From what I've heard on this and your podcast concerning politics, I have concluded that you are a rational, un-brainwashed person and very much in line with my own ideology. It's refreshing to see someone who isn't so wrapped up in fighting for their "team" that they compromise on most of their values
Just watching you videos for the past couple weeks has changed how I look at the world around me and made me pay attention to the plants. I got a couple books on the way, hey thanks.
As someone who dropped ot of University twice, trying to study Biology, I really apreciate going on these virtual excursions. Also I work as a blue collar ass slob landscaper now and whenever I get too much of having to pretend to care about peoples lawn and shit, I like to tune in to center myself again.
Same... I dropped out of college just once and turned to landscape construction. Although I do find joy out of learning about native plants in my region and trying to use them in landscape projects. Gotta find your niche.
Nother slob-ass landscaper here. With some tenure in my current position, I am able to push the agenda of endemic species more and more :) Was working on a project planting a degraded green roof system with locally sourced native plants with pretty good success.. including some rare ones
I seriously cant find any other videos on youtube that teach me as much about plants than this guy's. I don't know if that's good or bad but thank God he keeps makin em.
I love seeing all these salvias out in their native landscapes. They grow so well here in Australia so I have become addicted to them for my garden. But living vicariously and seeing them in their natural habitats? So amazing.
Took a break from plants due to life complications, but recently your videos have again gotten me really interested in botany, thank you. Greetings from New Zealand ❤️
Have recently discovered your videos and and ya good stuff. Had me googling the different plant families and wondering what is going to be growing up here in Northern Alberta this summer. Thanks for the videos. Appreciate it......cause just judging by the terminology used botanists don't come across as fun to watch on you tube so thanks for making it (botany) more fun and accessible.
Love that orchid. :) OMG the trash shot . . . very unfortunate. Nice to see some new Bignoniodes other than the trumpet vine and catalpa I'm used to. :) And wow Sphagnum in the Dominican Republic. Amazing. Lovely Fuchsia.
Loved this one! Made me super nostalgic for when I lived in the DR for a summer and spent a weekend climbing Pico Duarte. I loved all the fuchsias, begonias, orchids, pines . . . nearly froze to death sleeping in a little unheated hiking cabin on the floor, had to snuggle up with my fellow climbers. Haha. Good times.
The pine forests of La Republica Dominicana are quite cool in temperature and very different from the lowlands. Mixed in amongst the pines is very rich agricultural and pasture land. One can see people on horses still as well as on motorbikes. Another thing that one can see in the highlands is that there are a lot of people who are part Indian. Three are, also, a lot of chalets and homes that have an alpine appearance to them. It is a very different world in many ways from that of the beaches and coast.
That golden velvet on the bottom of the that Miconia leaf reminds me of the plush interior accents of a seventies luxury car. Love seeing these high elevation forests and savannahs where some of the genera (and families) we are familiar with in the north come in, but in a diversity of cool endemic species. Yeah, it does seem like a blending of the Rockies and Northwest California-Southwest Oregon, like you said, you would never guess you were on a Caribbean island, if say were just dropped down in these highlands. Love your stuff man, and I agree with some of the other commenters, certainly keep the politics in, there are, as I sure you know, really no divisions between politics and plants in the big (wholistic) scheme of things.
Hey, yesterday I just discovered Isola de Brissago in Ticino, Switzerland. I would have loved to have you along with me to explain all the interesting plant adaptations on display.
A friend introduced me to the Gesneriads several years ago, amazing plants and easy to cultivate. I’ve worked with the miniature and micro-mini species and have grown them from cuttings, corm division & cross-pollinating the spores.
Amazing! I just wish you could have done two videos up there and found that podocarp. A totally new temperate flora for me!! Love all those lycophytes !!!
reformed angry grampa here. love the plants love the info, the learning, the scenery, host is tolerable, yeah the human tumor on the earth, it's bad, real bad, facts are facts. but this is some kind of therapy or some sht. it makes me feel better. if this is rambling like my thoughts now days and dont make sense to you then, gfy.
