The South American Redwood & Memories of Gondwana

[@GiuseppeSan]

Your ability to combine acerbic existential dread with a profound appreciation of deep time is amazing.

[@seanhalstead9421]

The climatic similarities between southern Chile and the PNW absolutely fascinate me. The growth habit on those big alerces reminds me of the handful of old growth thuja plicata left on the Olympic peninsula. Being out there right at the tail end of the spring, when everything’s blooming and the mosses are still well hydrated… good stuff

[@etherico3041]

CPBBD getting me through another illinois snowy day with some absolute beauts. Thank you good sir

[@sethhill17]

Watching from Western Washington. Everything is brown and mushy for a few months in the winter so I live vicariously through YT until the greenery returns

[@etherico3041]

@ exactly getting us through these tough times.

[@gnarlyandy1]

WOW! those are some gorgeous trees! The Fitzroya cupressoides are my favorite this video. Also the Bird singing AND a cool lizard.

[@StriderGW2]

I find great peace from your videos, thank you

[@wildrose7546]

I'm in the UK and used to work at a botanical garden here. We grew many of these species and they grew very well, but it was fantastic to see them in the wild. That place is truly natures cathedral. Many thanks.

[@linden5165]

Beautiful - loved the plants, the bird, the lizard and the ASMR in equal measure. I always find it fascinating the mixture of familiarity and difference between the forests we have here in Aotearoa New Zealand and those of our distant Gondwanan cousins.

[@64Pete]

A heartfelt thank you, as always brother. No way in hell I'm ever going to make it to south America, yet to day I can almost smell it. GFYB!

[@Ludvig11]

A completely new world again! Red flowers, that hauntingly-soothing bird song and that lizard coloration, and what a cute woodpecker noise.

[@laurakarr29]

I so appreciate the bonus bird and herp watching.

[@kingjsolomon]

Right? What a treat!

[@katiekane5247]

Such crazy looking stuff, appreciate you sharing with us.

[@MartinFernandez_1886]

Hey, i just become obsessed with Fitzroya cupressoides and bro drops THIS! Was hoping for a Gondwanan vid, epic!

[@vanzikky]

So many similarities to the bush here in New Zealand...Gondwana connections...

[@robertradmacher3823]

@@vanzikky : Podocarpus totara and Podocarpus nubigens are so close that they hybridize.

[@meikala2114]

Makes me wonder what Zealandia had, NZ today has the skerricks

[@An-kw3ec]

I have 2 botanic books, 1 of new zealand and other of chile, it's amazing how similar the flora between the two places are, especially nothofagus.

[@llopcuac21]

@@An-kw3ec there’s even fosilised remains of nothofagus on antartica, this are ancient trees that existed when southamerica, ocenia and antartica were one continent.

[@christydodgler3944]

@llopcuac21 Cool to think we had forests in Antarctica during oligocene, the artic circle still has some extremely continental forests in northern Canda, Siberia and Norway which are the warmest of all but an antarctic civilization will have been so cool.

[@juanjuri6127]

oh hey, Chile again? I strongly suggest you check out Parque Nacional Fray Jorge sometime, out in the Norte Chico. weird little patch of valdivian rainforest holdover surrounded by desert.

[@dkblap]

0:11 redwood family Asteraceae... huh, the asters truly are the largest plant family!

[@scottsolar5884]

He dropped an easter egg. Redwoods are not asters. Not even close. Redwoods are gymnosperms .

[@zeahlessley6108]

Oh good, I didn't just mishear this multiple times 😅

[@kso808]

Fascinating stuff! Love those pink flowers and greenery! Seeing all this makes me long for springtime.

[@sarasmr4278]

You legit have a fantastic asmr whisper and soft voice. Whisper me a botany lesson to sleep to, and I'll play it on repeat all night.

[@SteveCutlerLive]

Gorgeous lil greenie lizard

[@chiroptera6215]

Crazy how well you can see all those ancient symbiotic relationships SO clearly in that forest. So prehistoric looking...A lot like the P.N.W. but so different, up close. I never can help wondering. Every time I'm exploring a chunk of forest that's recently come back to some kind of normalcy, from complete wipe out... How beautiful it must have been just 2..300, 500 years ago. But there's almost nothing left, like that. Not to just walk out into and appreciate, anyways. Thanks for showing us, yet another amazing ecosystem, and describing it so well.👉

[@MitchK_]

The Lizard was like, "Hold on dude, take my good side" 🦎 haha!

