We Meet an Adventurous Aroids Expert | Discovery | Gardening Australia

Tammy meets an adventurous aroids expert who travels the world studying and collecting these beautiful foliage plants. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
Aroids have become a favourite of Australian plant lovers over the past decade, but for world-renowned aroid expert Dr Thomas B. Croat they have been a lifetime’s work and passion.
Tammy meets Tom, taxonomist and curator of botany at Missouri Botanical Garden, on a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
Filmed on Gadigal Country | Sydney, NSW
Featured plants: 🌱
Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum, Anthurium colonicum, Anthurium vittariifolium, Rhaphidophora hayi)
To learn more about these amazing plants - where to find them, how to grow them, and how to protect their habitat - Tom suggests joining the Aroid Society of Australia.
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This segment is from Gardening Australia Season 35, Episode 21 titled "Winter: Exotic fruits & cool conifers".
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[@dougveganparadisebuilder5808]

Thomas Croat is a treasure.

[@dulanethdilhara9323]

He is exactly looks like the " Role model" in my imagination Hats off Sir ❤

[@phunk8607]

nooooo you did not talk to Tom Croat!!!!!!!! Legendary. You can see Tammy really in awe talking to Tom Croat. All of the indoor plants ppl collect has been discovered or described by him.

[@thisearththeonlyheaven]

Edible aroids are my favourites.