Both informative AND amusing. My beloved junior high botany teacher, may he RIP, would be publicly appalled by your colorful language (but secretly smiling!) You are a rare gem!
I am an electrical engineer. I currently work as an environmental scientist collecting samples. I could be making more money but I love going out into the field for work. Bet you could find work as a field tech somewhere, most normal people hate it lmao
I love your very interesting take on plants and geology and your occasional cynicism always gets me. Especially that little one about the granite countertops
"I don't give a sh^& about grasses, but I'm trying". Preach on. 4 years ago was supposed to be my "summer of grasses", because I've ignored them. I'm finally on it. Keyed out 3 in the last week (one was a sedge). I was surprised to see sori on the fern. I thought the dried thingies sticking up were past non-photosynthetic sporophylls, and assumed the green ones were sterile. What are they? If I start my own channel, should I play up my rural New Hampshire/Maine accent? : )
I sympathize with you! Grasses, bamboo, palms, ferns, and even conifers are so difficult to key out that sometimes it is best left to experts!! Try as I might, the similarities are way more easy to notice than the differences!!! Does take a great deal of effort and intense study to meet the challenge!!! Therefore I always honor and respect anyone who makes the attempt!!! Hat's off to you.....
@@Forticus55 A hike through the city pointing and laughing at all the fucking idiots wasting their lives chasing money and destroying themselves and the planet through negligence or actual malice.
I started a prairie in the parking of my yard in a small town in Iowa. Native wildflowers mixed with some other wildflowers and grasses. Had to fight city to have it but I won so now I have an awesome flower patch that I don’t have to mow! Keep it up, love the content!
Thank you for fighting the city. Most of these sycophants and shills in municipal government seem to have no clue as to what the fuck they're doing or what makes a healthy, vibrant community anyway. They were accountants and shoe salesmen in their former lives before politics. No offense to either.
We need to get this guy a go-fund-me going so we can send his ass to the Amazon Rainforest. A ticket to Columbia is only about $500 round trip, and I'd love to see him narrating a sloth encounter or some shit.
Wonderful video. I loved the explanation of the rocks and soil present there to understand a little bit more the geologic-botanical relationship. Congratulations and move on showing more plants from North America.
Really enjoy your channel. How I ended up here, have no idea. Not really a plant person but this has been fascinating. Who knows, maybe I will. And I do love the cynical asides. The granite counter tops. Amen.
So when Tommy got whacked and Henry went into Witness Protection, apparently Jimmy moved out west and learned about plants and shit now he makes videos on UA-cam. 😍 THIS GUY IS AWESOME!
I put you on to escape from all the shit of the world. Thanks for your breaks back to nature and philosophy from the constant news I beat myself up with daily. I like your style and outlook and all the important sounding words you say🌈
More great shit, as usual. Would love to see you do something up here in Alaska. Maybe a walk through the tundra. I also hear there's a lot of the serpentine and ultramafic stuff down by Healy on the north side of the Alaska Range. Keep up the good work!
I got to tell you as a jazz guitarist who almost went into biology as I ended high school(know Florida well,but not latin names) I'm in awe of your smarts & brain power. I always thought of myself as a smart high iq'd snob but thanks to you now feel as dumb as the rocks you describe !. Love your videos even though much is over my head.
Iliamna bakeri is reminiscent of another California malva, the Chaparral Mallow, Malacothamnus fasciculatus in that it is an indicator species of a fairly recent fire event. It usually gradually disappears from the post burn site over time because it gets crowded out by other native flora. (A botanical channel you and some of your viewers might enjoy is Audio Guides to the Outdoors. It covers the botany and ecology of the Mt. Diablo area in central California.)
NB taken out all my subscriptions which are permanently begging for money, how many of them actually need all the money they beg for. You are genuine and much appreciated!
Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, CA has some perplexing designs in friable chrysotile rock walls next to some trails. The design is of intersecting cross-hatching with swirls in the center of each grid. Like a hashtag with a zero in the middle compartment. Still curious 15 years after seeing it and it still has me jazzed! I reviewed the literature and some journals but came up with bupkis. Ever been up there amd seen that? Wonder what process caused it? If you're ever out that way, well, it's just a thought.
Is the Iliamna formerly Malacothamnus or are they closely related? Both Malvaceae, both arid growing, both shrubs, both pink... I wonder because names change so much and if you remember my previous posts, being an older curmudgeon I seem to be so far out of the loop, I don't even know where the loop is anymore.....
