One of my coworkers saw a paused video for one of these. She asked what could possibly interest me that much about plants that I would watch something like this. She had some time before her ride showed up, so I looked up one of these to let her watch. Her mouth hung open the whole time. Now she comes into work every day and asks if seen this or that video. There is something about having what sounds like a mob thug teach you about botany, that grabs your attention and doesn't let go. Love these videos.
If they like the environmental and working class politics of this guy, what the hell? You know, send then on to some less subtle shit, right? Hit'em with some working class history and some modern takes on Anarchism, Communism or whatever the hell, k?
This is the best information, presented in a manner that any kid can relate with.. I think this should be shown in public and private schools as well as Home Schooling!!!! I love your FIELD TRIPS!!!!
I'm sure it was just an oversight possibly tjme constraints but arctostaphylos is an important if not crucial support for hummingbirds! Since they flower in winter and early spring, they provide essential sustenance because no other plants bloom during this period!! Arctostaphylos actually allows hummingbirds to remain all year rather than migrating in search of food!!! It's a wonderful example of symbiosis between gymnosperms and avians!!! I am a devoted fan of hummingbirds, although some do migrate to Mexico for the winter months, Anna's, Allen's, and some Rufus do make the Bay Area their year-round home!!! For which many of us are grateful!!!
Please keep going with your videos. I'm a botanist with a specialty in native plants East of the Mississippi. I'm so grateful to learn about the native flora of California, from a learned person with a sense of humor. Your accent makes me miss the South Side of Chicago so much!
@@user-zq9xh4rc3c Actually, I was. I went out and bought a couple of field guides for plants in the Western US. Still not very comfortable with with them, but I have learned a lot between the books and Tony.
I love manzanitas, didn't know they were in those hills. So red and smooth. Saw many as a kid going camping. Just love the way the branches twist and turn in such a sensual way.
Dude you would be a kick ass professor or a teach. Seriously you are very smart but your sense of humor keeps you captivated. You make learning fun. You would be a awesome Prof.
Lol. Me Mum and Dad lived up there off Heavenly Ridge , at the top. My mother is a horticulturist and 95 years old. She took me on a little walk up there, identifying the various native plants. I don't recall the rare Manzanita. I think your videos are fantastic. Thank you.
I just discovered and absolutely love your channel! I am from the Oakland hills (Montclair) and the view made me a bit nostalgic. Manzanita is my all time favorite native plant. In our Oakland hills home above the fireplace my mom always put up a large manzanita branch hung with little ornaments for the holidays. Nice memories!
Regardless of those hard days and the past six years I hope that you will keep going out and calming yourself down making these amazing videos. Thank you so much for being such a great teacher! My life is more full because of you! Now I will be giving the manzanita in Big Sur and in the hills here on the Central Coast a different look. By the way if you ever need a camera holder and / or a couch to sleep on in the SLO County area DM me! I would love to be a part of what your doing even in the smallest of ways!
Oh My Lord!! Tony, you are Wondrous!!! Intelligent, Informative and Infectious!!! Such a Joy to behold! Thank You! Gods Speed to you and you sweet lil pups💕❤️
UA-cam's hidden gem! The arctostaphylos (thank you!) crustacea looks an awful lot like our own local Arbutus tree, who loses their flaky bark real easily and comes away looking smooth and orange.
Man, you make me realize what an ignorant ass I am. Botany is my life, but geology...I have a ways to go on that front. Loving the podcast and this channel. Keep the shit coming!
Amanita LOVE LOVE LOVE Live Oak. Surprising to see it under Manzanita. I wish we could have seen the veil remnants a little closer. Could have been Pantherina (deadly, small broken veil pieces) or Phalloides (DEATH CAP, few or no veil pieces) or Coccorra (A. Calyptroderma, prized edible.) The two deadly ones ofen get confused with the prized edible, and people die.
-Daughter grabs my phone to watch cartoons and sees my watch history -She looks over at me drinking a beer and changing spark plugs while wondering why is dad binge watching botany videos???? - daughter.exe has crashed
Sure needed this tonight. 10 days of choking wildfire smoke in covid shutdown and Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed today. Thanks for the view of rock tree and leaf🍀
Dude. Keep the high quality science (could even add some more) and keep doing exactly what you’re doing. Fucking rock on. Giving out intellectual injections.
