(#97) Rare Milkweeds & Other Plants of Northern California Serpentine

Asclepias solanoana, Streptanthus hesperidis, Aphyllon fasciculatum

[@pinchevilla4268]

I like the longer videos 👍 thanks for sharing your VAST knowledge as well as your banter its super enjoyable

[@ScreaminMadMurphy]

"Ah look at this delicate fuck!" i have a new way to greet friends.

[@leedeimos3343]

Come back to NorCal my friend, so much more to see. Specifically, the area around Chico, Table Mountain and more.

[@kirenireves]

I love all the definitions in the captions. Thanks Gives me something to google.

[@kmm129]

Fuzzy bastards in the first 50 seconds. I'm in.

[@TheNimshew]

Wow! You give me hope for Paradise and Magalia. Well, not for me, but maybe in 250 years it'll be back the way it was. I searched many barrens in eastern Butte county. I just knew there was an undiscovered Californite lode besides Pulga. Nah! But it got me out walking and exploring. Love your instructionals. Your west coast accent sneaks in there sometimes.

[@rsmzm2000]

I'm from this area too. We've got a mine near Pulga. I went to frc. So damn beautiful, and not completely overrun with assholes yet.

[@jackconvex9524]

The amount of knowledge on display here is mind boggling for me, I hope reddit really blows your channel up

[@frankiestein666]

Is this what they call honest education? ;) Love your videos, brilliant and never fails to make me laugh. Better than school!

[@bluetoad2001]

amen on the Milkweeds. i did not know they were moved out of the Asclepius. my favorite of prairie plants. the fragrance of the flowers is outstanding

[@swayze_mane]

The word for the stamens on the Streptanthus sp. u don't care remember: Didynamous = 4 stamens in 2 unequal pairs. sorry how annoying is me trying to sound smart in the fuckin KZbin comments...smh...it's just as a botanist this may be the closest I'll ever get to what peaking socially looks like

[@chaosreigns7386]

Dat delicate fuck... Got me busting a gut, laughing my ass off

[@bjrockensock]

What I love about Tony's lectures aside from his, erm, colloquial tone, is how he brings out the idea that specific rocks nurture specific plants. I learned that in California reading about local botanics because I didn't recognize many plants and the geology is exciting. Stones and substrates with specific chemistry and the local conditions that create selection pressures leading to adaptations and communities.

[@kirenireves]

Mafic = portmanteau of magnesium and ferric (iron).

[@Dirtbiker463]

Your videos make me not want to die. Thank you.

[@smegmagician]

God, I love this channel so much. Very very cool.

[@kirenireves]

"Full Frontal Anthers" ^_^

[@pvtpain66k]

14:25 Pro-tip: OCCIDENTAL means West or Western, ORIENTAL means East or Eastern.

[@fatnoot5428]

Do you work for the mafia

[@aprilkurtz1589]

Do the blossoms of that particular milkweed smell good?

[@kirenireves]

I want to learn this stuff... How? Botany text book?

[@FromRVtoCrafts]

You can down load an app that allows you to take a picture of any plant and it will tell you what it is but you will pay 20.00 a year for it though.

[@mazer4112]

any chance of getting a specific locale? I would love to see what this area looks like now. TIA. PS _ I love your vids. So refreshing! Keep em coming!

[@michaelhockus8208]

my guy had some caffeeeeeiinneeee. cool video, thank you so much edit: I can smell this video. smells good.

[@fluuufffffy1514]

I wish I could smell that place through my screen

[@artrogue4150]

Finally got you...you beautiful bastard

[@SKWildflowerRescueNursery]

My favorite youtube channel. Amazing plants, narration, localities.

[@SKWildflowerRescueNursery]

You should have a show on HGTV well maybe a cable channel

[@tolumnia]

2:58 Ah! Look at this delicate fuck. LOL

[@WarrioruwuSociety]

“Look at this delicate fuck” Me to my self

[@franzwaltenspuhl8892]

Looks like a Lake county burn scar.

[@vinny_rod9550]

Fuckin love these videos

[@bodenhagan]

Fun botany class!

[@PinkBunnyCorporation]

I do not condone a cypress ethnostate.

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I KNEW IT!. South Africa. You know Martin. lol.

[@aq_cbg_spartan2184]

Bro if your ever in toronto i know great spots for you great videos homie keep doing your thing

[@TheHollowBodiesBand]

Asclepioideae? Them not damned animals, man!

[@reubenlindroos5438]

Thank you!

[@kirenireves]

at 5:45 you say, :if you don't know what I'm talking about.... look it up" Where do we look it up. Can you give me some specific resources? Botany text book? Field guide? HELP. I want to know what you know.

