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Heliamphora, Sarracenia, Drosera, Australia, Tepui, Byblis, and Nepenthes... With a cameo by the toilet pitcher and an explanation of Peristomes.

[@Taradoxxi]

That fridge full of high-altitude plants is amazing. It looks like an alien botanist’s sample cabinet.

[@CreditR01]

Definitely. They're so weird but very cool.

[@Liliquan]

That’s like saying, look at those foreigners with their weird facial features. When in fact it’s not weird at all. In reality, you’re just heavily biased in favor of what suits your experience and are classifying everything else as “weird”. What’s really weird is how you don’t get that.

[@thetobyntr9540]

That's kind of a common view though that "weird" is relative to one's own experience, you don't gotta belittle someone for appreciating plants and saying what they think about it, that's a beautiful thing to me at least. Love and let love. They are very weird compared to the majority of plants and it would be true to say in the context of one culture that someone from another culture has a weird looking outfit or hairdo like the Minoans or whatever, doesn't detract from the value of the thing (the Minoans had some mad swag on they drip) unless it's meant to. I'm weird, we're all weird in our own way just some things seem weirder because we haven't grown to accept it as not weird.

[@JaimeeL901]

3:20

[@jasonm7973]

@@Liliquan this is so cringe 😂 they're just plants bro. It's not that deep.

[@eric_the_egggremlin]

"It's the same order as cacti, spinach, and beets." Sir, you accent charms me and your knowledge is delightful but the way you casually string together words I never would have thought were connected on any level truly makes me laugh and I'm going to binge-watch as many of your videos as I can.

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Yay!

[@caramba10]

"The Shrew takes a shit - I shit ye not" LOL great vid, been growing Cp's for over 50 years and I learned a few new things - thanks.

[@zac9311]

That bit about how the plant leads the pollinator on a one way track first past the female then the male part is insane. These things are smart

[@johnnygearpin7596]

Nepenthes Lowii 'The Toilet Pitcher' Another fantastic Bastard! Thanks for making these!

[@eric_the_egggremlin]

I need to comment again because I legitimately cackled at "juicy, delicate bastards". This is... a beautiful video.

[@TheLaughingDove]

That's a fucking cool collection, love these videos, I've always had trouble retaining a lot of the scientific terms for plant anatomy despite staring at guides, but watching you talk about them and point them out is helping me retain a lot more

[@danisyx5804]

Most teachers don't know how to teach

[@averynelson1186]

Criminally undersubbed channel here, I tell you what. Magical stuff. I like plants but I have a hard time paying attention when I try to learn about them. This dude makes it hella easy. Just by being himself. Major props.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Share the helloutadis!! Let all your friends know. Best botanist explainer around.

[@timothychamberlin6985]

Love you brother. You are appreciated.....

[@InKa4484]

Feed Me, Seymour! Feed Me!

[@stormevans6897]

"You get em to, you get em to land on there, and they stick and they die, then you secrete some enzymes, and you eat em nice. Oooooooooo look at that guy"

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

Most interesting. Thanks! I got a small bog garden last summer with some pitcher plants and some venus flytraps. They made it through the winter. The squirrels were a bigger problem. They ate the pitchers to get at the bugs. Didn’t know the food chain would work that way. 😐

[@Mollbean]

this is a niche i never knew i needed

[@Channel_60]

You need to meet Brad Leone and do an "It's Alive" episode.

[@aidynz5703]

Hooly shit

[@BigDH28]

Nickk IRL 👍👍👍👍 I agree with that notion! I have watched every single video of "its alive".

[@Fragrantbeard]

Holy shit is that a great idea. They are peanut butter and jelly!

[@beestorm7609]

That was my first thought. This is everything

[@bikercr]

Good one, Vinnie!!

[@gaywizard2000]

I see I'm not the only one who thinks a toy Dino is a banger idea for plant pots!

[@danielizquierdo4570]

I’m from Venezuela. I have a book full of scientific articles and photography of the tepuy habitat that goes deeper into the native fauna and flors of the habitat, including these plants. It is truly amazing.

[@saaros]

cuál es el nombre? me encantaría encontrarlo

[@SamRabbitx]

A total banger.

