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I live on Palo Verde Ave in Palm Springs and I have two of these trees in my front yard. They are beautiful, especially in the spring when the entire tree is covered in yellow flowers. Actually, our entire street gets covered in flowers because most of my neighbors have a tree of two in their front yards as well, and they all bloom at once. It’s spectacular!
I loved our neighbor's palo Verde in the spring! When the wind would blow the gold flowers would fall into our yard and it was just gorgeous! Now that we've moved north, I think it's too cold where we're at now for a Palo Verde, but I sure wish I could plant one in my yard!
Same. I have a few palo verde trees in my yard as well (in New Mexico). They’re beautiful in the spring, and suited to the desert southwest environment.
I planted a palo verde tree from seed when I was 64. I thought it was a sort of joke on myself. I never expected to live long enough to see it achieve a good size. Alas, within 9 months, it had grown to over 9 feet. It grew as a single trunk without branches until it reached ten feet. My thought was that because it was planted from seed the tap root could go down straight and the trunk responded by just growing up Within ten years it was a beautiful 25 foot tree or so, which would be larger if we didn't trim it back.
When I bought my first house after starting a family, money was tight. So i used to drive around the rich parts of town looking for seed pods in the landscaping. I planted 4 or 5 Palo and Mesquite tree seeds and they all sprouted and then flourished. I sold that house just last year (maybe 8 years after planting) and the trees were massive. I got lots of compliments about them from prospective home buyers, so they definitely helped with curb appeal!
Another important adaptation this, and other plants in dry arid conditions, has is C4 photosynthesis. C4 photosynthesis eliminates photorespiration, which makes C4 more efficient, as well as allowing them to keep their stomata closed longer, reducing water loss.
It’s invasive in the SE US but the Chinese parasol tree has a very similar bark when young. I believe it also does stem photosynthesis. Hardy to zone 6b
I have many Palo Verde trees (as well as multiple species of Palo Verde) in my yard here in Southern Utah. They’re one of my absolute favorite trees native to the Southwest. My entire town is blanketed in yellow Palo Verde blossoms every spring and it NEVER gets old!
I visited the Scottsdale, AZ area in early May when the Palo Verde (which means "green stick" - I'm surprised you didn't mention it) were in full bloom. They were beautiful in the Tonto National Forest and the Desert Botanical Garden. I got a lot of good photos during that trip.
The Palo Verde trees and huge, lacey Mexican Bird of Paradise shrubs and vivid, purple Arizona Sage are three of my favorite sights when visiting my sister in AZ. Such a feast for the eyes!💝
There are 5 palo verdes on the other side of my south property wall, so I have their lovely shade. There are many palo verdes growing in Tucson, and when they bloom in the spring, glorious clouds of yellow are everywhere! As are the allergies….Sniff.
Tucson Ecologist with allergies here, they don’t affect allergies! They are insect pollinated thus have sticky pollen that isn’t carried in the wind, thus never reaches your nose. They do however flower at the windiest time of the year, when dust and ragweed are in the air making us sneeze
WOW! What a fantastic tree! The scarcity of water is a real problem worldwide and we need new approaches to deal with it effectively. Our team took a closer look at one possible solution in Saudi Arabia.
Only certain part of the world is lacking water! Look into the balance between natural resources, local food production efficiency and skyrocketing populations! 👻 After all, you can't endlessly blame others for own mistakes, or count on export of useless population! ✌🏻
The California Buckeye tree is also a summer deciduous tree. It starts growing leaves in late winter, by spring it has large inflorescences (bunches of flowers), and then by mid-summer the leaves are shriveled up and fallen off. For the rest of summer and fall it stays dormant to survive the hot and dry climate. It is the first tree to lose its leaves, but it is the first tree to regrow them as well!
Palo Verdes also break incredibly easily, anytime a storm blows through you are guaranteed to find several Palo Verdes broken or knocked over. Never park your car under one if you can, I have seen a few vehicles damaged by falling branches.
It's kinda funny seeing comments from people who've visited or live in this region and find these trees beautiful. I've been in Phoenix my whole life, and when they put up the picture of a palo verde tree blooming, my first thought was "Ugh, THOSE" haha. We have, like, 3 plants that thrive out here. Palo Verde trees, cacti, and the always-hard-to-spell bougainvillea (yes, I had to Google it).
That’s kind of sad…I live in the Southwest and see them everyday, and I still cherish these beautiful trees. Sure they can cause allergies and they’re super common, but they’re so much more beautiful than most of the native plant life of the U.S. (my opinion). And TONS of other amazing exotic and native plants thrive in Arizona than just those three. Go to Idaho or Minnesota and you’ll see how diverse Arizona really is.
@@KayentaRojo Honestly, on the rare occasion that I have traveled east, or even up to Flagstaff, I'm kind of blown away by all the green, and trees that actually lose their leaves, and a distinct lack of gravel or pervasive shades of brown. To be somewhere and think, "Oh, life *actually* flourishes here, not just a select handful of species."
@@castilater I get that, I guess everyone has there preferences! Arizona is a very bio diverse place though, it’s one of the hotspots of North America.
