Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
Why do some plants grow where they do? How can geology cause new plant species to evolve? Why are some plants pollinated by flies, some by bats, some by birds, and others by bees? How does a plant evolve to look like a rock? How can destroying lawns soothe the soul? This is a show about plants and plant habitat through the lens of natural selection and ecology, with a side of neurotic ranting, light humor, occasional profanity, & the perpetual search for the filthiest taqueria bathroom.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 106 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Closing of Duke Herbarium
A conversation with Dr. Kathleen Pryer (Director, Duke University Herbarium) and Dr. Michael Windham, (Curator of Vascular Plants, Duke University Herbarium) about the University's Decision to cut co…
01:37:19 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Baja Buckwheats, Railroad Stories & Prosopidastrum
Rants about encountering a cool new legume species in the fog deserts and giant cactus landscapes of Baja California, the diversity of perennial raaaaagweeds in the deserts, Gabbro soils, a buckwheat…
01:16:06 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Annotated, Profanity-laden Dichotomous Keys & the Fungal Ecology of Baja Chaparral
A long, disjointed rant about using and writing Dichotomous Keys and why it's sometimes a process of grasping for straws or throwing a bunch of stuff to a wall to see what sticks, what an ideal flora…
01:31:04 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Javelina Mngmnt, Restoration, & Peyote Vultures
More Deranged Rants, this time about Javelina Management, Getting City Approval for Cactus Restoration and Street Trees, growing endangered plants from seed, Eocene Sandstone, growing xeric ferns fro…
01:19:06 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Limestone Desert Ferns, Montezuma Cypress on the Border
Rants about Montezuma Cypress on the Rio Grande, Cool Desert Ferns in West Texas and the Subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the fern family Pteridaceae, DEA permits for Peyote, Mountain Lions vs. Auodads, …
01:04:47 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Watering Before a Freeze, Goliad Gravels
Rants about South Texas Geology, Geologic Timeline Apps for your D@mn phone, why its better to water before a freeze, being dragged by a freight train leaving Ft. Worth Texas, how much self-hate some…
01:13:21 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
Tucson Again, Agaves, Freezing in NM
Rants about freezing while trying to sleep in the back of a truck in Lordsburg, New Mexico, why Agaves are monocarpic, the importance of having a "target list" should you ever get diagnosed with a te…
01:33:05 |
Sat 06 Jan 2024
The Flower That Looks Like a Bird (especially if you're high) & other rants
A roughly 77 minute rant about how an Australian plant in the legume Family named Crotalaria cunninghamii "looks a like a bird" but only to humans who have smoked copious amounts of weed and certainl…
01:21:50 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
How Do Chollas Bang
Michelle Cloud-Hughes is a Cactus researcher, botanist and Desert Rat who specializes in one of my favorite cactus genera - Cylindropuntia: the genus of the dreaded Chollas. She has described a new s…
02:04:06 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Plant Anatomy with Jim Mauseth
Jim Mauseth is a wizard with a microscope and a retired professor of plant anatomy at UT Austin, where he taught for 30+ years. Jim is an expert in Plant Anatomy with an emphasis on Cacti. In this po…
01:34:16 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Going to Jail for Botany
Dr. Peter Breslin is a Botanist out of Tucson Arizona specializing in Cacti, and recently did time in Brewster County Jail for "trespassing" to photograph some rare endemics that only grow on Novacul…
01:59:22 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
A Conversation About Peyote with Leo Mercado
A discussion about Peyote conservation being done by Morningstar Conservancy in Tucson, Arizona and the ethnobotany of the Peyote Meeting, as well as what it means to "listen to the plant".
01:20:28 |
Sun 26 Nov 2023
Dallas Plant Rescue & West Texas Dunes
In this episode we rant about :
Rescuing and digging thin-soiled limestone prairie plants from a soon-to-be-destroyed site in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area weeks before the bulldozers come by to erect a d…
Rescuing and digging thin-soiled limestone prairie plants from a soon-to-be-destroyed site in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area weeks before the bulldozers come by to erect a d…
01:37:36 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Nuevo León & Tamaulipas Cactus Blitz
Jeremy Spath (owner of Hidden Agave nursery @hiddenagave) and Kevin Krucher (@crazy4cactus) talk about a recent trip through the states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Coahuila to document and explore …
01:09:52 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Poison Ivy Doesn't Wanna Hurt You
This entire podcast is about the Poison Ivy & Mango Family, Anacardiaceae. Susan Pell , Executive Director of the U.S. Botanic Garden & John Mitchell from the New York Botanic Garden both specialize …
01:28:25 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
The Conspiracy to Drain The Great Salt Lake
In this episode we talk with Zach Frankl from www Utahrivers.org about the (intentional ) crisis afflicting the Great Salt Lake and why one of the largest inland bodies of water in the world may soon…
01:37:13 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
A Conversation with Doug Tallamy
Doug Tallamy is an entomologist, professor, and the author of a number of books, including "Bringing Nature Home" & "The Nature of Oaks". He has been instrumental in educating people about Native Pla…
01:06:37 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
Make Your Own Soil & KILL YOUR LAWN
Jeremy Tidd runs Bona Terra Nursery, a native plant nursery in the DC area that grows native plants and also does native landscape installations for people looking to kill their lawns. In this episod…
01:30:50 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
DC Botany, Ghost Plant Seeds, Invasion Bio, etc
In this episode we rant about DC / Baltimore area botany, filming kill your lawn season 2, the glory of Texas leaf cutter ants, the seeds of ghost plant and the whole friggin' phylogeny really, invas…
01:53:50 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Kill Your Lawn Recap
Very little botany-related content in this session with Al Scorch during an interim during the shooting of Kill Your Lawn Season 2 in College Park, Maryland
01:05:59 |
Sun 22 Oct 2023
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