Skip the coffee and go native and chew the coca leaves. It's great for high altitude situations and keeps you alert like caffeine. It's not addicting and will help the local economy. Coca tea is also excellent way to ingest the leaves active ingredient. My wife is from Peru and we visit often.
I took the time to watch you climb, listen to you opine, but I do not mind, as I find it to be fiiiine. ‘Til the next time (thyme?), I am forever indebted to you for the knowledge you share.
Lol i am, embarrassingly yet fortunately, one of those people that found a love in all life through psychedelics. It started with me being a polysubstance junkie and trying to add more substances, but the mushrooms made me want to get sober for myself first, then to help all life once i was better. Love yoir channel brother! Im from Arlington Heights SW of Chicago. That sad beautiful fucking big apple of concrete pollution. Anyways, im ramblin!
Love your passion man! I got a passion for animals, and photography....I love to see when people put in the effort to do what they love and to educate themselves!
26:20 and I about choked on my coffee. It's a fast mover as far as tectonics goes. Wouldn't be surprised if it put that hubris in check in our lifetime.
The structure of those Nassauvia look absolutely like they could belong in the Crassula genus, and those Violas could hang out in a Sempervivum-only bar no problem. More of that glorious convergent evolution!
Those species are the bees knees!! Especially that tiny Lassauvia. Wonderful views... and I am totally with you on the resort freaks. You have really spiked my interest on looking for gems in the waste places (S. England) coz we have no deserts or mountains here. The horned owl at the end was incredible. Thanks for lifting my day Mr Botanist ;)
39:22 This rather skeptical bird can be found inspecting dodgy human infracstucture all over the Americas, looking for abandonned barns and collapsed giant bookcases to reclaim and inhabit.
"There's too many fancy-sensy nature boys with ponytails out there" "just a couple jabs, no right hooks, its fain its fainne" I feel personally attacked. The funny part is that most of your viewers might just be angry grandpas and fancysensy nature boys with ponytails. LOL Love the conversation with the owl. You're doing god's work. Keep up the epic videos. Easily the best on youtube.
Thank god for Teddy Roosevelt or there would be condos hanging off of the Grand Canyon or crowding out the flora and fauna of Yellowstone...public very unwelcome.
He should have gone a step further and required a 20+ mile hike to access any natl park... maybe it would thin out the hoardes of lazy inconsiderate idiots that infest the parks today
Clayton P ~ I’ve heard of people doing all kinds of unspeakable shit in the Nat Parks, aside from the two fat hyucking bastard Boy Scout ‘Leaders’ who knocked over that toadstool formation and found themselves in a world of well deserved shit.
Could you do a video on the effects of the fires in Australia and how it's going to affect plant life? Also, thank you for sharing all this great content.
Suggest a few channels that do bat rescue down there. These important pollinators are in serious trouble. Megabattie is a good one & Toga bat hospital. The remaining plants will need the sky puppies to recover.
The fires in Australia are the beginning chapters in a huge landscape change and mass extinction that is occurring down there. Many beautiful forms will be lost. And yet Grandpa denies climate change because the talking pundits he follows on his favorite news channel and quack-science hacks on TH-cam tell him it's a lie and a conspiracy by hundreds of thousands of scientists. If you have no personal investment in the evolutionary masterpieces and precious biological relics that will be lost forever, the whole phenomenon of climate change and especially climate denialism is very much amusing.
I’m in love with plants anyway , so when I found your channel I was made up with a downto earth view on botany. Explained in a way even a beginner can understand. No pretentious shit. Makes me wanna explore more of the world and even more of the world around me .
Kickin' rocks in the andean mountains, throwin' a coupla jabs at snow junkies and their resort architecture, chattin' up an owl. Quality video. Class act.
Because technically right is the best kind of right: The name for volcanic mud-flows is "Lahars". They leave behind those tumbled, messy, muddy deposits. A pyroclastiic flow is a super-heated gas, ash, and rock from an active eruption. They leave behind "tephra", an ash flow deposit that is often sort-of welded together (vitrified, glassy) from the heat. Anyway, thanks for all the amazing content, You are really on a roll with all these Mexico, Australia, and Atacama videos lately!