In fairness, I'll bet a lot of people find it beautiful precisely because it's one of the few plants that thrive in the desert. That's what makes the landscape of the southwest so different from the northwest or east. Personally, I love that areas look so different. There's something very beautiful, to me, about an area's unique characteristics and how they work to make places stand out from one another. Like, to me, landscape's aesthetic is kind of rooted (haha, dad joke) in the aspects that make it identifiable, it's differences. Then again, I'm not exactly a huge fan of just looking at things, so maybe I just find it beautiful because it gives you information about where you are/the picture is from.
@@Gildedmuse Totally agree with everything you said, It’s pretty miraculous that you can go to places like Florida, Arizona, and Montana in the same country. Every area has its own natural beauty. I for one prefer the Southwest because of the mysterious and isolating feeling, mixed with the incredibly beautiful evergreen desert plants that look the same year round (besides winter/spring when things bloom). But there are so many other areas of the Country that catch my eye as well. This place is amazing (wilderness wise).
I live in California’s Mojave desert, where we don’t have native Palo Verdes, but we grow them in my yard and give them quite a bit of water. they’ve grown immensely in just a few years. They’re over 20 feet tall and were only planted in 2018. They’re native to the Sonoran desert though. The Sonoran desert is the wettest desert here in the states and the Mojave is the driest desert, so we still need to water nonnative desert plants quite a bit, even our ocotillos.
I saw many of these scattered throughout Las Vegas. I was going to identify them, but it looks like you guys did it for me! I took many photos of different plant species found in the desert. I'm in awe of the variety of strategies plants use to inhibit such arid, dry landscapes.
As someone who lives near these green sticks, I can say a couple of things about them: 1. They are the "cherry blossom tree of the desert" when they bloom and have really nice yellow flowers. 2. If you have allergies... avoid the verde at all costs, especially when they bloom.
An ecologist said in another comment that they are insect pollinated which means they have sticky pollen that isn't carried in the wind and cannot reach your nose. Problem is they flower at the windiest time of the year when the air is full of dust and ragweed, so we _think_ it's their fault by association, but really they have no affect on allergies at all.
They're not weak only against fire, but also against wind. Living in Arizona, I've seen many of them fallen after a storm and many time cutting power lines or totalling cars.
@@WillGo7 this!! I've noticed that the palo verde trees I'll see when hiking are not destroyed after the winds. They're also a bit more shrubby in their growth (not pruned into urban tree shapes), which I imagine gives them a lower center of gravity
Speaking of wildfires, smoke has been covering my area in Missouri 3 times in the past 2 months. We normally don't have to deal with smokey air, and it makes us cough and sneeze more. Fires out west are causing more health issues across the country, not just in the west. I hope more folks realize that.
Yeah, I’d like to be able to stand that kind of heat. I wouldn’t mind being a tree, and I wouldn’t even mind being green, but not sure how I’d like having such thin skin in today’s world.
I was eating when the other trees were fanning themselves around the pool. Pancakes are not half bad snorted out the nose. Your humor is unexpected and appreciated.
I think it would be wonderful to have a really green tree. Although they couldn't survive cold temperatures it would be awesome to see them sticking up green against the snow but I'm thinking how much my little anole lizards would love them since the lizards can mimic that exact color and they would be safe there.
"Cat drinking out of your glass when you're not looking".. lol little bastards always love to do that. Sometimes I'll go to my bathroom and hear him drinking it and there is nothing I can do because I'm stuck on the toilet. It's like he knows I can't leave to stop him. Smart kitty.
Weird, which issues some (clueless city) people have with their pets.. Ever considered teaching your pets how to behave? I'm grown up with loads of different pets and animals, in the country side. Absolutely no farmer had any such issues with their pets or animals, no matter how large, small or cuuuute they were! 👀🤪 Tables are absolutely no go area for pets 👻💪🏻
If SHTF, also know that green seed pods are edible, and if collected and dried can be ground up and used for many dishes. Recipes can be found on UA-cam.
Oh lmao that's what the green tree is called? I just call it the "green trees". It stands out so much. I don't think I've seen one thats dropped it's leaves in the city, but maybe I just don't pay enough attention. In Phoenix AZ.
Would a tree like that be able to survive in a more humid climate, or would it just drown? Could/Does the green bark have benefits to other species of plant?
We always assume if a glass of half full water has been unattended for 5 minutes it's feline contaminated. Sometimes u just have to be distracted and they will slink in and out!
I have the wild type Palo Verde in my yard . These grow from seed easily . I have to remove volunteers often . The flowers are beautiful and a bee plant , the tree is also very very thorny and at times drops all its leaves . Than you can use the leaves (desert hay) for mulch or compost . It is in the legume family and is nitrogen fixing There is a selected Palo Verde from nurseries called Desert Museum it does not seed or have thorns . How ever then there is nothing for you or the wild life as the seeds are edible . You can cook the fresh green seed pods for 5 min in boiling then eat . Also my trees are growing with out added water - than you don't have to prune much .
If my knowledge of the writing-recording-editing-producing-uploading timeline is correct, this was likely recorded during the same few days I was on those long stretches of desert road and wondering, "How in the hell do those trees live out here?" along with all my other curiosities about the landscapes throughout the West. A part of me is now complete, since by the time I was back within cell coverage range I had too many new questions to remember to look this one up! If you get the chance to see Arizona, part of Nevada, Utah, and a large portion of Southern Idaho within 33 hours, I fervently encourage it - just maybe not in a box truck full of production equipment, if you want a comfortable ride with steady "footing" on the mountain passes 😅
Si la tecnología del palo verde se usa en otras plantas o se crean nuevos patrones de color para mejorar sus funciones del palo verde, junto como en Chile las plantas aprovechan la bruma marina o el rocío matinal, se podrán hacer mejores bosques de semi desierto diseñados a futuro, sugerencia.
Any thought been put to using these help control desert expansion in Africa? They're desert adapted, but I bet they hold the soil in better than just about anything else that grows around the edges of the Sahara.
At some point I expect recovery of deserts like the Sahara back into viable land will become a higher priority. We need to find exceptionally hardy plants like this to start the recovery process. First the most hardy plants provide windbreaks and stabilize the soil (which may have to be brought in with the plants in barren rocky areas and on bare slopes). Then less hardy deciduous trees can be brought in, which further help to moderate the local humidity, and improve the desert soil health with the dropping of their leaves. Finally agriculturally productive plants can be brought in, several decades in the future, protected by and planted among the trees.
Such countermeasures to desertification may involve introduction of invasive plant species that fare better in the more arid environment, but at that same time cultivating and breeding native plants to be more arid resistant is a more work intensive process to terraform a desert.
Um, honest question from someone who definitely believes we need to do more to protect the environment but that's not necessarily where my personal passions are. So, is there a good reason that we would want to convert desert area? I get what the advantages would be to humans, and I understand that we all have an interest in preventing further desertification since it could eventually lead to loss of habitat. But on the other hand, I guess I see desert as just another biome. There are biomes like coastal oceans that we both want to preserve and protect - it's an incredibly rich source of biodiversity not to mention all those selfish reasons humans have to protect things like coral reefs - but we don't want it *spreading*. Much better if Florida doesn't become just a shallow bit of ocean. So the general stance is very much "protect this, but don't actively participate in harmful practices that cause it to SPREAD".
@@Gildedmuse Nothing on the planet has ever been stable. At the end of the last Ice Age about 20,000 years ago, most of the land that we now use for agriculture was frozen tundra. All land animals that can't survive permanent winter had to migrate to the equatorial regions of the planet and stay there for the last 250k years during the last Ice Age, or go extinct. The Sahara was most likely a savanna grassland that primitive humans overgrazed, and slash and burned, just as we are doing now to the Amazon rainforests. We made the Sahara, mostly lifeless sand dunes and bare rock where the soil eroded and blew away.
@@DMahalko not true. There simply was not enough human beings those days, to influence the development of Sahara! Stop short cutting reality, to support your weird opinion ... Orange Man isn't admirable or worth copying!
Almond will only graft to close relatives (peach is the usual rootstock, because some clones are both easy to propagate and resistant to nematodes). It will die on both maple and palo verde.
I planted one of these for my mother. Got big fast. Now it has all these little brownish (sappy?) bumps on a few branches. The ants seem attracted to these bumps. Or did the ants cause them?
@@fruitoftheanus Ah, this might be it. I wasn't sure if they were alive as they remained motionless after removed. Hopefully the ants are killing them and not in cahoots with the little devils, as some species of plant parasites and ants are.
But as noted in the vid, they're not only not fire-resistent, but rather extremely vulnerable due to their thin bark (as opposed to how some trees that are practically fireproof on their thick, tough outer-most layers of bark). And hot dry areas are prone to wildfire. So one bad fire and one could lose all these trees in one fell swoop.
How does stem photosynthesis work though? One of the reasons why leaves are optimized for photosynthesis is because they have other porous structures that allow for intake of CO2 as part of the process, but that is antithetical to the goal of preserving water in the plant since those increase transpiration. So how does this plant take in CO2 to support the photosynthesis process via the woody stem without compromising the minimization of transpiration?
Trichomes (which many plants have on their foliage) around the stomata raise the local humidity, reducing the rate of evaporation. It is also likely that like many desert plants (including Cacti, nearly all of which are stem photosynthesizers) it has switched to CAM photosynthesis, meaning it only breathes at night when temperature and evaporation rates are low. Photosynthesis cannot of course occur without light, but CAM plants store the carbon dioxide they inhale at night in the form of malic acid, which is broken down to CO2 and shunted to their chloroplasts over the course of a day. You can taste this at work in the edible CAM succulent Portulacaria afra. Its foliage is harsh and unpleasant in the morning when it is full of malic acid from the night before. By late afternoon it ismerely pleasantly & mildly tart (like a weak sorrel) and rather delicious. (Edit: Repaired damage caused by Google's satanic autoerror ('autocorrect '), which had replaced "stomata" with "stomach.")