[@Liezuli]

I dunno why 2019 youtube decided to start recommending nature to everyone, but I am 100% on board with this

[@johnmorgan8127]

you need to do voice over for BBC nature shows

[@AdrianHepburn-vz9yr]

That would be epic.

[@The18x18x]

@Oliver Eales Don't cut yourself on that edge, oliver

[@lastthotstanding8120]

The deepness of explanation is so awesome

[@danisyx5804]

He actually teaches he explains the meanings of the words he's using etc most teachers can't teach This is what teaching is like

[@kx1086]

"A dentate vaginal opening" ..I've never heard anyone describe a nepenthes pitcher this way lmao

[@unrightist]

I mean it's the first thing I thought of. Well, no. The first thing I thought was "that's fuckin' metal" of the plant with the spikes around the rim. The next thought was vagina dentata.

[@NMChe56]

"Lugahdisbasterd're" LOL

[@barbarabroeske1061]

NMChe56 chicago guy 💯‼️

[@ValeriePallaoro]

my favourite from another video 'rahk'. It took me ages to figure out what he was saying, lolz galore!

[@glovester]

this is wildly educational and fascinating and I thank you

[@bobidos123]

This is the most detailed closeup video on the subject ive ever seen! Banging video and nice to hear botany put so eloquently! Fucking love it!

[@kirenireves]

In many of your videos you mention that some plant or another was recently discovered, or something new about a known plant was recently revealed, usually when it is endemic to a small location. It seems like botany still has much room for citizen scientists to contribute by in-depth studying of a known species or genus, OR even finding new species! That's pretty exciting! We can play along at home, not just by learning existing info, but actually generating NEW knowledge. Bada Bing Bada Boom, THAT's how you Botanize. ^_^

[@nothertreeinbox]

Botany never stops discovery because new things evolve to adapt to climate change every day

[@kirenireves]

A good book about botanizing and finding new species: "A Rum Affair" by Karl Sabbagh. It is about the too-strong desire to find new species leading to scientific fraud, and the oh-so-polite culture of the English botany community in the 1940's - 1950's. The author spins a good tale of John Heslop Harrison hunting sedges in the Hebrides, and John Raven uprooting his fraud.

[@dudemanbroguy3464]

kire nireves you’d be surprised on how little research is done about many plants and animals on earth. Why? Because they don’t feed the capitalistic agenda

[@angeloreyes1951]

@@dudemanbroguy3464 well nobody is stopping you from exploring, get em tiger.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

@@dudemanbroguy3464 more likely because it's one of those sciences that has a lot of natural diversity.

[@kbearl]

These plants like a casino, most of the bugs are losers but some are winners and tell their friends. Very devious of the plant

[@ulalaFrugilega]

"It’s like a heart: you can only cut it one way for it to be symmetrical" - sounds like poetry to me, man.

[@DiamondCutter423]

wow....I remember seeing sarracenia flava in the woods of Mississippi when I was a kid. Thanks man.

[@katiekane5247]

A greenhouse that encourages bugs, how cool.

[@8devkhan8]

I love this place! Used to live two miles from here, but learned more about it today than all my in-person visits. Thanks!

[@MercMercury]

You are telling me there are plants that are toilets for shrews?! Amazing :D

[@pickinanddiggin9128]

Thats an impressive collection of plants. Major goals.

[@christyhughes6632]

As KZbin is some kind of crack for me I've been highly considering avoiding it. However I would still watch your videos. They are truly Kindred to my spirit. Thank you again... B safe xo me

[@SlideshowSaturdays]

Fascinating video man! I'm an entomologist that took a few horticulture classes and Iove carnivorous plants! Thanks for sharing.

[@olafelsberry9271]

Those are some beautiful pitcher plants.

[@ulalaFrugilega]

That plant that eats poop should be part of any terrarium.

[@SnowblindOtter]

Might have to try and visit that place sometime... always had a fascination with carnivorous plants, and it'd be nice to appreciate some of the more exotic and remote species up-close.

[@skybike89]

Fuck man, some of these species look otherworldly. Really cool.

[@emersonlamond1024]

there are suburban patches of bush near my house with drosera, always fascinating

[@EvanSmith1000]

These videos are so informative and easy to watch. Thank you so much!

[@RyvenSorane]

Love your videos, I'm learning a lot ^_^ I showed your videos to my husband, who's studying to be an arborist, and he loves them!