Beautifully done, How awesome was that view of the thistle and Mount Shasta? VERY! I am happy to say that it ain't just eye candy, I have learned many new vocabulary words. Dainty bastard, ass breaking, pistol, metamorphic, and so on. Once again, Beautifully shot . Thank you!
These videos are awesome and very informative. In addition to all of the great banter about botany and geology, I love to treat these videos like geoguesser. Given the context at about 24 minutes, I'd say this one was probably shot in the area around (41.5725, -122.2116). That's the only location I could get Shasta and the hills to align correctly.
Big fan, love learning about all these damned plants. I do need to be a pain in the ass though, with a request. Please use yellow font on your overlays; the background is often too bright to see the white font. Using yellow solves this, which is why you see it so often. Either way, I'll keep watching, but think about it, you glorious bastard.
I love Mariposa lilies. Once in northern New Mexico I came across fields of at least hundreds of thousands of them in full bloom. They were white, pink and purple with yellow furry throats. One of the most colorful is traffic cone orange with a black throat with 3 glowing turquoise crescent moons. The Dutch hybridize them for gardens. I have seen the bulbs for sale. I have also seen the seeds for sale in native plant stores.
Fun little factoid: Croton Setiger actually makes a very good tinder for survival when the leaves are dried. Crush them up and they turn into a a cottony fluff. Damn things stink like pot though when it burns.
I can just tell this guy never gets bored and it’s amazing. I just want to pick at his brain and have a conversation with him like wow I just feel like he’s such an intellectually stimulating person and it’s kinda hot 🤷🏻♀️
And that, folks, is Sierra Pacific Industries. The third largest private landowner in the U.S. 1.7 million acres in Wash., Oregon and California. Thank Red Emmerson for locked gates, clear cutting and "forest management".
You have become my new favorite scientist, intensely passionate about the natural world presented before us if we just lean in and look. Irreverent toward the forces that seek to destroy what took nature millions of years to perfect through adaptation in an ever changing environment. You make geology and plants so real.
25:50 I was hiking in the heat of august... and it was very rough terrain. It was certainly what I would call break your ass terrain... and uh... I did indeed break my ass. Consummate storytelling as you impart great knowledge on the dangers of trekking through harsh landscapes just to tell us about an example of the mysteries of a flower you're showing us here. You make me wish I went to college and had you as a professor in I dunno what the fuck. I guess that is the role you are taking on in my vicarious existence through the youtubes. I live under Mt Rainier's blast radius and so much the same could be said about the humanity up here. Purple robes.. geez. LOL
THATS MY HOMETOWN! I’m cracking up oh my god the mount Shasta religion is SOMETHING ELSE I’m from the surrounding area and I have stood where you are standing right now!!
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"Especially the new-age creeps in purple robes"... ha! Love it.
I looked down when he said it. Dammit, I'm wearing a purple robe. Sonofabitch.
He leafed out the cryptozoologists..
Crushed by hot racks!
i've worn the needle off to my ipad replaying the intro to Shasta so many times✌️️👍finally somebody who is politically correct
@Stephen Murphy Mossy oak robes? or Realtree?
I just found this channel and very rarely comment on videos but oh my god this is my new favorite channel
Same.
Same!
Same!
I was just thinking this. Haha
Yeah, buddy! My new favorite channel too.
Came for the accent, but stayed for the anti-auto-dependent-tract-housing shit talking. The plant stuff is nice too.
at this point I don't even want him to fix the early cutoff between scenes. Makes me smile every time.
I think it's "part of the show"
I'm sure you heard his take on other people's (your) opinions of his contributions to life in general?. He says it just before the video cuts off.
Really going through some shit right now and for 30 mins you pulled me out of it. Thank you
Thats it, less homicidal and suicidal. No lie.
Here 5 months later at 1am and same. It's just like taking a break from the bullcrap.
Tell me about.........hang in there....
I wish all my Professors were like you. I would learn way more.
Both informative AND amusing. My beloved junior high botany teacher, may he RIP, would be publicly appalled by your colorful language (but secretly smiling!) You are a rare gem!
I always thought botanists were the happiest scientists, he's just happy to see a flower. After a long day in the lab I need a drink or 10.
I am an electrical engineer. I currently work as an environmental scientist collecting samples. I could be making more money but I love going out into the field for work. Bet you could find work as a field tech somewhere, most normal people hate it lmao
They’re alive! WE’RE ALIVE! it’s so nice to have a reminder.
