Southern Beeches, Celery Pines & New Names for Dive Bars

In the mid elevation sclerophyll forests of Tasmania we check out a cast of remarkable species including a host specific fungus that parasitizes Southern Beech trees but does not seem to harm them. We also check out the gondwanan relatives of our northern hemisphere redwoods in the genus Athrotaxis.
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[@hanspade]

Parallel veins in the blueberry family?!🤯What kind of alien world do we live on?

[@katiekane5247]

A parallel world 🤔?

[@plants_before_people5329]

@@katiekane5247 that's a very clever punchline, good job!

[@giannicatalano6062]

“Are you tied into the fungal network sir?”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Prairiehawkmn]

Listening to all the Latin names has really helped me read Latin names . Thank you!

[@AndreaDingbatt]

I'm sorry I have a complaint ,,,Being from the generation of people with a longer attention span,,,, This was Too Short!! But, that's Okay, really because my memory is so Bad, I can go and rewatch as much of your back catalogue of videos and be amazed and astonished all over again, by the natural diversity and your swearing, so, Thank You very Much Again!!😎👍👍

[@katiekane5247]

I hope you missed out on the current obscene arctic blast. I'd give an ovary for a day above freezing at this point. Even the Hellebore are frozen flat! I moved to Georgia from Chicago to get away from such & this reminds me why! Even the natives aren't used to this deep of cold, hope there's not too much damage. The trees have been making popping noises but nothing fell. Thanks for sharing & happy Holidays everyone!

[@krissteel4074]

Nothofagus cunninghamii or as it gets called by most- Tasmanian Myrtle produces some of the most spectacular looking timber, not that I think its harvested very often. Its a really interesting dark pink-salmon colour that gets black streaks of spalting through it that looks like tiger stripes. The fungus causes some fairly large burl formations in those galls you saw and its complete chaos underneath when you put a cross section through it. Whole lot of swirls of blacks, pinks, dark browns, greys and sap pockets as the normally straight timber grain goes completely bonkers twisting around itself. Not trolling about the timber industry as it often gets the Tasmanian's riled up, just saying that underneath the bark and burls its some real crazy magic happening that you'd never guess was there just by looking at it. If I had a favourite tree in Tasmania, that's probably it

[@betula2137]

Yeah, well, I think this species is typically one of the species that's left on the forest floor to be burnt after clearfelling by the logging industry -- because there's 0 coordination with the timbermaking industry to actually use these timbers for anything other than woodchips. Not that we should be logging rainforest, which we are, but some controlled harvesting on a level more like the Huon pine industry would probably be ok.

[@krissteel4074]

@@betula2137 I was hoping the Tas Forestry was slowing up on the clear-cut practice as its just a foolish one. Have a guy I know in southern Tasmania who's a bit of a one-man show that collects some of the throw-away stuff the industry doesn't use and was sort of my first contact down there for timbers. I make kitchen knives for a living so if I can get some kind of salvaged, non-harvested timbers I'll go through that way for handles. He's gotten all sorts of stuff that's truly amazing that just would have put on a bonfire otherwise.

[@betula2137]

@@krissteel4074 Those must be some very special kitchen knives now 😮! Technically the Tas Forestry has slowed down from the massive volumes of the last 30 years, but that's also also where they're costing Tasmanian taxpayers (nevermind the lost rare forests and damage to other industries), because of the quota system, Sus Timbers logs way in excess of the margin that native forestry is profitable (not that it's very profitable compared to mainland plantations), which means that cutting the forests literally costs money to do. I think it was about a billion dollars over 20 years, for just 500 direct jobs (despite being the political role-model here), routinely cutting 500-year old trees and endangered species habitat (which is why we can't get sustainability standards)

[@krissteel4074]

@@betula2137 Yeah growing up near radiata pine plantations I used to really hate them because they're a really butt ugly monoculture of plants. But it did provide a lot of employment for people outside of a really rough agricultural sector, more importantly though it meant you don't have bozo's rolling through old growth areas chopping everything down and leaving half of it on fire after. Waste is just something I can't stand and a business practice that soon gets very stupid when you've got world class quality timber on the floor or turning it into wood chips.

