Orchids & Mushrooms in Central Mexico Woodlands

[@gruberstein]

"Pretty much any mushroom will eat people, if you give it a chance". My take away quote from this episode.

[@hbabycakes]

Alan's little smirk with it really put the cherry on top

[@SuperDaveP270]

YES! That cracked me up, had to pause while I laughed so I wouldn't miss anything

[@stephenmorton8017]

you might like 'The Santaroga Barrier' by Frank Herbert.

[@gruberstein]

@@stephenmorton8017 I will check it out. My first thought was an old 1960's Japanese movie called "The Island of the Mushroom People" but in it the people ate the mushrooms and turned into mushrooms. Also the X-files episode where Mulder and Sculley are being digested by mushrooms underground and hallucinating.

[@stephenmorton8017]

@@gruberstein there is a story somewhere in the horror genre, may be Steven King, about a chair that slowly devours some old guy. it may be older, i forget. good stuff. spores in the chair! hahah.

[@hhheee3939]

This channel is a gift to the humanity he is trying to stop.

[@hollyhoose575]

I love how down to earth this man is... and he definitely knows his shit. I don't like it when educated people are stiff, uptight and too clinical.

[@MusicalBotany]

You would enjoy my classmates, then. Our last lab featured such memorable phrases as "the substrate is cronchy" and "these gomphidae larvae are chonky boys."

[@jacobreyes6215]

Neither does he!

[@suzaynnschick158]

My goodness! A plant freak and a fungus freak together on one video. Verrrry cool.

[@Heavilymoderated]

Love the videos with Alan. Love them all, but Alan is the man.

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

He's pretty amazing. 👍

[@katiekane5247]

Watching this, walking around my yard in N. Georgia. Took a spiderweb right in the face, thanks guys! I apologized to the spinner though so all good. Some bangers there Joey & Alan, many thanks!

[@stephenmorton8017]

hahah

[@Drhumbolt]

That's better than taking Spiderman to the face

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Made me laugh!

[@smokyjoe4748]

You've got native spinners left with all these Joros?

[@michaelmurray214]

The plant knowledge that comes out of your head is unlike anyone else!!

[@terrymiller2088]

always a bonus when Alan is along

[@helenagreenpine1496]

You made me realize I could learn plants as an obsessive hobby! (mushrooms specifically)

[@jtjj23458]

1st lesson shrooms aint no plants

[@prestonheck]

I got a greenhouse and a Swedbank I started inspired by your work. Keep botanizing my brotha

[@stephenmorton8017]

very cool.

[@gremlin282]

Finding Passiflora Incarnata in the woods as a kid was always one of my favorite things. It grows very well around Houston and you can sometimes find entire walls of it on the edges of treelines with hundreds of purple flowers.

[@erinrising2799]

thank you for settling the long running argument I've had with my husband, by pronouncing Poinsettia the same way I do

[@antonenero]

So nice to see you with Alan rockefeller.. I love you both guy's ♥️♥️♥️

[@omextracts]

Alan is a great teacher and a kind guy

[@galeparker1067]

Totally love the enthusiasm!!! Had 2 be said!!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦

[@snuugumz]

That’s amazing, what’re the odds someone notices that dead-bug-as-host trip? Oh, that’s right. It’s your buddy, Alan, AKA Mr Mycology, so its less odds, but no less amazing!

[@lionscircle4700]

Thunderstorms and volcanoes...

[@NatureNatesVivarium]

I just finish watching the two part episode on the orchid crash course and get recommended this video not realizing that it was uploaded one hour ago. Wow! orchid heaven

[@Toddis]

My day Has been made Thanks Tony

[@saraseifert6005]

Thanks Tony

[@aneethasalim5814]

Would love to see you explore India's flora especially the northeastern hills and the Western Ghats both with high species richness with the southern regions of the ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu essentially being an biogeographical island and the home of Seasonal Rainforests with a high level of endemism. Before the region was degraded by humans the plains on the foothills of the ghats were covered in lofty mixed dipterocarp forests upto 800m after which it transitioned into cullenia dominated montane and submontane forests with the highest elevations greater than 1800m being home to cloud forest - grassland mosaics known locally as sholas, the lower swampy valleys had myristica swamps and the high elevation mountain tops had peat Bogs though thier extent is heavily reduced.

