It would be much cooler to then put these complete jigsaw puzzles on the wall. Please do consider as I would love to buy some of these puzzles❤❤❤
Keep up the great work😊
The "palm" at 12:14 actually looks more like a Cycad. Given the subject of this video these should not be mixed up.
it's def a Cycad not a Palm, very unrelated that looks similar!
One of the best videos I've ever watched on Plants.
Fantastic video!
I really appreciated the time line and how you included side notes such as fungi, what a fruit is, and the different broccoli variants. Made it so much more relatable.
You've single-handedly sold me on botany
This is an absolute masterpiece and is gonna help so much in plant ecology this semester
I really appreciate your work! Please do some more series on statistics, a subject with multidisciplinary applications that many people find challenging to grasp. You can utilize examples from various fields of study to illustrate how statistical models are employed. Thanks!
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
I've lost track of the number of "huh!"s and "really?!"s I had during this video! It's so fascinating to see how so many seemingly-disparate plants are connected in unexpected ways. Great work!
17:42 Netherlands mentioned implicitly! :-)
I was blown away as a kid, when I learned that "trees" are not related but rather a niche that most plants can fill. They seem so different!
Sometimes following a rabbit hole on TH-cam throws up some fascinating information, like this, that is not just engaging but superbly presented. Thanks for new learning this Saturday morning!
You are the man! I have been writing a long story on the evolution of the nervous system and brain. I recently started drawing my “map” out too. More so the animal lineage relevant to humans. Love this!
If you see this, I would love to know what you used to animate this video! Thank you sir
Really appreciate your amazing job on this, so interesting, love it
that's the first time I've been so interested on botany, thank you
I like seeing the different iterations of the taxonomic charts it helps to see things in different ways. Didn't realized that euphorbias are closer to roses than to cacti. 🏵🌹🌵
1:40 just a clarification here, single celled, or multicelled and microscopic algae aren't all diatoms. Diatoms are a specific group of algae that are microscopic and characterized by carbonate coverings that are symmetrical (either radially, like how a starfish or a mandala pattern looks, or on only one plane (bilaterally)). These coverings fit together in two parts, with one partially going underneath the other one due to its slightly smaller size. Actually the most prevalent form of algae are cyanobacteria, which don't have chloroplasts (but do still photosynthesize using chlorophyll and other light-harvesting pigments, which is why some of them appear greenish), and are the main scrubers of CO2 from our atmosphere ((also cyanobacteria are largely responsible for our atmosphere having an abundance of oxygen instead of carbon dioxide-- they were so productive millions of years ago that they paved the way for organisms that use oxygen- like us!)). Okay I went a little farther than intended there, but hopefully someone will have a fun time reading that. Just know that there are many different structural options for algae, and that only some of them are closely genetically related to plants.
okay I admittedly did not watch literally any further before typing this out, but again, hopefully someone will enjoy this
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We thank you for the enormous effort put on this amazing video and shared with us!
This was amazing! Thank you and all the people involved for this short but super informative video!
Its hard to believe that you got all those classifications into one compact map. Super informational! Thank you!
Wonderful! This physical scientist has never learned any botany, this was very helpful. (We only need basic biology for our degrees, and there’s never time enough to study everything we find interesting, even in my six years of university).
You didn't mention olives, but I mistakingly thought you did, and I looked them up. I just learned they are related to the mints and herbs within the astrids! This video is very helpful!
im in the sciences and i always want to tell my mom what im learning about but she didn't get a good science education (she didn't know snakes were reptiles, because she thought reptile was just another word for lizard, she never even thought about what a snake was other than a "snake" for example)
so sometimes i want to tell her stuff that's way past her level
videos like this are great for background information on what a plant or animal even is in science and now we can talk about more stuff!