Yo I live here! Been camping in that forest for years, and have been watching your channel for years to. Thanks for paying my home a visit, and literally naming every plant I've been trying to identify for years to. Thank you!
Been a Professional Plant Enthusiast in Florida for 60 years and I watch your videos to learn new plant names and Info. Thanks. By the way, I think a Heroin addiction is cheaper on many levels than being a plant collector.
BOOM! I was born in Pensacola florida with biologist for family members so I discovered pitcher plants as a young child ..a underrated wonder of nature .
I worked in a flower shop for 7 years. I just delivered flowers and helped customers. Never did get into the science of knowing flowers. Why do I watch this channel? Tony is just so entertaining to listen to.
I was never really into botany but as a Michigander, this channel has really reignited my fascination with plants and yeah humanity only detroys people protect.
As a carnivorous plant collector with a focus on Sarracenia, I think that the poaching issue is much less pronounced than with cacti and orchids, just because contrary to them our focus plant is reasonably easy and quick to grow. A lot of the collecting focuses on specific clones that are asexually grown mostly from rhizome cuttings, and the sort of godless unnatural inter-species hybrids between them, grown from seed. It also helps that a lot of the collectors are far from the native habitats, too. The actual non-sustainable elephant in the room is the reliance on peat to grow most of them, with no good peatless alternative in sight so far. But you know what's a wild (well, part-time) carnivore I'd love to see on video? Triantha occidentalis, the Western False Asphodel, where only the flower stem is sticky and traps and digests insects.
@@lukehahn4489 Not acidic enough. People have been experimenting with Kanuma or Akadama and stuff, but those mineral soils are still kinda iffy from a sustainability standpoint.
I know you love the desert stuff Joey but the marshy, boggy stuff is my favorite. That Cinnamon fern is a great landscape plant for under a downspout, mine is huge. Snagged it 2 days before the county would have demolished it. I'd love to make a bog garden with carnivorous plants, such interesting adaptation. Thanks for braving the pests & risking foot rot for us 😊
I just went to a place like this near the Florida border with Alabama! The vast swathes of pitcher plants were breathtaking. Thanks for doing what you do!
You need to come down the Ridge, in Middle Florida. Lake Wales Ridge State Park to be exact. This area was a chain of islands when the last time the ocean levels rose, & flooded the area. During which the Ridge were islands. So species of plants & insects are quite unique to Florida. My fav is a little blue bee..only found there.
We had a great bog collection! They were cool, still have a few nepenthes. I now have hundreds of succulents, while my parents have thousands of orchids. We get them from reputable nurseries though. This is very cool to see in such a detailed video, thanks
My impression from collecting Sarracenia for many years is that poaching is much less common now that so many great hybrids (and species, and sub-species) have been propagated by nurseries and hobbyists. There were also notable instances of wild populations being rescued before their habitat was paved over.
I've never heard of anything like that parasitic fungus hijacking the flower. So incredible. A fungus that depends on a pollinator to disperse? Incredible. Is there a separate term because pollinator is obviously specific to pollen. Would it be sporinator?
Did you eat that Golden Chanterelle? Sure hope so, as you *_did_* pick it off! Many years ago my family went into the Douglas Fir forest on our family place in Oregon, which was on the Willamette Valley side of the Coast Range. The season was, apparently, perfect for Chanterelles, and there had been a perfect rainfall, too. That's the ONLY TIME I've seen Chantarelles like those were: 4"-6" tall (some even more), 2"thick at the bases of the stems, and some weighed even in at OVER A POUND EACH! We gathered over 60# total of those beauties, then lightly wiped them with damp cloths, diced them & cooked them in Tillamook butter, then portioned them all into 1/2 cup freezable containers. Each family group took home a very generous supply of fabulous, fresh Chanterelle 'shrooms, to eat or freeze. We froze much of our portion (as we had to get most of them to our home in California), but ate quite a few the first few days, too, fresh. (Of course!) They tasted of the very finest veal that one can imagine, meaty, slightly chewy, but still almost "melt in one's mouth" tender. OMG - _YUM!_ Love your show. So sorry that botany doesn't pay, but so glad that fact drove you to TH-cam! Thank you for sharing so much of your extensive knowledge. It truly intrigues me, and I'm very sad that I can't retain more of what I hear, but still thoroughly enjoy, in my brain cells. (A long story which no one need hear.) *Thank you, **_thank you,_** THANK YOU!* 🤟👍🖖
Yo! I'm a plant ecophysiologist in the Great Basin. It would be BADASS to go on a foray with you! If you head my way, I'll show you around our ecoregion! Keep it up!
