This Tiny Succulent Will Teach You How Plants Evolve
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- How many millenia does it take for a population of plants to evolve to bear an uncanny resemblance to the ironstone pebbles that dot the substrate that they grow on as a means of escaping animals that might otherwise eat them?
Crassula pyramidalis exemplifies how a plant's environment can selectively breed said plant to bear an uncanny resemblance to that habitat. This clip from a longer video filmed in the Cedarberg of the Western Cape, South Africa in September 2021 gives us a glimpse of how cool evolution can be.
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Thanks, GFY.
really means a lot to me to hear how much you care. makes me feel a little less crazy in a world that largely doesn't value the same things
Yeah.
Omg stole the words right outta my mouth 🤝
I am physically pained by human society and its utter disregard for the earth & ALL its residents.
"The plant doesn't know how the rock looks like" Even tough i already know how evolution works, hearing that particular example made me wonder how much of my own self was generated by processes that i'm as far of understandig as the plant is of having the consciousness and visual capabilities i used to understand the video
man you cant just go and break my brain like that
This comment was amazing.
🤯
I would say all of it, i dont know how to make dna but my cells are doing it right now. I understand how I got here in retrospect bc were particularly intelligent primates, but we got here not knowing where we were going. And thats cool as hell. Were a part of this like every other organism.
Yeah bro👍🏼 I just started reading Dawkins-The Ancestors Tale , & your post fits right in 🙏
Wish I saw more full grown adults on their hands and knees going full nerd on some plants. Evolution is an amazing concept
Luckily there are a lot of youtubers that love plants and gardening. Search around a bit.
@@ciaragarrity6425 Kindly suggest some? I know Summer Rayne Oakes for sure is a wonderful plant nerd.
However, apart from her most of what I find in searches are people pretending they aren't working for companies trying to sell gardening products. And a bunch who are baldfaced just working for companies (not always a bad thing, but just not the same get on your belly flavour)
@@purpleghost106 Self Sufficient Me, The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni, and KosaBrin.
I went into horticulture because I love plants. I got out of horticulture because I found out that it wasn't about learning about plants but controlling them. I love your channel because it reminds me of how excited I used to get about plants before I became disillusioned.
You got to dis-indoctrinated now, and find your illusions where much more real than their bs is.
"Enamored with the world" Yes, very much! I love that nature puts wonder in you! Many/most people are not struck with awe by our world.
Psychedelics or near death experience can help
I'm sad and glad it took me Toni's videos to grasp the idea.
The more crazy stuff you show folks, the more questions they ask, then, you've done it. Sparks lead to fire.
@@robertcuff5704 -joe rogan
Because they are too enamoured with themselves usually
Imagine how different the world would be if everyone had such enthusiasm for botany.
in a world where botany pays, but crime doesn't 🤯
I imagine it would be a bit like some of the Native Americans. There's so many wrinkles there, though. Down in Mexico and South America the rot of civilization had already begun to take hold even before the Europeans arrived and subsequently mostly wiped out the natives with smallpox, war, and slavery.
And then there's the question of whether we would have ever evolved the ability to get off this planet and perpetuate our species without civilization... I think that answer is a pretty firm "no".
It's a double-edged sword in my eyes. For me, there is no point unless we continue to exist, but for others, there is no point unless we can _coexist._ Ruminate on that one over a bowl or two.
@@sntslilhlpr6601hits blunt*
Yeah man
"The only reason it's cool is because it's here." Thanks for the wise words, an antidote to consumption.
The admiration I have for this crude, intelligent bastard.. 🖤
For this crude intelligent bastard; admiration I have.
- Yoda (probably)
Sometimes i see ppl suggest that knowing and believing the science of life on earth and not thinking it was all put here magically as is takes the wonder out of it but I couldnt disagree more. These plants are amazing BECAUSE they are survivors. What manages to evolve because of natural selection is amazing for that reason to me. An unconscious process resulting in all of this biodiversity, and we all started in the same place. Life is amazing and beautiful just for existing at all. I hope I never run out of new organisms to learn about and be in awe of. Thank you for sharing.