Fascinating video, thank you. I’ve been discovering that root burls amount to a “fire insurance policy “ for trees. Your video confirms that theory. Interesting. I’m a woodworker, so burl Wood has always been of interest to me. All the woodworking textbooks from the past never really explained the whys and wherefores of the existence of burl wood. It’s been interesting to discover their purpose.
I hope you only use those who have died a natural death!!! It would be a shame and practically criminal to kill such an old persistent marvel of nature just to make a table or other luxury for a species that has already taken more than our fair share of the natural world!!!
@@rachiesayd9423 I mean, he said he works with wood and is interested in burl wood, he didn't say he works with the burls of ancient and endangered species. Many trees and shrubs grow burls.
The characteristic egg-shaped envelope at the base of Amanita mushrooms is called volva, not vulva. (Originally only an alternative spelling, both meaning "uterus".)
What a fantastic video! So many interesting species. God damn it man, you filled my ear-hole with all types of great information. You magnificent bastard!
I grew up around there ,that tree is also in Black Diamond Mines in Antioch California east of there. If you're still in town it's worth a day trip. Love the videos, I am now a subscriber
Have to admit I'm too excited for this episode. Born and raised bay area (I know, feel sorry for me). However I have wanted to learn my native land for a while now. Hope you are able to feature more of Northern California in your travels. Love watching your videos. I'm becoming more of a botanist lingually, every day.
If you google the name of the UA-cam channel you'll turn up some interviews, podcasts, news clips etc that explain his background etc, but basically besides a bit of knowledge from a college course in oceanography and geology he's self-taught and an amateur.
we have Arctostaphylos columbiana where I live in Canada. They're cool. They often grown in locations on higher ground rocky ground and sometimes seen with Arbutus menziesii.
Wow! Thank you for reintroducing me to Manzanita's and to the Wood Rat. I almost fooled myself into thinking that all Rat's were endemic to Human settlements ;)
The woodrats are native and don't really bother humans... However they will "steal" items to decorate their nests!!! Folks have taken the nests apart and found them packed with all kinds of treasures lifted from their humanoid neighbors........
this is so informative I live in the pacific northwest but my family lives in northern California and I need to understand how to harmonize native plants and create habitats and learn how to clear and control burn or plant our own properties
UA-cam needs a heart button... solely so I can heart this video. I LOVE the manzanitas, mandrone and that cool AF white barked baja bird bush (why is the one IN MX the only one with and English common name? ???) and thanks to you I get to re-live crawling around the elfin forests in Marin and San Diego counties. Thank you!
These videos are good shit ma dude. I with you were down here in Houston. In fact, if you're visiting anytime you can sleep on the futon and I'll handle your dinners if you don't mind southern poor folk cookin, in exchange for a couple hours of walking the local wooded patches and pointing out which flora are worth paying special attention to.
Love Plants, U (& Ur sweet American dingo dogs).. making botany’s gorgeous words come to Life Ur precious teacher .. thank you .. perfect beautiful videos & talks .. no GODdam .. better GODgifted.. r U Italian ?.. so soulful .. Awesome knowledge 👏 😎👑💛Ur a treasure showing Nature’s interconnected chain of life
The gap you noted between the Baccharis and invasive grasses is probably due to herbivory. There is a study on alleopathy that I learned this from Richard Halsey
In the aquarium fish industry they sell a ton of manzanita. I thought it was illegal to collect in in California and Arizona. Where are they collecting it to sell it to make aquariums pretty? This kind of use makes me really angry.
Some funny shit and informative, I know you spin everybody out. Remind people of someone they have seen or heard before. But man your enthusiasm reminds me of Steve Irwin. P.s Aussie that loves the land
Dude. Just finished my Field Botany class this summer here in Kansas. Wish you could’ve been one of my teacher’s assistants and given your take on the flora here
In a hort class given by some guy name Martin,he said those bases are Lignotubers. Our Blue Gums that I'm positive you detest used those to recover from our great fires and freezes. I know,That California Bay? Has some of the most fantastically large lignotubers that you will ever..well,maybe not ever.. see around Hayward's wild parks where they cut paths in hillsides..the erosion exposes those things and they are very tropical looking or Ficus like bases.