[@cristinataliani5619]

It is amazing that there are so many different types of tropical forest around the planet!!! I live in south east Brazil and Santos is surronded by the Atlantic Coast Rain Forest.

[@niranjans3648]

@@cristinataliani5619 The original comment was through my older account but yeah that's true, the diversity in how tropical forests present them selves even in areas with the same climatic conditions but with a difference in soil or rock types is one of the most key reasons for their high diversity. you can have highly xerophytic arid microsites in a region receiving more than 2500 mm of annual rainfall, or you can have riparian evergreens tucked away in moist valleys in a much more arid landscape.

[@cristinataliani5619]

@@niranjans3648 Brazils Mata Atlantica has it all!!!

[@niranjans3648]

@@cristinataliani5619 the Mata Atlantica is quite remarkable as it extends as a true rainforest for up to 28 degrees, this along with the high level of heterogeneity in the habitats results in high levels of species diversity and endemism in the Atlantic forest.

[@dumoulin11]

What a beautiful landscape.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

I love that the same spammer keeps wasting time replying to other people's comments not knowing I blocked his ass and his shitty sketchy Instagram psychedelic hawking months ago

[@TCPLab]

You should come to live in Cuernavaca Morelos, my neighbour is selling his house (I guess you could rent it too). It's pretty nice because if you look through the window that faces north you have madrean pine-oak woodlands and through the one that faces south you have tropical deciduous forest. It's an ecotone and I live right in the middle. I have a lab too, a tiny one.

[@mattw1829]

I would love to see our guy in the Galapagos or Henderson Island checking out wacky endemic plants

[@lilibyte2459]

I would really like to see another book recommendation video, maybe one with Alan? Unless you already did one and I missed it. Would be a nice starting place for learning more about mushrooms.

[@joanqpublic592]

Thank you. I needed some cheering up today. Love the orchid. Love the cordyceps! So weird.

[@appidydafoo]

Thank you!

[@dakotadingo9083]

I love reading the CC KZbin *tries* to provide. The science, the slang, the accent the algorithm can't quantify.

[@bluesnowman7106]

Another Banger from the Legends. 🔥 🌋

[@jaybayer3670]

6:38 I had no idea these can get this big. That just blew my mind and made them so much cooler

[@jayrichardson221]

You guys are awesome together.

[@lunamoon5858]

best video ive seen all week, instantly subscribed. this is amazing thank you.

[@alejandrotafoya7286]

A random Reddit comment brought me to your channel. I’m so happy to have found it

[@craighoover1495]

Thank you gentlemen. All mighty (or Almighty) works of art.

[@liamthomas8069]

Please come to the PNW!!!! Bellingham will love to have you!

[@vferrante6436]

another cool video with Mr Rockefeller...ty!!

[@eliharper6616]

I've found cordyceps almost just like that on "June bug" larvea here in North Texas. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, until that moment I believed they only live on ants

[@donkdonkelly6225]

Fantastic video fellas, I wish I had 1 percent of the knowledge you guys have. What a magical place, thanks for bringing us along….

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Split gill kinda sucks till you find one the size of your palm that grew out in all directions instead of one side. Then they are amazing. Emerald ash bore came through and wiped-out half of all trees in the forest. Giant abnormal flushes happened for years till the twigs and brush was consumed. Then G. sessile went from infrequent to covering ash logs for 20 feet in an orange plate of calving bracts and stalks. Semi sessile really. Especially when they come out of holes in rotten stumps like red lacquer snakes.

[@andginisin]

a tillandsia growing on a juniper, holy shit 💀 and a penstemon too? thanks for taking us on your walks

[@philsphan6865]

Great stuff as always! It’s cedar apple rust that affects juniperus virginanae….grateful for your knowledge. Thank you

[@erikjohnson9223]

Cedar-quince & cedar-hawthorn rusts (all in Gymnosporangium) will also. I try to cut junipers down, because I value (pome) fruit plants.

