Floristic Survey of the Mapocho River, Chile

[@Marysthirddaughter]

Very interesting We love you. Be careful . From a cool rowdy old lady

[@katiekane5247]

He's got a few of us 😎

[@andrewgraves4026]

Mad respect when garden club old ladies start talking Latin circles around me 👍

[@ronm3245]

Don't ever become genteel!

[@carocarrasco1]

hello, i am from chile and when you pass by a Lithraea caustica (LITRE) you have to greet them with respect like "buenos días don litre" "permiso señor litre" so you don't suffer from intoxication or allergies...i just found your channel and i am amazed by what you do !!! increíble

[@francisco_ponce]

Bullshit

[@soyhugo390]

@@francisco_ponce comon custom and it works

[@vampirebarbie_]

nah you have to spit on it

[@zoetrophy]

I went from The Big Island (Hawaii) to living in Viña Del Mar, Chile for two years. I was astonished by the bizarre mix of colder climate plants and more tropical plants there. Birds of Paradise growing next to rose bushes etc…. I’d do bad things for a few kilos of Chilean cherries and some cherimoya.✨💚✨

[@Erewhon2024]

Have you eaten mirto/uñi (Ugni molinae)? Chilean natives fascinante me because they seem imposible in my country except in the Pacific Northwest.

[@TrrsnSmrg]

I cannot tell you how grateful I am that you decided to spot one of Chile's amazing natural wonders. This video is one of the best things to happen to me this week. ❤❤❤❤

[@kso808]

Fascinating tour! I always enjoy your social commentary.

[@AleksandraDeegan]

We love the old ladies of 'Crime Pays'! And they love you!

[@senorbolainas2991]

So awesome that you came here and showed a lot interesting stuff in something which is so ubiquitous for the Santiaguinos as the Mapocho.

[@katipohl2431]

Oh, oh, wonderful - I lived in Chile for 3 years. Copihue, Boldo, Aromo are plants I remember and the Araucaria trees.... Love and greetings from Germany.

[@senorbolainas2991]

Recently i discovered the Aromo was actually not native. It's so inbeded in our culture that it seemed to be native, but it was actually imported from Australia

[@thepollo115]

Yoo Joey i didn´t realize you were in my town! hope you are having a good time. Great video as always!

[@darwinpulpo]

I know exactly where you are. my friend. cos is my city. I have to tell you. you are a crazy man. you have balls. unspikeably dangerous spot you chose there..... a real adventurer!!!! congratulations!!!! you are something

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Been doing this stuff since I was like 13 it didn't feel that dangerous at all. Santiago has nothing on Chicago or Oakland.

[@mattsonnie2989]

Darwin knows how many people have died down there though I bet! But yeah man I grew up playing on the Willamette river in Eugene, there were stabbings and robberies and most people were afraid to go there after dark but I used to play there all the time when I was 5 if not younger. Never had any trouble hehe.

[@cacogenicist]

​@@mattsonnie2989- Lol, I grew up in Eugene. It was never that dangerous -- couple tweakers, a dude or two on the nod. Some hippies. Violent crime has never been particularly high there -- nothing like St Louis or Birmingham.

[@creeperFIN123]

Weird that I've felt almost safer in Santiago than in Helsinki because of all the abandoned buildings and the dense woods right there. As a kid i liked exploring these places and having to run from some druggie or the cops or just playing in the woods and rotting kiosks i know now are prostitution or drug market locations for most of the day. In Santiago just don't go round the hood at night or rolex in hand etc. Its more obvious.

[@NaruLuckyCarrot]

Didn't expect you to come here, haha

[@Glaudge]

He was in Santiago a few years ago the 'street markets that smelled like piss'

[@NaruLuckyCarrot]

@ somehow I’m not surprised by that title

[@degaperez]

Lo mismo venía a comentar jaja Viva chile!!

[@andrewgraves4026]

Well then who’s the lucky carrot.

[@blackstar9481]

@@Glaudge every inch and square of santiago and chile in general smells of piss

[@marshafrank7427]

You are a brave man. We hope you'll be able to get back into the U.S. Good luck, man & love your rants & adventurous content.

[@michaelgeary9370]

thanks for the vids maynge, they help keep me a lil more sane during these northern MN winters with no plants to harass

[@JaggedLittleEmtalaViolation]

So great. You inspired us to kill our lawn; in the spring we are scraping it, putting paths in, and planting only natives here in our eastern Oklahoma subtropical paradise

[@tatybara]

CHILE MENTIONED !!!

[@ronm3245]

I just listened to Zappa's _Wonderful Wino_ yesterday and had a little meditation on who is and who isn't a wino among my friends and family.

