Tree Carrots, Candelabras and the Salty Bastards That Love Them

[@about80crickets]

I'm 25 and recently got diagnosed with arthritis in my back, the pain goes down to both feet. Your videos help get me out of my world of pain.

[@smolpener7430]

I just shit and his videos make me feel more comfortable in my feces filled pants.

[@calamagrostis88]

Thumbs up to the local botanists who help make these amazing videos possible. Keep fighting the good fight.

[@GranRey-0]

I just imagine when he's not out on a hike, he's sitting with a coffee and a Botanical Morphology Glossary. But now I will have to imagine bread and cheese every once in a while so Imaginary Tony isn't so caffeine dependent.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

In France, where I guess he is technically, bread and cheese can be quite a splendid meal.

[@MrSamck]

Point of interest, I found a Myodocarpus fossil in a Miocene lake deposit in New Zealand. A scientist at Adilade university is writing the paper. New caladonia and New Zealand are part of the same continental fragment so we share a common heritage. By the way you should come to NZ,we got Podocarps,we got Nothofagus, we got more Dracophylums than you can shake a stick at and our alpine flora is to die for.

[@SPCEMN3]

You got anthocyanins what the shit and other various bastards too? I'd watch that episode.

[@The0Maketu0High0Roll]

Mountain daisies (Celmisia) are amazing

[@serrakilduff6580]

@Furtive - yep, we got the Heiracium and the Pilosella too. It does form mats in the semi arid areas of the high country South Island. These out-compete native species, as well as introduced pasture grasses.

[@TheMonstersWon]

I second this. Would feel an immense sense of pride watching a New Zealand edition

[@SylemGistoe]

I barely know anything about plants, but i love learning about them with you- glad i found this channel. When i'm upset or sad and just pissed off, your videos really help calm me down.

[@aurora_dawn123]

Man, those araucaria, mosses, ferns, carnivorous plants, palms and orchids were amazing.

[@deanschlichting1623]

“Rusty undersides” famous ginger male stripper from the 70’s

[@victorsaloum9731]

Woo this pairs perfect with my lunch!! I also enjoy the longer videos!!

[@TheEricrya]

Real nice

[@arthurlouis8326]

Not a lot of birds in this biome because the soil is really poor. The plants don't produce much seeds and not many insects to munch on the leaves because they are too tough and poor in nutrition.

[@carennorthcutt7724]

Plants I've never seen before. Thank you!

[@claysullivan5347]

proud that you've cut down on your caffeine habit.

[@8ftbed]

Boo! Coffee is good for you. Unless you like making 2nd mortgage payments to frequent Starfucks. Oh and the latte mocawhatheshit calorie bombs is no bueno either.
Been 6-8 cups a morning for 8 years since fully retired. 14 years as a programming cube rat, probably 10-12 cups a day. The better part of the 20 years in the Navy.... 😂 couple liters a day.
61, no prescriptions. (Well, not counting nsaids, ibuprofen and THC. 😎

[@teresashinkansen9402]

@@8ftbed I been walking around my bed 10 times counter clock wise since I was 12 (i cannot do my day without doing that i must do that ritual or else i go crazy) Im 72 and i have no prescriptions, therefore walking around your bed is good for you!

[@AndyFinucan]

@ 36:34 that cheese and bread kicks in

[@brendafallos3796]

Love hearing all the insects.

[@drjones8176]

Dis dude is a greens diva!!!

[@SaraJean85]

Good morning to u too friend

[@mezmarionybarra]

Lovely lovely wonderfulness , thank you so so much for all of your beautiful sharing! Blessings in and around your precious heart always!

[@susandoerr3896]

HEY if you are still moving on that trail, have fun moving on. moving on. and moving on. getting ready to make a berm vertical garden wall and more. new plants blueberries to put in. waiting for it to warm up more. still in the 40's pacific northwest. nice knowledge and wisdom about the plants. real interesting. I listen to someone else and boy does he dream of living in space. that's his thing. just as interesting but different. anyway from an infj scorpio stallion and more.

