Invasion of the Tree Milkweeds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.พ. 2021
- Calotropis procera is a weedy milkweed tree that's not native to North America, but at lower latitudes in the neotropics it thrives and forms a huge nectar source for insects. Learn about this odd plant, a cousin to our North American milkweeds.
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*Development lot, town of Baní*
0:39 "castor bean" _Ricinus communis, Euphorbiaceae_
0:47 "Sodom Apple" _Calotropis procera, Apocynaceae_
1:48 cardiac glycosides
2:17 stigmatic slit
2:34 "wasp" suborder Apocrita
3:35 gynostegium
4:33 follicle
5:26 coma
7:22 _Homo sapiens sapiens, Hominidae_ droppings
7:32 "hierba de soldado" _Walthera indica, Malvaceae_
7:36 pantropical
"Hominidae droppings" haha : )
"honey, there's a sunburned gringo out back yelling at the weeds"
I don't sunburn.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt hell yeah baby!
If you've got time, try to visit the mountains around jarabacoa. Beautiful place. If you do visit jarabacoa, ask a cab guy to take you to the "salto de los monjes", the monk's waterfall. There's a trail with all kinds of pines and plants and all that shit.
The destruction of something built by man is called vandalism, but the destruction of something made by nature is called real estate development.
@@dicktrickle7608 i think that the appropriate response to Everything Jeepster's comment is "Go Fuck Yourself! Bye" but hopefully he gets the picture.
@@floatrollorfly7872 Let's not even mention what tropical termites do.
@@floatrollorfly7872 except suburban wastelands aren't apart of any ecological succession.
@@floatrollorfly7872 i love going to mcdonalds and checking out all the elements of nature being displayed
@@floatrollorfly7872 i didn't know that people like you could be so liberal with your words. that is quite refreshing. thank you for giving up your position.
Honey wake up the new Crime Pays video is out
Yes dear...
I never comment enough.
My life is better because this channel exists.
I consider that high praise.
A lot of guerilla gardeners love planting in places they shouldn't, but removing invasives is just as important.
I'm so drunk I won't be able to pay attention. I'm gonna watch this one tomorrow.
Right on, there ya go.
Same
fogettaboutit come back tomorrow
Damn, those are some pretty sweet milkweeds.
If I took botany class and these videos weren’t recommend I drop out
I am taking them but they aren't :( I did recommend him to a prof though!
Dude I love your work- I really admire your approach of making botany accessable and valuable to regular people.
Alot of people would give a shit if they could tell their ass from an asclepius.
Took out some invasive mustards on my walk today. Thanks for helping me learn about invasive plants. The war is on.
The only Valentine’s Day gift I got today, a video about an invasive species and a dried turd in an empty lot behind a shitty building. How romantic of you! 🥰
You go places that I will never get a chance to go - New Caledonia, Chile, DR...and you let me see the coolest parts of those places. The natural world is so full of richness and beauty. Thank you for letting me tag along!
Massive specimen, ive gotten them up to 6ft in jersey. Love having them around, they attract all the aphids so my tomato and eggplants crops get minimal damage.
These tree only attract a certain variety of aphids. Oleander Aphids. The Aphids that eat your veggie plants won’t leave them for this tree.
when you opened that fruit some part of my brain screamed "snake!!" at the seed cluster
This is just excellent. You and your videos are making my day way better. You're an excellent teacher. Am learning loads, and loving your attitude and energy. With gratitude from the UK. Cheers from Jane
Those are gorgeous! I’ve never seen a milkweed so big before. Fascinating!
I loved seeing the inside of the fruit; the wind dispersal method on the seeds was especially interesting. Great informative video as always bro
I saw this tree while down in the Caribbean and had always been curious about it...thanks!...BTW, just received your "Kill Your Lawn" shirt
As a kid, this plant would be all over near my house. I remember playing with my friends near this plant and getting an itch/rash thus was told that it was a pest species and it's better not to touch some of the species for its rash like effects.
love ya man, notification squad represent
I don't know how I am just learning of your existence. But thank you so so much.
I like .... thanks for sharing
I love this tree ♥️♥️ beautiful flowers. And it has some benefits for health
my home town! thanks for the memories dude, love your work.