So I just needed to burn the Palo Verde tree in my yard to kill it? I cut down a tree that was rooting under a retaining wall and carport l, damaging them. I cut it down to the stump, drilled the stump, salted it amd covered with a black trash bag until the winter came and the rotting stump was smelling. I chipped away the rest of the rotted stump after that. Next summer, Palo Verde shoots began growing out of the ground. Last time I drove past that house that tree made a full recovery.
Better look into this British law: "It is a criminal offence to plant or cause to grow a non-native invasive species in the wild." Invasive species is a pest ruining natural environment! You already have loads of certain humans, ruining multiculti Britain 🔥😳
Probably CO2 increase would be good for some plants, but in most cases CO2 is not the limiting factor in their growth. Think of human children; they need water to grow but once you provide adequate water, giving them more water won't make them grow faster. On the other hand, the side effects of more CO2 in the atmosphere can be very bad for many plants (and children).
Why would it? Trees in general have meristem tissue in their buds and inner bark. Because plant vascular tissues are intracellular (holes in the cell walls or former cell walls where the cell died to become wood), plant "stem cells" (meristem cells) don't move around.
So, it does need water, it just has deep roots to get to it and is really good at retaining it. You guys know science is pretty interesting on its own without weird baited titles like that of this video.
Literally been working in Arizona and started thinking about why the leaves are shaped like that etc Was trying to figure out how to contact you but bam no need Stop stalking meeeeeee I figured it was cool thing with the stroma
When there's spots on my glasses, I can see bokeh circles in my vision. Today, I was looking at a light and inside the circle I could see my eyelashes as if they were under microscope as well as blobs in between them. What am I seeing, and why can I see this inside my glasses? My prescription is mainly for astigmatism.
Okay you're talking about Palo Verdes which is one species but yet at 1:16 you show photos of a blue Palo Verde a subspecies. And I know a blue green stick is just confusing
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I live on Palo Verde Ave in Palm Springs and I have two of these trees in my front yard. They are beautiful, especially in the spring when the entire tree is covered in yellow flowers. Actually, our entire street gets covered in flowers because most of my neighbors have a tree of two in their front yards as well, and they all bloom at once. It’s spectacular!
I wanna see
That sounds beautiful. It also sounds sustainable. More yards should be decorated by local and sustainable plants. Keep up the great work!
Hi neighbor, I'm also in the valley and Palo Verde trees are gorgeous.
I loved our neighbor's palo Verde in the spring! When the wind would blow the gold flowers would fall into our yard and it was just gorgeous!
Now that we've moved north, I think it's too cold where we're at now for a Palo Verde, but I sure wish I could plant one in my yard!
Same. I have a few palo verde trees in my yard as well (in New Mexico). They’re beautiful in the spring, and suited to the desert southwest environment.
I planted a palo verde tree from seed when I was 64. I thought it was a sort of joke on myself. I never expected to live long enough to see it achieve a good size. Alas, within 9 months, it had grown to over 9 feet. It grew as a single trunk without branches until it reached ten feet. My thought was that because it was planted from seed the tap root could go down straight and the trunk responded by just growing up Within ten years it was a beautiful 25 foot tree or so, which would be larger if we didn't trim it back.
thanks for all that you do sir. you gave life to a tree. ❤️
😯. How cool!
Iowa here, no Palo verde tree for me! 🥶
Thank you for sharing your experience!
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When I bought my first house after starting a family, money was tight. So i used to drive around the rich parts of town looking for seed pods in the landscaping. I planted 4 or 5 Palo and Mesquite tree seeds and they all sprouted and then flourished. I sold that house just last year (maybe 8 years after planting) and the trees were massive. I got lots of compliments about them from prospective home buyers, so they definitely helped with curb appeal!
Small leaves, photosynthesis with it's stem, and lives in the desert? It's convergently evolved the same strategies as a cactus!
Similar environmental conditions influence the evolution of organisms to form similar traits. Evolution is amazing
Charles Darwin
Another important adaptation this, and other plants in dry arid conditions, has is C4 photosynthesis. C4 photosynthesis eliminates photorespiration, which makes C4 more efficient, as well as allowing them to keep their stomata closed longer, reducing water loss.
Now we just need a cold tolerant variety.
Heeyyy love seeing you here Cody!
omg that would be so cool
You're trying to reforestate your ranch, right? how is it going?
Isn't that just a pine tree?
It’s invasive in the SE US but the Chinese parasol tree has a very similar bark when young. I believe it also does stem photosynthesis. Hardy to zone 6b
This appears to me to be an example of convergent evolution. The way the tree seems to photosynthesize like a cacti.
Agree! Soo interesting!
I have many Palo Verde trees (as well as multiple species of Palo Verde) in my yard here in Southern Utah. They’re one of my absolute favorite trees native to the Southwest. My entire town is blanketed in yellow Palo Verde blossoms every spring and it NEVER gets old!
I'm from the Southwest and I love these things so much.
I visited the Scottsdale, AZ area in early May when the Palo Verde (which means "green stick" - I'm surprised you didn't mention it) were in full bloom. They were beautiful in the Tonto National Forest and the Desert Botanical Garden. I got a lot of good photos during that trip.
