Tallahassee Fuzzy Bean Exposé & Sandscrub Chigger Party

Worth all the chigger bites. Sandscrub arid microsites in otherwise mesic forests enable some incredible diversity, where one encounters plants with traits not normally seen in forested areas or even savannahs. Hairs on leaves, glaucous foliage, drought-strategies - all are seen in this video.
We also check out a Taxodium ascendens swamp and some bizarre fungi that infect members of the blueberry order and mimic flowers (Exobasidium species).
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