@@StanTheObserver-lo8rx haven't seen him in years... Miss his odd sense of humor! What a brainiac though, huh? Too much information for one mind!!! Sure knows what he's talking about, would love to take one of his classes.....
I like how you engage these hills. You use the camera very effectively. I am thinking along these lines you demonstrate by moving through the landscape. What do you do to this landscape to bring knowledge attached to this environment so that this merges into a system or community. Good work.
Beautiful goddamn plant is exactly what I was thinking when I saw the smooth tree too! Maybe I should get into botany man it seems very calming and I love learning random information about everything. Awesome videos
Pretty sure the manzanitas growing in mass at my in-laws canyon in San Luis county don’t have burls, there’s some cool stuff around their place, I’ll have to check them out closer next time I’m out there
Is that behind merritt? Or is that by the zoo? I used to live by there. Theres alot of plant divirsity in the east bay. Thabks for showcasing some of it, bro. Love your work 👌😊
Really like your content and your presentation.. I have watched a bunch of your videos.. the Fake Redwood Forest one is disturbing… how hard would it be to plant native plants under the trees???
great video, im from socal and its horrible to see the last of the elfin forest being killed by greedy land developers. is there a was to save the seeds long terrm?
One of my coworkers saw a paused video for one of these. She asked what could possibly interest me that much about plants that I would watch something like this. She had some time before her ride showed up, so I looked up one of these to let her watch. Her mouth hung open the whole time. Now she comes into work every day and asks if seen this or that video. There is something about having what sounds like a mob thug teach you about botany, that grabs your attention and doesn't let go. Love these videos.
I specifically enjoy how relatable and informal this channel is, with so much information I never knew I wanted to know
If they like the environmental and working class politics of this guy, what the hell? You know, send then on to some less subtle shit, right? Hit'em with some working class history and some modern takes on Anarchism, Communism or whatever the hell, k?
This is the best information, presented in a manner that any kid can relate with.. I think this should be shown in public and private schools as well as Home Schooling!!!! I love your FIELD TRIPS!!!!
"Sometimes when you had a hard week, or a hard past six years..." That was the best...
I'm sure it was just an oversight possibly tjme constraints but arctostaphylos is an important if not crucial support for hummingbirds! Since they flower in winter and early spring, they provide essential sustenance because no other plants bloom during this period!! Arctostaphylos actually allows hummingbirds to remain all year rather than migrating in search of food!!! It's a wonderful example of symbiosis between gymnosperms and avians!!! I am a devoted fan of hummingbirds, although some do migrate to Mexico for the winter months, Anna's, Allen's, and some Rufus do make the Bay Area their year-round home!!! For which many of us are grateful!!!
Please keep going with your videos. I'm a botanist with a specialty in native plants East of the Mississippi. I'm so grateful to learn about the native flora of California, from a learned person with a sense of humor. Your accent makes me miss the South Side of Chicago so much!
I would love to learn more about Calycanthus carolinensis
have you expanded your knowledge outside only native plants east of the mississippi yet? its been a while, i hope so. what have you learned?
@@user-zq9xh4rc3c Actually, I was. I went out and bought a couple of field guides for plants in the Western US. Still not very comfortable with with them, but I have learned a lot between the books and Tony.
@@user-zq9xh4rc3c I really don't have much interest in native plants of the west at all.
Fucking a, you wanna get that local feeling yah just head to a nearby factory and chat up the people who make all the shit we use. You know?
Why could'nt this guy have been my science teacher🤣. Great content very informative and entertaining. You've got a subscriber👍💪!
Love the part about "hard six years" and "drinking liquid plumber" and this will calm you the shit down. Yes. Yes. Best therapy on the planet
You have two awesome doggies! I love your videos. You're hilarious and your love of plants matches my own. You are really cool.
Couple of good looking Blue Australian Cattle dogs!
I love manzanitas, didn't know they were in those hills. So red and smooth. Saw many as a kid going camping. Just love the way the branches twist and turn in such a sensual way.
Dude you would be a kick ass professor or a teach. Seriously you are very smart but your sense of humor keeps you captivated. You make learning fun. You would be a awesome Prof.