I love how excited you get over these little gems. Crassula Pyramidalis is one of my favorite Crassulas. What a treat to see them in their natural habitat. 💚
Yes and you are one of the reasons they are threatened.
@@ianmiles2505 I’m not sure what you mean. I’ve never poached plants nor have I bought poached plants.
Learning more about science and why the world (and the universe) is the way it is doesn't make it less awe-inspiring, it makes it *more* so. I agree completely, what a fantastic and beautiful demonstration of the forces that shape all our lives.
Agree! That life exists at all is so rare and then from that we have so much biodiversity. Life is unimaginably diverse and wonderful.
"Out of It's context, it doesn't mean anything. You got to leave it here!" Exactly! Truer words have not been spoken!
OMG!
THAT was GREAT!!!
You're SOOO right,
if it were in a pot,
it wouldn't be anywhere near as spectacular as it is in the wild.
Thank You for sharing that!
Crassula pyramidalis is so easy to get from breeders that I can’t imagine why anyone would poach them. They’re green in captivity, though, unless you live somewhere they can get blasted with the sun to the point they need protective red pigments.
It’s so cool to see them in the wild, especially that itty bitty seedling! I love the tiny orchid and the mesemb you didn’t talk about, too.
I don't see why you couldn't do that with synthetic lighting and the right iron supplements etc.
Some greenhouses even add CO2 or O2 to the grow area to stimulate growth during daylight hours etc. We do it with aquatic plants and increasing the light and CO2 for them usually allows the plant to get those red pigments that would otherwise be recessive.
Edit: UV lighting causes damage to clorophyl, and so they bring up secondary metabolites like iron and such to help protect the photosynthesis process that only requires Blue/green spectrum lighting, at least in SOME plants. Flowering and fruiting generally requires red spectrums, but the UV is the important part here, you could absolutely "sun stress" a plant by having UV lamps on for like 2 hours of the day with regular lights the rest of the time, you just really want to protect workers eyes and things as well.
@@KoroWerks it’s the intensity of light and the colors that stress the plants enough to look natural. That kind of set up makes sense for greenhouses trying to grow succulents and pretty and compact as possible, but it’s a lot more expensive for an individual. The plants have to be very close to the light source, too.
Man I fuck'n love this show.
I would feel so bad if I walked on all of those things because I didn’t know they weren’t rocks
nature is truly a marvel, you could learn some new cool shit every day for the rest of your life and still not even appreciate half of it
The first time I saw wild succulents was a year ago. I had a meltdown because they're so freaking beautiful and vibing on the beaches in Monterey.
After watching this video, I'm learning to appreciate and love my home even more
I love that you get how best to enjoy the desert plants
Im so happy I found this channel, the pure enthusiasm you've got for this makes me so happy to see someone else who has this passion
The best way to teach evolution is selective sunflower breeding. The crap from the grocery store bird food takes 2 generations till you have dinner plate size sunflowers. It's fast and easy to see how nature selecting for survival would work.
Yes, plant breeding is an underrated and low-tech way of doing experimental evolution research!
Crypsis in plants is always cool as hell but this one is on a whole new level of awesome
You were the BEST expert on G-Q, I really loved listening to you answer questions. I hope they have you back again and again!
You’re fucking awesome man. I ve never heard a man with such a thick Italian New Yorker accent express such intelligent and meaningful sentiment about the natural world. You’re wildly original and I think you’re amazing. Good people really do exist.
Guy I served with, had a bachelor's degree in mathematics and the thickest South Georgia accent you ever heard in your life. Barely intelligible at times.
Hearing him explain the Fourier transform brought me a little closer to a higher state of being. 🤣
The older I get, the more I value Awe and Openness.
I wonder, How much of my essence is devoted to hiding,
conforming, to survive, like a rock plant.
Love it. Amazed all the time. Thanks
These fucking videos have me staring at every plant I come across, hoping it's flowering so I can just stare at it. If you ever want to come to Alberta to peep some short-lived Canadian flowers, hit me up brudda
Can I like this video twice? Thank you for this little gem of a video.