Loved the conversation with the Great Horned Owl.....We have Barn Owls on our property living in the Phoenix canariensis.I often have conversations with them as I collect the owl pellets for my tiny scull collection.I use the rest of the bones for garden amendment.
I'm an old hippie, and don't have a thing for nasturtiums, would rather have natives. Sadly, the previous tenant planted nasturtiums and I have a tsunami of them each spring. Obscene is a good word for that blight on the land. Condos, sheesh! The Andes are breathtaking, thanks for taking us along! The GHO is stunning, the wolverines of the sky
Those high altitude dwarf plants are so compact and attractive. Most families are familiar, but the genera are totally different from what I see here in Hungary. It makes me slightly anxious to know that there are so many plants I will never get to know in person and by name. European plant biodiversity is not too big due to the glaciation periods sweeping the continent clean for the last 2.6 million years.
my new Tinder bio: "Don't you just want to study non human life on Earth? You don't see any redeeming quality in it? What do you get into, video games, cars? What the fuck."
Ur live share was cool, thanks! Me n my husband just joined the Berkeley Botanical Gardens yearly family package, I hadn't been since I was a kid, U reminded me how Amazing it us, Thanks !!!
The central zone of Chile, it is going a great drought. So it is no surprise that they find some dry bushes and affected by the lack of rains and high temperatures :(
Hey Tony! I love you you bastard. I bought a book on rocks because of you. It came with some neat flash cards. My friends hate me now! come back to Australia sometime, when it grows back.
What?.. 1400 views and only 176 likes?.. Come on people.. Educational, Entertaining and chock full of useful insults, all this for free.. Go on give it a thumbs up.
For the record, repetition with the vocabulary words is super helpful for me. I got Latin for gardeners and a botanists vocabulary but hearing even the simple words getting applied in the field is super useful
I remember another video when you asked if folks were learning anything or if they were just listening to hear and be amused by your accent. FWIW I don't learn well from only books or only videos, I always learned best in a classroom. It's hard for me to remember scientific names by just reading them (no context for the way it sounds) or just hearing them (no context for the way it looks written down). I guess you could say I need both a visual and an audio description of something to learn it well. I appreciate how you put notes into your videos to show what things you say look like written down, and I hear "Lamiaceae", "Fabanaceae", "Asteraceae", etc. in your voice in the back of my mind when I'm looking up these things. For awhile I've been trying to learn plants native to N. Illinois and have just been going off the common names, because those names tend to be easier to remember since they build on a preexisting context (i.e., Cardinal flower is red, cardinal birds are red) but you've helped me build a new context for phylogenetic classification (cardinal flower is a lobelia, this other blue flower is a lobelia, this white flower is a lobelia, and here are the ways they are similar). Because you keep using the scientific names and giving simple descriptions, and the repetition reinforces the information. Anyway as long as you like making the videos I'm an example of someone who's actually getting something out of them. So thanks for taking the time to do it.
Thank you this video and area is awesome. That dinosaur sunflower was super cool. Trying hard to memorize the terminology, I’m going to start taking notes so I can remember this shit better. Hope your well Joey, thanks for sharing your adventures and knowledge with everyone
The flowers are a great contrasting combo of flavors is why. They go just fine with snow peas too. But those wild nasturtium species might be a bit strong!
Took me a while to figure out if you were antagonizing me or not. The Chicagoan in me wanted to get defensive and pissed off thinking "os this guy fucking with me?", then I looked up what "outdid yourself" means and realized it was a compliment. So I'm a jackass, and thank you 😂.
feeling so called out over my hippy nasturtiums haha! I like them because you can eat the flowers and they taste peppery. Also the butterflies and aphids go for them and not my other plants :) I am trying to grow some birch seeds and branch out though. Love your videos
If you're ever back to north-central Chile, I hear the fruit of the acacia caven is traditionally brewed into a type of 'coffee'. It's hard to come by for sale since the tree itself isn't considered good for much more than charcoal, but can't be worse than Nescafé
Thanks for another interesting video. Viewing all of the different flower shapes, colors (some of which we of course can’t see), and sizes, do you ever think about doing a complementary study of pollinators, since they seem to drive some of this variety?