Lol. Me Mum and Dad lived up there off Heavenly Ridge , at the top. My mother is a horticulturist and 95 years old. She took me on a little walk up there, identifying the various native plants. I don't recall the rare Manzanita. I think your videos are fantastic. Thank you.
I just discovered and absolutely love your channel! I am from the Oakland hills (Montclair) and the view made me a bit nostalgic. Manzanita is my all time favorite native plant. In our Oakland hills home above the fireplace my mom always put up a large manzanita branch hung with little ornaments for the holidays. Nice memories!
Regardless of those hard days and the past six years I hope that you will keep going out and calming yourself down making these amazing videos. Thank you so much for being such a great teacher! My life is more full because of you! Now I will be giving the manzanita in Big Sur and in the hills here on the Central Coast a different look. By the way if you ever need a camera holder and / or a couch to sleep on in the SLO County area DM me! I would love to be a part of what your doing even in the smallest of ways!
Oh My Lord!! Tony, you are Wondrous!!! Intelligent, Informative and Infectious!!! Such a Joy to behold! Thank You! Gods Speed to you and you sweet lil pups💕❤️
Dude, your knowledge of native California plants is awesome! We should hike sometime!
UA-cam's hidden gem! The arctostaphylos (thank you!) crustacea looks an awful lot like our own local Arbutus tree, who loses their flaky bark real easily and comes away looking smooth and orange.
They are very closely related!
Love the fine balance of classy knowledge and the occasional "Goddamn, I just put my hand in rabbit shit!" :)
Thanks! As an entomologist I have climbed in that shit looking for insects, so much fun!
Man, you make me realize what an ignorant ass I am. Botany is my life, but geology...I have a ways to go on that front. Loving the podcast and this channel. Keep the shit coming!
Dude. This is like hanging out with that crazy cool cousin.
Have you ever hung out with an illustrator on one of these trips?
The Boxcar Adventurer i like where this is going...
Check the guy's merch website. I think he is an illustrator himself. He has shirts for sale with, what I understand to be, his own original art.
“A massive wood-rat nest...these are the delicate bastards...” 😂
Amanita LOVE LOVE LOVE Live Oak. Surprising to see it under Manzanita. I wish we could have seen the veil remnants a little closer. Could have been Pantherina (deadly, small broken veil pieces) or Phalloides (DEATH CAP, few or no veil pieces) or Coccorra (A. Calyptroderma, prized edible.) The two deadly ones ofen get confused with the prized edible, and people die.
-Daughter grabs my phone to watch cartoons and sees my watch history
-She looks over at me drinking a beer and changing spark plugs while wondering why is dad binge watching botany videos????
- daughter.exe has crashed
LOL!!!!!!
Hahahaha!
Cant wait til im a dad and weird my kids in
out like this haha
Good thing that is all she found, huh?
Love the cattle dogs and the knowledge you pass along about local plants. Thank you for these videos!!
Dogs were like
“yea yea we’ve heard this all before”.
Some goddamn beautiful trees, for sure!
CPBBD needs to go on tour and do all the States
Love it, "Da" blueberry family.
It's like Al Capone's grandson studied botany in the big house! Love it.
Sure needed this tonight. 10 days of choking wildfire smoke in covid shutdown and Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed today. Thanks for the view of rock tree and leaf🍀
Dude. Keep the high quality science (could even add some more) and keep doing exactly what you’re doing. Fucking rock on. Giving out intellectual injections.
Fascinating video, thank you. I’ve been discovering that root burls amount to a “fire insurance policy “ for trees. Your video confirms that theory. Interesting. I’m a woodworker, so burl Wood has always been of interest to me. All the woodworking textbooks from the past never really explained the whys and wherefores of the existence of burl wood. It’s been interesting to discover their purpose.
I hope you only use those who have died a natural death!!! It would be a shame and practically criminal to kill such an old persistent marvel of nature just to make a table or other luxury for a species that has already taken more than our fair share of the natural world!!!
@@rachiesayd9423 I mean, he said he works with wood and is interested in burl wood, he didn't say he works with the burls of ancient and endangered species. Many trees and shrubs grow burls.
The characteristic egg-shaped envelope at the base of Amanita mushrooms is called volva, not vulva. (Originally only an alternative spelling, both meaning "uterus".)