This is awesome, I love succulent and one of the first things I do when I see a species in HomeDepot is look up pictures of the species in its natural habitat. Luckily, you do the work for me with these little beauties.
Home Despot**
Your excitement and passion is more energising than I think you realise. Fuckin amazing stuff once again
I've never seen anything like that. Super impressive camouflage.
Fascinating stuff, evolution.
I love your mix of Bronx attitude and language mixed with child like joy of nature.
"how can people see this and not be enamoured"? The problem is that although peoples eyes are biologically the same, the information that gets processed is wildly variable. You Sir. are doing a hell of a job helping us see something to love that has always been right in front of us.
I love that ending. I think we all need to hear that at least once a day.
I'm in my first year of a bach of science, majoring in Ecology and Evolution and thinking of doing a plant science specialisation - and the more I learn the more wonderment I have for the world and I feel like I'm in a constant state of awe at everything around me and I have so many more questions. Thanks so much for your videos, they really help inspire more of that in me (and they're also helping me study for finals)
This is refreshing to my feeble primate brain
Mine too
Yep, stuff like that will re-calibrate your perspective on alot of stuff. 10 out of 10. GFY
I love tiny succulents that teach me things, that’s what I’m all about. I also take well to some intense selection pressure.
I love how exciting the world can be! It's also exciting to see others get hyped about things they're passionate about regardless of whether I share the particular passions. I happen to share a passion for nature/evolution/biology so it makes me feel good and a little less alone to see these videos and comments from so many people who express the same feelings!
The more I study dynamical systems theory, the more I'm convinced evolution is real, and that it's the details of the same that need to be worked out. That said, it's stuff like this video which convinces you at an intuitive level that YES, EVOLUTION IS REAL, and it does this irrespective of your educational background. Much thanks to this channel from a grateful subscriber🙏🙏🙏.
This is delightful. Thank you, sir!
WOW, context is everything. I never understood about those plants until now. Thanks!
Man I love your videos!! So entertaining and informational!! Please consider coming out to Hawaii and doing a video on the native endemic and also invasive plants here.
One of my favorite videos so far. I love your commentaries. Though I understand your point and frustration in previous videos I definitely enjoy the shorter videos with less griping about suburbia. 😜
Made me love you today. You just described what I feel every time I see an Empusa pennata.
When I see things like these, it makes me think of how much humans don't understand
Also, I love seeing these small stone sized cacti and succulents in situ with their natural environments. Especially the Lophophora family, all hunkered down in the substrate like its a mosaic tessera.
You are so amazing and we love your channel and all the information you have of Botany. You make plants so much fun, and we can't believe how many species you know off by heart, truly amazing! You are the star 🌟 that illuminates the knowledge of the earth plants.
I absolutely love the southern african flora. Thanks for sharing!
You had to do that didn't you.
I love that this thing is so well adapted to its environment and it thrives, super well camouflaged, and then there’s us with our big pattern finding brain can see it without even trying.
04:18 I paused here just to marvel at how incredibly the camouflage really is.
But if some were in a pot together with iron pebbles that they evolved to resemble to create a miniature replica landscape exposed in a public place, then it could teach many people about evolution and the importance of preserving such habitats...
And then there's the CAM mechanism. I'm always amazed by how plants esp. xerophytes adapt to harsh dry climate.
your enthusiasm is infectious
I wish more people taught like him
Thank you for showing that the richness of life goes on
That is amazing! I get to learn so much from your broad knowledge and travel
Brilliant Tony. Or as a South African let me say that was lekker!!! Thank you. Edit: Brilliant video, there is so much education here, should be shown to children, teenagers and adults!!
our environment is filled with so much amazing and weird shit- thanks for pointing out a planet completely unnoticed by its occupants... love these vids. ive learned alot
"How could you see stuff like this and not just be enamored with the world."
We don't have to "take it home" because you brought it home to us! Thanks and best to you as always.
Love and respect from the Western Cape
Holy fuck, the commentary in this video is some of your best yet.
