As of now the Costa Rica tour that I am planning with Alan Rockefeller and Mandie Quark is happening July 8th through the 16th. The total cost will be $2,500 and will include food transportation an...
2025-05-05 01:17:57 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://photos.app.goo.gl/ou4XzxffKTK5h11fA
I'm still getting around to putting identifica... 2025-05-05 01:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The thin-soiled limestone glade habitats of Northeastern Alabama are home to some of the coolest and rarest plants in the Southeast, but two centuries of fire suppression has put the continued exis...
2025-04-29 15:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we check out dry tropical forests as well as the karstic limestone outcroppings within them that are home to the drought tolerant plants like Euphorbia schlechtendalii, Marshallocer...
2025-04-24 03:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're in Atlanta I'm here and I'll be at Stone Mountain tonight at 5 pm doing a plant walk/shoot-the-shit session in the parking lot.
2025-04-22 14:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video we catch Star Cactus Blooming ( Astrophytum asterias) and see a massive old growth Peyote at Thornscrub Sanctuary.
In the second part to our ascent up the Talamanca Range of Costa Rica, we check out the plants growitat 10,000' in the mountains of Central America, culminating in the strange bromeliad and tree fe...
2025-04-17 02:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Agave wercklei is endemic to Costa Rica, growing on calcareous shale In the northwest part of the country in the province of Guanacaste. The habitat here somewhat resembles similar habitat of the d...
2025-04-13 16:44:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 1 in a two-part video featuring The climb from Mid elevations to high elevations in Costa Rican Cloud forest, and all the species and habitats in between...
2025-04-12 16:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostAd-Free episode of the podcast featuring a 2.5 hour podcast rant about plants in the neotropics, including the lowland dry forests, the montane oak forests, and the Páramo.
2025-04-11 22:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In Central Chile grows a giant species in a genus more well known in the United States for being small herbs or herbaceous perennials... this is Lobelia excelsa.
other species listed include...
The genus Aristolochia contains over 500 species, most of which occur at tropical latitudes around the world. Thus episode focuses mainly on 4 species from the new world tropics, primarily:
Aris...
Tabernanthe iboga is one of many ethnobotanically important plants I photographed today at the Ark Vivero in Costa Rica. It is an intense psychedelic for curing opiate Addiction and PTSD. If you've...
2025-04-02 23:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostMike Powell is curator of the Sul Ross Herbarium in Texas and has spent 60 years studying the plants of the region. In this conversation we talk about describing new species, gypsum endemics in the...
2025-03-21 18:33:10 +0000 UTC View PostDeb Manley is a naturalist and long-distance hiker who in March 2024 discovered a plant species that was entirely new to science: Ovicula biradiata (Sunflower Family - Asteraceae).
In th...
2025-03-20 17:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostDr. Lynn Clark studies neotropical bamboos - bamboos from the Americas - specifically the genus Chusquea, which is epically diverse in South America, from the Atlantic Forest of Brazi...
2025-03-18 16:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostBruce Shoemaker is a researcher on natural resource conflict issues and
author of the book "Dead in the Water", about hydropower projects and extractive predatory capitalism in Southeast Asia.
2025-03-15 20:37:52 +0000 UTC
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Below is an excerpt from the book I'm currently finishing (and painstakingly editing), Concrete & Botany. It encompasses, human relationships with plant life, horticultural atrocities,...
2025-03-13 21:04:41 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode we talk about why the word "nature" sucks; how to use the living world to avoid focusing on doom and idiocracy; why aimlessly walking along power line easements, irrigation ditches ...
2025-03-08 18:07:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we talk with Leo Mercado of Morningstar Conservancy, an Arizona-based peyote conservation and propagation organization formed by members of the Native American Church concerned ...
In this video - a follow-up to the previous episode featuring Andean Condors and Mountains of Antuco, Chile - we see how the high dry cold elevations of the Andes mountains of Southern Chile affect...
2025-03-06 05:29:07 +0000 UTC View PostRants about museums in Chicago, the hall of botany at the field museum, drop-in sinks, Euglossine bees, the genus Gnetum, getting the cops called on you at Chicago Botanical Gardens, the library at...
2025-03-05 05:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Rants about the New Asteraceae species discovered at Big Bend National Park, Ovicula biradiata, as well as an exploration of a few species of Neotropical Palms, potential musical choices for...
2025-02-26 18:39:46 +0000 UTC View Post
A 2 hour rant about the upper Amazon, the Paramo, ant symbiosis, Ilex guayusa, ethnobotany at the fruit market, giant neotropical bamboos, and much more.
In this episode we check out the Coastal Old Growth Araucaria forests including the largest specimen known to date, the "Milenario".
2025-02-17 00:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This will probably only interest some of you but this is a very helpful tool for creating a list of plants you have observed, or that someone else observed, In a given boundary locations such as co...
2025-02-14 21:16:40 +0000 UTC View PostAttached is a google photos album highlighting the Mesmerizing High Altitude Plant Habitat known as Páramo, as well as some ethnobotany from the lower elevations (4,000 meters).
There will...