[@damonroberts7372]

Awesome vid! Re. Nothofagus gunnii - no doubt, if it thrived in cultivation, it would be a stunning addition to Tasmanian gardens. Native plant enthusiasts _have_ tried to grow it in Hobart, I'm told, but it doesn't do well. It seems to need at least 800m/~2600ft of elevation to do well even in Tasmania, which suggests that even the cool temperate climate down there is "marginal" for survival of the species. It's very slow growing, with a shrubby habit and a maximum height of 2.5m/8ft, so it may indeed be a relict of the last of the true Antarctic beeches. I could imagine filling a similar ecological niche to the stunted birches ( _Betula nana_ ) of the Arctic tundra.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Would probably do much better in areas of the UK than lowland Tassie

[@krissteel4074]

They really need the high rainfall and cooler climate to really prosper, plus unlike everything else they don't tolerate fire very well. There's still some of the relict stands of Nothofagus moorei in the highlands not far from where I live and a very rare tree. In between the droughts, fires and accursed hellscapes that we kind of inflict on everything they do it pretty tough. I have heard that most of these trees when its a sapling do like a little bit of shade to grow properly until they start streaking off into adulthood and really take over the local flora, like if you've got stands of these in with the eucalyptus and they are removed the Nothofagus quickly gets dominance

[@betula2137]

Definitely one of the relics, I think we even have fossils in Tassie of some adjacent species that more recently went extinct, that is, larger Antarctic deciduous beeches (well, some are still in South America).

[@Dan-DJCc]

The videos you create are a celebration of life. Your soul is a celebration of life. What a great way to be.

[@TheOldladyB]

It just amazes me on the diversity of plants , trees, fungi etc. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@moltrescompany]

I saw those fungi and thought "Hey those look the same as the ones that grows in Chile" and then he says about the godwana thing.

[@aprilkurtz1589]

I'll have you know that Last Year's Ovary is the name of my folk trio.

[@chironchangnoi]

Clips or it didn't happen! Alternately, big if true. Either way my earholes want to know more.

[@Heavilymoderated]

Was eating a cherry when you squeezed the fungi juice out. Heightened the experience.

[@katiekane5247]

😂

[@nicholashaworth4110]

'Massive Bastard' would be the best cultivar name. Thanks for all you do.

[@RobinMarks1313]

I keep hoping you find a Tasmanian Tiger. But I know that would have made big news by now. So, I'll have to love the awe inspiring place and plants, and random critters that come along. This is so much better than the news. I was a news junkie. NO more though. Now I focus on plants and birds. Thank you for the distraction and education, and entertainment, can't forget that.

[@jessicacollins4042]

You wont find them in the places he visited where lots of people visit and have done for a long time, you would have more luck in an extremely remote location of forest.

[@RobinMarks1313]

@@jessicacollins4042 Any rich elites that will fund me, I'll go into the remotest places. For we regular folk who can't go, we can be jealous though of this adventure. As for the tiger, I have my doubts. Has Obama ruined the word hope? We can always hope, but we all know what that gets us. No change and distracted. But I will go to Tasmania. Anyone? Anyone? Oh, and don't think I'm being political. I'm just a cynic like our man. So, go ... ah, I can't do it. So, you know, go, away, and do the thing..

[@frankbrake7689]

Your sense of humor is awesome.

[@RobertBardos]

Comment for the algorithm nice 👍

[@BluestemGlade]

Bring on more Gondwana!

[@anschn7166]

I absolutely loved the rant on the human desire to plant non-natives, I almost feel like horticulture is still stuck in the colonial times, when gardens had to as exotic and novel as possible

[@michaelperrone3867]

Those fungi are so wild dude... And edible too? I wonder what selective pressures gave rise to that: mimicking fruit to the same effect as plant fruits?

[@fieldo85]

9:05 "p!ssed off cockatoos" is a strong indicator that a rain storm is approaching.