T, this is one of your best videos ever! So much in so little. That was magical! Thanks!! GFY,B!
It's depressing how the majority of the world could not care less and would rather build a shopping mall or a highway over them
Man!!! I love your views! I'm on board! 😘😘😘
And like you, I'm a plant lover and the most miniscule, the better.
great stuff. gonna take this attitude and perspective into a small hike today.
Happy 300K and welcome everyone to this beautiful masterpiece of a youtube channel!
Inherent camouflage started by one mutated plant gene a million years ago, awesome.
I love your videos so interesting and beautiful plants just trying to live!❤🌵❤ and you have a good day Sir.
Such an amazing explanation of selection pressure.
I love the atmosphere of this channel
Awesome family and such a wonderful specie i love those Crassulaceae ,
And hope more people be like you and caring obout nature and all the wonderful things that inhabit it .
Thanks for that Tony !
once again survival of the most adaptable
Dude! cranking out the vids recently. good stuff. Loved the w o k e grocery store vid.. too funny.
That place with those living beings is so beautiful and unique!
That plant looks like it's from another planet.
Powerful message, brilliantly conveyed. Kudos
Love you attitude towards life brotha. You got another subscriber. 🍻
So beautiful! I for sure would take photographs of this plant in its habitat! Frame it and put it on my wall! Thank you for sharing!
Your thoughts on citys using more native plants and in return we cool the citys and its more beautiful.
This video oozes "double rainbow guy" energy and I'm here for it
I'm always kinda shook when I find out that "exotic" plants grow in the US. Some ugly influence has me convinced that anything I see that isn't grass or trees or bushes - like succulents, or carnivorous plants - is some sort of import from South America, when a lot of the time they're native. This little guys in the video are amazing. Hope they live long and prosper.
La naturaleza abriéndose paso. Saludos desde Perú.👍🌵👍
“Hopefully, you got something out of that. If you didn’t, I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with you.” 😂
I forgot that I had been listening to really loud music thru my phone.
(I was shaking the dust off my windows while cooking dinner tonight. It makes cooking pretty fun.)
All was peaceful & quiet during dinner while we listened to the miraculous raindrops falling on the roof here in Central Texas.
And then I clicked on your video...
And suddenly-
STOOOOP!!!
YOU'RE BLOWING MY MIND AGAIN!!!
came blaring out of the stereo!
😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That alone was worth clicking on the vid!
Fuckin love it. The biggest trip
awesome video thank you so much! I LOVE science and get excited with this kind of stuff!
Is the red pigmentation from light stress??
Ive worked at succulent nurseries but all crassula pyramidalis I've seen and grown myself has been a nice deep green.
Thanks for all your amazing work and keeping the wonder of nature alive in so many people
Yes, we have a high UV index and 2000+ umol/m2/s PPFD in SA throughout the summer months
Even without the 3 different acronyms he just typed in his over-explanation of an answer (no offense), it's a very exposed and open environment so yes, lots of light stress.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt thanks man big help ❤️❤️
@@Phyto. thanks homie!!
I have no idea how the algorithm worked to recommend this video to me... But damnit I'm glad it did. You sir have a new subscriber
My feeble brain loves this stuff.
Fascinating ❣️ Thank you ❣️
So that's where they grow in the wild (grew up in the greenhouses of a pretty eclectic nursery).
Nice find, those are cool as hell.
Greetings.....from the Western North Carolina Mountains.....!! I AM amazed...! I AM enamored...!! WELL DONE, my fellow human.
And just like that… I’m not crazy anymore… for being unable to see things like that and keep quiet about em.
at 1:00 you start throwing down on us. Wow. Thank you for caring so much about Botany and trying to get others stoked about it. I'm amazed, been amazed and continue to be amazed. You should get underwater on the coast and start exploring algae now or soon. dam boy.
I live on a Harbor and see succulents all up n down the beach. I brought some home with sand and the brackish water and planted them in cracked mugs in sand and water them with brackish water....
U inspired me to and it's lotsa fun
Ty
Do not remove them.from their habitat.
Do you not get it?
endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful