Australia
Added 2019-10-19 02:35:12 +0000 UTCI wanna say "thank you" to all of you for your support, and I apologize that I haven't updated the patreon page in a while - typing with my thumbs and the obligate correcting-auto-correct and deleting whatever silly-ass predictions it comes up with is a 7th layer of hell for me. That said, if there's anything you'd like me to a video on - say, an intro to flower morphology - please comment and let me know. Here's a Gastrolobium (Fabaceae) blooming at 3200' in the Stirling Range of SW Australia.
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Just popping in to say like pretty much everyone here thanks for what you do mate and looking forward to many more educational things from you, be it vids on the tubes, podcast or instspam. You have inspired a friend and myself to go out and about road tripping in Tassie botanising at the minimum once a week. While we really don't know anything at all the learning is the best part. We have really enjoyed your Australian series as it's a lot closer to what we have around us down here, and it now feels a bit more familiar because of your videos when we wander around.
2019-10-24 06:46:01 +0000 UTCMaybe a crash course video on field trips - how to pick a nice site, how to research the cool shit you might see before you go, what gear to take (and what to leave behind), how not to be a dick in and around nature. For those people who don't get out of cities much even something as simple as picking a decent place to go might be a bit hard.
2019-10-21 12:35:22 +0000 UTCIf you're still in the neighborhood, South Australia would be an interesting video. Salt lake succulents, lots of ground orchids, Drosera, Fabaceae everywhere. Eyre Peninsula seems to be a hot spot.
2019-10-21 07:07:42 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say thank you for these videos. They're super educational, really soothing, and have taught me a lot. I've always been really interested in botany, but assumed I didn't have the brain for it. Your content has shown me that I just needed a better teacher. The natural world has so much incredible diversity and helps make me personally feel a little less weird. An intro to flower morphology would be wonderful!
2019-10-21 04:48:24 +0000 UTCTribes and subtribes are only important for very large and diverse families like asteraceae and Fabaceae or rubiaceae, etc since these are such "recently" diverged lineages, where as lonegaes like conifers are so old and are such long, lonely branches on the Tree of Life that they're not so confusing. There's a book in the Google drive folder listed on the ig bio called "Comp Book for Distribution"... It's Vicki Funk's Sunflower family book. Take a look at some of the phylogenetic trees... They can be confusing as hell and they are of such breadth that you'll understand why in some plant families subfamilies, tribes and even subtribes can be really helpful... But again, it's just a human-concocted way to think about evolutionary relationships and ancestry among organisms... Plants in the same tribe are more closely related than plants that are just in the same family, and plants that are more closely related often share a general geographical range (ie the American southwest)
Anthony J Malone
2019-10-21 03:16:15 +0000 UTCIdk if there's a way to do it via video - maybe I just need to do more reading - but some points of taxonomy are still kind of confusing to me. I get species/genus/family, but get confused when people launch into orders/suborders/tribes, talk about "which taxonomy they follow," etc. I've been reading the Zomlefer guide to flowering plants families you've posted, but bits of it I'm having trouble chewing on.
2019-10-21 03:08:37 +0000 UTCWhy not do a series of videos that you wish you had access to when you first started exploring botany. As someone just starting to explore native Australian flora I am astounded at how difficult it can be to find good information that isnt scattered in 100 different places...
2019-10-21 00:20:08 +0000 UTCThat video where you showed how you do human-assisted dispersal of plants, some occasional videos like that would be awesome, as well as how you collect specimens/seeds/cuttings/what-the-shit, what you document, all that stuff. Basically some crash courses on how to botanize like you do.
Taylor Darsey
2019-10-19 16:09:56 +0000 UTCA step by step video on keying plants would be great. Also an explanation of why floras have such small print.
Cindy Ballreich
2019-10-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTCI'd love something about legumes and the massive diversity they've diverged into...
Tony B
2019-10-19 15:09:08 +0000 UTCThank you, Joey! As a beginner, I appreciate any and all intro educational videos and banger crash courses. As a suggestion, maybe those kinds of educational videos should go in a playlist to make them easier to find? Safe travels!
Natalie Orsi
2019-10-19 02:56:23 +0000 UTC
