Whenever I am out in a sensitive area like a desert or an alpine meadow I try to really slow down and avoid stepping on special plants. It is so easy to kick over a small cactus that is 10 or 20 years old without even noticing it.
Good Morning from Australia, I'm off to work now so gonna like your upload and watch it later.... On the down low, are you up for posting out anymore stickers yet?
Outstanding Tony. Your ability to know what is in bloom and where is amazing. I know you use software and books to help locate and familiarize yourself with the area you seek. What is truly spectacular is your ability to rattle off those plant names ~ like magic.
I've become addicted to these videos. I was a JW for 28 years when sitting at home quietly out of the blue I realized it was all bullshit. Now as an Atheist I am astonished at the reality of the eons of time that have resulted in the evolution of species diverse and beautiful.
So I've been been obsessed with plants the last couple of years and I'm also an atheist. Anyway I'm a lone atheist in a sea of Christians and at least once a week I get your so obsessed with plants and you think God's creations just spontaneously came into existence. It's so funny to me that there fine with saying god has always been there but plants couldn't have evolved from nothing.
Hey Adam, there is more and more of us. I too find myself in a sea of Christian ish people. They believe in the Bible but appropriate any other cultural pretty they want and be 'spiritual'. Then again I suppose that is Christianity has always done.
Adam Heckathorn, hi! Congrats for turning into an apostate! 😁 If you like science and evolution I highly recommend Aron Ra’s “systematic classification of life”. It’s a series of short videos about the evolution of life from the beginning to us humans. It’s amazing, very scholarly and comprehensive yet accessible. Here’s a link to the playlist. th-cam.com/play/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW.html
@@pansepot1490 hey man, thanks alot for sharing that - definitely gonna give it a look. the idea of understanding classifications can seem a bit daunting, but this playlist looks to be very helpful
Godamn! This is great! I mean the wind in hardly bearable but every plant you focused on was a gem! You need a 2 man crew to document this man! There's ppl like me that are starving for botany vids like this!
WTF, Francoaceae? It's not even in my systematics book, only 20 years old. I bought it new. Guess I'm gonna need something more current and comprehensive. It doesn't seem like that long ago... I love seeing the Gnetophytes, and volcanos, lol. edit: And many thanks for the enjoyment these videos have brought me, and many around me.
Thanks for climbing & huffing for those of us who can't. Desolate but gorgeous landscape. GFY Edit: some of my favorite subdivision names; Ustebe Woods Floranomora Flattened Forest Humanity sucks!
Grindelia smalls nice, was it scented? Sounds like my niece. When we were camping in the Mammoth Mountain area, she complained that there were too many trees, and how there should be a mall there, arghhhh!
This one was great, as usual. I know you’re there for the plants but there was some pretty spectacular geology going on there too that could have used some commentary! A broad low Mesa, nice layers, I’d guess there’s a fault line somewhere in there too.
I recieved your hoodie today! rockin the "Dept of Unauthorized Forestry" in a house with my bestie/roomie who works for the real Forest Service. He laughed and advised caution to anyone practicing Guerrilla botany acts.
The North American cactus you are thinking of is probably Sclerocactus papyracanthus. They had them in New Mexico, where I lived as a teen. They were almost impossible to distinguish from a clump of grama grass!
*I'd love to hear more about the process behind what determines which family (and/or species) things belong to. You name off the families all the time, but much of the time I have no sense of how you're arriving at that info. It would be very informative over time, for those of us who watch a lot of your vids.*
I intend to do a vid on flower morphology when I'm back home. Flowers are what unite plants under a certain family. Once you understand this and become familiar with a few of the prominent plant families in your region (depends on where you are and if you have access to any remaining intact wild habitat - the precursor of what was there before the shopping centers/billboards/freeways), you'll be able to see a plant that you've never seen before and know what family its in, maybe even what genus. The trademarks of a plants flower structure that tie it into being a member of a certain family are called "apomorphies". Check out "Botany in a day" or Wendy Zomelefers book if you want a follow up on the meantime.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt That would be phenomenal. I love all of the other aspects of this channel, but that's the one part I haven't been able to decipher from the vids (though I do have the repository of book PDF's, which I'm just starting to dig into). Thanks for changing the way I see the world, Joey. I really do appreciate your work here. (And I love watching your sub count tick up every day. You're going to be at a million subs in no time. Hope you're ready for it.)
