The Grossest Mushroom in the World
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Psilocybe of New Zealand
Psilocybe weraroa is a secotioid fungus, meaning it doesn't open its cap. Thought to be an adaptation fo dispersal by frugivorous birds. Psilocybe makarorae & Psilocybe subaeruginosa are common in suburban walking corridor landscaping. Note that the massive clump growing out of logs are producing no spores, the gills are completely white and show no hint of the purpl/brown spores or Psilocybe species. I'm excited for this video, because I snuck a bunch of educational information in about ...
2023-06-08 19:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Aroid Dungeon Part 2
First ten minutes are a reprint of the formerly released "Beetle Pollination" video
2023-06-01 22:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Ad-Free Podcast Ep. Future of Peyote Conservation in South Texas
In this episode we interview Benny Villareal, a man who is single-handedly doing more than any other organization in the United States today to protect and save wild peyote in the quickly-vanishing peyote gardens of South Texas. Intro ends and podcast starts at 15:03
2023-05-27 02:34:55 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Bee Species observed pollinating wild peyote
Ashmeadiella is a genus of desert solitary bees that live in cavities in rotted wood, cactus skeletons and even the shells of our native Rabdotus snails down here in South Texas. I spent thirty minutes lurking in the peyote sanctuary yesterday in 95° heat observing pollinators come and go. This bee was the most common one.
In other news, a massive solar project is destroying tons of Astrophytum and Lophophora habitat, and sadly we can't get permission to go in and save them. The idea ...
Wasn't Even Gonna do this one...
But the ad Al did for this fucking mattress company made it worth it.
2023-05-23 15:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chicago Search for Feral Cannabis
And City-wide Emotional Inventory
2023-05-17 13:37:22 +0000 UTC View PostAd- FRee Podcast : Kill Your Lawn Release, Sweat Ceremony, Chicago Podcast
I been slackin on uploading these! Forgive me you silly pricks! love you! sorry!
2023-05-17 13:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostAd-Free Podcast Chonkosaurus episode
Sorry I've been lagging on posting ad-free versions of the podcast lately everybody. Been drowning in it over here. Forgive me!
2023-05-17 13:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Some recent pics from Chicago
Still warming up here. 50° on May 1st. Giant Bag of Snapping Turtle on Rusty Chains holding rotting pylons together on the Chicago River. Leaving in a few days but it's been good to be back. Made me remember things I had forgotten, not just smells but feelings too. Gave me a little bit more self-insight.
Graffiti has been riding longer. Cops don't run people out of the park at closing time anymore. Hell, they don't even ticket people for smoking on the subway cars anymore which is an...
Touch My Hairy Puccoon
More panhandle botany and a cameo by a cottonmouth
2023-04-28 02:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post86 Minutes of Aroids w/ Tom Croat
Probably better treated as a podcast than a video, here's a long interview I did with Tom Crist yesterday at Missouri Botanical Garden about the aroid family. The first chunk is 55 minutes and then we get to talking about a few genera. We didn't get a chance to show as many species as I would've liked due to him having back problems and needing to sit down, but the amount of information gleaned here is pretty incredible. Hopefully I'll be stopping through on my way back South to film some mor...
2023-04-26 12:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
50 minutes of North Florida Plants
Worth all the chigger bites. Sandscrub arid microsites in otherwise mesic forests enable some incredible diversity, where one encounters plants with traits not normally seen in forested areas or even savannahs. Hairs on leaves, glaucous foliage, drought-strategies - all are seen in this video.
We also check out a Taxodium ascendens swamp and some bizarre fungi that infect members of the blueberry order and mimic flowers (Exobasidium species).
Magnolia ashei and Panhandle Plants
Apologies in advance for the small frame size, I messed up the production and then lost the files after so I couldn't re-process it, like a jackass. Still some incredible plants here...
2023-04-13 13:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