[@bluetoad2001]

how do you know New Caledonia broke off 80 million years ago, where you there? beautiful place. show the tacorea that is always a crowd pleaser. glad you are making these awesome plant surveys, keep the vids coming...

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Yes, I was there. Flying around with Christ on a golden unicorn. Either that, or ages of rocks are able to be radiometrically dated and geologists are able to calculate the yearly speed at which tectonic plates move, aided by an abundance of geologic clues available at the surface, like putting together clues to a very large puzzle.
Also, check out a tectonic map. A much more importantap than modern geopolitical ones. It will blow your mind.

[@bluetoad2001]

i’ve been fascinated by the crust since high school. we have a few old rock quarries in the area and coal was also mined here back in the day. the quarries have strata layers with crinoids in abundance, also Haydite is close to the surface. awesome country you are trekking thru.

[@kirppuntutti]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🏆

[@ohmyfynbos6070]

What an insane flora!! Proteaceae, Ericaceae, Cunoniaceae...and dozens of other families and genera I've never heard of! Being in the South African Ericaceae dungeon I find my jaw dropping regularly at your exposes! Thanks Tony - you're one in many, many millions! And don't be too hard on yourself in that "Chicago" kind of way ;-D

[@susandoerr3896]

really beautiful Caledonian. but hot. you made all those plants so interesting. I like fashion , and music. I play music in the morning for the birds which I feed. they like flute the best. its funny to see them notice a beautiful sound. have fun in that very interesting place and climate. remember sweating is good.

[@aviefallis7534]

Yay! A new video! :) Really really love the soil color out there

[@TheEricrya]

Getting my second cup...

[@EmInMI80]

I once saw a bumper sticker in the Geology department in college that proclaimed, "Reunite Gondwana Land." Another declared, "Stop Plate Tectonics". Gotta love geology humor!

[@larryclark1518]

I cannot imagine a better campsite than where you are. And to hear the latin names of flowers flowing from your tongue, like the winds over the mountains.

[@turdwithau]

"Gotta think like a chicagoan. Somethings always gotta go wrong."
Some of the best advice out there.

[@katiekane5247]

"Oozy" highly scientific. Geeze what beautiful plants & vistas. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Recent new studies to find antibiotic compounds at UGA from oak, tulip poplar & Aralia Spinosa.

[@robertbrewer2190]

Hotel California is in Baja California Mexico. Holbrook AZ USA is nearest bigger town to Petrified Forest

[@rodf73]

I just want to thank you for these uploads... really enjoy them after a long day at work.
And I don't want to be an ungrateful prick

[@8ftbed]

If you don't want an ungrateful prick... use it regularly (in one way or another). 😎

[@999hecubus]

Oh shit!!! That last micro orchid!!! I’m in love!!!

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

The Agathis was magnificent. I could ponder on that for hours. Tony,how do you explain that in a wet (6' of rains) humid climate,the total lack of epiphytes on all those rough barked trees and shrubs? Not as much as a lichen.
Yeah,that whole forest reminds me of large planters of old plants in fake soils that are depleted..you get that look.Lower branches first to go,plant foliage looks anemic.
Still,I have a Plerandra elegantissima in rich clays,always watered...and it still just has a thick tufted of foliage on long minimal ( no lower branching) branching shrub/tree.

[@meredithmarsh1607]

That tiny orchid at the end was so fucking cute. Holy shit. Thank you Tony, for these amazing videos.

[@placidpond]

“California grade Serpentine “…love it! Got a piece of serpentine scoria with that ferric weathering last Staten Island journey

[@pegtooth2006]

I watched the whole thing end to end... and the textures & the commentary were Wicked
Good job train boy
:4)

[@brianballa3086]

dam nice video

[@theunknowngamer5477]

The color green will now make me hear your voice.
The world now seems important, as you introduce me to life I never knew about.

[@Purwapada]

.
Love these NC videos great stuff
just keep coming back :)

[@kazzerere]

Thank you for all the info and your time

[@pal98111]

Wonderful tour. The Aricarias are magnificent.