[@Aiba271]

Also commenting for algorithm 👌🏻

[@JennyBesserit]

Kinda excited because it's short and I have time to watch it all in one sitting

[@sunshinevalley0]

“Millions of years ago it split off, see , you can go your own way; got damn tiger snakes “ lol ❤

[@roberte8273]

Thank you for an excellent, refreshing and original information packed presentation.

[@anon6056]

I LOVE LICHENS SO MUCH OMFG those are so beautiful 😍 and the peach mushroom is incredible 7:40 so beautiful wow so much beauty here and you're so funny as always

[@janeosten525]

"Haha it's in it's own order" 😂 what a guy who gets kicks out of such things haha. Be great to go for a walk with old mate! Tassie is my home so glad you love it here !!!!!!

[@jimmycincinnati3714]

I wonder if he's got to carry his poop in a bag. These are the questions that keep me up at night.

[@jedmanson]

Man your hard to keep up with. My poor noodle can't soak up all the juice you put down. I'll have to watch over this whole Tasmania series again to take it all in. Awesome stuff. 👌

[@SuperDaveP270]

Can spew tons of binomial nomenclature--nay, entire phylogenetic trees---but cannot remember Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac *LOL* Love ya Tony

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@lejardinierjardine8518]

When you mentioned 2 videos ago that the mushroom tasted sweet it reminded me of something but I couldn't put my finger on it. But when you said Chile it came back to me : I knew of a sweet testing mushroom in Patagonia, a tree parasite, that was also sweet. I checked about it and low and behold : it is a Nothofagus parasite, an other Cyttaria species ! (Cyttaria hariotii [yeah, an other british name]) I believe it is called llao llao and is still used to make deserts and even ice cream ! Imagine Antarctica, covered with all kind of Nothofagus, parasited by all kind of Cyttaria. You could travel the continent, tasting all of the different kinds of mushroom ice creams ! #GondwanaForever

[@craighoover1495]

Tony, you should have seen the posters in my room in the '70s. Then there were those guys in the military that lived off base that had dedicated whole rooms to posters and black lights. Quite spectacular. Thanks for some really spectacular stuff from nature.

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Thank you very much for sharing all of these videos with us!! (My Husband has started to tell me what the Latin names are for Everything Botanical....) Awesome Upload as Always, Thank You!! Andrea and Critters. ....XxX....

[@Nobody-cw4wm]

Nice to see you out of the cold and wet!

[@jonathangehman4005]

Botany is awesome and all that but what I keep watching these videos for are moments like 10:10. That's some quality content right there

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

To anyone thats interested the RHS encyclopedia of conifers is on sale in england for £70 reduced from 150 its a massive with two volumes and beautiful pictures i highly recommend !!

[@rambleon9280]

Nice summer weather love to see those eucalyptus

[@alandonaly457]

Really nice to see the forest in Tasmania seems healthy.

[@EyOhSpaghettio]

Need to come back in April-June with Alan in tow! The temperate rainforests of Tassie are best paired with the still misty rain of autumn, in my opinion.. (also, the plenty of fungi around at that time is a big help 🍄)

[@the_plant_style5853]

thanks for your work...and what the shit

[@erutuon]

I love that Nothofagus gunnii. The ripply leaves make me think of Carpinus caroliniana, but even more so. So shiny. I would like to feel them. Too bad it probably wouldn't like growing in the Midwest. Too warm in the summer and too cold in the winter.

[@seanshaw8321]

Hey hey I’m just up the road in Maydena, we were up at Mt Field yesterday. It was so damned cold and rainy, today its shorts and tshirt weather. Fuck yeah Tassie 🫤 Love your work man

[@agresticumbra]

I swear, just today, I bought a ring that resembles those gall fruits. It's a used ring, with clusters of spheres, covered with marcasite & crystals.

[@themyceliumnetwork]

10:09 this is going to be the new ringtone on my phone LOL

[@donaldavery4667]

The vine that is eating the south (US) is asleep but getting ready to wake up. There is only one man who is up to the challenge. The entire natural ecosystem of the southeastern US is praying for a savior. It's calling your name my friend. I got your travel expenses.