I am so glad I found this channel, holy hell.
I feel smarter just listening to this guy and he's hilarious as well!? Best effing channel on youtube!!!
The first couple minutes of dialogue was strangely poetic.
I love your very interesting take on plants and geology and your occasional cynicism always gets me. Especially that little one about the granite countertops
"I don't give a sh^& about grasses, but I'm trying". Preach on. 4 years ago was supposed to be my "summer of grasses", because I've ignored them. I'm finally on it. Keyed out 3 in the last week (one was a sedge). I was surprised to see sori on the fern. I thought the dried thingies sticking up were past non-photosynthetic sporophylls, and assumed the green ones were sterile. What are they? If I start my own channel, should I play up my rural New Hampshire/Maine accent?
: )
Troy Tryclay Yes! Accents are also where it’s at!
do it
fellow mainer here, if you find some bangin plants, upload that shit!!!
Subscribed -- ready for those videos to start coming out ;)
I sympathize with you! Grasses, bamboo, palms, ferns, and even conifers are so difficult to key out that sometimes it is best left to experts!! Try as I might, the similarities are way more easy to notice than the differences!!! Does take a great deal of effort and intense study to meet the challenge!!! Therefore I always honor and respect anyone who makes the attempt!!! Hat's off to you.....
Love you dear, laughed my head off. You are wonderful.
If you could love a man from just him talking, it's this guy
Came for the flowers, stayed for the rant! LOL!
I came for the rant, and stayed for the flowers an' shit.
cncshrops I know. This fucker needs to do some guided fuckin hikes.
@@Forticus55 A hike through the city pointing and laughing at all the fucking idiots wasting their lives chasing money and destroying themselves and the planet through negligence or actual malice.
Lots of geology in this video! Wonderful!
IKR? Even on geology vids you don't get this much explanation and knowledge!! Love his words!
Don't miss the mini-rant at 20 min in -- trying to keep this raw material in my brain for my next camping trip.
I wish you had been one of my geology or environmental science professors. You really know you stuff and your passion is unparalleled
Very interesting topic. Thank you for sharing! I love how you present this information
I started a prairie in the parking of my yard in a small town in Iowa. Native wildflowers mixed with some other wildflowers and grasses. Had to fight city to have it but I won so now I have an awesome flower patch that I don’t have to mow! Keep it up, love the content!
Thank you for fighting the city. Most of these sycophants and shills in municipal government seem to have no clue as to what the fuck they're doing or what makes a healthy, vibrant community anyway. They were accountants and shoe salesmen in their former lives before politics. No offense to either.
We need to get this guy a go-fund-me going so we can send his ass to the Amazon Rainforest. A ticket to Columbia is only about $500 round trip, and I'd love to see him narrating a sloth encounter or some shit.
that hot rahk
not rock *rahk*
Liquid rahk
But he nails pyroclastic
I had to watch the first 40 seconds a few times. Good picture you painted.
"That's the safe word when you're in the Euphorbia dungeon" got me.
Wonderful video. I loved the explanation of the rocks and soil present there to understand a little bit more the geologic-botanical relationship. Congratulations and move on showing more plants from North America.
Really enjoy your channel. How I ended up here, have no idea. Not really a plant person but this has been fascinating. Who knows, maybe I will. And I do love the cynical asides. The granite counter tops. Amen.
"a safeword when you are in the Euphorbia dungeon" that's gold, Jerry!
Knowing the vast mind-boggling array of species in the euphorbias, euphoria dungeon is certainly an apt description!!!
"Liquid raack laying libertarians to waste." Beautiful.
Sounds like some strongbadisms
I learn so much from this channel :)
I am so glad I found this channel! You make everything you are explaining so interesting and down to earth.
So when Tommy got whacked and Henry went into Witness Protection, apparently Jimmy moved out west and learned about plants and shit now he makes videos on UA-cam. 😍 THIS GUY IS AWESOME!
Love from Illinois-- I wanna get as excited about meeting a plant as you my man, amazing.
I love how this guy gets so excited out in the field
Yeah, look at your surroundings before our species put up a F***ing Walmart or an Arby's. LMAO
don't knock Arby's - its good food for clearing out the colon.
"peepuls" love ya man (no homo). keep going. never stop. ever. You are the highlight of humanity. you make life ok again. thanks.