In the garden,those tree like Echinopsis cactus are fast growers..up to a foot a year. At the very least,much faster than Sauguros. Another great vid. So, 10,000' and 86f?..I guess they never have to suffer the triple digit heat of low deserts,or hot nights. Can hardly wait until you get to South Africa...so many botanical things I have or seen are from there.
@@Psychodeathification Ah,ok. The really long spined are hard to get . I was wondering about how they do...but Pasacana's are near rockets by comparison it seems.
I am amazed you can stay at those elevations for that long without going full on altitudes sickness. I am also amazed there are no disgusting Walmart bags hung up in the cactus up there. They are like ornaments in west Texas...hanging from fences, power lines, cactus, mesquite .... I think it may be the Texas flower...or is it the bluebonnet .....not sure.
how is it that you can remember the latin names and their evolutionary trees? do you have any tips on remembering them? is it just "spend long enough doing it and youll get it eventually"? I had a uni module a while back and had to remember a few clades/families/etc and REALLY struggled with it.
amazing, those little white text comments you put in your video made me laugh more than all videos i watched in the last like 2 weeks at least! ps: not only the texts made me laugh
My Buddy's GF: "OMG, this guy's totally my spirit animal!" Me: "Would your 'spirit animal' kick your ass for using the term 'spirit animal'?" My Buddy's GF: ".... Nobody likes you, you know."
You should invest in some fuzzy handcuffs.... so you can take your old pair of fuzzy handcuffs and use the fuzz to cover the mic area of your camera/phone/whateva to help with the wind noise
@@Inexpressable maybe your speakers/headphones arent that good cuz i even heard the wind singing around the big cactus. honestly sounded like i was with him there.
@@koloblicin I haven't gotten round to watching the full video so haven't seen and heard that cactus, my bad. but I just think that the iPhone mic isn't really cut out for win that much, as it can often get a bit loud, would be much better with a wind cover thingy
re. pollinators: " Warmth may be a significant reward for pollinators on cool days and during cool seasons, thus encouraging pollinators to spend a greater amount of time engaged in foraging and pollinating behavior (Cooley 1995, Rands and Whitney 2008). This may be especially important for hymenopterans, dipterans, and coleopterans that are unable to thermoregulate internally (Warren et al. 1988). Moths have only recently been reported as pollinators of cacti in the Atacama Desert (Schlumpberger and Badano 2005) although, to date, they have not yet been reported as pollinators on Eulychnia. Because both moths and bats tend to emerge near or shortly after sundown, these pollinators could also benefit from residual warmth as a thermal reward. Whatever the reason, equatorially oriented cactus flowers have been shown to attract a greater abundance of insect pollinators than non‐equatorially oriented flowers (Figueroa‐Castro et al. 2014)." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.1937 . does keep referring to bats and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_myotis is the only neotropical Myotis that is known to hibernate and exists in colonies of up to 30 individuals at over 3000m altitude so it looks like there is a bat :)
Wow, coreocactus fruit really looked like a fresh branch popping out, there was clearly loads of them, all identical so I don't doubt they are the fruit... But that is an odd variation on the theme... Then again you can kind of say that about all cacti, still extra odd tho... Could really hurt somebody if ya slap am around wit dat!
You could easily start one of those group tour businesses where you take a bunch of plant lovers or whatever to different places in the world. It wouldn't have to be a large group of people either. I'm sure people have told you but people would pay a premium to be cursed at high up in the Andes looking at fossilized roses.
I love his botanitude.
Whenever I am out in a sensitive area like a desert or an alpine meadow I try to really slow down and avoid stepping on special plants. It is so easy to kick over a small cactus that is 10 or 20 years old without even noticing it.
It's a lot older than that mate
The intro insult is one of my favorite parts.
Also at 6:30 where you sound like an airline pilot talking to the passengers
@@BruhiSwearToGod the outtro is what gets me. "Okaygofuckyourselfbye"
Made me smile too
It helps me feel loved! ❤❤❤
if it's not the heat, it's the humanity
The botanical discussion I like but what I find most entertaining is when he goes off on the way humans are.
I particularly enjoyed the panoramic shots. The light at about 11:40, 14:50 and 21:40 is quite something. Thanks!
Came for the coyote cub.
Stayed for the attitude and botany.