I wonder if you have any thoughts about the evolution of flower color and morphology. It seems like there might be some form that would be the most effective in attracting pollinators and that most plants would converge on that form, but instead we have all this diversity. Are these forms just historical accidents, or are they catering too the diversity of pollinators?
I just saw the short documentary about you and if you got someone to film you while you talked it would beef up your content because you are a natural in front of the camera
Has probably been asked before so forgive me for my ignorance.. but where should I start with looking for information on native plants in my area of NY?
those violets and sunflowers look almost exactly the same to me - thanks for the ID'ing; and the knowledgeable entertainment...edutainment ..garg i hate that word.
My daughter is 3. She's had an ACTUAL tumor and is a cancer survivor thanks to a protocol that included vincristine. Nothing wrong really w benefit to human life being the driving force behind interest in plant matter! It's probably the single best protection any plant has; the potential to benefit humans.
Every plant species benefits humans. Most humans just don't realize how yet. But when humans value plants only because of the secondary metabolites and compounds they produce, we tend to throw all the species without a direct and obvious benefit (via their chemistry) under the bus. That is my point - every plant benefits the human race, just some do it rather indirectly. Every plant and every ecosystem has got a "right to exist" whether it's "beneficial" to humans or not. Every species is an important part of a much bigger picture. Very sorry to hear you daughter had cancer. Hopefully it stays gone for good.
(36:20) - The best video of the flora of the Guiana Highlands and Tepuis, aka tabletop mountains, that I’ve found on yt is titled; Tepuis of the Venezuelan Guiana Shield. I’ve got it on my ‘Nature’s Garden #2’ playlist.
Just found this example of what happens when humans disturb key species in an ecosystem and it reminded me of this channel: Four Pests Campaign - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
Those condos you are wishing ill will upon are part of a ski resort. There's about 4 ski resorts east of Santiago. The Google car has been there, so if you want to see snow covered Andes and the resorts you can. I think it'd be beautiful to stay in the resort and see the Andes in all their snow covered glory, including the night sky with a decent telescope.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt But why, wouldn't you like to be on top of the Andes when the snow falls. See the white covered mountains from a nice warm hotel room. Look at the stars at night in the dead of winter. Everyone needs a vacation, a place to getaway to. It may not be your cup of coffee. I enjoyed both SCUBA at 100' under water off the coast of Cozumel and skiing in the Adirondacks. If you want to see the snow covering the resorts you dread, check out Google Earth's street view inside the ski resort. Beautiful snow covered Andes for as far as you can see. Not machine made crap snow. I'm sure the plants that are covered in a couple of metres of snowfall do just fine, and recover during the melt. Not all that man creates for pleasure is hell.
@@johnfitzgerald4456 I would like that, but not at the expense of the things I'm there to see. This resort could very well be a death sentence for much of the ecology of that mountain, especially if snowfall is still low - as it has been the past few years - and does not protect the plants from being trampled and destroyed. We'll see, it is still under construction. Indeed many of the surrounding hills were already denuded from the dirtbikes. And this is the way all development will continue to be until we as a society gain some respect for all the photosynthetic shit on the ground that we otherwise ignore but which has enabled us all to be here. Profit always comes first, habitat and plants and animals always come last.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I'm jpfitz1 from Instagram. We chat regularly. Anyway, those bikes are mountain bikes, no engines. It's a blast to speed down a mountain trail, trail is the important reference, nobody leaves the trail. Like you said, the ecology would be damaged, only if they are off the trail. Yes the narrow trail has already destroyed the plants that happened to be in the path. And, if the bikes do go off trail, death or broken bones are the punishment. I'm a bike enthusiast, I ride a lot. Granted it's an E-bike, my knees aren't young anymore. Joey I'm on the same page as you when it comes to the climate and these shitty strip malls and all the destruction man's done to the planet. That's one reason I ride a bike. I still like Ferrari's, they are a piece of engineering art. It doesn't mean this poor bastard will ever own one or want to. I came from a engineering background, do I appreciate machines, and now, since a few years ago I have been enamored by plants. Especially the Asteraceae genus. I grow sunflowers, lilys and tomatoes every spring. Your channel has given me a more enlightening and educated view of many living plants, even geology I took for granted. But, I would still stay in a hotel on top of the Andes during a snowfall to take in the amazing view.