Just a little correction. You wrote that Agave is in Agavaceae, but it is actually in Asparagaceae and the subfamily Agavoideae. That said, my source for this is wikipedia. I really like watching your videos! They have been very inspirational for me!
Didn't realize the DR had higher elevation climates. I lived across the way on St Croix, stinking hot everywhere. Fun geology though. Thanks for these videos.
8:10 - if you have to ask how high, you're doing it wrong ;) however, you are a magnificent beastad for showing those of us who can't/won't get down to see it some interesting different beauty.
To me, you come across as pretty positive-minded for someone who's stepping over turds, has fly-tipping in eye view most of the time and is half drowned out by a cacophony of internal combustion engines.
I've never seen a mistletoe that could grow on coniferous evergreens. I didn't even know they could. Is that more common than I think or is there some reason they usually don't?
i know here in the southern US they are on hardwoods (oaks) usually.Although, i'm a plant idiot, maybe we do have them and I just don't know what I'm looking at. ;-)
@@k33k32 I live in the same area and you don't see it here but it might just be the particular species we have just prefer oaks and other hardwoods, or it could be the species of pine and cedar here have some kind of defense against them.
Dam your all up in the trees if I did that were I live aka sinn city i would go to jail and if I left the city theres no dam trees well brittle and small ones. You should make a playlist of plants growing in citys and are they killing your area. From them looks you're probably a trucker mybe idk im new here joined 2 weeks ago but any time you go through a city you haven't done a video on or if its been a couple years stop to see what changed? I think it would be a cool very liked video for very few dont know if the trees on the road are ok or just invasive if you think that would be a cool idea 😇.
I like to find the locations of the shots in the videos on google maps. Usually you give a pretty good hint as to where you are, and it's much easier when there are identifiable buildings in the frame as well. 13:30 18.864527278189833, -70.69422278362258
In my country we have Agaves planted, I never see the "inflorescência"... Some years back I see one... and think what is that... Know I see many... For me is because of the climate, is changing... Summer we have more hot days... And know we have weeks raining, a lot of water in short period of time , and for that the capital is having lakes in the road and tunnels
As for that Pinus Occidentalus be the same species, if they interbreed readily, then I would say the same species, subspecies depending on how reliable that distinction between 3 and 5 needles. :)
Thank You Joey...(subduction) "kind of like a carpet on a hardwood floor"...My stupid brain is just not big enough to absorb all your info. I keep trying. Maybe run into you on one of my Berkeley hikes, maybe not, you'll never know cause I would never bother a GOD!!! Tons of info & I thank you Joey .....TM
Do yourself a favor and don't drive through the midwest US. That poor guy's little hobby farm isn't anything. The alternative would be the objective starvation of humanity and the vicious wars that would result. Understanding of science keeps buying us a little more time at the cost of ever increasing entropy and unrecognized secondary effects.
I love comparing how I used to watch these videos to how I do now. Then: Don't understand 80%, just washes over me as I think "oh thats pretty" and "he said a funny" Now: Understand a good chunk of it and always have field guides, books, wikipedia etc open while I watch to follow up on each thing mentioned
When the roar of the social shit storm gets too much, I can come wander the world with you and find a pocket of reserved sanity somewhere. This and gardening keep my shit together. Be well.
Bro, you’re one of the people who will inspire the next generation of naturalists and plant ecologists.
From what I've heard on this and your podcast concerning politics, I have concluded that you are a rational, un-brainwashed person and very much in line with my own ideology.
It's refreshing to see someone who isn't so wrapped up in fighting for their "team" that they compromise on most of their values
Just got out of work now I’m gonna spark up some trees while watching you talk about trees
Lmfaoo
way ahead of you, man.
perfect content for it
My people... They exist lol
My favorite
Just watching you videos for the past couple weeks has changed how I look at the world around me and made me pay attention to the plants. I got a couple books on the way, hey thanks.
He's good like that.
Look up the succulent asteraceaes
Thats so awesome!
The world outside our windows becomes so magical when we know how to look ✨
You can see now my friend, no longer blind!
As someone who dropped ot of University twice, trying to study Biology, I really apreciate going on these virtual excursions. Also I work as a blue collar ass slob landscaper now and whenever I get too much of having to pretend to care about peoples lawn and shit, I like to tune in to center myself again.