Man I'm just happy as hell to see you've made it to my old stomping grounds of Florida, granted I lived in Collier County with the ghost orchid (not sure if I dropped a comment on that episode yet) I think there's a red cockheaded woodpecker preserve down there too out by the backroads by the landfill if you ever head down to Collier again (it's been almost a decade since I read the facts sign, it may be another woodpecker species) there's also a preserve near the hideout golf course with some nice trails and Pineland/saw palmetto undergrowth. Then there's the picayune strand which was going to be the world's largest suburb development which was abandoned, and Jane's scenic drive is out that way too and connects with hwy 29 iirc.
As someone who grows mainly carnivorous plants all mine come from reputable sources I only use 2 websites who do both seed grown and tissue culture, but when it comes to poaching I have seen some sketchy Instagrams and besides reporting I just would never buy a plant from overseas unless it was 2 extremely reputable websites, poaching unfortunately is huge with aroids and tbh thats the most I see it with just my 2 cents.. also u should do the hike to mount roraimae.. jk but also not lol
the pines and the sandy soil looks very like where i live in south east Queensland Australia and we get a lot of sundew species growing in that kind of habitat the pines where planted many years ago of course not native
Truly amazing episode. So many varied and one of a kind morphologies and habits to rivel any exotic foreign (to me a US citizen) locale. It really makes me think that those early european trans oceanic pioneers felt they were truly discovering new worlds. Each with its related but unique blend of strange flora and fauna and even it's own different kind of person with totally different languages and customs. Those guys must have felt like astronauts traversing the stars.
Hey, dude. What's your go to source to keep current? Used to be this, now it's that... Who knew that taxonomy is a moving target! I thought I could learn stuff and I'd be OK. That grasshopper had some impressive eyebrows!
As a crazy orchid collector I do my best to source flask grown orchids, divisions of old plants all from trusted growers. I do however wish for seed and specimens be collected before habitats are destroyed by what you have deemed "The human tumor". The trees and ground Epiphytes and terrestrials are most targeted. I could imagine lithophytes losing habits to mining.
Hold on when you say "it lives and an endoparasite in the pant" is that ... seeds or ... what is it? I love these parasitic plants. Can you tell us about the lifecycle of one? How do they get into a new plant, plants can't walk how do they find the host? I don't get it.
Do you think that the exobasidium could be related to rafflesia.... that big red smelly ass flower in the jungle?... Or maybe a case of ??? What's it called when two things evolve at the same time ??? Anyway that
In the same family, but huckleberry is just a common name. Most times it refers to the genus Vaccinium, which is also the genus of blueberries and cranberries. Another reason to use genus when possible instead of common names.
I just saw you on Earth TV kill your lawn episode I'm so d*** proud of you making it big time
Yo I live here! Been camping in that forest for years, and have been watching your channel for years to.
Thanks for paying my home a visit, and literally naming every plant I've been trying to identify for years to.
Thank you!
Heck yeah!
I’ve never seen your videos before but to me, you and your narration are the new David Attenborough
Been a Professional Plant Enthusiast in Florida for 60 years and I watch your videos to learn new plant names and Info.
Thanks. By the way, I think a Heroin addiction is cheaper on many levels than being a plant collector.