Such incredible biodiversity at all the various elevations in the Andes where Tony is. As dry as it is and yet so many botanical wonders. I liked the desert before, and now the more I watch on this channel the more i want to plan a trip somewhere like the Andes. Time to check out the Guyana highlands and the botanical beauties that grow there while you sit at home washing your ass!
Skip the coffee and go native and chew the coca leaves. It's great for high altitude situations and keeps you alert like caffeine.
It's not addicting and will help the local economy. Coca tea is also excellent way to ingest the leaves active ingredient.
My wife is from Peru and we visit often.
They help with altitude, yes. Chewed them in the north but I don't like the effects otherwise. Prefer to stay away from them.
Hard on the teeth with the lime.
Absolutely everything is fascinating if you look at it right.
Sean C LSD25
This botany loving bastard always puts a smile on my face.
I took the time to watch you climb, listen to you opine, but I do not mind, as I find it to be fiiiine. ‘Til the next time (thyme?), I am forever indebted to you for the knowledge you share.
I just crack up when you say "ohhhh that's so naaaaaaaaaiiiis!" LOL. Equally annoying is the way us Minnesotans say "bag."
Thanks, I wondered how you spelt “naaaaaaaaaiiiis” 🤣
So how do youse say baag?
TheFuzzieWuzzie we say it like baaayg
ohhh datsssss naiiiiiceeeeee
Lol i am, embarrassingly yet fortunately, one of those people that found a love in all life through psychedelics. It started with me being a polysubstance junkie and trying to add more substances, but the mushrooms made me want to get sober for myself first, then to help all life once i was better. Love yoir channel brother! Im from Arlington Heights SW of Chicago. That sad beautiful fucking big apple of concrete pollution. Anyways, im ramblin!
It's always nice when one of these pops up in notifications. It makes the day go by better some how.
Love your passion man! I got a passion for animals, and photography....I love to see when people put in the effort to do what they love and to educate themselves!
26:20 and I about choked on my coffee.
It's a fast mover as far as tectonics goes. Wouldn't be surprised if it put that hubris in check in our lifetime.
The structure of those Nassauvia look absolutely like they could belong in the Crassula genus, and those Violas could hang out in a Sempervivum-only bar no problem.
More of that glorious convergent evolution!
I thought the same! "Asteraceae my ass, that thing's gotta be Crassulaceae"
I grow trichocereus chiloensis in my arid bed in London, U.K. Its so great to see mature specimens 😁🌵😁
Those species are the bees knees!! Especially that tiny Lassauvia. Wonderful views... and I am totally with you on the resort freaks. You have really spiked my interest on looking for gems in the waste places (S. England) coz we have no deserts or mountains here. The horned owl at the end was incredible. Thanks for lifting my day Mr Botanist ;)
2:19
"What are we gonna call that new Eriosyce with the curvy spines, Bob?"
"Um.. curvispina?"
"... You're dead weight, Bob."
The owl was a nice bonus at the end.
39:22 This rather skeptical bird can be found inspecting dodgy human infracstucture all over the Americas,
looking for abandonned barns and collapsed giant bookcases to reclaim and inhabit.
"There's too many fancy-sensy nature boys with ponytails out there" "just a couple jabs, no right hooks, its fain its fainne" I feel personally attacked.