Good Morning from Australia, I'm off to work now so gonna like your upload and watch it later.... On the down low, are you up for posting out anymore stickers yet?
He insults, he is pissed off, he is my most favorite botanist.
He's got a good brain for Latin. Funny Af too.
Finally at 14,000 ft a valley of Echinopsis atacamensis. You bring us some amazing sights. This is probably the altitude limit for columnar cacti.
Outstanding Tony. Your ability to know what is in bloom and where is amazing. I know you use software and books to help locate and familiarize yourself with the area you seek. What is truly spectacular is your ability to rattle off those plant names ~ like magic.
crazy how there’s so much life and beauty even at 15000 feet in the desert! thank you for showing us ❤️
loving the light on the spiny landscape
I've become addicted to these videos. I was a JW for 28 years when sitting at home quietly out of the blue I realized it was all bullshit. Now as an Atheist I am astonished at the reality of the eons of time that have resulted in the evolution of species diverse and beautiful.
Definitely go read Life on Earth by David Attenborough. I read it a couple of years ago and all the pieces of the puzzle of life came together.
So I've been been obsessed with plants the last couple of years and I'm also an atheist. Anyway I'm a lone atheist in a sea of Christians and at least once a week I get your so obsessed with plants and you think God's creations just spontaneously came into existence. It's so funny to me that there fine with saying god has always been there but plants couldn't have evolved from nothing.
Hey Adam, there is more and more of us. I too find myself in a sea of Christian ish people. They believe in the Bible but appropriate any other cultural pretty they want and be 'spiritual'. Then again I suppose that is Christianity has always done.
Adam Heckathorn, hi! Congrats for turning into an apostate! 😁
If you like science and evolution I highly recommend Aron Ra’s “systematic classification of life”. It’s a series of short videos about the evolution of life from the beginning to us humans. It’s amazing, very scholarly and comprehensive yet accessible. Here’s a link to the playlist.
th-cam.com/play/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW.html
@@pansepot1490 hey man, thanks alot for sharing that - definitely gonna give it a look. the idea of understanding classifications can seem a bit daunting, but this playlist looks to be very helpful
Your negativity always brightens my day =]
Love this guy! Great to see a for real person doing this! Keep up the great work!!
Godamn! This is great!
I mean the wind in hardly bearable but every plant you focused on was a gem!
You need a 2 man crew to document this man!
There's ppl like me that are starving for botany vids like this!
Those vistas with the echinopsis atacamensis, so so beautiful.
omg what a splendiferous show thank you!!! wandering botanist!!!
WTF, Francoaceae? It's not even in my systematics book, only 20 years old. I bought it new. Guess I'm gonna need something more current and comprehensive. It doesn't seem like that long ago... I love seeing the Gnetophytes, and volcanos, lol.
edit: And many thanks for the enjoyment these videos have brought me, and many around me.
Thanks for climbing & huffing for those of us who can't. Desolate but gorgeous landscape. GFY
Edit: some of my favorite subdivision names;
Ustebe Woods
Floranomora
Flattened Forest
Humanity sucks!
Great to come home from out there with all the media and other inputs,,,and escape to the wilderness
Grindelia smalls nice, was it scented? Sounds like my niece. When we were camping in the Mammoth Mountain area, she complained that there were too many trees, and how there should be a mall there, arghhhh!
Thanks for the video, Tony. Super informative. Funny as always.
Don't mind the wind noise as long as we can understand you, adds to the understanding of the environment you're in.
Love your finger ruler tattoo! Really convenient!
He doesn't need one on his feet because they're already a foot long!
Crime has one that converts centimeters to imperial.
This one was great, as usual.
I know you’re there for the plants but there was some pretty spectacular geology going on there too that could have used some commentary! A broad low Mesa, nice layers, I’d guess there’s a fault line somewhere in there too.
asshole
I recieved your hoodie today! rockin the "Dept of Unauthorized Forestry" in a house with my bestie/roomie who works for the real Forest Service. He laughed and advised caution to anyone practicing Guerrilla botany acts.
The North American cactus you are thinking of is probably Sclerocactus papyracanthus. They had them in New Mexico, where I lived as a teen. They were almost impossible to distinguish from a clump of grama grass!