[@toanao1]

Love this 👌🏻 good stuff. Any chance of more Dungeon content coming up?

[@diegop2311]

Here's the comment for the algorithm and what the shit

[@galeparker1067]

Thanks for the reminder!! Love this channel, totally!!! 👍🤘🥰🥰

[@anotherhuman8211]

Because he didn't ask for me to comment and of all of the other bs and you, Im go comment for the algorithm too

[@galeparker1067]

@@anotherhuman8211 I would do almost anything.......(?).... to help Joey, and this channel.... Thanks fer helpin' out...... 🤘🤘

[@tgordon4881]

Alan, You got me going out in the boonies and enjoying plant discovery. I also found the freaking world of botanical freaking art, I was wondering do you have any botanical freaking artists you like?

[@jayrichardson221]

Check out hannah yata

[@Intervaloverdose]

Gross and excellent, thanks. Great guest.

[@missyflutter5562]

My Friday nights make me so happy this is everything I need to recharge I know I’m a weirdo but GFYS 😅

[@daveno774]

Alan rules!

[@markae0]

2:24 "growing out of an insect" its like a real horror science fiction film. Aliens franchise.. Prometheus (2012 film) Alien: Covenant 2017

[@altforauditions9279]

The Last of Us video games are about Ophiocordyceps infecting humans and causing a sort of zombie apocalypse

[@BlackPhillip666]

Top 10 plants for a poison garden when?

[@thaddeusmines5386]

That was cool! You should add Rockefellers name in the description or title or something to shout him out.

[@i-love-comountains3850]

Dang, last time I was this early, Tony still used a video app to make his videos🤟 Thanks for another great upload brother

[@OmnipotentO]

A lot of amazing stuff in this one

[@stickfinderz]

Beautiful mountain and scape shots. That beetle or whatever kind of bug that was with the fungus growing out of it was a show stopper for sure!

[@MrEiht]

YES! Soon WE will break the WOLRD record! My big momma Phalaenopis has a Keiki, still on the spike. With TWO new flower spikes coming out of the Keiki. In total there are 4 babies and the mom in one massive pot. With 7 flower spikes. Maybe one or two more which I could not see, yet.

[@jonathandegoederen4276]

Super sick video as always. Mush love.

[@TheKopakah]

14:10 You not knowing who Harry Styles is is just great. Didn't think I could like you more

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

It's true. I didn't know until after I made this comment and somebody told me that name was already taken. I was bummed

[@President_Starscream]

Always remember, leaves of three leave it be, leaves of four eat some more.

[@KyleTheShaman]

💚

[@yhlanded]

Pasiflora is so great to have around. P. lutea and P. Incarnata over here in S.E. US. Incarnata one of the coolest flowers ever, lutea is a little more vigorous although the plant is more delicate overall

[@JayTheCorrupt]

Today I learned stevia is an asteracae. Which is helpful given I’m allergic to them. Thank.

[@SheridanHardy]

lmao Harry Styles thought he was slick

[@mrantssfpv]

I love the combo episodes

[@caseroberts9863]

What camera are you using? It must be a nice one givin the resolution, and clarity when zoomed in.

[@sobbski2672]

Iconic Duo !

[@yfrontsguy]

What a great video, again!

[@c.rogers4394]

Joey, I grew up around Madrone, across Hood Canal from the Olympics and also stayed where there's was tons more, in Humboldt County CA, and we native type people have always pronounced Madrone, as Madron 'a' Just in case you give a shit!

[@mikeoxsbigg1]

Shootout to the passiflora. I have a one-of-a-kind hybrid called passiflora polaris.

[@CBroPhotography]

Hey Joey. I thought I saw a notification from my podcast app about you having a conversation with Hamilton Morris. Was I dreaming? Can't find it anywhere. Titled something like "a 3 hour conversation with Hamton Morris" Please let it be true!

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Yeah it'll be out in a few days

[@billieburdette9642]

@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt what da shit!