[@timjozwiak2293]

Cool video about a niche habitat! Love it

[@bozalaysecacarlos]

Wow. Nice video! The channelimg of the river dates back to 1891. That’s why you have those polished cobblestones down there.

[@SteveAumann]

This is another excellent and interesting video, I really appreciate your work, man you sure get around the world.👍👏

[@Hardworkandrealestateprofits]

Another cool video 👍

[@RAM1500_NatureLuvr]

Gotta go poindexter for a bit: - The rain shadow near Santiago is on Argentina's side. Santiago is at the very north end of this. Chile to the north of Santiago is in a rain shadow, and to the south Argentina is in the rain shadow. - The first mountains east of Santiago (Sierra de Ramón) go up to around 11,000 feet. But they're the foothills compared to the main range of the Andes (and the continental divide) just east of them, which goes up to around 21,500 feet.

[@interestings7866]

I love when you travel to other places in the world

[@tablon8539]

Here in Valdivia, Chile, the municipality started to plant native gardens to decprate the city, and it's beautiful!!

[@brassen]

This Salyx babylonica [03:40] we call it Salgueiro-chorão in portuguese, it's everywhere here in Brasil, and google says it translates to "Weeping willow" also: Guárdame en ti como la interrogación de las aguas que se marchan. Y luego, cuando las grandes aves se derrumben y las nubes nos indiquen que se nos fue la vida entre los dedos. -"Guárdame en ti", Raúl Zurita

[@josebadinella]

Welcome to my hometown!!!!

[@anthonyrodrigobright6563]

Amazing video as usual

[@davidwilde4933]

It's about time I had a bettwr look around Chilean flora, thanks for the prompt to dive deeper. The Lithraea is of especial interest because its of no use to humans whatsoever. I was at work the other night, a fella I work with gave me the strangest look when I said what I was looking up. That was nice.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Years ago I read a National Geographic article about poisons and venoms (I think). What I remember is a paragraph about a marine biologists who was studying a species of super venomous fish, because it could be useful medically.

[@calamagrostis88]

Maytenus boaria is becoming invasive in California, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. It spreads underground to form dense thickets. Native to Chile.

[@aurochf1]

You did not get to see the cork oaks at Parque Bustamante... yet! I lived in Chile some years ago and this brougth me so many memories!

[@sophia1176]

santiago seems so cool, would love to visit some day!! the pokeweed relative especially is so neat

[@ianfisher5534]

important people understand that in urban environments, plant communities are often determined by the economics of the nearby area. As in, people of different economic circumstances tend to plant different things.

[@necrophagus9]

Qué tal Weón!

[@MartinFernandez_1886]

This is awesome.

[@antonscholtens4674]

Those Graffiti are great!

[@andrewgraves4026]

That graffito those graffiti huh. I thought they were pretty good too, and I lived in ny in the hey day.

[@VoMFilms]

Your trudging reminds me of my early 20s adventures. My fave was taking my friends into a drain. We almost got stuck in mud, the boys got scared by an eel (I love eels), had a cheeky smoke, heard a huge fight outside, boys crawled out into a kfc drive through and was seen by someone in the drive through (I could not scale the walls), and then eventually discovered that we had been under the courthouse 🫣 good times 😂

[@fernandosanchezm]

Pretty sure KZbin has two types of content: rage inducing cultural rants, and smooth, passionate and relaxing niche content hahaha I was so relieved to finally know that Mapocho river color is from volcanic sediment and not fecal slush, thank you all for that!

[@hellokittysays6333]

Aw sheet, the new CPBBD just dropped.

[@The_spider6]

We love CPBBD

[@vicentevazquez6887]

B. Salicifolia is native!! Great video man!

[@hase.von.b]

im from east-central Argentina and is also native. Also Vachellia caven

[@hhwippedcream]

Fine deposits of urbanite and chuckerite there.

[@finncubitt1544]

id love to see you explore more Bolivia!

[@wildhareonthegulfofmexico3539]

Ever heard of Pico Turquino? Pace looks like the sort of habitat with interesting plants. I just noticed how the height gradient is very dramatic.

[@account0199]

Sir, I wish I knew you were coming...

[@robertwatson6420]

Hey! Check out Datura tarapacana Philippi in Herbaria. A purple flowered D. ferox near Pica in Tarapaca province. Thinking Argentina is the source of native white flower D. ferox.

[@Underwaterindooroutdoorgardens]

I’m new here; I found this very entertaining. Is there a video that explains how you gained all of your botany knowledge?

[@alistercaddy1208]

Reading books, I think. I've made huge leaps by going out and using inaturalist and would recommend that for getting better at IDing and even taxonomy.