Impressive job, thank you !
happy valentines day ty for uploading
As a child, we called the milkweed comas we saw floating on the wind Santa Claus whiskers.
Another great video from my favorite channel on TH-cam. Do you have any videos from the Northeastern US?
I tried searching for one but nothing came up.
No maybe this summer
Just settling in with my cuppa tea and it ends before 8 mins! Whadda hell? Still a good episode and you fit in more in 8 minutes than most you tubers do in an hour!
Woah! That's the plant I mentioned last time (C. procera); it's invasive down in Nicaragua, too. Thank you; now I know exactly what it is!
awesome video tony!
Your channel is the best thing on youtube!
Thanks
Thanks for clearing my dought
Your love of milkweeds is infectious I find myself looking for their telltale leaf shape/flower morphology/unique fruits every time I go out to look at plants now. Fuckin fascinating shit.
I hope not all milkweeds are toxic. Up to southern Ontario where I lived long ago, we used to collect the unopened flower clusters, steam ‘em and put some butter, salt and pepper on it. Deeeeelicious! I had to go back about 15 years ago, grabbed some of the fruit which was just about to disperse seeds, put it in a paper envelope, flew back to Vancouver Island thinking I should be careful not to let it get loose -invasive, lie you say. I worried all winter-but it was for nought: a mouse found my envelope and ate every single seed. Bummer. I won’t be back to Ontario again.
Thanks, again!
I have and encourage his support
Those massive nectar source beauties are perfect little garden stars!
I just discovered your channel. I'm actually getting my degree in botany and I love the content.
I’m getting a weird “Invasion of the body snatchers” vibe from that pod.
Wasn't just me then.
That was quick. No time to say goodbye, eh tony?
I gave you guys the dried, encrusted piece of human shit. What do you want?
We want the stool and the send off. Give it to us Daddy!
Waxy Dennis Farina.. good one!
You happened to upload this on the day I happen to be wearing your "plant milkweed or get fucked" sweater! I'm looking forward to planting asclepias soon with these couple seed pods I harvested last summer
Wait, there's a "plant milkweed or get fucked" sweater? Gotta have one myself, I'm a huge fan of the Asclepias genus! 🌱 🦋
Where do I get that?
AlAllerton
Look in the description. 😎 👍🏾
Botany for the working class. Thanks for the videos 🤙🏽
Please come to the Toledo Ohio area and highlight the oak Savannah ... marshes and wetlands by lake Erie.... perhaps during the biggest week in birding in may!
I love MILKWEEDS! I CANT WAIT TO PLANT ALL MY SEEDS!! ;) (THANKS)
I always loved milkweeds and puffballs, especially bringing them in to the classroom, lol.
Here in Gambia they call them Pufftan trees because of the puff stuff inside.
Love the malvaceous flowers at the end androgynophore > gynostegium in my humble opinion
Do you think this milkweed has potential for site rehabilitation? That gravel pit looks like it could use a soil makeover
Always glad to see your vids Joey, athankyaverymcuh
I just now saw the baby coyote rescue and I'm hooked on you
I want one for my garden!
Holy ballz... milkweed!!!😃 I raise monarchs (for conservation, not to sell), & milkweeds are so cool! That common kind- such huge & fuzzy leaves. Did you check for monarch eggs? 🦋🐛
Coma! Like the fuzzy nebulous region surrounding the nucleus of a comet! Nice. Also from the greek word for "hair" I guess, which makes sense.
Keep on making the world a better place
I first saw Calotropis on the west end of Puerto Rico. Took some seeds and got them to sprout but they really didn’t want to be rootbound and they crapped out pretty quick.
Ohhhh- what’s wit da hard ending? No standard GFY?
I gave you guys the dried, encrusted piece of human shit. What do you want?
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Happy Valantines to you too lov you
How did they smell? Some milkweeds smell great, a lot like lilac.
Those seed pods are HUGE!
Milkweeds are Monarch Butterfly food. See, there ya go.
Btw, I've eradicated the invasives on my property and have gotten about 50 yds upcreek in the adjacent wildlife sanctuary. Winter floods bring more arundai donax (like bamboo), those horrible castor beans full of deadly ricin, and less pernicious wild tobacco. Those weeds are the result of human fuckery, along with the illegally dumped rubbish that the high water brings. The gift that keeps on giving.