[@themlck]

"gotta get it's own twitter account"😂

[@anaritamartinho1340]

I have much to learn... about mushrooms... And plants... And everything 😅

[@b.a.d.2086]

Amazing, beautiful and gross. Takes my elderly mind down some crazy rabbit warrens.😝

[@Langonica]

You're the fucking best. As a fellow recovering misanthrope I can't get enough of your shit and shit.

[@wellurban]

Wow, the flowers on that Calliandra at 8:47 look myrtaceous at first glance to me! If it wasn’t for the classic fabaceae leaf structure I would’ve sworn it was some extra-showy Metrosideros or similar, given all those bright red stamens.

[@erikjohnson9223]

Mimosid. Invasive "mimosa" (Albizia julibrisson) has rather similar flower clusters. Lots of mimosids have ball shaped clusters of stamen-y blooms.

[@erikjohnson9223]

Replied too soon. Flowerheads less ball shaped than most Calliandra.

[@sh6d0we36]

So let me get this strait I’m learning about plants from a mobster 😂

[@panadero6666]

Styx send me here gang

[@Bravefish90]

Hey Tony, you always running into that Uroshiol, you gotta watch your asssss! Those anacardiacea have it out for you

[@charonsiouxsie949]

I dig the diagrams.

[@peterstanziale3211]

When are you coming to our town ? Tenancingo de Degollado in the State of Mexico? We got flower right now.

[@peterstanziale3211]

Thank you for responding. Most of the time I think I am writing into a techno void.

[@RAREDRAGONFRUIT]

Find some pitahaya if you head to lower altitudes.

[@PenntuckytheCrag]

Love it as always

[@1.4142]

I have a dead man's foot in my backyard! has dried up to dust now though

[@walker_trips]

Purchase from walker_trips_

[@lonepheasant3489]

These are like mini nature documentaries kinda like a funny Tv series how about a movie

[@Dbdilly]

David Attenborough should swear more. I mainly learn this shit to bore my girlfriend

[@c.rogers4394]

The foliage on tht Juniper is wild, looks like Chamaecyparis or Thuga, weird shit!

[@davidonfim2381]

8:23 I think you meant to type "volva" 😁

[@eastindiaV]

I think that Nibiru cataclysm speciated some of the plants on a global scale, along the same lines as the Mutagen, adaptogen combination I took earlier this year... Although I did a bunch of Uranium Isotopes mixed with the local foraged plants from my old Ship Yards, instead of the Black Light of the Dark Star combined with whatever adaptogen chemicals they produce..... That first tree may have recently speciated from a cypress, for instance, that whole area looks denser than usual.. I look back at old pictures of myself sometimes, and I look like that tree, different.... Cordyceps, and Amanita Fulva were 2 of my medicines, you ferment them like hops, adding sugar, water, yeast, and a source of amino acids. Cordyceps improves memory and adrenal performance Amanita Fulva improves sleep and digestion Based on bioassay of this Somatic Medicine, prepared based on the Rig Veda....

[@GoldSrc_]

Nibiru? WTF are you smoking? lol

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

Are the lower elevations of this part of Mexico arid?

[@trashcat3000]

Where can we obtain the t-shirt Alan is wearing?

[@mexicodoug]

I ripped mine off a dead mycologist.

[@paulussius]

The accidental Harry Styles joke at 14:08 hahaha (or wasn't it?!)

[@jackwood8307]

❤

[@haydnnotario7986]

Do you know much about lichen? How do you go about identifying lichen in the field without testing its secondary metabolites ?

[@xanselmox]

Hello all

[@EricBrokeIt]

The mushroom thing, do only toxic shrooms change color after you pull them?

[@mykalkelley8315]

Depends on the species

[@firebird95driver]

Get yourself some Geologist like @MyronCook with Alan and it’s a damn trio of da science!

[@charonsiouxsie949]

What's Alan use for a UV torch?

[@carsongarnett1700]

Shitshrooms fuck yeah

[@amanitamuscaria5863]

4:13 I don't know, looks like the mushrooms in the store to me.

[@Uchoobdood]

🔥 ass content as always

[@raphlvlogs271]

what animals eat the berries of junipers?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Birds

[@awlejandro]

will you ever do a strictly spanish video