The funny part is that most of your viewers might just be angry grandpas and fancysensy nature boys with ponytails. LOL
Love the conversation with the owl. You're doing god's work. Keep up the epic videos. Easily the best on youtube.
Thank god for Teddy Roosevelt or there would be condos hanging off of the Grand Canyon or crowding out the flora and fauna of Yellowstone...public very unwelcome.
Yep. They'd all look the way Niagara Falls does now.
He should have gone a step further and required a 20+ mile hike to access any natl park... maybe it would thin out the hoardes of lazy inconsiderate idiots that infest the parks today
Clayton P ~ I’ve heard of people doing all kinds of unspeakable shit in the Nat Parks, aside from the two fat hyucking bastard Boy Scout ‘Leaders’ who knocked over that toadstool formation and found themselves in a world of well deserved shit.
I'm planting trees because of you.
Could you do a video on the effects of the fires in Australia and how it's going to affect plant life?
Also, thank you for sharing all this great content.
Suggest a few channels that do bat rescue down there. These important pollinators are in serious trouble. Megabattie is a good one & Toga bat hospital. The remaining plants will need the sky puppies to recover.
Food sources for the animals left are gone. Hope humans can help, and we can.
The fires in Australia are the beginning chapters in a huge landscape change and mass extinction that is occurring down there. Many beautiful forms will be lost. And yet Grandpa denies climate change because the talking pundits he follows on his favorite news channel and quack-science hacks on TH-cam tell him it's a lie and a conspiracy by hundreds of thousands of scientists.
If you have no personal investment in the evolutionary masterpieces and precious biological relics that will be lost forever, the whole phenomenon of climate change and especially climate denialism is very much amusing.
@Robert Phillips watch a few vids, they're amazing critters!
The Trichocerus Chiloensis bloom was really pretty. Thanks for sharing your hikes with those of us that can't get out as often.
I’m in love with plants anyway , so when I found your channel I was made up with a downto earth view on botany. Explained in a way even a beginner can understand. No pretentious shit. Makes me wanna explore more of the world and even more of the world around me .
Kickin' rocks in the andean mountains, throwin' a coupla jabs at snow junkies and their resort architecture, chattin' up an owl. Quality video. Class act.
I enjoy your vids man, thanks 👍
Finally! I love dissecting flowers and was starting to wonder why you never pulled them apart on video. Thanks for another great video.
Because technically right is the best kind of right: The name for volcanic mud-flows is "Lahars". They leave behind those tumbled, messy, muddy deposits. A pyroclastiic flow is a super-heated gas, ash, and rock from an active eruption. They leave behind "tephra", an ash flow deposit that is often sort-of welded together (vitrified, glassy) from the heat. Anyway, thanks for all the amazing content, You are really on a roll with all these Mexico, Australia, and Atacama videos lately!
8:59 is why I watch this. I have ABSOLUTELY no use for it, but find it most interesting... and entertaining!😁
Loved the conversation with the Great Horned Owl.....We have Barn Owls on our property living in the Phoenix canariensis.I often have conversations with them as I collect the owl pellets for my tiny scull collection.I use the rest of the bones for garden amendment.
I'm an old hippie, and don't have a thing for nasturtiums, would rather have natives. Sadly, the previous tenant planted nasturtiums and I have a tsunami of them each spring. Obscene is a good word for that blight on the land. Condos, sheesh! The Andes are breathtaking, thanks for taking us along! The GHO is stunning, the wolverines of the sky
Awesome footage! My wife and I are home with flu...we love your channel. Stay well.
Those high altitude dwarf plants are so compact and attractive. Most families are familiar, but the genera are totally different from what I see here in Hungary. It makes me slightly anxious to know that there are so many plants I will never get to know in person and by name. European plant biodiversity is not too big due to the glaciation periods sweeping the continent clean for the last 2.6 million years.
my new Tinder bio: "Don't you just want to study non human life on Earth? You don't see any redeeming quality in it? What do you get into, video games, cars? What the fuck."