[@ScreaminMadMurphy]

www.google.com for all of your internet search needs.

[@abitoftheuniverse2852]

*Involucre * _A disk-like to cup-shaped, ovoid, or cylindric group of bracts in one or more series that collectively subtend or surround the florets of a head (primary involucre). Involucres are absent in a few genera (e.g., Psilocarphus, Xanthium), and secondary and tertiary involucres may subtend syncephalous aggregations of heads in other genera. Primary involucres of some Compositae are subtended by a calyculus that is sometimes described as an outer involucre. See Calyculus, Involucral bracts, Phyllary_ All I did was search Google for "uniseriate phyllaries" and read the first result that came up: "Illustrated glossary of Compositae by Nádia Roque, David J. Keil and Alfonso Susanna" until I came across Involucre. Look at page 791 and read page 792. Better yet, go out in your yard, find a single plant that catches your eye, and learn all about it. Talk about it the way you'd talk to someone if you thought they had no knowledge of it, but wanted to know everything about it. Practice using the the words, look them up so you understand what the prefix, root and suffix mean, and when you feel like you know everything about that plant, and every feature of it, pick another plant. You're going to remember the stuff more if you see it on a regular basis, so pick a plant in your house, or one in your yard or just one you see routinely, so you can recall everything you learned about it, every time you see it. Be your own student, and your own teacher. Revisit what you think you learned, on a regular basis, as you take in more and more information. Just keep reading and learning the words, while you take in illustrations and see things firsthand, every chance you get.

[@kirenireves]

@@abitoftheuniverse2852 Thank you! I have been doing exactly as you suggested. The two I started with are delonix regia and ixora coccinea. Two common species around here. I'm still searching for a good Botany 101 book. Perhaps our friendly Windy City Botanist can write one. ^_^

[@abitoftheuniverse2852]

@@kirenireves Did you see his latest video yet? "Tony Santoro's Botany Crash Course" I get the feeling he actually read & responded to, this post. If you read this again, thanks Tony. You're a good guy. P.S. kire, when looking at things via most browsers, Ctrl+F should be your best friend. When you come across a wall of text, like that glossary I recommended in the previous post, just hold Ctrl key and press F then in the Find text box, type Involucre, or, uniseriate phyllaries, or anything really, like delonix regia, or, ixora coccinea. Then it'll say something like 1 of 17, or 1/44, then you can just press the up and down buttons in the text box to go through all the mentions of what you are looking for. Just keep in mind, sometimes, especially with latin, the suffixes will be different when they are referring to singular or plural. So like, stoma is singular and stomata is plural, so, looking up stoma, will yield all results for stoma and stomata, (as well as something like stromateidae, if you are looking on a page that might include things about fish) but if you just look up stomata, you will not find references to just stoma. There is so much to learn, about life, about Earth, about everything in this universe. Best thing I can do is help you learn how to learn, then you can find out so much for yourself, and maybe, maybe even something new for the rest of us.

[@abitoftheuniverse2852]

Oh, maybe his name isn't Tony. In another video title he refers to, or alludes to, his name being "Lenny Zuolo" in "Lenny Zuolo explains the Annual Wildflower Habit/1984 Personal Injury Attorney Scam" Reminds me of the Jerky Boys when Johnny Brennan pretends to be Frank Rizzo. Well, whatever your name is, Tony?, Lenny?, Johnny?, Chicho?, I appreciate the solid information on 'da plaints'.

[@RazsterTW]

Asclepias Solanoana, Serpentine Milkweed. I wish I could find some of those seeds, so rare. Almost spent $45 for 5 seeds, but I may just find some in the wild.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Please don't. This plant doesn't do well in cultivation, and this plant doesn't regenerate very well even in its own habitat. Save those seeds for the landscape where this plant grows. Even botanic gardens have had trouble keeping this plant alive - it seems to require the exact conditions and soil type of the serpentine landscape it grows on.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Also, whoever is selling 5 seeds for 45 bucks is probably a money-hungry scumbag, anyway. It might be fun to play them and act like you're going to buy the seeds, and instead just waste their time pestering them with questions. Or better yet, mail them dogshit.

[@FromRVtoCrafts]

Have you ever showed your face? Would like to put a face to the voice, do you look like John Travolta (Saturday night fever/Rodney Dangerfield???🤣😂😉

[@RGO5]

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[@cwetfeet]

Why do plants smell?

[@natalie526]

maybe not the best answer but 1. flower fragrance attracts pollinators and 2. foliage smells can repel certain animals & insects - a defense against herbivory.

[@PeppoMusic]

They also use the same chemicals as disease resistance and potentially plant-plant communication. Terpenes are some useful shit.