*I'd love to hear more about the process behind what determines which family (and/or species) things belong to. You name off the families all the time, but much of the time I have no sense of how you're arriving at that info. It would be very informative over time, for those of us who watch a lot of your vids.*
I intend to do a vid on flower morphology when I'm back home. Flowers are what unite plants under a certain family. Once you understand this and become familiar with a few of the prominent plant families in your region (depends on where you are and if you have access to any remaining intact wild habitat - the precursor of what was there before the shopping centers/billboards/freeways), you'll be able to see a plant that you've never seen before and know what family its in, maybe even what genus. The trademarks of a plants flower structure that tie it into being a member of a certain family are called "apomorphies". Check out "Botany in a day" or Wendy Zomelefers book if you want a follow up on the meantime.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt That would be phenomenal. I love all of the other aspects of this channel, but that's the one part I haven't been able to decipher from the vids (though I do have the repository of book PDF's, which I'm just starting to dig into). Thanks for changing the way I see the world, Joey. I really do appreciate your work here. (And I love watching your sub count tick up every day. You're going to be at a million subs in no time. Hope you're ready for it.)
In the garden,those tree like Echinopsis cactus are fast growers..up to a foot a year. At the very least,much faster than Sauguros.
Another great vid. So, 10,000' and 86f?..I guess they never have to suffer the triple digit heat of low deserts,or hot nights.
Can hardly wait until you get to South Africa...so many botanical things I have or seen are from there.
Echinopsis pasacana and some other ones grow that fast in the garden, E. atacamensis, E. ferox that are in the video grows pretty slow still tho.
@@Psychodeathification Ah,ok. The really long spined are hard to get . I was wondering about how they do...but Pasacana's are near rockets by comparison it seems.
I am amazed you can stay at those elevations for that long without going full on altitudes sickness. I am also amazed there are no disgusting Walmart bags hung up in the cactus up there. They are like ornaments in west Texas...hanging from fences, power lines, cactus, mesquite .... I think it may be the Texas flower...or is it the bluebonnet .....not sure.
As always very educational love the way how you do things excellent style
Thanks for posting a vid from the edge of somewhere Tony!
Pissed off and informative...
You have my attention sir.
Thanks
The cactus in the middle of the screen at 18:59 looks like it's giving us all the middle finger.
No, that's just a sculpture of Joey pointing at something . . .
Thanks.
You forgot to add the gorgeous Junellia sp. (Verbenaceae) to the species list!
Sir David Swearingborough
how is it that you can remember the latin names and their evolutionary trees? do you have any tips on remembering them? is it just "spend long enough doing it and youll get it eventually"?
I had a uni module a while back and had to remember a few clades/families/etc and REALLY struggled with it.
This channel is a blessing holy isht
amazing,
those little white text comments you put in your video made me laugh more than all videos i watched in the last like 2 weeks at least!
ps: not only the texts made me laugh
My Buddy's GF: "OMG, this guy's totally my spirit animal!"
Me: "Would your 'spirit animal' kick your ass for using the term 'spirit animal'?"
My Buddy's GF: ".... Nobody likes you, you know."
Thank you for the awesome videos brother!
You should invest in some fuzzy handcuffs.... so you can take your old pair of fuzzy handcuffs and use the fuzz to cover the mic area of your camera/phone/whateva to help with the wind noise
How in the fu%% do you get to travel like you do I envy you , keep up from Pennsylvania
So yer sayin' that high-silica magma is more likely to spatter the bowl
of da volcano, dat is...
That basalt shit just keeps on comin tho
musta had a bad burrito
At the risk of beating a dead horse. Again. Amazing Place, amazing plants.
i actually liked the wind blowing in my ears,
I'd be likely to agree, but the iPhone microphone isn't all that great
@@Inexpressable maybe your speakers/headphones arent that good cuz i even heard the wind singing around the big cactus.
honestly sounded like i was with him there.