Palo Alto (tall stick) got its name from a redwood that stood out as a landmark from the bay (and is still there today).
The Palo Verde trees and huge, lacey Mexican Bird of Paradise shrubs and vivid, purple Arizona Sage are three of my favorite sights when visiting my sister in AZ. Such a feast for the eyes!💝
I have two of these trees growing in my yard, beautiful trees
There are 5 palo verdes on the other side of my south property wall, so I have their lovely shade. There are many palo verdes growing in Tucson, and when they bloom in the spring, glorious clouds of yellow are everywhere! As are the allergies….Sniff.
Tucson Ecologist with allergies here, they don’t affect allergies! They are insect pollinated thus have sticky pollen that isn’t carried in the wind, thus never reaches your nose. They do however flower at the windiest time of the year, when dust and ragweed are in the air making us sneeze
WOW! What a fantastic tree! The scarcity of water is a real problem worldwide and we need new approaches to deal with it effectively. Our team took a closer look at one possible solution in Saudi Arabia.
Only certain part of the world is lacking water!
Look into the balance between natural resources, local food production efficiency and skyrocketing populations! 👻
After all, you can't endlessly blame others for own mistakes, or count on export of useless population! ✌🏻
The California Buckeye tree is also a summer deciduous tree. It starts growing leaves in late winter, by spring it has large inflorescences (bunches of flowers), and then by mid-summer the leaves are shriveled up and fallen off. For the rest of summer and fall it stays dormant to survive the hot and dry climate. It is the first tree to lose its leaves, but it is the first tree to regrow them as well!
Palo Verdes also break incredibly easily, anytime a storm blows through you are guaranteed to find several Palo Verdes broken or knocked over. Never park your car under one if you can, I have seen a few vehicles damaged by falling branches.
Probably over watered trees. Once established, do not water them.
More than likely a hybrid that has much more brittle wood.
It's kinda funny seeing comments from people who've visited or live in this region and find these trees beautiful. I've been in Phoenix my whole life, and when they put up the picture of a palo verde tree blooming, my first thought was "Ugh, THOSE" haha. We have, like, 3 plants that thrive out here. Palo Verde trees, cacti, and the always-hard-to-spell bougainvillea (yes, I had to Google it).
That’s kind of sad…I live in the Southwest and see them everyday, and I still cherish these beautiful trees. Sure they can cause allergies and they’re super common, but they’re so much more beautiful than most of the native plant life of the U.S. (my opinion). And TONS of other amazing exotic and native plants thrive in Arizona than just those three. Go to Idaho or Minnesota and you’ll see how diverse Arizona really is.
@@KayentaRojo Honestly, on the rare occasion that I have traveled east, or even up to Flagstaff, I'm kind of blown away by all the green, and trees that actually lose their leaves, and a distinct lack of gravel or pervasive shades of brown. To be somewhere and think, "Oh, life *actually* flourishes here, not just a select handful of species."
@@castilater I get that, I guess everyone has there preferences! Arizona is a very bio diverse place though, it’s one of the hotspots of North America.
In fairness, I'll bet a lot of people find it beautiful precisely because it's one of the few plants that thrive in the desert. That's what makes the landscape of the southwest so different from the northwest or east. Personally, I love that areas look so different. There's something very beautiful, to me, about an area's unique characteristics and how they work to make places stand out from one another. Like, to me, landscape's aesthetic is kind of rooted (haha, dad joke) in the aspects that make it identifiable, it's differences.
Then again, I'm not exactly a huge fan of just looking at things, so maybe I just find it beautiful because it gives you information about where you are/the picture is from.
@@Gildedmuse Totally agree with everything you said, It’s pretty miraculous that you can go to places like Florida, Arizona, and Montana in the same country. Every area has its own natural beauty. I for one prefer the Southwest because of the mysterious and isolating feeling, mixed with the incredibly beautiful evergreen desert plants that look the same year round (besides winter/spring when things bloom). But there are so many other areas of the Country that catch my eye as well. This place is amazing (wilderness wise).
I've seen this tree often in southern California desert areas. Now I know what the name is
I live in California’s Mojave desert, where we don’t have native Palo Verdes, but we grow them in my yard and give them quite a bit of water. they’ve grown immensely in just a few years. They’re over 20 feet tall and were only planted in 2018. They’re native to the Sonoran desert though. The Sonoran desert is the wettest desert here in the states and the Mojave is the driest desert, so we still need to water nonnative desert plants quite a bit, even our ocotillos.
I saw many of these scattered throughout Las Vegas. I was going to identify them, but it looks like you guys did it for me!
I took many photos of different plant species found in the desert. I'm in awe of the variety of strategies plants use to inhibit such arid, dry landscapes.
Those seem to be really cool trees! I have never seen one in NM but I guess they only grow in a small area here. I would love to see one someday!