Ur live share was cool, thanks! Me n my husband just joined the Berkeley Botanical Gardens yearly family package, I hadn't been since I was a kid, U reminded me how Amazing it us, Thanks !!!
The central zone of Chile, it is going a great drought. So it is no surprise that they find some dry bushes and affected by the lack of rains and high temperatures :(
Hey Tony! I love you you bastard. I bought a book on rocks because of you. It came with some neat flash cards. My friends hate me now! come back to Australia sometime, when it grows back.
Wow! I keep a purple oxalis at my desk and I love it. I had no idea there were others that are so beautiful!
Another amazing video. Thank you so much for all your work.
As a bat I can finally say thank you for mentioning that we pollinate cactus flowers.
We've been seen.
...uh...ohhh...for fuck’s sake, where is Dr Thompson when those bats start circling? CHECKED OUT, that’s where...
Yes you're absolutely correct I got my love and interest for Plants when i found a plant that contains thc
What?.. 1400 views and only 176 likes?.. Come on people.. Educational, Entertaining and chock full of useful insults, all this for free..
Go on give it a thumbs up.
Ur shares are so Wonderful!
Thank you !
Dude, your videos are kick ass, TH-cam gold. Thanks man.
So nice to see and hear of old friends, Puya, Trichocereus, Mutisia, Erythroxylon and the rest.
For the record, repetition with the vocabulary words is super helpful for me. I got Latin for gardeners and a botanists vocabulary but hearing even the simple words getting applied in the field is super useful
Just had this wonderful vision of those monstrostic (in the OTHER dictionary) high rise buildings ..toppling over and rolling down the mountain
I just want to thank you for the source for those free botany books!
I remember another video when you asked if folks were learning anything or if they were just listening to hear and be amused by your accent. FWIW I don't learn well from only books or only videos, I always learned best in a classroom. It's hard for me to remember scientific names by just reading them (no context for the way it sounds) or just hearing them (no context for the way it looks written down). I guess you could say I need both a visual and an audio description of something to learn it well. I appreciate how you put notes into your videos to show what things you say look like written down, and I hear "Lamiaceae", "Fabanaceae", "Asteraceae", etc. in your voice in the back of my mind when I'm looking up these things. For awhile I've been trying to learn plants native to N. Illinois and have just been going off the common names, because those names tend to be easier to remember since they build on a preexisting context (i.e., Cardinal flower is red, cardinal birds are red) but you've helped me build a new context for phylogenetic classification (cardinal flower is a lobelia, this other blue flower is a lobelia, this white flower is a lobelia, and here are the ways they are similar). Because you keep using the scientific names and giving simple descriptions, and the repetition reinforces the information.
Anyway as long as you like making the videos I'm an example of someone who's actually getting something out of them. So thanks for taking the time to do it.
Thank you for posting the list of Botany texts!
Haha fresa is new to me, thanks for all your glorious work
Thank you this video and area is awesome. That dinosaur sunflower was super cool. Trying hard to memorize the terminology, I’m going to start taking notes so I can remember this shit better. Hope your well Joey, thanks for sharing your adventures and knowledge with everyone
love taking inspiration from this fever dream of a biology video! ;p
Hippies: Nasturtium! You can eat it!
Me: (Chewing on some snow peas...) Why?
The flowers are a great contrasting combo of flavors is why. They go just fine with snow peas too. But those wild nasturtium species might be a bit strong!
You out did yourself on this one. Love your videos. From grumpy old grandpa😁
Took me a while to figure out if you were antagonizing me or not. The Chicagoan in me wanted to get defensive and pissed off thinking "os this guy fucking with me?", then I looked up what "outdid yourself" means and realized it was a compliment. So I'm a jackass, and thank you 😂.
feeling so called out over my hippy nasturtiums haha! I like them because you can eat the flowers and they taste peppery. Also the butterflies and aphids go for them and not my other plants :) I am trying to grow some birch seeds and branch out though. Love your videos
Favorites from this video are the viola philippii and the nassauvia lagascae. Just a note to myself. (Thanks for the education)
Grandiosity is in the eye of the beholder.