[@LuneyToonz-lk2de]

Thank u for showing off the lil caterpillar. Lizard was a stunner too!

[@hughjaass3787]

I'd love to see those gorgeous trees too

[@FirstDagger]

Gondwanan trees and dinosaurs singing? What a nice video.

[@alghirab]

also 15:05 i know he was going for a sunbathe, but i really like to think that lizard was putting himself in that sun patch so you could admire him better

[@eddielong96]

Those Philesia flowers look sooo much like flagging tape. Everytime you pan I'm thinking "oop! What did they flag?.. oh nevermind"

[@SteveAumann]

Yes👍👍this is another great video, thank you for YOUR work. That bird was awesome. The woodpecker was stunning.

[@yfrontsguy]

I dream of going to places like this on our incredible planet, but probably never will so following you to these green paradises is the next best thing You did not mention the gorgeous gleicheniales growing as ground cover in the forest I have many saxegothea planted here as well as Podocarpus nubigenus & salignus also planting many lophosorias I wish I could get some of those chilien gleichenia to go with them

[@CIB8282]

Amazing ecosystem, thanks for showing the birds as well.

[@este.bahn92]

Ooh nice camera, clean zoom! Saludos de Chile!

[@timmillan6701]

I have seen a few Fascicularia ( Ochogavia as well)growing in the ground in the more favorable sections of the Seattle metro area. Personally, I grow mine in coco fiber pots and bring them in below 24f nights ( like right now). In the Spring, I will divide the plant and try a division outside year round, while retaining an insurance division in a pot. I do happen to have Chusquea culeou in the ground for 5years here, and it has seen 4f/5f/4f the last three years without a problem. It has never even looked bad

[@mateocaballo]

You would LOVE Limahuli Botanical Garden (of the US natl tropical botanical garden) on Kaua'i island. north shore near famous Ha'ena state park Na Pali coast. it has tons of ultra rare(shiny) endemic🎉 species on the brink of extinction. Some are already extinct in the wild. the diversity is mesmerizing

[@SweetSunrising]

Thank you for covering Antarctica’s plant history! 3:57 5.4 million square miles ice sheet up to 4 miles thick. West Antarctica’s a lot thinner don’t know how much. I’ve had trouble finding an entire plant profile on gondwana, I might just binge your content to create one😂

[@profanitymanatee4039]

You need to do some more whispered bird watching videos lol. Too relaxing

[@alexandramoore8200]

You would enjoy neys provincial park in ontario - its on lake superior and has so much long draping lichens, its erie and gorgeous

[@RoySATX]

Sitting here in Central Texas (not the pleasant part) wishing I were anywhere else. Don't get me wrong, I like where I live but I miss rain. I left here and lived in Oregon for a few years, I shivered for a month after getting there (in August!) but then adjusted. I've been back in Texas for ten years and still haven't readjusted to the heat. Give me chilly drizzle any day.

[@SteveAumann]

I’m out here on Oregon near Portland and wish I was in Texas, the winters are to wet for this okie😊

[@JennHawk]

Love the bird footage!

[@adamgibbons4262]

Please bring back your original sign-off ❤

[@RroDeCruX]

Dude subbed just cause of the channel name. Great stuff.

[@nathana.m.1622]

Can’t forget about Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest tree in the Sth. Hemisphere

[@AnonyMole]

Fantastic film. Cool creatures and bodacious botany. Ended kinda abrupt -- missed your GFYSB

[@mikeoxsbigg1]

You have an opinion on Trilliums? Because I have a few about horse-flies and deer-flies.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

I worked at a place that took the biggest wild cherry trees you've ever seen and made them into land surveying stakes. I'd imagine a similar irony there.

[@grannyplants1764]

🌲How cool to hear the bird in the woods 🤗🌲

[@TristanMorrow]

I only regret that I have but 1 like to give 👍

[@Nihlink]

Franco was really into trains i think

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Oh, well Bravo Franco!

[@shaunphuah269]

Any plans on hitting Malaysia or Southeast Asia some day, Joey?

[@thomasoliver1376]

thank you.

[@harperwin3553]

magical

[@Icebikerwife53]

That woodpecker looks like a cousin to the Pileated Woodpecker we have where I live. One the Pileated's calls sounds like a African ape. The first time I heard it, I half expected Tarzan to holler back.

