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
Restoring the American Chestnut
In this episode we talk about using transgenic technology to fight the invasive pathogenic fungus that has decimated the American Chestnut tree and made it functionally extinct in the region where it…
01:52:21 |
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Da Sticky Plant Episode Nice & Pleistocene Ground Sloth Turds
In this episode (after a 35 minute rambling rant about West Texas Archaeology, the joy of holding 31,000 year old ground sloth shit, obscure Chihuahua Desert Sunflowers, and rich freaks, we talk with…
01:59:36 |
Sun 07 Aug 2022
Fake Name at the ER, KILL YOUR LAWN, Installing Native Plant Gardens, etc
In this episode we discuss the glory of lawn killing, using a fake name at the ER since our Healthcare system sucks, facilitating the use of an auger for installing native plant gardens, and a whole …
01:01:29 |
Sat 06 Aug 2022
The Long Lost Candelaria, Solar Farm Apocalypse, Peyote Country
In this episode we talk about the long lost population of Euphorbia antisyphylitica, thornscrub getting destroyed for a solar farm, moth pollination and night blooming plants in the Chihuahua Desert,…
01:04:02 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Desert Plants & West Texas Horticulture with Patti Manning
After a thirty minute rant about how the epic desert crucifixion thorn (one of the 6 different plants with that annoying common name), Holacantha stewartii needs to be placed in the genus Castela (Ma…
01:45:34 |
Wed 06 Jul 2022
The Velcro Leaf Family, Fake Names at the ER, Christian Taliban, etc
Rambling intro ends at 47:00, Conversation about Velcro Leaf Family Loasaceae begins at 48:00.
01:55:40 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Talking Peyote & Conservation in South Texas
Intro ends and conversation starts at 43:00.
My guest today is Joe Ben Walker from the indigenous peyote conservation initiative and we talk all things peyote in South Texas. We discussed the Peyotero…
My guest today is Joe Ben Walker from the indigenous peyote conservation initiative and we talk all things peyote in South Texas. We discussed the Peyotero…
01:35:19 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Talking Evolution, Cloud Forests & Nightshades
A Conversation with Dr. Stacy Smith from University of Colorado Boulder about the genus Iochroma and Plant Evolution. A 24 minute intro followed by 90 minutes of talk about evolution, selection press…
01:57:21 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
An Interview with Carlos ”Aztekium” Velazco
In this episode we talk Northern Mexican Botany with the wonderful Carlos Velazco, author of numerous papers describing the floristic relationships of Northern Mexican Plants as well as the Nuevo Leó…
02:02:14 |
Wed 25 May 2022
Namibia, Resurrection Plants, Welwitschia, Caucasians in South Africa
A long rant about Namibian Botany, Dark Humor, Myrothamnus flabellifolius the resurrection plant, Welwitschia habitat etc.
01:36:17 |
Thu 19 May 2022
Nuevo León Botany, Gypsum Endemics, Cactus Poaching
One long rant about Nuevo Leon plant communities, gypsum endemics, cactus poaching, high elevation "sky islands", Mall Security Guards at US Customs, Herbarium vouchers, etc
01:39:55 |
Wed 20 Apr 2022
A Conversation with Kerry Knudsen, Lichenologist
In this episode we talk with Kerry Knudsen, a blue-collar-construction-worker turned lichenologist. We spend a good first half of the podcast talking lichens and the last half of the podcast talking…
01:34:54 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
Texas Sandsheet, Sand Endemics,Twitter Fights with Furries
In this episode we discuss the rare and endangered Texas Almond, a sand endemic. We also discuss the trough urinal at Taqueria Jalisco by the Pilot Station in Falfurrias, whether Tetragonotheca rrpan…
01:12:32 |
Tue 05 Apr 2022
Undescribed Buckwheats, KILL YOUR LAWN, Limestone Erotica, Rod Blagojevich, etc
In this episode we talk about the notorious Bristol Mountains Buckwheat which is still formally undescribed despite being known of for a decade and a half. We also talked about limestone geology of t…
01:23:43 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
How Do Fungi Bang (and evolve)?
Generic Recombination is the means through which mutations (and evolution/speciation /phenotypic variation) occur, leading to changes in an organism's adaptation to and tolerance of its environment. …
01:20:13 |
Sat 19 Feb 2022
Lichens Are Weirder Than Helll
A ninety minute conversation just scratching the surface of the bizarre-ass phenomenon of lichens, with Matt Berger aka Sheriff Woody. This is a talk about fungi enslaving/farming algae and cyanobact…
01:33:59 |
Wed 02 Feb 2022
Rants About Peyote Conservation, Cryptogamic Crusts, Perithecium
In this episode we listen to a 50 minute rant about peyote conservation in South Texas, the importance of the hundredth Meridian and the humidity differential and the differences in habitat it causes…
00:50:44 |
Sat 29 Jan 2022
Legume Phylogeny Dungeon
The family Fabaceae is one of the most ecologically successful and diverse plant families in the world, especially in arid and subtropical regions. In this episode we talk Legumes - their ecology, fl…
01:51:19 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Mycoheterotrophy, Resurrection Plants, Orchid Biogeography
In this episode we talk with Tom Givnish, a well-known research botanist at UW Madison about a diverse number of topics including plants that can completely dry out and not die, how orchids came to b…
02:47:05 |
Sat 25 Dec 2021
Orchid Crash Course - Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Morphology & what the sh1t
After a 40 minute opening rant, we explore the nuances of the Orchid Family - the most species-rich and diverse family of flowering plants, and we touch on a few of the things that make this family s…
02:29:33 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
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