Same... I dropped out of college just once and turned to landscape construction. Although I do find joy out of learning about native plants in my region and trying to use them in landscape projects. Gotta find your niche.
Convert them.
Nother slob-ass landscaper here. With some tenure in my current position, I am able to push the agenda of endemic species more and more :) Was working on a project planting a degraded green roof system with locally sourced native plants with pretty good success.. including some rare ones
@@GeertSawek so awesome! I love seeing native plants used in commercial and residential plantings. The birds and animals appreciate it too
I love it when you say phenotypic plasticity in the morning!!
Whoah! The agave in bloom with the appreciative crowd of pollinators was truly glorious. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I seriously cant find any other videos on youtube that teach me as much about plants than this guy's. I don't know if that's good or bad but thank God he keeps makin em.
He's becoming interested in grasses guys
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems Yeah he's just mentioned in the pas that he's not interested in grasses in general (not relating to lawns)
I love seeing all these salvias out in their native landscapes. They grow so well here in Australia so I have become addicted to them for my garden. But living vicariously and seeing them in their natural habitats? So amazing.
Wow! The 8000 elevation pine Savanah is otherworldly, a stunner. Thank you for sharing this bio region with us🕉♥️🔥
agree man. I come from the DR, never even knew we had that kind of view... I must learn my country.
Phenotypic plasticity.
Game over. Mike drop.
As always, just the best.
Took a break from plants due to life complications, but recently your videos have again gotten me really interested in botany, thank you. Greetings from New Zealand ❤️
What the shutter speed of your camera does with the wings of those bees around 11:20 is wonderful!
Enjoy *all* of your commentary. Appreciate you! Thanks!
Just when I needed something interesting to watch. 🌱
Same... perfect timing
❤️Watching your videos is like therapy for me💕
Love to see you do some thing from New England. Being from CT, i don't expect you to suffer this absolute mess, but VT, and Mass are beautiful.
he doesnt like the cold but i second this
Maine!!!!
I never really considered the biodiversity of Caribbean Islands before this series, but it seems like tiny bits of South America in the ocean
Have recently discovered your videos and and ya good stuff. Had me googling the different plant families and wondering what is going to be growing up here in Northern Alberta this summer. Thanks for the videos. Appreciate it......cause just judging by the terminology used botanists don't come across as fun to watch on you tube so thanks for making it (botany) more fun and accessible.
High elevation climates in the tropics are the best! I didn’t know how the Dominican Republic looked at high elevations. Very informative video.
Born and raised in Humboldt county. The 8,000 ft elevation grassland reminds me of areas near Ruth Lake. Really cool.
I would actually love to see you go to Mt Kenya and the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda, There are such weird plants there!
Love that orchid. :) OMG the trash shot . . . very unfortunate. Nice to see some new Bignoniodes other than the trumpet vine and catalpa I'm used to. :) And wow Sphagnum in the Dominican Republic. Amazing. Lovely Fuchsia.
Bignoidies is my fav botanical word to say...and Tormentosa...botany is full of good words
Loved this one! Made me super nostalgic for when I lived in the DR for a summer and spent a weekend climbing Pico Duarte. I loved all the fuchsias, begonias, orchids, pines . . . nearly froze to death sleeping in a little unheated hiking cabin on the floor, had to snuggle up with my fellow climbers. Haha. Good times.
The pine forests of La Republica Dominicana are quite cool in temperature and very different from the lowlands. Mixed in amongst the pines is very rich agricultural and pasture land. One can see people on horses still as well as on motorbikes. Another thing that one can see in the highlands is that there are a lot of people who are part Indian. Three are, also, a lot of chalets and homes that have an alpine appearance to them. It is a very different world in many ways from that of the beaches and coast.
Thanks, Man!
Cloud forests might be my new favorite ecosystem
Cloud forests and fog deserts are my favorite. Great speciation
Love this dude. Videos are on point entertaining and informative. Keep it up bruh!!
Thanks, I needed that!
Any Drosera there Mr. Santoro? I know D. brevifolia can be found on islands in the Caribbean.
