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The Ethnobotany of a Tropical Market

In this episode we check out some of the rare species of fruit being sold in this market in Puyo, Ecuador. We explore little known families and some lesser known genera of plants, as well as palm b...

I highly recommend this book

I feel like I've had people telling me to read this for the last decade and a half but only recently that I finally crack it open. Here is a copy of it. "One River" about the ethnobotanist Richard ...

Upper Amazon Fungi & Biodiversity podcast ad-free

A conversation with Alan Rockefeller about Amazon Fungi, biodiversity, AI, using inaturalist, and a host of other topics.

Andean Condors & Maihuenia poepigii

What 12,100' Looks Like at the Equator

Some pics from a very wet hike yesterday

Sharing this again cause it's a good one...

Five minutes of Martin Grantham 's Rambling..

Martin is a good friend of mine whom I've known for fifteen years. He's a great botanist, knows plant physiology and Taxonomy and systematics li...

A Plant called Arachnitis

Arachnitis has been on my list of bizarre and unusual plants to see for a few years. It is a plant that parasitizes fungi - a mycoheterotroph - specifically mycorrhizal fungi in the endomycorrhizal...

Chile's Sclerophyll Forest

In the foothills of the Andes in Chile's Nuble region we check out some of the keystone plants that compose the Sclerophyll Forest here, like
Gevuina avellana (Proteaceae),
Nothofagus alpina...

Jurassic Forests Part 2 of 2

In this episode we spend some time with some of the Viejitos of the Conguillo area at 4800' elevation on top of a cinder cone, with a substrate composed of black pumice. Escallonia alpina, Nothofag...

Ad-Free Podcast: Atlas Nativa de Chile con Miguel Moya

Miguel Moya is a naturalist and designer who produces field guides and posters for native plants in Chile. In this episode we talk about the sclerophyll forest, the temperate rainforests of Chile I...

Jurassic Forests - Part 1 of 2

Araucaria araucana is the dominant species on the forested slopes of Conguillo National Park in Southern Chile, and in this video we take an inventory of some of the species we encounter here, as w...

45,000 Year Old Fossil Forests

Alpine Photos from Chile

I've been trying to upload this for 3 days but the shitty patreon app won't let me attach photos to posts, so I just did it through Google photos. There's 250 photos of plants in here, somewhere du...

Ad-Free Podcast : Alerce Forests of Chile & Rosulate Alpine Plants

In this episode we talk about Alerce Forests, Ocelot Tarantulas that live in bogs in Temperate Rainforests, Why the Rosulate Form Makes sense in Alpine Habitats, and the extremely weird mycoheterot...

Ad-Free Podcast: Araucaria Forests of Chile

Gondwanan Cypress Bogs & Patagonian Tarantulas

Pilgerodendron uviferum and the Chilean Ocelot Tarantula appear in this episode, as well as the rare Podocarp Lepidothamnus fonkii (surely grew on Antarctica 50 million years ago). Drosera uniflora...

Floristic Survey of an Urban River - Santiago, Chile

Illegal Trespassing and a Botanical Inventory of the Mapocho River in downtown Santiago, Chile during the summer season in late January reveals a host of exotic invasives as well as a few native pl...

Chilean Flora with Botanist Nico Lavandero

Nico Lavandero is a Chilean Botanist who has described 8 new species of plants in Chile and is in the proc of describing many more. In this podcast we talk about a diversity of subjects, from Chil...

The South American Redwood

Araucaria araucana forests, Mutisioideae Composites, and Usnea Draped like tinsel

Some photos from yesterday, at 38° S, 4800' (1200 m) on a cinder cone. Araucaria here estimated at around 1,000 years old. Nothofagus pumilio, dombeyi and antarctica were present here, too. Sadly ...

The Southern Cordillera and Pilgerodendron

Pilgerodendron uviferum is another rare and threatened Gondwanan conifer, found in much wetter areas than Fitzroya. It's basically a bog plant. We found it at the Northern end of its range here nea...

Chile Photos

A few photos from today East of Curico, Chile, in a climate that feels remarkably similar to California.

Headed to Chile to Film, Let Me Know What You Guys Want to See

We're headed to Chile to film, from Santiago South to the Alerce Forests of Puerto Montt. If anybody has any requests, leave them here. And thank you to everybody for the support, I'm grate as hell...

Ruderal Plants & Ode to. Rare Mustard

Thelypodiopsis shinnersii (syn. Mostacillastrum vaseyi) is a rare annual mustard that's seemingly much more rare than previously thought, most likely due to the same old culprits of habitat destruc...

Ad-Free Episode...Birdsong Landscapes

Austin Miller runs Birdsong Landscapes, a native plant landscaping company and Natural History page based out of Southwest Ohio. In this episode we talk about continents as ecosystems, the natural ...

(Ad-Free) Problems with GMO Chestnuts : American Chestnut Federation

In this episode we talk with Jared Westbrook, a geneticist with the American Chestnut foundation, about the issues with the transgenic American chestnuts that have been produced in the last decade ...

Better Living Through Reptiles Podcast Episode

In this episode we sit down with Kyle Elmore of the youtube channel @popmilk for a two hour talk about herping (lurking for reptiles and amphibians), creating habitat, passionately obsessing over m...

Herping in the 2nd Growth Margins of Farmland

In this episode we check out Indigo Snakes, Milksnakes, and more.

Ad-Free Ruined Christmas Podcast

Ad-Free Episode of the Ruined Christmas Episode of the Podcast