As someone who lives near these green sticks, I can say a couple of things about them:
1. They are the "cherry blossom tree of the desert" when they bloom and have really nice yellow flowers.
2. If you have allergies... avoid the verde at all costs, especially when they bloom.
An ecologist said in another comment that they are insect pollinated which means they have sticky pollen that isn't carried in the wind and cannot reach your nose. Problem is they flower at the windiest time of the year when the air is full of dust and ragweed, so we _think_ it's their fault by association, but really they have no affect on allergies at all.
@@maoman4855 Makes sense, the negative is removed. :)
This is not a very allergenic tree. Most of us here in AZ know this.
I have 2 Palo Verde trees growing in our Desert Food Forest. We are planning to get more. Btw, the clusters of flowers are beautiful as well 😍
I live in Arizona; love to see you talking about indigenous flora.
They're not weak only against fire, but also against wind. Living in Arizona, I've seen many of them fallen after a storm and many time cutting power lines or totalling cars.
Those are over watered cultivated palo verde. They grow too fast and the wood is weak as a result.
@@WillGo7 this!! I've noticed that the palo verde trees I'll see when hiking are not destroyed after the winds.
They're also a bit more shrubby in their growth (not pruned into urban tree shapes), which I imagine gives them a lower center of gravity
I remember seeing these in central California and thought they looked really nice. Now I know what they’re called!
Speaking of wildfires, smoke has been covering my area in Missouri 3 times in the past 2 months.
We normally don't have to deal with smokey air, and it makes us cough and sneeze more.
Fires out west are causing more health issues across the country, not just in the west. I hope more folks realize that.
I love palo verdes, I see lots of them here in Juárez and El Paso :D
Finally a plant I don't need to water so it might live
Ah these are some of my favorite trees, they're absolutely beautiful
going to have to take a road trip to the south west and get a few of theses strange trees looks like it could be good bonsai material
That's a interesting idea . I might give that a try .
I wish I could be just like that tree, minus being a tree.
Yeah, I’d like to be able to stand that kind of heat. I wouldn’t mind being a tree, and I wouldn’t even mind being green, but not sure how I’d like having such thin skin in today’s world.
I was eating when the other trees were fanning themselves around the pool. Pancakes are not half bad snorted out the nose. Your humor is unexpected and appreciated.
Nicely done! Long Live Native Plants and Species! 🥰🥰🥰♥️♥️♥️
I think it would be wonderful to have a really green tree. Although they couldn't survive cold temperatures it would be awesome to see them sticking up green against the snow but I'm thinking how much my little anole lizards would love them since the lizards can mimic that exact color and they would be safe there.
"Cat drinking out of your glass when you're not looking".. lol little bastards always love to do that. Sometimes I'll go to my bathroom and hear him drinking it and there is nothing I can do because I'm stuck on the toilet. It's like he knows I can't leave to stop him. Smart kitty.
Weird, which issues some (clueless city) people have with their pets.. Ever considered teaching your pets how to behave?
I'm grown up with loads of different pets and animals, in the country side. Absolutely no farmer had any such issues with their pets or animals, no matter how large, small or cuuuute they were! 👀🤪
Tables are absolutely no go area for pets 👻💪🏻
If SHTF, also know that green seed pods are edible, and if collected and dried can be ground up and used for many dishes. Recipes can be found on UA-cam.
Same for mesquite although with mesquite the ripe ones are edible too. And are grounded for flour
This is my favorite tree of all time!
Oh lmao that's what the green tree is called? I just call it the "green trees". It stands out so much. I don't think I've seen one thats dropped it's leaves in the city, but maybe I just don't pay enough attention. In Phoenix AZ.
They have these trees at my campus and they look alien like, but also so beautiful :) 🙌
Great to be here so early. And I suppose life finds a way.
Would a tree like that be able to survive in a more humid climate, or would it just drown? Could/Does the green bark have benefits to other species of plant?
It would probably just get drowned if it got past a certain point
Unless planted in a very raised bed I would be concerned about root rot
Ah, cats and water glasses. I am okay with sharing as long as I don’t know about it.
We always assume if a glass of half full water has been unattended for 5 minutes it's feline contaminated. Sometimes u just have to be distracted and they will slink in and out!
I have the wild type Palo Verde in my yard . These grow from seed easily . I have to remove volunteers often . The flowers are beautiful and a bee plant , the tree is also very very thorny and at times drops all its leaves . Than you can use the leaves (desert hay) for mulch or compost . It is in the legume family and is nitrogen fixing There is a selected Palo Verde from nurseries called Desert Museum it does not seed or have thorns . How ever then there is nothing for you or the wild life as the seeds are edible . You can cook the fresh green seed pods for 5 min in boiling then eat . Also my trees are growing with out added water - than you don't have to prune much .
If my knowledge of the writing-recording-editing-producing-uploading timeline is correct, this was likely recorded during the same few days I was on those long stretches of desert road and wondering, "How in the hell do those trees live out here?" along with all my other curiosities about the landscapes throughout the West. A part of me is now complete, since by the time I was back within cell coverage range I had too many new questions to remember to look this one up!
If you get the chance to see Arizona, part of Nevada, Utah, and a large portion of Southern Idaho within 33 hours, I fervently encourage it - just maybe not in a box truck full of production equipment, if you want a comfortable ride with steady "footing" on the mountain passes 😅
I LOVE this tree.