[@andrewgraves4026]

He says, sort of, start with a book called Botany in a Day. As you get through it you’ll be recognizing families - great! There are a couple CPBBD videos with a booklist and suggestions, yes. Frequent iNat plugs here too, such as in this one. Welcome new here.

[@64Pete]

get some anthropic islands built midstream in the dry season. High enough to survive floods, angled to break up the flow. Or built on floating platforms like you suggest. it would be fucking majestic. holy fuck I'm high. aussie medical weed ftw! cheers brother as always it's been a trip.

[@lukehahn4489]

Cool. Now i know where to sleep rough in Santiago

[@Chrissmithers9]

The phytolacca roots are wild in this 🐙 . . .and the car exhaust smut covering so much of things is all too real 😭

[@luisrenteria4252]

That looks kind of similar to the Santa Catarina River in Monterrey before they left it to do it’s own thing, would be interesting to see the Mapocho river rewilding and a video on the Santa river when you come back. Thanks for the videos, i haven’t seen more than a couple videos on Chile’s biodiversity before.

[@matieyzaguirre]

The main inconvenient is that, when the Mapocho does its thing, it's 3 to 4 times as wider as it is now in central Santiago, so probably, at least in that segment, it wouldn't be very viable to rewild it.

[@senorbolainas2991]

Yeah, sometimes, in the rainy years, the river here almost reaches the height of the bridges shown in the video, so it's not very viable.

[@FrugalGarden]

Have you seen any native gunnera in situ? Love it when you show plants that are aggressive invasives in some areas in their native habitat

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Yes it's everywhere

[@grannyplants1764]

I didn’t know Gunnera was native to Chile…if I had land with a small brook I’d plant one, huge plants are fascinating. 🌱

[@BonsaiBlacksmith]

You are close to me, 3 1/2 flight to Floripa on Santa Catarina Island. Lets take a walk in the Southern Atlantic Rainforest

[@Androbott]

cuando se a secado el mapocho scooby? 🤨

[@senorbolainas2991]

Eso lo hayé raro que lo dijera, si ni en los peores años de sequía se llegó a secar el mapocho

[@Worm318]

Yo recordaba un par de instancias. Hice un googlazo de "mapocho seco", y hay dos articulos de la radio biobio con fotos. El primero de mayo 2019 titulo "¿Por qué está seco el río Mapocho?", muestra el río con extremadamente poca agua. Otro de junio 2022 titulo "¿Dónde está el agua del río Mapocho?" aparece sin agua líquida fluyendo, solo algunos charcos y humedad visible.

[@senorbolainas2991]

@ Busqué la noticia del 2022 y ahí explican que habían desviado el agua por trabajos en el lecho del rio, por lo que estaba seco entre pio nono y manuel montt.

[@senorbolainas2991]

@ Y lo mismo ocurre en la noticia que mencionas de radio bio bio, donde mencionan que el lecho estaba seco, pero explican que se desvió el agua por el costado, en la ciclovía y se ve claramente en la foto que el rio corría por la ciclovía

[@cacogenicist]

It's disconcerting to see some of the same invasives down there that I see in the alley behind my house in close-in north Portland, Oregon. ... at least there isn't _Rubus armeniacus_ everywhere, *_yet_*

[@NC-xd2vb]

i wonder, will you ever come to europe and show us the wonders (and horrors) of the urban and non urban flora ?? this would be amazing to be in a familiar environment ^^

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Yes hopefully this year

[@CactusGuru]

i'm curious. Why does botany not pay?

[@Celandine2]

You escaped the current insanity with an enviable botanical get-away! 🎉

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

How's the chili?

[@TrrsnSmrg]

😂🎉❤

[@tomasignacioreyesramirez1571]

7:10 Actually the river was canalized in the 1890's so it was there a hundred years ago xd

[@DahVoozel]

Its good to see other countries also have s rewed up thier landscape with invasives and non-natives to 'beautify'

[@comadrezoe]

I am proud to class myself among the "cool rowdy old ladies", lol.

[@montyskeetch4082]

So much information… how do you know all this?

[@grannyplants1764]

He was obviously born wid it 🤣🌿😣

[@doomsdoor]

English ivy's worst aspect to me in texas is that poison ivy and some other species that is related to poison ivy are always growing with it and birds make preventing that impossible

[@TheAlienBear]

Oh dude, you should visit San Cristóbal, it got some nice "trails" 😂

[@Churchofrascalism]

Cup of coffee, bowl of Ramen and some cpbd. Gonna be a good day.

[@zoetrophy]

Tree pokeweed?!

[@andrewgraves4026]

That octopus mofo was really something

[@jeremimcdonald]

R.I.P. The masked villain!