Wow! 21 mins before you nearly broke yer ass, thats gotta be a record in that terrain....Good video keep up the good work.
6 vegetables disliked this video.
Could be the next flora to be assessed.
"I'm so hyped up on Yerba I can't even hold this fucking flower straight"....😆
Anybody who is uh caught smoking within 30 feet of the door at the midway national airport is subject to a FINE
If you're ever back to north-central Chile, I hear the fruit of the acacia caven is traditionally brewed into a type of 'coffee'. It's hard to come by for sale since the tree itself isn't considered good for much more than charcoal, but can't be worse than Nescafé
Loving the nightshade over here. It's amazing how something so purdy' can be so deadly.
Repeat, repeat, repeat... the only way I'll learn!
It's ok if you repeat the same info/terms. Its helping me learn this stuff
“Normies” 😂
Thanks for another interesting video.
Viewing all of the different flower shapes, colors (some of which we of course can’t see), and sizes, do you ever think about doing a complementary study of pollinators, since they seem to drive some of this variety?
Thoroughly entertaining, sir.
Thank you. I’ll definitely start nursing a fetish for the asteraceae.
I wonder if you have any thoughts about the evolution of flower color and morphology. It seems like there might be some form that would be the most effective in attracting pollinators and that most plants would converge on that form, but instead we have all this diversity. Are these forms just historical accidents, or are they catering too the diversity of pollinators?
40:04 , man that landscape is amazing.
love the fact you roasting fresas, but down here we call em cuicos
Oh, god, I'm totally addicted.
what a great intro shot lmao
This guy knows more about Andean botany than I know about the weeds in my own yard 😖 wish I knew how to start knowing stuff like this.
You just did
Any idea of the name of the ski resort? Or lat/lon, just looking for the spot on google earth. Nice video, beautiful spot.
Curvass?? Like dat?!
🌵🎶you can take ur cactus to the movies if u want to....🎶🌵
Token abuelita plant is absolutely spot-on to describe brugmansia lmao
I know you're looking at the ground but Jesus the views are fucking beautiful, thanks for showing them too
I just saw the short documentary about you and if you got someone to film you while you talked it would beef up your content because you are a natural in front of the camera
you're so nice man, keep educating
Your videos are a beam of light on my bleak day to day life. take it from me housing your grandma is the worst idea ever.
Has probably been asked before so forgive me for my ignorance.. but where should I start with looking for information on native plants in my area of NY?
I suggest downloading inaturalist and seeing what grows native in your area under the "explore" option.
those violets and sunflowers look almost exactly the same to me - thanks for the ID'ing; and the knowledgeable entertainment...edutainment ..garg i hate that word.
Guessing that off camera, that owl told you to GFY. He looked miffed.
you forgot to mention one thing about pyroclastic flows . . . those rocks rushing down at you at 100mph . . . ARE ON FIRE!!!!!
Those condos on the mountain at 22:52 will make some bizarre ruins one day.
My daughter is 3. She's had an ACTUAL tumor and is a cancer survivor thanks to a protocol that included vincristine. Nothing wrong really w benefit to human life being the driving force behind interest in plant matter! It's probably the single best protection any plant has; the potential to benefit humans.
Every plant species benefits humans. Most humans just don't realize how yet. But when humans value plants only because of the secondary metabolites and compounds they produce, we tend to throw all the species without a direct and obvious benefit (via their chemistry) under the bus. That is my point - every plant benefits the human race, just some do it rather indirectly.
Every plant and every ecosystem has got a "right to exist" whether it's "beneficial" to humans or not. Every species is an important part of a much bigger picture.
Very sorry to hear you daughter had cancer. Hopefully it stays gone for good.
(36:20) - The best video of the flora of the Guiana Highlands and Tepuis, aka tabletop mountains, that I’ve found on yt is titled; Tepuis of the Venezuelan Guiana Shield. I’ve got it on my ‘Nature’s Garden #2’ playlist.