@@Inexpressable but maybe im just high as fuck and you are right ;D
@@koloblicin I haven't gotten round to watching the full video so haven't seen and heard that cactus, my bad. but I just think that the iPhone mic isn't really cut out for win that much, as it can often get a bit loud, would be much better with a wind cover thingy
but don't worry I'm high as fuck too. I'm glad Tony gives us an occasional bong rip break
re. pollinators: " Warmth may be a significant reward for pollinators on cool days and during cool seasons, thus encouraging pollinators to spend a greater amount of time engaged in foraging and pollinating behavior (Cooley 1995, Rands and Whitney 2008). This may be especially important for hymenopterans, dipterans, and coleopterans that are unable to thermoregulate internally (Warren et al. 1988). Moths have only recently been reported as pollinators of cacti in the Atacama Desert (Schlumpberger and Badano 2005) although, to date, they have not yet been reported as pollinators on Eulychnia. Because both moths and bats tend to emerge near or shortly after sundown, these pollinators could also benefit from residual warmth as a thermal reward. Whatever the reason, equatorially oriented cactus flowers have been shown to attract a greater abundance of insect pollinators than non‐equatorially oriented flowers (Figueroa‐Castro et al. 2014)."
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.1937
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does keep referring to bats and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_myotis is the only neotropical Myotis that is known to hibernate and exists in colonies of up to 30 individuals at over 3000m altitude so it looks like there is a bat :)
What a cool area! It's so desolate!
loved this, thanks for sharing
"I feel like the grandpa now!"
Stickers have been applied to the appropriate locations
Thank you so much
salaam thank you for this excellent report as always.
Chert basically _is_ chalcedony, yes? Along with flint, jasper, and agate? It's all micro/crypto-crystalline quartz.
Thanks for sharing! Awesome✌
Joey, how often do you get out in the field to learn?
Fantastic
This guy is awesome
Classic italian style accent
"Fugget bout it"👍👍👍☺☺☺
I suggest just glueing a small piece of foam or screen over the mic hole to cut the wind.
Slim Pickens the wind is part of the asmr
nice sightseeing trip. Thanks
Just got my Stop Humanity hoodie. It's my new favorite thing
Wondering what is going to show up in my feed after watching this video with such a name lol.
Oh hey, I went to The Tube once years ago. It was a weird vibe for sure.
Spikes. Spikes everywhere ;___;
Those boulders _definitely_ were water-rounded. There are ancient paleo-channels in the Atacama. Fluvial fans, even.
You know I almost started to watch the news when i just said fuck that theres a new video! My nerves thank you!
10.09 the "White Punks on Dope" Tubes? Yes I like the Tubes. Saw them live in Royal Oak Michigan.
Wow, coreocactus fruit really looked like a fresh branch popping out, there was clearly loads of them, all identical so I don't doubt they are the fruit... But that is an odd variation on the theme... Then again you can kind of say that about all cacti, still extra odd tho...
Could really hurt somebody if ya slap am around wit dat!
I like the tubes.
Eat your fucking heart out sir David Attenborough. New subscriber, great bit of botany.
Surprised that the land isn't repurposed for a pile of condominiums already.
I'm guessing you caught the total eclipse out in the Atacama?
Is that white sand or is that snow after all you are up at 15,000 feet
He said its a salt flat
Get a furry cover for the mic. Or glue a small piece next to it so it covers it. Should help with the wind noise. Awesome video.
Feel free to instigate me in every video. Don't get to pc cause it will be boring.
You are awesome
So how stuffed with coca leaves are your pockets?
Love me some Lonedago.
I sprained my ankle just watching this video.
What's the alkaloid content of _Echinopsis atacamensis?_
I get close enough taking Celsius, doubling it, and adding 30 for F.
I love high desert..
awesome!
You could easily start one of those group tour businesses where you take a bunch of plant lovers or whatever to different places in the world. It wouldn't have to be a large group of people either. I'm sure people have told you but people would pay a premium to be cursed at high up in the Andes looking at fossilized roses.
Some of those plants look tough enough to grow on Mars.
we should start a gofundme to purchase a Mars rover for Tony. If anybody can find life there, he can.
Previous post....... who is Tony?? 😳😂
This place looks so fucking beautiful
At this point I'll pay somebody to touch my fuzzy 😂
What fun!
Well Good Mornin to ya too ya goofy bastid
Thanks again for the info bro
I read that in his voice, well done
say i belly floped on an echinopsis atacamensis what do think would happen
Holy moly. Ok chill dry area for sure. Neat! Thanks as always from the best city in the world Chicago. #grampasbreath
Oh ya its a flower. But u got it all right
The Tubes is also a rock group :)
Anyone know what species the Junellia is at 17:00?
Looks like Junellia seriphioides but I'm no botanist.
@@rr3dd that's it, thank you so much. beautiful plant.
About 14,100 feet altitude, pretty damn high there