BOOM! I was born in Pensacola florida with biologist for family members so I discovered pitcher plants as a young child ..a underrated wonder of nature .
Happy Carinivorous Plant Day Tony!
I think the best stuff on the youtube ... Thanks for sharing Sir.
I worked in a flower shop for 7 years. I just delivered flowers and helped customers. Never did get into the science of knowing flowers. Why do I watch this channel? Tony is just so entertaining to listen to.
I am loving these Florida episodes! Incredible stuff.
remains the best channel on youtube
probably watched over 100 videos by now
maybe 200
I was never really into botany but as a Michigander, this channel has really reignited my fascination with plants and yeah humanity only detroys people protect.
I Allways Look Forward to Your Videos, Very Informative and Love your Sence of Humor!
YEAH BABEY more sarracenia prime time
Truly the Lord Thespian of botany.❤
great timing! it’s world carnivorous plant day
"Do you want me to lick it?"
Yes, but don't let the intrusive thoughts win, Tone!
Oooh, carnivorous plants in habitat, nice 🌱
As a carnivorous plant collector with a focus on Sarracenia, I think that the poaching issue is much less pronounced than with cacti and orchids, just because contrary to them our focus plant is reasonably easy and quick to grow. A lot of the collecting focuses on specific clones that are asexually grown mostly from rhizome cuttings, and the sort of godless unnatural inter-species hybrids between them, grown from seed. It also helps that a lot of the collectors are far from the native habitats, too. The actual non-sustainable elephant in the room is the reliance on peat to grow most of them, with no good peatless alternative in sight so far. But you know what's a wild (well, part-time) carnivore I'd love to see on video? Triantha occidentalis, the Western False Asphodel, where only the flower stem is sticky and traps and digests insects.
coco coir?
@@lukehahn4489 Not acidic enough. People have been experimenting with Kanuma or Akadama and stuff, but those mineral soils are still kinda iffy from a sustainability standpoint.
I know you love the desert stuff Joey but the marshy, boggy stuff is my favorite. That Cinnamon fern is a great landscape plant for under a downspout, mine is huge. Snagged it 2 days before the county would have demolished it. I'd love to make a bog garden with carnivorous plants, such interesting adaptation. Thanks for braving the pests & risking foot rot for us 😊
I just went to a place like this near the Florida border with Alabama! The vast swathes of pitcher plants were breathtaking. Thanks for doing what you do!
You need to come down the Ridge, in Middle Florida. Lake Wales Ridge State Park to be exact. This area was a chain of islands when the last time the ocean levels rose, & flooded the area. During which the Ridge were islands. So species of plants & insects are quite unique to Florida. My fav is a little blue bee..only found there.
We had a great bog collection! They were cool, still have a few nepenthes. I now have hundreds of succulents, while my parents have thousands of orchids. We get them from reputable nurseries though. This is very cool to see in such a detailed video, thanks
Thank you for finally coming through to my part of the USA, the Southeast! Hope you come through the Georgia Piedmont soon ❤
My impression from collecting Sarracenia for many years is that poaching is much less common now that so many great hybrids (and species, and sub-species) have been propagated by nurseries and hobbyists. There were also notable instances of wild populations being rescued before their habitat was paved over.
Thank you for visiting our area and enjoying our funky plants.
These pitcher plants have such beautiful flowers.
Great job 👍 Im loving it
Love how Eglin takes care of their pines
Thank you for making your way to the gulf coast. Love to see these plants.
Sweet.
GLEHNDS LOVE ME SOME GLEHNDS
in all serious loving the in-habitat Carnivorous content 🥳 more please
The first Wednesday of May every year is World Carnivorous Plant Day, an international celebration of the diversity and beauty of carnivorous plants
I've literally JUST RECENTLY been wishing you would checkout the Gulf Coasts longleaf pine Savannahs and other habitats!
Beautiful.
"Got a little butthole". I appreciate that you simplify terms for us common folk.