Nazca plates' one of my few friends in life apparently.
Just found this example of what happens when humans disturb key species in an ecosystem and it reminded me of this channel:
Four Pests Campaign - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
Thanks - interesting and disturbing article
Who in the hell is gonna live there or even vacation there?! It would be like living on the moon, ffs.
So beautiful! I can't believe you got that close to the owl! (What did he say off the record?) Thank you
We also get Adenocaulon for Mutisioid Asteraceae. Probably the derpiest daisy I've ever seen lol
Those condos you are wishing ill will upon are part of a ski resort. There's about 4 ski resorts east of Santiago. The Google car has been there, so if you want to see snow covered Andes and the resorts you can. I think it'd be beautiful to stay in the resort and see the Andes in all their snow covered glory, including the night sky with a decent telescope.
Yes it is a ski resort, as was mentioned later in the video. correct.
And yes, would be appreciated if they fell into the canyon one day, preferably with nobody inside.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt But why, wouldn't you like to be on top of the Andes when the snow falls. See the white covered mountains from a nice warm hotel room. Look at the stars at night in the dead of winter. Everyone needs a vacation, a place to getaway to. It may not be your cup of coffee. I enjoyed both SCUBA at 100' under water off the coast of Cozumel and skiing in the Adirondacks. If you want to see the snow covering the resorts you dread, check out Google Earth's street view inside the ski resort. Beautiful snow covered Andes for as far as you can see. Not machine made crap snow. I'm sure the plants that are covered in a couple of metres of snowfall do just fine, and recover during the melt. Not all that man creates for pleasure is hell.
@@johnfitzgerald4456 I would like that, but not at the expense of the things I'm there to see. This resort could very well be a death sentence for much of the ecology of that mountain, especially if snowfall is still low - as it has been the past few years - and does not protect the plants from being trampled and destroyed. We'll see, it is still under construction.
Indeed many of the surrounding hills were already denuded from the dirtbikes. And this is the way all development will continue to be until we as a society gain some respect for all the photosynthetic shit on the ground that we otherwise ignore but which has enabled us all to be here. Profit always comes first, habitat and plants and animals always come last.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I'm jpfitz1 from Instagram. We chat regularly. Anyway, those bikes are mountain bikes, no engines. It's a blast to speed down a mountain trail, trail is the important reference, nobody leaves the trail. Like you said, the ecology would be damaged, only if they are off the trail. Yes the narrow trail has already destroyed the plants that happened to be in the path. And, if the bikes do go off trail, death or broken bones are the punishment. I'm a bike enthusiast, I ride a lot. Granted it's an E-bike, my knees aren't young anymore. Joey I'm on the same page as you when it comes to the climate and these shitty strip malls and all the destruction man's done to the planet. That's one reason I ride a bike. I still like Ferrari's, they are a piece of engineering art. It doesn't mean this poor bastard will ever own one or want to. I came from a engineering background, do I appreciate machines, and now, since a few years ago I have been enamored by plants. Especially the Asteraceae genus. I grow sunflowers, lilys and tomatoes every spring. Your channel has given me a more enlightening and educated view of many living plants, even geology I took for granted. But, I would still stay in a hotel on top of the Andes during a snowfall to take in the amazing view.
Hahaha this was a good one. Your full of it lol in a good way
Where do those condos etc. get water?
You need to do an episode on the cholla cactus, a.k.a. jump out and getcha plant, otherwise known as "Ow-ow-ouch!"
Those mountaintop condos are somewhat reminiscent of Machu Pichu.
On it immediately watch :)
Hi from UK - Enjoying this channel immensely- you well?
Great videos !
Such incredible biodiversity at all the various elevations in the Andes where Tony is. As dry as it is and yet so many botanical wonders. I liked the desert before, and now the more I watch on this channel the more i want to plan a trip somewhere like the Andes.
Time to check out the Guyana highlands and the botanical beauties that grow there while you sit at home washing your ass!