[@JustcallmeDebbieB]

You and your big words!!

[@plutoniumiscool]

Did you see Pilgerodendron uviferum there too?

[@StuffandThings_]

Man, I'm jealous, that's a beautiful forest. Pretty much all of the old growth Gondwanic forests are on my bucket list lol. Interesting how this has a vibe much closer to that of the Pacific Northwest than much of the other Gondwanic forests, even though it has similar lineages and even a climate not too different from eastern Tazzie. Guess a couple of those new world genre will do it? Or just pure coincidence? Either way, fun to see such a familiar yet different forest type. Shame that the Alerce got so decimated, IIRC its much better down south in the borderline unihabitable (and borderline uninhabited) Magellanic and southern Valdivian temperate rainforests. They're beautiful trees, that silvery almost shimmery bark and craggy look just makes them _look_ primeval and epic.

[@FesteringEarth]

Yes!!!!

[@Ralph-dj7my]

That was really great. Thank you.

[@paulbragg7618]

My friends did a trip to Chile years ago to climb old alerce, its on you tube called "ancient giants" on zak Bentleys channel. The trees they climbied have since been aged at over 10,000 years

[@kevinhenriquez3242]

I recommend you visit the Cochamo Valley in southern Chile, it's a beautiful place. Or I also recommend Futaleufu.

[@kevinhenriquez3242]

The oldest tree in the world today is a 5,500-year-old Fitzroya found in southern Chile. They are one of the longest-lived tree species in the world.

[@Murdant]

"That thing's the size of a freakin' rooster" 🤣

[@mattmccallum2007]

I have an Alerce growing in my yard.

[@HBCrigs]

what is the small broadleaf tree at 8:48 on the left that sort of looks like a magnolia. really pretty, looks interesting.

[@sydgerald]

I just found your channel and I really like your content. I have a question though, where can I find information about pinochet logging alerce? (I know dictators would do any sort of evil things), I was doing a study about it a while ago, and according to my findings, in 1976 the alerce was declared living monument and logging them illegal. Sadly there's still people (more shocking mostly locals) who cut down alerces because it's wood's expensive, or they remove some bark, which in time will kill the tree. Thank you for uploading the videos, I've learned a lot from them.

[@Heavilymoderated]

Lovable lizard in languid and luxuriant repose.

[@joelyons3713]

Thanks for reminding me of summer, freezing my ass off here in Canada.

[@SheridanHardy]

Reminds me of beloved porf cedars 🥺

[@Rumun_83]

Are you using phone camera or what kind of? Oh and do you have any good cameras for taking close up pictures of plants ?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

I use a Nikon d7500 for photos

[@The_Mess85]

Damn it, now I absolutely must watch your NZ vids, and also sigh when you mispronounce Kauri lawl, as it's a harder "Kaa" rather than "Cow" :P

[@kingjsolomon]

Incredible

[@arnorrian1]

One type of Autan spray does help with flies, in addition to mosquitoes and midges. Haven't tested it on horse flies though.

[@krissteel4074]

Vids like this one are a good reminder that I'm an ignorant bastard and know next to nothing about some places close to the same latitude as me.

[@paulbrion2227]

Banging the Smokeman!

[@siryogiwan]

I live halfway between Sydney and Brisbane and the rainforest to the west, got so dry they went up in the 2019/20 fire

[@TristanMorrow]

They seem okay with soil compaction on the roots? Shallow soil?

[@lightreign8021]

I was a NW Wildland firefighter, fought one time in the “asbestos forest” because fire hadn’t happened in hundreds of years. We bucked up the big fuel away from the base of the patriarch trees and they survive today. Foot thick fire scarred Doug fir bark don’t gaf after 500 years.

[@gloriacardenas2056]

Muy buen video las hermosas plantas y árboles pero especial el carpintero.

[@alghirab]

0:35 Both trains and forests benefit populations widely & indiscriminately. Even if I don't take a train, the people who do means that's less cars on the road and less smog in the air. Even if i never visit a local forest, i benefit from the oxygen it produces, erosion control, climate mitigation, carbon sequestration, etc. Trains and forests benefit everyone by merely existing rather than being as readily gatekept & locked away from "undesirables" like a car or a garden space. That's why fascists hate them. The whole point of fascism is downgrading entire populations to subhuman status so that they can be abused & exploited freely. It's harder to do that if you have widely accessible public infrastructure and healthy ecosystems. It's about control.