Hell yeah!
beutiful!
It's been awhile since I've viewed and I see what I've been missing. Thank you for the tantalizing video. Is South Africa anywhere on your itinerary?
Waxy Dennis Farina. Nice.
Just admiring the flowers when suddenly 7:22
Happy Valentines Day 💝
Hi, love your videos. Was wondering if you could help? Part of my yard is Swampy, do you have suggestions as to what I could plant to help soak up some of the water?
I live in northeast Alabama btw and my yard is full sun most of the day.
For trees : Taxodium distichum, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Nyssa aquatica, Glyptostrobus pensilis. There should be a ton of cool flowering shrubs native to your area too that can take acidic, water-saturated soil, just have to find where to buy them. Might have to mail order. It'll be worth it though, beats buying Home Depot garbage. There's a lot of diversity among native plants of that region though. Worth doing the research.
Dig a pond
This fiber is hydrofuge and can replace duvet or any other stuffing we put in winter coats or mits !
You're the savant of botany!
Great video! I’d love to hear about how you acquire your knowledge. Is it from books or fieldwork? Do you typically research a locations plants before you go or do you just have vast reservoirs of knowledge?
Neat
I've seen these in Israel and Puerto Rico but hadn't made the connection it was the same plant! 🤯
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Have youbeen to Socotra?
Good mornin Bruhda, you need to go back and give that lil guy a cookie ;-b
💯♥️
About 2 years ago I saw one of those in the Imperial valley county in california. It was in a soon to be full of houses lot. I had no idea what it was, but it was full of aphids, ants, and bees. It looked like shit.
I always wanted to be a little pantropical myself
Being a real fan of the milkweeds of North America, this was a real treat! Thank you sir
First watch of your channel.. Great video. Super informative. You are Heeeee-Larry-Us.. Excited to see what else ya got... I'll be subbing..
What can I say, the wasp knows they like forplay.
Do the coma provide any function for seed beyond aiding wind-dispersal? Like, do they provide nutrients for the germinated seed?
And here at first I thought those beautiful modern prison chic condos were a new addition to the West Oakland craft beer utopia.
A similar cancer is everywhere. Easy, low-cost builds to generate quick revenue. They look as hideous anywhere.
Ah, that one is related to Calotropis Gigantea aka the crown flower.
I wanna go there
The milkweed is invasive? You can find them all over on my home island of Aruba.
I always thought they were native seeing as monarch catterpillars are always chowing on them. Along with other bugs.
They're literally everywhere over here. Pretty though.
i live in Louisiana and would love to plant this in containers
I was wondering if this species van be eaten by the typical native milkweed herbivores in the area. The leaves look really thick. But maybe Queen butterflies could handle them?
I'm wondering too! I raise monarch butterflies and I would not ever give them this plant as it's still not native however I do wonder if it could work as a backup
The leaves look like collards!
OMG - a hell of a lot of seed - do the milkweeds have ferocious weed potential? i've got seeds here in Australia but i'm a bit worried now!
this plant grow wild in cemetery here..
Are the flowers and young fruits edible like regular milkweed?
5:59 oh yeahhh *get it* GIT ITTT
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How does Calotropis end up with just 1 fruit per flowering branch when it's got dozens of flowers on it? Only 1 flower ends up becoming a fruit?
Got this shit everywhere here in west Africa
A much welcomed notification thank's Tony ! I imagine Calotropis Process would be invasive in the ever ugly S.F. bay area? I've actually seen this species for sale around the ever ugly San Francisco bay area marketed as a giant monarch butterfly milkweed host plant.
I was wondering if that was going to be the case, i.e. do monarchs feed on this?
@@pattheplanter thanks for this information. :-)
@@bgbthabun627 There's a couple three different milkweeds that seem to be of interest to CA monarchs. There was just a nice informative article on this very question recently but it's one of those CRS days. This huge one probably doesn't fit the bill and will do more harm than good.
@@mooonienelson2126 again thanks to you for this information
Does it have the fibers like the Milkweed we have in Québec ?