Joey you magnificent bastard, Thanks a lot. GFY have a tremendous day 🌿🌿✌️
Yes, I second that. GFY Joey.
GFY Bye - Needs to be on a t-shirt.
That golden velvet on the bottom of the that Miconia leaf reminds me of the plush interior accents of a seventies luxury car.
Love seeing these high elevation forests and savannahs where some of the genera (and families) we are familiar with in the north come in, but in a diversity of cool endemic species.
Yeah, it does seem like a blending of the Rockies and Northwest California-Southwest Oregon, like you said, you would never guess you were on a Caribbean island, if say were just dropped down in these highlands.
Love your stuff man, and I agree with some of the other commenters, certainly keep the politics in, there are, as I sure you know, really no divisions between politics and plants in the big (wholistic) scheme of things.
I can listen to this man talk about botany for hours honestly his voice makes an interesting subject that much more. This is real science
Agave intermix zoom in with buzzing insects and the Pilea setigera 😍
Hey, yesterday I just discovered Isola de Brissago in Ticino, Switzerland. I would have loved to have you along with me to explain all the interesting plant adaptations on display.
A friend introduced me to the Gesneriads several years ago, amazing plants and easy to cultivate. I’ve worked with the miniature and micro-mini species and have grown them from cuttings, corm division & cross-pollinating the spores.
Love your work man!
Amazing! I just wish you could have done two videos up there and found that podocarp. A totally new temperate flora for me!!
Love all those lycophytes !!!
reformed angry grampa here. love the plants love the info, the learning, the scenery, host is tolerable, yeah the human tumor on the earth, it's bad, real bad, facts are facts. but this is some kind of therapy or some sht. it makes me feel better. if this is rambling like my thoughts now days and dont make sense to you then, gfy.
I wonder if a coastal redwood would grow there, or a sequoia? Seems like a fitting climate.
Thanks Joey!
acid jazz is excellent, with or without conspiracy theories (speaking partially from experience)
Great vid thanks :)
You should visit the pine savanna in Southwest Louisiana. You've done some videos a few hours away from there if I recall correctly.
Just a little correction. You wrote that Agave is in Agavaceae, but it is actually in Asparagaceae and the subfamily Agavoideae. That said, my source for this is wikipedia. I really like watching your videos! They have been very inspirational for me!
Ya don't see this on the promotional video. Montana in the Caribbean. What a world!
That moss is crazay! I wanna eat those blueberries and birth that thing at 22:22!!! Glad you are having fun!!!
I love your rants. Keep the politics in it and raise holy hell with the BS of the human weed species.
Didn't realize the DR had higher elevation climates. I lived across the way on St Croix, stinking hot everywhere. Fun geology though. Thanks for these videos.
I find it really fantastical to see a landscape and flora that remeinds me alot of my home north Germany on the other side of the world.
Phenotypic plasticity 👍
I love unique biomes like this.
Love it! Thank you, your videos are better for the trash reality...
can dried Agave leaves be used as cutting/ sawing tools?
would be cool to get video records of Neocognauxia sp.!
Would be fun to show you around East Africa. We have some nice mountain forests and drylands in Tanzania! Welcome!
You have no idea how stoked I was to hear MF DOOM bumping in your car at the end there.
Wondering how old some of those pine like trees are. Also if they harvest them.
Really, thanks so much for doing this. The plant porn and sarcastic comic relief is a great way to unwind after a day on the farm. 🙏🏼
Wonder if any nice mushrooms like to grow in that there grass
8:10 - if you have to ask how high, you're doing it wrong ;) however, you are a magnificent beastad for showing those of us who can't/won't get down to see it some interesting different beauty.
Is it a Mediterranean climate up there? Or more like a highland subtropical?
Check out those BRAACTS!
Oh dats nice uh?
Fuck yeah. That’s beautiful. It reminds me of NE Oregon both in the spring and fall somehow. But with more “exotic” veg.
I was gonna say, that high elevation region looks a lot like NE California Cascades. But I can see NE Oregon too.