I put you on to escape from all the shit of the world. Thanks for your breaks back to nature and philosophy from the constant news I beat myself up with daily. I like your style and outlook and all the important sounding words you say🌈
More great shit, as usual. Would love to see you do something up here in Alaska. Maybe a walk through the tundra. I also hear there's a lot of the serpentine and ultramafic stuff down by Healy on the north side of the Alaska Range. Keep up the good work!
I would love to see that too! Alaska is such a mystery to me and probably most others... Likely many as yet undiscovered plants as well!!!
I got to tell you as a jazz guitarist who almost went into biology as I ended high school(know Florida well,but not latin names) I'm in awe of your smarts & brain power. I always thought of myself as a smart high iq'd snob but thanks to you now feel as dumb as the rocks you describe !. Love your videos even though much is over my head.
Such a nice birthday present. Give 'em hell, Tony!
What a succinct description of the Mt Shasta population
Mariposa lily. Nice. It looks like a butterfly.
Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly!
What a pretty purple lily! And I've never seen such a silver plant, either! That's a gorgeous tetradymia.
Iliamna bakeri is reminiscent of another California malva, the Chaparral Mallow, Malacothamnus fasciculatus in that it is an indicator species of a fairly recent fire event. It usually gradually disappears from the post burn site over time because it gets crowded out by other native flora.
(A botanical channel you and some of your viewers might enjoy is Audio Guides to the Outdoors. It covers the botany and ecology of the Mt. Diablo area in central California.)
That was my question too! They seem so similar and I wonder if it is the result of yet another name change.....
Gin would not exist without Juniperous catpissei.
Luckily the cat box terpene is not prevalent in da berries dere.
This channel is awesome!
Qué hermosa es la naturaleza, hermosos paisajes e.
NB taken out all my subscriptions which are permanently begging for money, how many of them actually need all the money they beg for. You are genuine and much appreciated!
i love Shasta, a sacred place a wonderful part of the planet. a young friend of mine has climbed it several times.
That’s one great camera zooming ability! Those ferns had no warning.
What do you think about the “big” earthquake to happen in PNW? Love your videos.
a beautiful goddamn flower.
I found some of these lilies growing in my yard this spring -- pure magic !
did you go to school for botany or are you self taught? I'm trying to get where you are as far as knowledge with plants goes
This is officially my favorite channel ever
Wow!! That was the best 30 minutes, EVER!! I learned so much! I live in Mt. Shasta. Not a 'Purple robe wearer' ;)
Destroy all the damn Star Thistles! They're wreaking havoc on our native plants.
Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, CA has some perplexing designs in friable chrysotile rock walls next to some trails. The design is of intersecting cross-hatching with swirls in the center of each grid. Like a hashtag with a zero in the middle compartment. Still curious 15 years after seeing it and it still has me jazzed! I reviewed the literature and some journals but came up with bupkis. Ever been up there amd seen that? Wonder what process caused it? If you're ever out that way, well, it's just a thought.
Is the Iliamna formerly Malacothamnus or are they closely related? Both Malvaceae, both arid growing, both shrubs, both pink... I wonder because names change so much and if you remember my previous posts, being an older curmudgeon I seem to be so far out of the loop, I don't even know where the loop is anymore.....
I have found these flowers with hairy flowers all over the santa monica mountain range. Cool story bro! Keep it up
Dude this is my favorite intro to one of your videos haha. Damn that’s good
Beautifully done, How awesome was that view of the thistle and Mount Shasta? VERY! I am happy to say that it ain't just eye candy, I have learned many new vocabulary words. Dainty bastard, ass breaking, pistol, metamorphic, and so on. Once again, Beautifully shot . Thank you!
Can’t wait to see the progression of this channel I say it will be mainstream within the next couple of years
For someone who went to school for horticulture, I totally get this guy and he is wonderful!
Do you ever get over to Mt. Lassen? That's an amazing place! Thanks for the lovely views!
This channel is amazing! Keep doing what you're doing!!!
These videos are awesome and very informative. In addition to all of the great banter about botany and geology, I love to treat these videos like geoguesser. Given the context at about 24 minutes, I'd say this one was probably shot in the area around (41.5725, -122.2116). That's the only location I could get Shasta and the hills to align correctly.
Nice stalking technique. Might well done!!!!
Listening to you while I'm vaping my favorite indica is the highlight of my day.
Thank you to the fuck on reddit that brought me to this channel. It is now my favorite.