[@skench92]

CaliCarns are so awesome, probably the best in the game in my opinion. Can't believe I've never stumbled upon this video, these are my guilty pleasure plants. Got tons, even some cultivars from this nursery! Awesome per usual stop humanity.

[@MrKmoconne]

I grew carnivorous plants when I was a kid in the 70s. Can you visit the upper peninsula of Michigan and do a video of the carnivorous plants there?

[@vwverweij]

This one was so good, i could even share it with my "normal" friends

[@brianwilliams9997]

I really love your pronunciation. Its the same conventions i was taught but you keep the latin just a little gangster, just a little boston. I say this because I've met other botanists who I thought were saying things wrong and they were actually taught differently.

[@barbarabroeske1061]

Brian Williams more like CHICAGO.

[@thetobyntr9540]

I love how he pronounces everything too, I've adopted a few utterances here and there just because I might as well and it gets the point across. I still like to say the Latin in my best approximation of classical Latin when it would sound cool tho.

[@aprilkurtz1589]

Thanks for providing this video. I used to have about 30 types of Sarracenia. They're really cool plants.

[@katiekane5247]

Still miss my "Tarnok"

[@aprilkurtz1589]

@@katiekane5247 Yes, I'm going to order some more this fall for delivery next spring, I miss having them. I had a huge S. purpurea that my neighbor forgot to water while I was on vacation, in fact, I lost over half the plants I had. Love the S. Tarnock, the S. minor var "Okee Giant", S. orephilia, etc. Mostly species.

[@larsfinlay7325]

hell fucking yeah bro

[@missewe]

What a cool nursery 🤘💓

[@mynamejeff3545]

Those tiny Australian carnivores are cute as heck!

[@zigfreidbop]

What an awesome nursery!

[@Molhedim]

Carnivorous plants are so fascinating.

[@MarleyPeifer]

Love that nursery! That's my town.

[@junkettarp8942]

Thats bloody amazing Tony....Totally bazzar.

[@normanbell7883]

from Diana Shallard... if u knew how many times i'm not out of my space with a wow. thank you so much. magnifica..

[@sailorvenus7254]

Your videos are so exciting and inspirational, Thank you so much for sharing and explaining the way you do💕

[@michaelhockus8208]

incredible, incredible, incredible. can't thank you enough.

[@arnoldmmbb]

thanks for the awesome video tony!

[@jillb6931]

Man, I wish the guy who taught intro to botany had spoken like you do Sir. I might have actually taken the class instead of dropped it. Sadly, rather than sound excited about the plants and to tell his students about them, he spoke in a monotone that put me right to sleep.

[@KobaYn]

Keep'em coming

[@givemeyourfish]

It's like AvE for plants

[@iNerdier]

I keep waiting for 'focus you faaak'.

[@danisyx5804]

That's exactly what I thought the first time I stumbled onto one of his videos I love that they're relatable and incredibly intelligent and willing to take the time to explain things in enough depth that you can understand what's going on without boring you or condescending to you And just real down-to-earth people good people

[@danisyx5804]

@@iNerdier every time he puts his hand behind a leaf or a flower 🤣🤣🤣

[@Machinist-wf1iw]

I thought I was the only one

[@sspyder181]

Hahaha soooooooo true

[@boneyjensen]

Thx for this. Great vid!

[@9385dee7]

Top quality video.

[@zippagraphics]

Beautiful.

[@Eric-bq4si]

That WAS a banger!

[@kingofthend]

This is pretty nice. Recently read a paper that drew some comparisons between the digestive system of carnivorous plants and that of animals and found a lot of similarities. Textbook example of convergent evolution.

[@JapanischErfahren]

Damn, amazing. I often tried carnivourus plant from the supermarket or so when I was a kid - they always died in a week or two. Now I have a vivarium that is doing great (and a bit more knowledge about plants), and I just ordered a nepenthes. Excited to see if she's going to be fine inside the vivarium.

[@liiv3354]

indoor voice

[@Bobby11083]

Ahh man do another video like this. I grow Nepenthes and was super happy to come across this. Love your videos man.