[@chironchangnoi]

I wait on tenterhooks with bated breath for part two. GFY

[@GladysAmelia]

Delightful video. I can’t just listen because the descriptions always get my limited attention.

[@Bambi_Sapphic]

Have you talked about tallowwood trees(Eucalyptus microcorys) at all in any of your Australia videos?

[@repus1386]

Love the channel and the voice-over, found your work on FB so many views there millions!! here not so much, lets pump that up KZbin !!!! Like and share disssss

[@stonemunkyUK]

Living in the UK it's nice to see an eco-system that's not been comprehensively trashed by the human tumor.

[@betula2137]

Tasmanian: *chuckles nervously 'We're trying our hardest!' The worst developed country for biodiversity destruction 😭

[@Vanbooskie]

"I's comin to you" Best name for a death metal polka band. Leader singers name "Duff"

[@raphlvlogs271]

can you brew alcohol with fungi considering that they often have quite a high sugar content?

[@chironchangnoi]

As a brewer and distiller in Cascadia I have never even considered this. Thanks for the mind blow!

[@robpower3356]

You're in Tas?? Amazing.. message if you need a ride or tips in Hobart 👌

[@sloanekuria3249]

galls just wanna have fungi

[@davewalter1216]

Hey there you profane botanist - another beauty from Tassie - but have you seen Salvador Dali's "The Enigma of Desire' (1929). Worth a look. Seems like Dali may have seen Cyttaria or two. What do you think?

[@missyflutter5562]

Yasss & they’re not pissed off dude that’s the happy noises it’s fkd 😂😂😂

[@peculiarpeasant]

You've made it big okay, congratulations. I've seen drastic improvements since I've been in tune and all. Too bad, too bad it's hard to ask questions you can't even feckin google. I'll buy a few shirts maybe a hoodie then check back

[@duncanpage1556]

Did you come across any Carnivorous plants there? Thanks

[@Shakespearept]

He didn't answer, but I think he's probably connected to the fungal network. Just looked like that type of guy that would be.

[@michaelroe8547]

The Swallows Teets …. Dope dive bar name 😂

[@Aiba271]

Tasmania??? Nice! Gotta check that place out one day

[@Aluttuh]

got any content from Washington state? or ever planning to visit?

[@xiphosura413]

"Hopefully you weren't eating" as a matter of fact, I'd finished not seconds before! Can't say it helped though

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

If you can't travel the world- you use the worlds palette of plants to come to you. Although I have done native gardens and that was fun too. Yet,you can never be with natives in your yard greater than the bay area greenbelt's are. Another factor.

[@jacobjerny7502]

Pittosporoum is actually pretty common in cultivation in the US, at least in the southeast. I’ve seen P. Tobira (Japan) P. Tenuifolia (NZ) in my area. P.Tenuifolia would attract flies and wasps, no idea why tho.

[@1Kent]

Last year's ovary! 🍻 Cheers

[@Jakeymcjakenstein]

On Instagram you posted some content from south Florida, will we get a KZbin video on the Florida plant fauna you encountered?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Yes

[@dylan8285]

People always want what they cant have. I mean id grow a dam palm tree if I could, where as people in florida say want to grow what grows easily here in the midwest. Also I bet all these Tas trees would probably do well in the PNW as the climate is very similar

[@Gothfield]

3:44 it has a very similar structure macroscopic of course to morels.

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about the tiger snake having grooved fangs. 😅

[@ronm3245]

I once played the guinea windbag in a Renaissance band.

[@kerriefearby9542]

We call a rough pub a 'Bloodhouse" here where i live iin Australia 😬

[@CalvinCharmicael]

Cyttarias in Chile are really nice edible mushrooms, perhaps you ate them too mature. Try them not so yellowish, even prior on opening the sacs. I wast aware how alike is flora between so drift apart countries

[@gwynnlinn1133]

Very enjoyable Sir!

[@raphlvlogs271]

are there any Araucarias and Agathis living in Tasmania?