Much Love Maaan🙌🏼🤘🏼👍🏼👊🏼From SW Florida ❤
Down the road from me.
I've never heard of anything like that parasitic fungus hijacking the flower. So incredible. A fungus that depends on a pollinator to disperse? Incredible. Is there a separate term because pollinator is obviously specific to pollen. Would it be sporinator?
Did you eat that Golden Chanterelle? Sure hope so, as you *_did_* pick it off!
Many years ago my family went into the Douglas Fir forest on our family place in Oregon, which was on the Willamette Valley side of the Coast Range. The season was, apparently, perfect for Chanterelles, and there had been a perfect rainfall, too. That's the ONLY TIME I've seen Chantarelles like those were: 4"-6" tall (some even more), 2"thick at the bases of the stems, and some weighed even in at OVER A POUND EACH! We gathered over 60# total of those beauties, then lightly wiped them with damp cloths, diced them & cooked them in Tillamook butter, then portioned them all into 1/2 cup freezable containers. Each family group took home a very generous supply of fabulous, fresh Chanterelle 'shrooms, to eat or freeze. We froze much of our portion (as we had to get most of them to our home in California), but ate quite a few the first few days, too, fresh. (Of course!) They tasted of the very finest veal that one can imagine, meaty, slightly chewy, but still almost "melt in one's mouth" tender. OMG - _YUM!_
Love your show. So sorry that botany doesn't pay, but so glad that fact drove you to TH-cam! Thank you for sharing so much of your extensive knowledge. It truly intrigues me, and I'm very sad that I can't retain more of what I hear, but still thoroughly enjoy, in my brain cells. (A long story which no one need hear.) *Thank you, **_thank you,_** THANK YOU!* 🤟👍🖖
I adore carnivorous plants!
You really manhandled those pitchers and their flowers!
Fantastic video, yet again!
A mid-week vid, nice!
Happy International Carnivorous Plant Day!!
Yo! I'm a plant ecophysiologist in the Great Basin. It would be BADASS to go on a foray with you! If you head my way, I'll show you around our ecoregion! Keep it up!
Man I'm just happy as hell to see you've made it to my old stomping grounds of Florida, granted I lived in Collier County with the ghost orchid (not sure if I dropped a comment on that episode yet) I think there's a red cockheaded woodpecker preserve down there too out by the backroads by the landfill if you ever head down to Collier again (it's been almost a decade since I read the facts sign, it may be another woodpecker species) there's also a preserve near the hideout golf course with some nice trails and Pineland/saw palmetto undergrowth. Then there's the picayune strand which was going to be the world's largest suburb development which was abandoned, and Jane's scenic drive is out that way too and connects with hwy 29 iirc.
We have a similar ecoregion with long leaf pine forests and the sandy soil in Ruston, Louisiana. Love the pine forests.
Hermoso bosque o la naturaleza.
Awesome to see wild habitats remaining for these incredible plants
Im 59.
I have a 14 year old crush on my Botany Lecturer! 🤣🇮🇪😍🤗
Can't wait for my S. luecophylla to grow that big!!
I can listen to you go off on the botanies for a while.
Og; I love this channel! It is especially fun when you go someplace that I've been to!
As someone who grows mainly carnivorous plants all mine come from reputable sources I only use 2 websites who do both seed grown and tissue culture, but when it comes to poaching I have seen some sketchy Instagrams and besides reporting I just would never buy a plant from overseas unless it was 2 extremely reputable websites, poaching unfortunately is huge with aroids and tbh thats the most I see it with just my 2 cents.. also u should do the hike to mount roraimae.. jk but also not lol
Psyched for all the Pinguicula love!
What tha sh!t, I was just down there enjoying the same flora and fauna! Great videos, keep up the good work!
that notched stigma on the mahogany colored flower
resembled a crab claw
must be pretty brave insects to
crawl in there
Seranade me while I take the A train to Rockaway. Thankyou Tony! GFYB
so i guess those GMO mosquitos are finally starting to do their sexy magic
Had no idea that Florida even had elevations over 200 feet 😂
Did you notice a change in flora compared to lower lying areas in the Panhandle?