[@andrewenglish1892]

My dog and I enjoyed the bird asmr

[@nirgolo420]

I'd love to see some kind of "behind the scenes" to your videos. I know its very bare and not much to it but I would still be interested. Like, do you go by yourself, or always have people with you? Sometimes there are other people in your vids, but in this video you seem to be by yourself. Or do you have a guide with you? Esp. when you are in a different country. And also, do you know all the plants already, and all the info on them, or do you ID them in the field and find out some info before taking the video? Best wishes

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

No guides unless the area I'm in requires them. Guides often don't do any "guiding" , they're usually just there to collect money, which I don't mind if it's say, a small indigenous community, etc

[@JihouGijutsu]

Listening to cruisin' now lol

[@soundremo1]

is it me or is that forest real silent ?

[@csrouse33]

That Mistletoe!

[@deerdy1315]

Thanks man

[@robertcurtin-de7sr]

Where In Chile Was This Video Made ????

[@nicky914]

I like it

[@peterbernhardt5169]

Joey hates patronyms and honorifics but Fitzroya reminds us of Charles Darwin's history in Chile. The genus honors the same Robert FitzRoy (18050-1865) Captain of HMS Beagle, (also the second governor of New Zealand), who took Darwin with him on that voyage that included the trip to the Galapagos. Yes, FitzRoy hated Darwin's books and theories but when FitzRoy committed suicide (he cut his own throat) Darwin contributed to a fund that supported the widow and children..

[@kenblakeley9940]

If I remember correctly that red flower you found is the national flower.

[@RACCOONSQUID]

That's some tight grain 😩

[@felipebanados3905]

Is this at Alerce Andino National Park?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

No

[@matiasthiele770]

i think it's alerce costero

[@rodrigogalilea9409]

i've no idea if you're still in the south of Chile Area, but i live in Coyhaique. I might be able to help you if you come to the Aysen Region. You should totally see the forests of redbarked trees "Arrayán" near the coast and many other amazing places. Send me a DM.

[@PenntuckytheCrag]

? No GFYB ?

[@Glaudge]

Where does one even get alerted seeds in the us?(legally)

[@Glaudge]

Autocorrect *alerce

[@AshGreen359]

Not everything he does is "legal" so maybe not possible

[@Glaudge]

I mean yeah I was wondering if you could just yoink seeds from the Berkeley botanic garden but idk if it's monecious or dioecious

[@DH-.]

There are stringless Honey bees in South America that produce a Honey that's used in witch Craft eye medicine

[@Dominique-od2jd]

Hi there I watch and enjoy your channel. I was hoping to meet you if you make a trip to Topanga Canyon. You made a comment about weather modification. I unfortunately have a lot of proof of this horrible situation. My property is destroyed on one side. My plants are being killed and will not grow at all. I have persimmon and pomegranate and avocado trees which produce nothing. My passion fruit vines killed. Lemon tree bent down and touching my patio shelter. I didn't believe it either until I experienced this. You are very smart and also funny. My family lives in Chicago. I moved to LA in 1983. Reach out if you want to check this out for yourself. If you are out here you would be welcome to come by. Thank you and keep making great videos!❤

[@Jacob223390]

smokey Robinson has some decent tracks lol

[@macrosense]

Fascists liked trains 90 years ago…

[@kokopelli314]

Yeah, only when other people have to ride them

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Even gave them cool names like "America"

[@ruffonstuff3489]

It depends if you are using the original definition of it or the modern bastardized version that has become cliché and trendy.

[@Mossdala]

Tickles!

[@BubuH-cq6km]

🤣 😂 and you got this stabby bastard..... you sound like my aunt

[@isabelleeberhardt9736]

Fascists hate trains because of the constant nagging fear that they won't run on time, thus undermining their authoritah. They hate trees because pitchforks (handles) and gallows were traditionally made of them. That's my take on it anyway.

[@georget4141]

Did you just call the first southern redwood asteraceae

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Yes it had been a long day read the captions lol

[@georget4141]

@ honestly a valid reason when the sun sets at 9pm down there haha

[@derekforeal7049]

Tony Tony Tony why Anatarcica... tell us your turth! What do you think happened,

[@joehopfield]

Living in the less flammable (?) plains of Los Angeles, worried about two beautiful enormous old firs in our yard, I was just thinking I wanted to ask your advice... Then you mentioned climate change and fires...😢