[@BillBondsHasAPosse]

How are the poppies ? 🌸

[@Lichenlikenedlich]

Gunii is a trypophobii !

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

i went to the ADA tree in victoria australia - near warburton - 420 yo - uncut giant - has white ants so they did not cut it = GOOGLE IT !

[@TheRichmaldon1]

That mushroom should be called Deez nuts

[@stg8831]

I was eating when I saw that lol

[@o1337o]

On this episode of squeezin' 'shrooms...

[@az.cactusjunkie]

I killed my lawn now what???

[@katiekane5247]

Plant natives, better yet, learn to identify what's already wanting to grow there. You'll be amazed at the free flowering plants, the increase in wildlife.

[@pjz7088]

Is that a Laetiporus at 8:36?

[@matchismo]

You still in Tasmania bro?

[@robmcelwee389]

You see Athrotaxis cupressiodes? I tried it to....... Louisiana isn't Tasmania. I wonder if it would make a good houseplant.

[@carollyn8885]

Pissed off cockatoo dive bar

[@LOVEisTHEultimateLAW]

damn you short attention span generation !!! un-knot the rope friends, part 2 coming soon :D

[@AndreaDingbatt]

My sentiments exactly 💯!!😎👍👍

[@ftolozag]

digüeñes!!

[@matchismo]

Wanna come to Tamoshanter?

[@BillBondsHasAPosse]

Any Beetle Nut 🌰

[@kasonfurnas9551]

Band name=Last year's ovary!

[@justwinks1553]

I wasn't going to go to the comment section until I heard cocaine of the butt. Here I am

[@ronm3245]

Fleetwood enema!

[@sicko_the_ew]

Thinking about why people plant exotics. Simplest answer: that's what the nurseries are offering. It might also be indirectly because they're invasive (don't have anything local that lives off them). But how did the nurseries get to offering such things? Go back in time to the very first gardeners in some colony. If they land and right away start gardening, they're going to do what people do: i.e. "do what people do". They're going to plant a "garden". And what's a garden? It's what Mom had. There's a path, there, there are bluebells there, there are roses there, and so on. And then someone else for some reason decides to go beyond just planting vegetables for the wildlife to eat, too. Why? Saw a "garden"/ heard about "gardens" from someone (you can't assume they read about it - these colonials are massively inferior to you - not fit to wipe your highly educated shoes, if you have that kind of attitude to life - simple, very direct people. Much simpler than maybe even most people today. And then direct as a product of that. That means that the idea of a garden originally was a very fixed thing, in societies that even did this. (There were no Zulu gardens back in the early days, for instance - just like there were very few English ones, since most Zulus or Englishers just planted food if they planted anything. Today there are quite a lot of Zulu gardeners, but still no Zulu gardens. There are Zulus who keep English gardens, indigenous gardens - quite popular in South Africa - Japanese gardens, Persian gardens, Egyptian gardens ... from a fairly small selection of fixed ideas about what a "garden" is.) I think if I go on to the next logical paragraph I'm going to start flogging a dead horse. So let me go and flog a living one instead. Actually why flog a poor horse? Maybe I'll just go and have another drink or narcotic instead. That's less pointless.

[@Wouldpkr]

I saw The Last Of Us, i aint eatin that fungal shit off that tree

[@snortkarl2070]

LETS GO NEW VIDEO

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Cunninghamii. Ffs, that sounds so idiotic 😂

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

I agree. That's what you get when you name plants after people.

[@kforestlisinski5159]

ARE YOU TIED INTO THE FUNGAL NETWORK SIR SFDJLSFJKHSDF

[@xPumaFangx]

Holes........... NO!

[@xPumaFangx]

aND u AtE onE

[@polyesterbebe]

i was eating :(

[@travisglazebrook3654]

I'd buy a glabrous bastard bit of merch, if it was nice to look at. Go tell me to go listen to Donna Summer.

[@efangrim8470]

man, you should just move down here, we have more diversity and interesting plants than you could find in NA, you seem to love it so much down here and we need more conservation and taxonomical work than the northern hemisphere does.