[@jacklandismusic]

Yo this was, no joke, the most simultaneously entertaining and educational plant video I've seen on here--and I spend a whole lot of my time (probably too much, if I'm honest) watching plant videos, so I know what the hell I'm talking about. Thanks for the rad video (I'm subscribing right this instant)!

[@hal0hal0mc]

That takes me back. Visited California Carnivores about 15+ years ago. Sadly lost my whole collection of carnivores to time but recently got back into botany. I doubt I will rebuild my carnivorous plant collection though since it's arid in Colorado and the winters are a bit rough for them

[@AxolotlCries]

"After he takes in the sugar, he takes a shit, I shit you not..." xD

[@fatherpossum]

Wonderful video thank you

[@zlaynie]

Jesus these are beautiful especially that drosera magnificent. Be still my heart ❤️

[@coolmike1538]

Boom. Digested.

[@RaldoronWOR]

I fucking love this channel. Keep it up.

[@stephsexoticpets]

my dart frogs love hopping around in their bromeliads, they deposit their tadpoles in the bromeliad pools to grow up :)

[@sacramentofoodforest]

We should start a fund to send you to Africa or Asia to make some plants videos!!

[@AMAPIANOHAUS]

thank you master .

[@biancaok3745]

these plants are so different and interesting, i wish i could find something diverse and wild like this in the suburbs. all i got to look forward to is a bunch of invasive weeds that my dad will periodically spray with roundup

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I didn't see a fungus gnat. Not in that place. In the bay area I would tell your viewers that Drosera binata is near top of the list easy to grow. I have it going over five years now. As far as pitcher plants? As always Tony,the more exotic looking? the harder to grow here. Go for most cold tolerant high mountain species. But,they tend to have drab pitchers. Now,I do have a large N.alata/ventricosa ( they always tell me one is the other on the internet boards) that is the one you see at Walmart every summer, its lived over three years outdoors here...and the last two with no pitchers. We just don't have the warm+humidity needed. The foliage does great.it's got many stems over 4'?...but what good is a pitcher plant with no pitchers?

[@queenbeet]

My highschool biology teacher, Mr. Desch helped us remember by calling it the "pistil packin' mama".😺

[@shaunandrews5138]

Hell yeah , I love that place

[@stevef.m.2188]

Nice ,Thanks

[@smoothmovez]

always fun to find pitcher plants in the upper peninsula of michigan

[@jenmha]

I just saw some sarrasenia purpurea a few weeks ago in the huron-manistee national forest (lower peninsula) and they blew my mind.

[@enigma3654]

Fucking awesome! I love carnivorous plants

[@anxzyty6699]

yo this is a late comment but that info text about Nepenthes made me search up what species are in my country because I had no idea there were any endemic carnivorous plants here. made me super excited! thank you for that!

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Nepenthes lives in mountains so you probably wont see them even if you live where they live.

[@ryanishkonk3446]

Magnificent

[@gregsg2351]

I could be wrong but we have those pitcher plants in Jersey along with some pretty cool yellow flowering cactus,

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Goddamn, those things are gorgeous. Almost giving me a half chub

[@spruill7716]

bada bing bada boom, no more bugs in ma's house.

[@jimmyshrimbe9361]

Frack yes! Awesome shit!

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

"Three or four feet tall" NOPE

[@sunflower-ix7yl]

doing a poster on Sarracenia this was great!!

[@MrLionelrichtea]

Banger vid fo’sho 10/10 would slip on trapdoor

[@smallfaucet]

Rad video man.

[@clintparsons3989]

I guess you have to go in person for the good shit. They never have any variety online, what they do have is miniscule and often out of stock.

[@TheOldestSoul]

LOVE your videos, man, and this is so far my favorite one by far, as I am a carnivorous plant enthusiast. Too bad that place didn't have any parrot pitcher plants or cobra lilies to show off! Very nice collection all in one place and very cool narration for an introduction to bug eaters! Keep that shit up!

[@frankvillas2317]

Being born and raised in Sonoma county I was hoping you’d talk a little about what a shithole place it is between rich assholes building on fire plains resulting in fire suppression until enormous city shaking fires, to half the population being below the poverty line and or homeless. But big fan of your stuff and hope to buy you a burrito at my local Santa Rosa taco truck

[@missewe]

A feeding video would most definitely Rawk. Just putting that out there

[@babelKONI]

Pacific island habitats got it rough.