Wow, as per what I learned on Eons, that's a very ancient way of leafing!
Spanish speakers got a spoiler because palo verde means green stick
My mom and grandma would use these branches to whip me, they stayed flexible for a loooong time therefore very deadly to the flesh
Man I came here for the Palo Verde song 🤣 trying zapatear here but ended up learning
Si la tecnología del palo verde se usa en otras plantas o se crean nuevos patrones de color para mejorar sus funciones del palo verde, junto como en Chile las plantas aprovechan la bruma marina o el rocío matinal, se podrán hacer mejores bosques de semi desierto diseñados a futuro, sugerencia.
Try English, if you want to communicate with the rest of the modern world 👀
Thanks for your sharing
I wuv trees with green stems
God I love science! Another interesting video!
Time to import this tree to Australia and South Africa.
Use natives. Otherwise the invasion potential is likely too high.
Any thought been put to using these help control desert expansion in Africa? They're desert adapted, but I bet they hold the soil in better than just about anything else that grows around the edges of the Sahara.
That could work if introducing them has no negative effect.
If this sort of tree were useful for Sahara, you didn't need to import them.
Invasive flora is a pest for any environment!
Thank you
At some point I expect recovery of deserts like the Sahara back into viable land will become a higher priority. We need to find exceptionally hardy plants like this to start the recovery process. First the most hardy plants provide windbreaks and stabilize the soil (which may have to be brought in with the plants in barren rocky areas and on bare slopes). Then less hardy deciduous trees can be brought in, which further help to moderate the local humidity, and improve the desert soil health with the dropping of their leaves. Finally agriculturally productive plants can be brought in, several decades in the future, protected by and planted among the trees.
Such countermeasures to desertification may involve introduction of invasive plant species that fare better in the more arid environment, but at that same time cultivating and breeding native plants to be more arid resistant is a more work intensive process to terraform a desert.
Um, honest question from someone who definitely believes we need to do more to protect the environment but that's not necessarily where my personal passions are.
So, is there a good reason that we would want to convert desert area? I get what the advantages would be to humans, and I understand that we all have an interest in preventing further desertification since it could eventually lead to loss of habitat. But on the other hand, I guess I see desert as just another biome. There are biomes like coastal oceans that we both want to preserve and protect - it's an incredibly rich source of biodiversity not to mention all those selfish reasons humans have to protect things like coral reefs - but we don't want it *spreading*. Much better if Florida doesn't become just a shallow bit of ocean. So the general stance is very much "protect this, but don't actively participate in harmful practices that cause it to SPREAD".
@@Gildedmuse Nothing on the planet has ever been stable. At the end of the last Ice Age about 20,000 years ago, most of the land that we now use for agriculture was frozen tundra. All land animals that can't survive permanent winter had to migrate to the equatorial regions of the planet and stay there for the last 250k years during the last Ice Age, or go extinct. The Sahara was most likely a savanna grassland that primitive humans overgrazed, and slash and burned, just as we are doing now to the Amazon rainforests. We made the Sahara, mostly lifeless sand dunes and bare rock where the soil eroded and blew away.
@@DMahalko not true. There simply was not enough human beings those days, to influence the development of Sahara!
Stop short cutting reality, to support your weird opinion ...
Orange Man isn't admirable or worth copying!
You want a desert museum Palo Verde they have no thorns
Stuff like this got me thinking there has to be a more appropriate graft candidate for almond trees than maple.
Almond will only graft to close relatives (peach is the usual rootstock, because some clones are both easy to propagate and resistant to nematodes). It will die on both maple and palo verde.
Palo Verde: "No leaves? No problem."
I planted one of these for my mother. Got big fast. Now it has all these little brownish (sappy?) bumps on a few branches. The ants seem attracted to these bumps. Or did the ants cause them?
Hard-bodied scale insects, maybe?
@@fruitoftheanus
Ah, this might be it. I wasn't sure if they were alive as they remained motionless after removed. Hopefully the ants are killing them and not in cahoots with the little devils, as some species of plant parasites and ants are.
@@dukemandu probly in cahoots. That's how it usually goes, unfortunately.
Asked the locals?
Leaves get existential crisis
A plant like this would be great for dry climate farming and carbon sequestration. Maybe we could breed for these traits.
But as noted in the vid, they're not only not fire-resistent, but rather extremely vulnerable due to their thin bark (as opposed to how some trees that are practically fireproof on their thick, tough outer-most layers of bark). And hot dry areas are prone to wildfire. So one bad fire and one could lose all these trees in one fell swoop.
Love these trees to death, they're all over the place here in AZ, but oh lord when they shed their flowers and pollen
The man really be saying "green stick" for five minutes straight
The title made me think this plant was kinda special in that it need zero to non water
So awesome tree, good for countries with low precipitation.
Palo Verdes look beautiful in the spring because the entire tree is covered in yellow flowers. My allergies hate them.
Perhaps Arizona should INVEST in this tree?
