Beating you over the head with Cloud Forest Videos

As far as I know, yes! Might be some trial and error to it, but I think it just comes down to finding, isolating and then re-mixing metabolically complementary sets of algae, fungi, and possibly bacteria in growth conditions where they must mutually depend on each other for nutrients. For example, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211926419305971

Isaac Larkin

I would certainly like to hear more about creating new lichens by blending a fungi with an algae! Do you mean humans can do that on their own in a lab or kitchen for example? What fun that would be!!! 🍄+🍡=💚

hooooooly shit hahahahaha

TreaHugger

I just subbed, and I read a comment talking about tree fern barbs. If this video talks about triphyophyllum ill be so fucking pumped! those things are absolutely bizarre. Im planning a trip to a large bog near me in search of sarracenia purpurea and pinguicula. carnivorous plants are fucking crazy, they've crippled themselves in so many ways along their evolutionary journey to carnivory. Look into the genus genlisea if you're interested

TreaHugger

Another great class at Santore University . You've really stepped up your game . The Patreon membership is well worth it .

Yes I did have a nice time!!! I always do with you, Marvelous! Thank You! So much exotica... I definitely got off! Until next time, take care Tony!Loved the trip, love you more.....

Oh Tony, so sorry to see you got smeared by that Anacard!!! Wish I could kiss it and make it feel better! You are already hot/handsome/sexy to begin with but somehow your swollen eye makes you even more so! Been there done that myself to the point of thinking I would go blind! Thank goodness I didn't, and likely you won't go blind either... Going to watch the video now, just had to comment on your eye first........

I suppose this will cure me of the narcissistic love affair I'm having with Jeff Bezos then. You're welcome.

Accidentally hit enter before I was done writing... Just going to leave this here. https://custom.cvent.com/7049043BFE9C42A79F78475061A61C28/files/event/e5191210feeb49bdb1a5f7c65f6ad8b2/5dcdb04a553740719a564cce99d85408.pdf Really interesting implications for the 'Tree of Life' - these guys took a shot-gun blast approach to whole environment genome sampling of some weird spots (my favorite is the sampling of'two dolphin's mouths' ) and then bootstrap concatenated (I barely know what the fuck that means and it took their supercomputer 3,840 computational hours) every genome together - mostly looking at newly studied archae lineages from their sampling sites. If I'm interpreting it halfway correctly, it suggests that Eukarya is a lineage out of archae. Really interesting stuff that you might already be aware of and I hope you're feeling better!!!

Alex

Fantastic video. If you’re interested in dipping your toe into lichens, have you read Entangled Life? The Lichen chapter blew my mind—apparently you can create new ones just from mixing different types of fungi and algae. Really blurs the line of what a separate organism/species/lineage is!

Isaac Larkin

That was heartbreaking, enthralling, and inspirational. What a beautiful experience you share with all of us... Eternally Grateful for your dedication and that your always willing to crack a few eggs

Colette Haskell

This is wonderful.

I was told VFT's were native to North Carolina only, and from a very small area, too.

April Hughes

Stoked to see plants I'm familiar with (Clusia rosea, Diacranopteris linearis where I'm at, Nephrolepis sp. (maybe? I thought I saw it in the background at some point), tree ferns (though ours don't have barbs)). Makes sense, though, because Hawaii's only a few degrees north of Hispaniola. We have Nephrolepis cordifolia (false staghorn fern, uluhe in Hawaiian) in our forests, and I've been on several archaeo surveys in vegetation so thick you can't see the person you're tracking with even though they're like 4 meters away. That fern completely obscures the edges of ravines and drop-offs. The Pinguicula casabitoana you came across are absolutely remarkable. And yeah, totally, you gotta crack some eggs, which inevitably happens when the going gets rough. Nevertheless, thanks for sharing your adventures and misadventures with all of us!

I live in North Carolina and Venus Fly Trap, native to NC and SC, are considered endangered and it is a felony to poach them. The fines are high but they are nevertheless poached. Wrong on so many levels.

Thanks dog. I was referring to the competition when I said "I don't know how anything grows here"... It was more a rhetorical statement than a genuine question... Competition is stiff in such lush forests. I think the same thing every time I visit a cloud forest.

Anthony J Malone

That was a really fun romp! Those first couple minutes, I just wanted to give you an ice pack, a burrito, and a hug, though. At least you seem to really enjoy being out there despite getting so fucked up. As to how all those plants compete - since it's warm with more direct sunlight there and wet weather all year round, there is more energy and water in the ecosystem as a whole. Not having to scrape by with energy and water stored somewhere to survive lean times means it doesn't take as much work to live there. That goes for the fauna, too, since there is more energy available for a more productive food web. Biodiversity is directly proportional to how close you are to the equator. It's called the latitudinal diversity gradient.

Shawn Meyer