Hi There. Love your channel. I am also interested in plant species, geology, and archaeology. Thank you. Love that mariposa Lilly!
Youz do ah pretty gud jab of educatin da pep ole. Gud jab! I uh also lived in cacago and also salavate over da uh green dezinens uh ah da wurld.
omg mountain mahogany is my favorite. I've seen some big ol ones S of Tahoe. Specifically above Star Lake
"God DAMNIT you're perfect"
You should film the New growth where the fires around Redding happened
Big fan, love learning about all these damned plants. I do need to be a pain in the ass though, with a request. Please use yellow font on your overlays; the background is often too bright to see the white font. Using yellow solves this, which is why you see it so often. Either way, I'll keep watching, but think about it, you glorious bastard.
This guy is definitely the kind we want to paying more attention too
Plants are beautiful.
I don't find your oratory prolix, at all.
God damn! You are wonderful.
Ooooh, pretty flower! 5:26
Dude where did you get all this knowledge from, your awesome
I can’t pronounce any of those words that you speak of keep up the good work 👍
6:31 "what the fuck am I talking about?" i lol'd 🤣
Oh my goodness. Get outta here! You are wonderful. You crack me up and educate at the same time.
please be my personal national parks tour guide😬
As someone who lives there can confirm that we're all new age creeps in purple robes
What about the white robed cultish religious nuts? There must be a few running around there as well.....
I love Mariposa lilies. Once in northern New Mexico I came across fields of at least hundreds of thousands of them in full bloom. They were white, pink and purple with yellow furry throats. One of the most colorful is traffic cone orange with a black throat with 3 glowing turquoise crescent moons. The Dutch hybridize them for gardens. I have seen the bulbs for sale. I have also seen the seeds for sale in native plant stores.
Lucky you!!! Glorious bulbs!!! The orange one is very rare.....
I think it is Calochortus Kennedyi.....
Fun little factoid: Croton Setiger actually makes a very good tinder for survival when the leaves are dried. Crush them up and they turn into a a cottony fluff. Damn things stink like pot though when it burns.
I can just tell this guy never gets bored and it’s amazing. I just want to pick at his brain and have a conversation with him like wow I just feel like he’s such an intellectually stimulating person and it’s kinda hot 🤷🏻♀️
And that, folks, is Sierra Pacific Industries. The third largest private landowner in the U.S. 1.7 million acres in Wash., Oregon and California. Thank Red Emmerson for locked gates, clear cutting and "forest management".
You Mister, are a legend!
You have become my new favorite scientist, intensely passionate about the natural world presented before us if we just lean in and look. Irreverent toward the forces that seek to destroy what took nature millions of years to perfect through adaptation in an ever changing environment. You make geology and plants so real.
I love your channel. Subscribed.
brilliant channel, superb scientist, keep pumping the content
25:50 I was hiking in the heat of august... and it was very rough terrain. It was certainly what I would call break your ass terrain... and uh... I did indeed break my ass.
Consummate storytelling as you impart great knowledge on the dangers of trekking through harsh landscapes just to tell us about an example of the mysteries of a flower you're showing us here.
You make me wish I went to college and had you as a professor in I dunno what the fuck.
I guess that is the role you are taking on in my vicarious existence through the youtubes.
I live under Mt Rainier's blast radius and so much the same could be said about the humanity up here.
Purple robes.. geez. LOL
"You're gonna have to look that up on your own, fuckface" LMAO
I was walking around Sam's club with this playing in my earbuds. I don't usually shop with a grin.🙂
I think the rock you picked up at 12:11 is a piece of petrified wood.
Love your presentations man. "I don't give a shit about no grasses .....but I'm trying." LOL
Another cracking video!
LOVE that flower at 5:16 I love seeing flowers with symmetry of 3 like that. They look like some samurai's coat of arms symbol or something.
THATS MY HOMETOWN! I’m cracking up oh my god the mount Shasta religion is SOMETHING ELSE
I’m from the surrounding area and I have stood where you are standing right now!!
usually im pretty good with words, but the way he presents his intro is beyond hilarious, the fact that hes a genius in plants is pure mindblowing
Your a riot !!! Thank you for sharing :)
Your persona reminds me of AvE. It's great.
I too enjoy my educational content sprinkled with a generous dose of profanity.
I went to AvE because I saw so many references in these comments, but all I saw there was videos about power tools! Did I land on the wrong site?
haha this guys voice gets me everytime.
I feel like i'm in the Botany Mafia marrrrron!