Is that wood or bark just a beautiful colour, the contrast with the other parts, oh beautiful
Diotimacious Earth was the original substance put in toothpaste till recently.
The micro abrasive qualities were found to remove plaque quite well ! 😁
Amazing place, amazing plant! Thanks for sharing.
Found u thru that coyote video, and I've been tryna teach myself some botany, and I'm in Oakland, so HELLOOO, new subscriber here! 👌🙋♀️
Ayy east bay represent!
Stephen Kingsbury x3 y’all, Bay Area born and raised...
Hella Oaktown!!!
Need to listen and watch this website to de-stress...get transported to his world of nature and peace...🤗
Tqtq for sharing...💖💝
What a fantastic video! So many interesting species. God damn it man, you filled my ear-hole with all types of great information. You magnificent bastard!
Stop it. Be your own person.
I grew up around there ,that tree is also in Black Diamond Mines in Antioch California east of there. If you're still in town it's worth a day trip.
Love the videos, I am now a subscriber
Have to admit I'm too excited for this episode. Born and raised bay area (I know, feel sorry for me). However I have wanted to learn my native land for a while now. Hope you are able to feature more of Northern California in your travels. Love watching your videos. I'm becoming more of a botanist lingually, every day.
Amazing stuff keep up the great work!
Heard about you on Your Mom's House podcast about a week ago and I'm hooked. Awesome content, please keep it coming!
What episode?
I couldn't hang out with yous but love listening to yous!
I would like to know where you got your smarts. I am in awe of your knowledgeable skills. Thank you so much.
I believe he's self taught. He has a couple videos that explain it.
Drew Green no shit! He’s a savage!
If you google the name of the UA-cam channel you'll turn up some interviews, podcasts, news clips etc that explain his background etc, but basically besides a bit of knowledge from a college course in oceanography and geology he's self-taught and an amateur.
Autodidact, he's a real smart ass. He's great, I would love to have a cup of coffee with Tony... 😎
Enjoyed this very much when stoned
we have Arctostaphylos columbiana where I live in Canada. They're cool. They often grown in locations on higher ground rocky ground and sometimes seen with Arbutus menziesii.
Wow! Thank you for reintroducing me to Manzanita's and to the Wood Rat. I almost fooled myself into thinking that all Rat's were endemic to Human settlements ;)
The woodrats are native and don't really bother humans... However they will "steal" items to decorate their nests!!! Folks have taken the nests apart and found them packed with all kinds of treasures lifted from their humanoid neighbors........
this is so informative I live in the pacific northwest but my family lives in northern California and I need to understand how to harmonize native plants and create habitats and learn how to clear and control burn or plant our own properties
UA-cam needs a heart button... solely so I can heart this video. I LOVE the manzanitas, mandrone and that cool AF white barked baja bird bush (why is the one IN MX the only one with and English common name? ???) and thanks to you I get to re-live crawling around the elfin forests in Marin and San Diego counties. Thank you!
"What is that, a vulva?"
Very informative, easy to relate to. Thanks tough guy.
Reminds me a lot of the Madrone! Very Beautiful
These videos are good shit ma dude. I with you were down here in Houston. In fact, if you're visiting anytime you can sleep on the futon and I'll handle your dinners if you don't mind southern poor folk cookin, in exchange for a couple hours of walking the local wooded patches and pointing out which flora are worth paying special attention to.
Best channel on UA-cam.
Best ASMR video I've ever seen.
a beautiful goddamn plant
Ohhhh shit the burl is beautiful!!
Love Plants, U (& Ur sweet American dingo dogs).. making botany’s gorgeous words come to Life Ur precious teacher .. thank you .. perfect beautiful videos & talks .. no GODdam .. better GODgifted.. r U Italian ?.. so soulful .. Awesome knowledge 👏 😎👑💛Ur a treasure showing Nature’s interconnected chain of life
Digging in the Duff! Shit, now I have a new fucking hobby! Tank's alot.
The AvE of Botany
The gap you noted between the Baccharis and invasive grasses is probably due to herbivory. There is a study on alleopathy that I learned this from Richard Halsey
Clean water and plants. Thats about all thats good
I'd add animals too.