[@jayviescas7703]

Now ya gone and dun it! You made me go and look up New Caledonia and it's freaking beautiful! Hope the tourist industry isn't pissing too much on the indigenous flora and fauna.

[@LenyaGreen]

as a Kanak myself, I can tell you the tourism industry is ok as long as the tourists themves are responsible and respectful :)

[@gloriacardenas2056]

Muy buen video gracias por mostrarme la naturaleza tan en detalle todas las plantas ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Biophile23]

[@karenacott9111]

Tony, I love you man. Keep up the good work.

[@glenmorrison8080]

Imagine a New Caledonian botanist traveling to California and thinking "Wow, almost everything has a green abaxial surface."

[@peterbernhardt5169]

Woody Primulaceae and TWO Megastyis species, you lucky bastard! Orchidologists call the "studs" on the labellum, calli. Think of the Caladenia you saw in Australia. The tiny Eria wasn't bad either.

[@randallbaxter4766]

Thank you for bringing me along on your sabbatical to see these plants before they become extinct. Your enthusiasm is contagious and appreciated, your whit acerbic and appropriate, your words both cursing and blessed by Greek gods. Thank you for those Greek root words, and the other colorful ones too. Oft my spirit agrees with you in mourning anger at extinction and a burning human curiosity. Thank you.

[@talanigreywolf7110]

Dang Joey, how'd you even spot that nearly microscopic orchid??? *sigh* I wish I still had the vision of my youth but, This old lady can still enjoy the view second-hand...lol

[@pierrelipperheide7981]

I'm not a botanist or anything but the reddish leaf colors sure seem like an adaptation to reflect back the light coming from the soil/ground?

[@anarchy-fk5fr]

great video! Thank you

[@carennorthcutt7724]

Armchair botanist? I think you are the Encyclopedia Britannica.

[@plutoniumdust]

Encyclopedia Botannica*

[@prescott5328]

Another Banger

[@najakwarkle]

Breathtaking flora.

[@paulann5257]

Winslow AZ is the place you're thinking of. I've been to the petrified forest. It's pretty cool!

[@johnpick8336]

That Dwarf Protoacae tree is a beauty with commercial potential.

[@katiecou2338]

Wowzers so beautiful and such weird plants! Evolution is amazing.

[@bunya5518]

The red soil appears to be a Ferrosol, deep red friable iron rich soils that lack strong texture and structure, usually from decomposed basalt. There are no rapid primary plants evolved to stabilize these soils on New Caledonia and the cause of so much erosion from mining or any disturbance to it.

[@Sclafani_art_studio]

Think like a Chicagoan lol

[@Crowborn]

Araucaria is my favorite genus of plants! Where i live there's a bunch of Araucaria brasiliensis / araucaria angustifolia? and there is nothing quite like those massive looming crowns!

[@sarasmr4278]

42:42 waiting for a dinosaur to roar nice

[@snigwithasword1284]

Wow seems like the concretion is the only thing stopping that hillside from just emptying out into the rivers like an hourglass, like the loess plateau.

[@crumblytoast]

the plant @11:05 looks like a living Christmas ornament

[@royahold1966]

Mesmerizing closeup shots.

[@jaybee7892]

Magnificent landscape

[@refoliation]

“Arm chair botanist” lol I couldn’t see the arm chair must be just out of frame

[@PeterMJJacob]

God damn I am loving these videos a lot. It's almost like I don't even need to get off my ass and go see these things myself.
Just kidding, I am actually headed to Borneo in two weeks!!

[@DanKillam]

Even those Droseras seem weird growing on little platforms out of the coarse bare talus

[@dylan8285]

That red soil reminds me of the red clay over by there in North Carolina

[@iangillham9647]

Fantastic series, great episode, keep up the good work.

[@treebeard7140]

Living history a lot of these plants.

[@natejansen892]

I do love your videos, and most days I am a salty bastard.

[@zzyzx2297]

Just sitting here watching, thinking how does know all this stuff? Amazing. Must have taken lots of time and passion just to learn it all

[@gloriacardenas2056]

Qué hermosos esos árboles

[@geoffreydonaldson2984]

Man! I sure seen some washed-out roads before -only in British Columbia. Really interesting-focus on the stuff botanists love to see-great descriptions, almost like I was there! Thnx!