"Cow Agony" is the name of my debut LP
Actually I DID like the sound of the engines in the background. 😝
To me, you come across as pretty positive-minded for someone who's stepping over turds, has fly-tipping in eye view most of the time and is half drowned out by a cacophony of internal combustion engines.
Similar habitats are also found in subtropical Asia.
I've never seen a mistletoe that could grow on coniferous evergreens. I didn't even know they could. Is that more common than I think or is there some reason they usually don't?
i know here in the southern US they are on hardwoods (oaks) usually.Although, i'm a plant idiot, maybe we do have them and I just don't know what I'm looking at. ;-)
@@k33k32 I live in the same area and you don't see it here but it might just be the particular species we have just prefer oaks and other hardwoods, or it could be the species of pine and cedar here have some kind of defense against them.
Dam your all up in the trees if I did that were I live aka sinn city i would go to jail and if I left the city theres no dam trees well brittle and small ones. You should make a playlist of plants growing in citys and are they killing your area. From them looks you're probably a trucker mybe idk im new here joined 2 weeks ago but any time you go through a city you haven't done a video on or if its been a couple years stop to see what changed? I think it would be a cool very liked video for very few dont know if the trees on the road are ok or just invasive if you think that would be a cool idea 😇.
The Salvia tuerckheimii looks alot like sumac
You should visit Florida. Many unique bioregions here found nowhere else on earth
I like to find the locations of the shots in the videos on google maps. Usually you give a pretty good hint as to where you are, and it's much easier when there are identifiable buildings in the frame as well.
13:30
18.864527278189833, -70.69422278362258
never seen misltetoe like that before. gnar...
A downtown Chicago walk would be funny, wouldn't be much of a botany video however
I seen earlier videos of him on this subject
Speaking of acid jazz did you know 80% of american sushi is made with rice grown in california
In my country we have Agaves planted, I never see the "inflorescência"... Some years back I see one... and think what is that... Know I see many... For me is because of the climate, is changing... Summer we have more hot days... And know we have weeks raining, a lot of water in short period of time , and for that the capital is having lakes in the road and tunnels
how does his mouth not get dry?
Mistletoe on a pine?? And bromos?? Strange.
As for that Pinus Occidentalus be the same species, if they interbreed readily, then I would say the same species, subspecies depending on how reliable that distinction between 3 and 5 needles. :)
Damn, it's so easy to fall down a rabbit hole just looking up Lycopod.
Hey Santoro, it's a bit of a shame that you weren't able to catch a hispaniolan crossbill feeding on them pine seeds
🙌WHOOO ACID!🙌
Microclimates are cool
"Cool, damp, moist" is that the new Cardi B song?
okay??
Thank You Joey...(subduction) "kind of like a carpet on a hardwood floor"...My stupid brain is just not big enough to absorb all your info. I keep trying. Maybe run into you on one of my Berkeley hikes, maybe not, you'll never know cause I would never bother a GOD!!! Tons of info & I thank you Joey .....TM
Came for the Central American sky island cloud forest and serpentinite substrate, stayed for the politics. This guy is the best.
Acid jazz 🤣
That guy spraying... my god it's so horrible. Monoculture cropping, slash and burn...
Do yourself a favor and don't drive through the midwest US. That poor guy's little hobby farm isn't anything. The alternative would be the objective starvation of humanity and the vicious wars that would result. Understanding of science keeps buying us a little more time at the cost of ever increasing entropy and unrecognized secondary effects.
I love comparing how I used to watch these videos to how I do now.
Then: Don't understand 80%, just washes over me as I think "oh thats pretty" and "he said a funny"
Now: Understand a good chunk of it and always have field guides, books, wikipedia etc open while I watch to follow up on each thing mentioned
tillandsia usneoides on top of a mountain.... now i've seen everything
The background sound is not notable. Your knowledge is notable.
When the roar of the social shit storm gets too much, I can come wander the world with you and find a pocket of reserved sanity somewhere. This and gardening keep my shit together. Be well.
Me after seeing 10:45
"Humans need some shedding"
I want to sell that blue fern as a houseplant to make a little coin.
@ 0:21 is that a UFO? 👀
9:44 raw mouth assassin
Fire is required for pine Savanahs