I think the High Point of Florida is about 350 feet (105 m), so not much over 200.
the pines and the sandy soil looks very like where i live in south east Queensland Australia and we get a lot of sundew species growing in that kind of habitat the pines where planted many years ago of course not native
Awesome vid
I wish Tony would post a video of the Flora and Fauna of Filthy, possibly Carnivorous, Motels.
Get on down to Central Florida and see the Lake Wales Ridge. Best plants in the state!!!!
we need more AL SCORCH
I sure do love a long leaf pine. I have planted at least one everywhere that I have lived ( if hardy)
That exobasidia is insane!
You're awesome dude.
Truly amazing episode. So many varied and one of a kind morphologies and habits to rivel any exotic foreign (to me a US citizen) locale. It really makes me think that those early european trans oceanic pioneers felt they were truly discovering new worlds. Each with its related but unique blend of strange flora and fauna and even it's own different kind of person with totally different languages and customs. Those guys must have felt like astronauts traversing the stars.
Hey, dude. What's your go to source to keep current?
Used to be this, now it's that...
Who knew that taxonomy is a moving target!
I thought I could learn stuff and I'd be OK.
That grasshopper had some impressive eyebrows!
Pitcher plants up here in New England apellatchia too
2:54 Carnivorous plants *check*
Cacti *check*
Orchids *check*
Heroine *not yet*
Propagating my sacred cactus forrest right now :)
Psychedelic dragonfly sounds like a band name.
YO TONY do a video in borneo or some shit and talk about nepenthes. Id fuckin love to see you cover those fuckers. thanks man
1:50 that's one happy plant 😂
The fact that he didn't end with GFY made me panic
TIL about Sarracenia flowers gahddamn
As a crazy orchid collector I do my best to source flask grown orchids, divisions of old plants all from trusted growers.
I do however wish for seed and specimens be collected before habitats are destroyed by what you have deemed "The human tumor".
The trees and ground Epiphytes and terrestrials are most targeted. I could imagine lithophytes losing habits to mining.
@crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt
I gotta know where to see that sundew. Nice find!
Absorbing Junoir is great for chiggers and mosquito bites.
That road looks like the road to Bear Lake.
17:30 looks like a native bee of some sort, fyi Joey
Come to Louisiana please
The luminescent bugs are Pyrophorus beetles. A native click beetle.
Hold on when you say "it lives and an endoparasite in the pant" is that ... seeds or ... what is it? I love these parasitic plants. Can you tell us about the lifecycle of one? How do they get into a new plant, plants can't walk how do they find the host? I don't get it.
Poor soils result in a rich variety of plant carnivory...
Exactly! Why we have Florida Man!!
Man once complained of humans constantly thinking "can I eat it":
"Should I lick the plant?"
Do you think that the exobasidium could be related to rafflesia.... that big red smelly ass flower in the jungle?... Or maybe a case of ??? What's it called when two things evolve at the same time ??? Anyway that
Yo
Maybe female lightning bugs?
Convergent evolution... that's it I think
Gaylussacia, those are huckleberries?
In the same family, but huckleberry is just a common name. Most times it refers to the genus Vaccinium, which is also the genus of blueberries and cranberries. Another reason to use genus when possible instead of common names.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Roger that! Thanks Tony!
So, carnivorous plants rely on possibly one individual for reproduction & then consume it! Did I marry a pitcher plant?
Oh wait Exobasidium is a fungus gall isn't it. Is there a reason you didn't just call it a "gall" or is that term too general?
Drosera flowers are nice! Superior ovary.
I used to live in one of these long leaf pine environments in southern Louisiana. Love it except when they did control burns.
hi
Hashing not all collectors
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