[@MilanyAece]

"It looks like an octopus!"

[@raphlvlogs271]

Pinus canariensis is hard to kill and very good at regenerating since they came from a place where volcanic activities and wild fires are a regular site

[@labrador7373]

You came back? Hit me up if you go to Viña.

[@williambjorndal8392]

Hope you get time to visit southern Chile. Make sure you snack on some young nalca (Gunnera tinctoria) if you do!

[@HBCrigs]

14:32 WHHOOOOOO TRANS FLAG🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧🏳‍⚧

[@allisavercool227]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@melipassiflora]

the text next to it says trans healthcare for Chile

[@HBCrigs]

@@melipassiflora i looked up the hashtag and the org behind it looks so amazing ☺️☺️

[@MatthewFlesher]

we love using "Wino" in the UK, don't worry it hasn't disappeared

[@ivanchester1525]

As a resident of Nashville I take massive offense from the comment about the Batman building being ugly. 😂 The ugliest buildings are all glass skyscrapers that have piles of dead migrating birds under them every day. Pinnacle building, plus all the other damn glass monoliths erected since 2012 can go fuck themselves. I'm a native plant landscape installer and can't stand the glass window buildings housing corporate greed.

[@diegoskyHQ]

why is this guy talking about plants in the Mapocho river in Santiago 😂 like I would expect him to be doing that in some place over the south of Chile but no in the f*cking Mapocho river in Santiago, that's some random sh*t. Do he make videos like this talking about plants in cities?

[@Dorei02]

Y me sorprendió para bien que haya un ecosistema bien diverso en el mapocho xD

[@willrudman1874]

Buen video, una vez encontré un perro muerto y hinchado en el río mapocho justo en esa parte donde comienzas a grabar

[@zoetrophy]

Valparaiso is the place for some primo graffiti art

[@julesdudes853]

You could've picked so many places and chose the surroundings of that river, lmao

[@TrippyToons]

Much love from Central Illinois! I have a question that I think you can help me with. What kind of instruments do you think aliens have?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Rectal probes....I hope

[@grannyplants1764]

Felco #2 with the leather holster.

[@mynameisnotcory]

Tricks on you, my geoguessr score rises by they hour 😈 😊

[@DH-.]

I assumed every scare foot of that South American country was covered in all variants of chilies. Or is it chili shaped or something?

[@noacringeperofeliz]

WAIT WHAT

[@andrespkpasion]

Please visit Córdoba, Argentina. I can be your guide!!

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Guide to what?

[@andrespkpasion]

@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt around the city, or recommend you spots to visit

[@methodos100]

Partiste mal: qué hace Argentina en tu discurso cuando estás en el corazón de la mejor ciudad Latinomaericana???

[@creeperFIN123]

Maytenus boaria or salix humboldtiana be the first thing i would plant in el mapocho and maybe cryptocarya alba as it seems tolerates well drought and wet. Being from maipu i could see if there's anyone interested to guerilla plant with me.

[@samlomb2093]

FYI, that's not MF Doom, that is Dr. Victor Von Doom, dictator of Latveria and enemy of Reed Richards, the self proclaimed Mr. Fantastic, who not shockingly is a bit of a douche.

[@arielulloa4146]

what? are you saying that this guy is mr fantastic? why XDDD

[@samlomb2093]

@@arielulloa4146 That is literally not what I said at all.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

12:14. Please, don't break the plants.

[@Glaudge]

Ailanthus altissima... invasive everywhere it isn't native

[@TrrsnSmrg]

😂

[@Erewhon2024]

Tree of heavenly vomit, or at any rate smells like vomit.

[@JavierGarcíaMonge]

Baccharis salicifolia is native

[@wanaa66]

16:28 MF DOOM for the win

[@Erewhon2024]

With a species name like "caustica," you know it would be great for skin moisturizers & lip balm.😂

[@CharlieSIW]

Stop by aruba , we have more than cactus

[@myrmepropagandist]

2:52 ant mention! who was she? a tiny black ant "farming aphids"

[@mollymaybe]

14:24

[@kaspinet]

Can I be a Cool Rowdy Old Lady? Is there a club?

[@patriciadean1649]

No offense taken

[@mugiwaraboshi37]

Why is your life not my life

[@ianfisher5534]

yay Trans Flag graffiti

[@yuribezmenovthegreat4705]

Mapocho is a shit river lmao

[@senorbolainas2991]

Volcanic sediments, he said it like five times. The river doesn't have crap since the 2010s

[@AntoDesormeaux]

the native willow is quite beautiful too. Love both of them. Always nice to hear that some of our species invade other countries for a change. Sick these damn eucalyptus trees in my area kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGGzk3t6jrCgq6s