In the aquarium fish industry they sell a ton of manzanita. I thought it was illegal to collect in in California and Arizona. Where are they collecting it to sell it to make aquariums pretty? This kind of use makes me really angry.
I looked it up on "da google over der"! real nice
Nice. I'm a Chicago native that grew up in the Oakland hills.
our guy is actually crawling around in manz to teach us good lessons.
Dried Manzanita wood is highly desirable in the aquarium hobby for driftwood and decorations.
This Chan is absolutely fucking amazing.
Cheers fella from Nova Scotia.
I was there today! Your in my neck of the woods.
I love this.
Some funny shit and informative, I know you spin everybody out. Remind people of someone they have seen or heard before. But man your enthusiasm reminds me of Steve Irwin. P.s Aussie that loves the land
Abartat😂
Dude. Just finished my Field Botany class this summer here in Kansas. Wish you could’ve been one of my teacher’s assistants and given your take on the flora here
Btw I'd love for you to see the natives surrounding martinez and Antioch, Ca...particularly near the old mines.
You should check out the fen in Elgin, Illinois on bluffcity Blvd. Prairie - fen.
In a hort class given by some guy name Martin,he said those bases are Lignotubers. Our Blue Gums that I'm positive you detest used those to recover from our great fires and freezes. I know,That California Bay? Has some of the most fantastically large lignotubers that you will ever..well,maybe not ever.. see around Hayward's wild parks where they cut paths in hillsides..the erosion exposes those things and they are very tropical looking or Ficus like bases.
Could that possibly be Martin Grantham? I've known him for years and he is a legendary Hortisexual in the Bay Area!!!
@@rachiesayd9423 Of course. Teasing about the some guy part. All roads plant lead to Martin.
@@StanTheObserver-lo8rx haven't seen him in years... Miss his odd sense of humor! What a brainiac though, huh? Too much information for one mind!!! Sure knows what he's talking about, would love to take one of his classes.....
Beautiful wood rat bastard delicately squirreling away seeds!!
Have you got a reading list?? So much knowledge, great stuff👍
Yes, check two vids back. Plenty of book recommendations in the caption for the video, too.
Put him in a good movie.....I would go just to listen....lol
Arctostaphylos AND Claytonia? Am i in heaven?
I know this video is very old but man im really interested as to how cool that burl would look if used in some kind of wood work
Santa Cruz mountains have tons of beautiful old as hell manzanitas
Ey who’s Dis guy cause I love Dis Guy here...very knowledgable yet keepin it fuckin real Ya know
This Amanita IS symbiotic with the manzanitas...
I like how you engage these hills. You use the camera very effectively. I am thinking along these lines you demonstrate by moving through the landscape. What do you do to this landscape to bring knowledge attached to this environment so that this merges into a system or community. Good work.
Beautiful goddamn plant is exactly what I was thinking when I saw the smooth tree too! Maybe I should get into botany man it seems very calming and I love learning random information about everything. Awesome videos
8:00 Mind Blown. . . Again.
Pretty sure the manzanitas growing in mass at my in-laws canyon in San Luis county don’t have burls, there’s some cool stuff around their place, I’ll have to check them out closer next time I’m out there
Delicate Bastards is a good band name.
Great videos keep it up.
Is that behind merritt?
Or is that by the zoo?
I used to live by there. Theres alot of plant divirsity in the east bay.
Thabks for showcasing some of it, bro. Love your work 👌😊
Those Manzanita are beautiful, we have them in tuolumne county but not as beautiful as those. I wonder if it cause they are closer to the ocean?
Really like your content and your presentation.. I have watched a bunch of your videos.. the Fake Redwood Forest one is disturbing… how hard would it be to plant native plants under the trees???
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
great video, im from socal and its horrible to see the last of the elfin forest being killed by greedy land developers. is there a was to save the seeds long terrm?
How can you stuff all that information into one brain?
He says it all the time--he reads.
eyetalian gangster botanist
I've seen Manzanilla in the hills of Napa are they the same species??
Miss Bitternut was duly impressed.
Real bad ass rash
Mini apples in Oakland? What’s next, farms in Berkeley?!
Yes that is the reason they are called Manzanita, Manzana is Spanish for "little apples"!!!