Ozark Relict Plants
Added 2024-08-08 15:06:57 +0000 UTCLeitneria is a somewhat mysterious and obscure genus consisting of two species in the US and occurring nowhere else. It was once placed in its own family but today has been taxonomically placed in the Ailanthus family, Simaroubaceae. According to Flora of North America, it has a fossil record dating back to the Oligocene.
I first encountered it in Texas five years ago, and again it was in a small population that was nestled next to the road and generally unappreciated and unnoted by the general public, despite how weird the trees look compared to anything else. What mystifies me about this genus is its scattered, sporadic and small distribution in Southeastern North America and the fact that evolutionarily it is on its own little lonely branch and never seemed to diversify or spread, and if it did, those populations and other species are now extinct.
This episode was totally worth the poison oak that I
got.
Comments
Hey! Somewhere around my house I have a burn Certification. Last time I burned the garden along the driveway the neighbors got scared. The burn class was a sausage fest, but I went with a female classmate so there were two of us there.
April Hughes
2024-08-09 05:28:31 +0000 UTCTiggers and chicks! Tiggers and chicks! Say hi to that asshole Adam for me. He's cute!
April Hughes
2024-08-08 20:22:35 +0000 UTCSome way to the poison oak and ticks get less number🤔...could be with burning the place...
Ana Rita
2024-08-08 20:14:47 +0000 UTCReally dig desmodium, hylodensmum, and aralia! Fuck I love when you get out east! I’ll clear a path for you when you visit. The dwarf ticks will bomb your ass so get ready! I got certified to burn but my phone didnt ring! Took the whole class and it’s a real bro fest. Bought 400$ boots and haven’t even broken them in. Only person who actively tried to get me out was a botanist. Hopefully get out and learn this upcoming part of the season. Anyway cool vid!
Zeebes
2024-08-08 18:08:19 +0000 UTC