[@benwinkel]

That tiny epiphytic orchid with the orange flower, could it be a Dendrobium?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Eria karicouyensis

[@benwinkel]

@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Thanks pal!

[@michaelhockus8208]

damn these are some weird ass plants. thanks for sharing!

[@sarasmr4278]

That is one massive carrot

[@seanc6128]

Aw man thinking about the Eagles got Hotel California stuck in my head.

[@jerbil2191]

Just like the big Lebowski haha "I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' eagles, man!"

[@emmitstewart1921]

I don't hate the Eagles, but I'm getting g*d**n tired of Hotel California. It's like they never wrote another song.

[@BeholdItKnits]

my condolences

[@emmitstewart1921]

@@thadnipper9411 Now you know why I don't hate the Eagles.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

This foliage guy greatly enjoyed this post.

[@cgriggsiv]

Okay you botany bastard 😜 absolutely gorgeous flowersfrom the Cretaceous era that you are showing us I am jealous
Again awesome video
Keep them coming my salty botany bastard 😜 friend

[@suprarealistul]

The view at the end! dope

[@kjenkins8241]

I bet he dreams of flowers.

[@regnbuetorsk]

i wish i was your neighbor, and female. i would have spent hours with you in my greenhouse, micropropagating rare and endangered plants

[@jdizzle708]

it's 2020. you can share plants with people regardless of gender now

[@kspfan001]

@@jdizzle708 can change gender too

[@frankcowan6625]

Bro!!!!
Kick it back up!!!!
Love.

[@paulchristian2673]

What a wonderful video!

[@jt5029]

love your show man keep it up.

[@kirppuntutti]

“I hate the fuckin' Eagles.”
LMAO 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vincezito3547]

I wish you were also an arachnologist I'd like to know what theraphosids have been living with those plants for millions of years

[@igot99problemsbutmyaltaint81]

Sippin on my me me me me COFFEE MUG!!!!

[@timrulestheearth]

Love the videos pal, you ever come across any Schefflera in your travels?

[@RedFishBlueFish]

Hey, a couple of questions: Do you have at least one planted freshwater aquarium? If not, second question: Why the hell don’t you have a planted freshwater aquarium?

[@paulos3070]

Love to know about araucarias, here in Brazil there is one species (araucaria angustifolia) its a wonderfull tree

[@treebeard7140]

You had me at bread and cheese.

[@bobdoodie1453]

Really wish you'd narate other content. Your accent is priceless. You could be the next Ozzy man

[@geomundi8333]

my hypothesis is monocaulaus habit evolved to move mobile nutrients, then senescence lower branches that aren't efficient with age or location in regards to sun; and they grow on crappy soil so it makes sense. Other plants grow like this when you starve them; so maybe they are all just in constant hunger from living in that region

[@lorenzm3189]

It has probably been asked a lot but i dont know where to search for. What camera is he using?

[@artandnature-spiralartstud6594]

The araucaria give to the lanďscape a similarity with south america...... south brazil... uruguai.. argentina

[@mfrueh8235]

I love your videos.....do you still talk to Al Scorch?

[@occasionallyinfinite]

I love the way you point wit da middle finger.

[@occasionallyinfinite]

Pay attention... Y'all might learn something.

[@johnende7402]

Came from tree carrot, stayed because of the drosera.

[@TheDancingHyena]

I'm sure dropping "bernieri" at the beginning of a video uploaded 3 days before super tuesday is totally a coincidence ;)

[@innovativeatavist159]

Anyone else want Myrtaceous Bastard on a t-shirt?

[@jaewok5G]

there's some crazy stuff out there. there seem to be multiple plants where the NEW growth is reddish … is that due to the iron rich soil or some other circumstance or is it for a purpose?

[@illustriouschin]

Really alien and beautiful ecologies there. Sad to see the plants being ravaged by beetles that the humans brought in especially considering how long and difficult it is for the native plants to grow there.