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A Conversation Having Nothing To Do With Plants
Mike Brodie is a photographer, truck driver, artist, freight train rider, and diesel mechanic. In this episode we sit down with him to talk about mod…
4 years, 11 months ago
South Africa Follow Up, Rantings, Etc.
In this episode we talk about some of the plant families found in South Africa and the ecological success of the Mesembryanthemaceae, as well as what…
4 years, 11 months ago
2 hours of South Africa Ranting
One long disjointed rant between three filthy botanists covering the past three weeks of botanic surveys/rectal exams in the Northern and Western Cap…
5 years ago
Monocot Taxonomic Clusterf*ck
In this episode we talk with Chris Pires, Chief Science Officer at the New York Botanic Garden, about the taxonomic clusterf*ck that is the order Asp…
5 years, 1 month ago
Deconstructing Taxonomy
Today's episode is inspired by the bRaVE individuals (all of us) who participated in the massive back-and-forth online shitposting last week regardin…
5 years, 1 month ago
Intro to the Rise of Flowering Plants
In this episode we speak with Peter Raven, former director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, about our current understanding of the rise of angiosper…
5 years, 2 months ago
Wyoming Rare Plants with Walt Fertig
A criminally underrated state for rare plants and plant ecology, Wyoming has a number of rare taxa and bizarre habitats. In this episode we talk with…
5 years, 2 months ago
Yellowstone Botany & Wyoming Rare Plants
Plants that grow on sinter (silica) and travertine (calcium carbonate) deposits of hot springs, a really bizarre central Wyoming endemic known from …
5 years, 2 months ago
Hiking Through The Great Basin w/ Matt Berger
In this episode we have an hour long conversation with Matt Berger about a loop "trail" (there actually was no trail save for that created by wild ho…
5 years, 3 months ago
Buckwheats and Bail Bonds
This episode begins with a 56 minute rant concerning the crime spree caused by the meeting of the Eriogonum Society in Elko, Nevada, followed by rant…
5 years, 3 months ago