How does stem photosynthesis work though? One of the reasons why leaves are optimized for photosynthesis is because they have other porous structures that allow for intake of CO2 as part of the process, but that is antithetical to the goal of preserving water in the plant since those increase transpiration. So how does this plant take in CO2 to support the photosynthesis process via the woody stem without compromising the minimization of transpiration?
Trichomes (which many plants have on their foliage) around the stomata raise the local humidity, reducing the rate of evaporation. It is also likely that like many desert plants (including Cacti, nearly all of which are stem photosynthesizers) it has switched to CAM photosynthesis, meaning it only breathes at night when temperature and evaporation rates are low. Photosynthesis cannot of course occur without light, but CAM plants store the carbon dioxide they inhale at night in the form of malic acid, which is broken down to CO2 and shunted to their chloroplasts over the course of a day. You can taste this at work in the edible CAM succulent Portulacaria afra. Its foliage is harsh and unpleasant in the morning when it is full of malic acid from the night before. By late afternoon it ismerely pleasantly & mildly tart (like a weak sorrel) and rather delicious. (Edit: Repaired damage caused by Google's satanic autoerror ('autocorrect '), which had replaced "stomata" with "stomach.")
i assume the use of leaves is just to provide photosynthesis, so why does the tree have leaves at all?
i am being dead serious here, i may be approaching 80k hours of minecraft within my life time
ok, it has been way to long ago to remember how it actually works. But if it uses it trunk for photosynthesis, doesn't it lose water that way instead?
Probably way less though because the surface area is decreased.
If if loses its leaves when it gets very hot then it wouldn’t be much of a shade tree in the hot summer months would it???
The Palo Verde tree doesn't need water because to it water is just a suggestion to survive.
5 in my yard
The tree at 0:40 looks like Groot landing on his butt. Teehee.
So true though... 😂
Or he decided to take up break dancing.
No botanist am I, though this tree has a striking resemblance to Birch. Now I'll finish the vid. Perhaps you'll tell me so.
So I just needed to burn the Palo Verde tree in my yard to kill it? I cut down a tree that was rooting under a retaining wall and carport l, damaging them. I cut it down to the stump, drilled the stump, salted it amd covered with a black trash bag until the winter came and the rotting stump was smelling. I chipped away the rest of the rotted stump after that. Next summer, Palo Verde shoots began growing out of the ground. Last time I drove past that house that tree made a full recovery.
All you needed to do was snap of any new growth after cutting , do that a few times and the tree gives up
Can you make salsa verde with Paolo verde?
No. I think the pods might be edible at some stage if cooked, but that is a bean, not a sauce.
I love the saga of this man's hair. Please don't cut it!!
If it were planted here in the UK, it'd probably drown with all the soggy air & ground... :P
Better look into this British law:
"It is a criminal offence to plant or cause to grow a non-native invasive species in the wild."
Invasive species is a pest ruining natural environment!
You already have loads of certain humans, ruining multiculti Britain 🔥😳
Now if only I didn't need water!😄
Ok, now mesquite and tap roots :)
Why does it even have leaves if it can photosynthesise just as well without them?
Because they don’t want everybody to think they’re Just a stick lol
Neat.
At the 2:45-47 area, doesn't the tree turn the co2 into food. Wouldn't more co2 mean the tree does better?
Probably CO2 increase would be good for some plants, but in most cases CO2 is not the limiting factor in their growth. Think of human children; they need water to grow but once you provide adequate water, giving them more water won't make them grow faster. On the other hand, the side effects of more CO2 in the atmosphere can be very bad for many plants (and children).
Green stick tree lmfao
Stem photosynthesis! Damn!
If you're hot and fanning yourself next to a nice cool pool of water, you're doing it wrong.
That's North American Southwest! The United States ain't the only America sonny!
The seeds and flowers of the Palo Verde Tree can be eaten both cooked or raw when immature.
Does the Palo Verde tree have an overabundance of stem cells?
Why would it? Trees in general have meristem tissue in their buds and inner bark. Because plant vascular tissues are intracellular (holes in the cell walls or former cell walls where the cell died to become wood), plant "stem cells" (meristem cells) don't move around.
So, it does need water, it just has deep roots to get to it and is really good at retaining it. You guys know science is pretty interesting on its own without weird baited titles like that of this video.
Awesome possum
Random fact: palo verde means green stick in spanish.
Literally been working in Arizona and started thinking about why the leaves are shaped like that etc
Was trying to figure out how to contact you but bam no need
Stop stalking meeeeeee
I figured it was cool thing with the stroma
When there's spots on my glasses, I can see bokeh circles in my vision. Today, I was looking at a light and inside the circle I could see my eyelashes as if they were under microscope as well as blobs in between them. What am I seeing, and why can I see this inside my glasses? My prescription is mainly for astigmatism.
Okay you're talking about Palo Verdes which is one species but yet at 1:16 you show photos of a blue Palo Verde a subspecies. And I know a blue green stick is just confusing
Palo Verde is the common name of multiple species of Parkinsonia. There are 12 species of Palo Verde. The Blue Palo Verde is just one species.