Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't - 2021-05-09
"Megastrobilus" is just a fancy word for "conifer cone", and what sets conifers (aka gymnosperms) apart from flowering plants (angiosperms)? In this episode, with the aid of some nice Moneyshahtz ™️ we will find out. Baker Cypress is a rare member of the Redwood and Juniper family known for only 11 populations in Northern California, all occurring and a particular Rocky substrate. in this episode we will also be taking a look at the type of ecology that this shade-intolerant species needs to thrive. This forest needs a fire, and with the way things have been going in California climatically lately, it will probably get one. see a forest where the white fir shades out the rare baker's Cypress, which can only out-compete the white fir on the very thin--soils of recent lava flows. Your contributions support this content. It sounds clichéd, but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, beestings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the rest of us in the degenerate public. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good. Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com... Or consider becoming a patreon supporter @ : https://www.patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Buy some CPBBD merch (shirts, hats, hoodies n' what the shit) available for sale at : https://www.bonfire.com/store/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt/ To purchase stickers, venmo twelve bucks to "societyishell" and leave your address in the comments. Plants ID questions or reading list suggestions can be sent to crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com Thanks, GFY. #hesperocyparis
Thank you again for plant therapy and soothing the doomed.
Fuckin A brother.
@Jonathan Hamnett Fuckin B brother.
Fuckin C brother
Brother
I'd rather take a walk through the woods with this guy than meet any celebrity. Knowledge, sense of humor and passion.
I really want Joey to go to Montana and explore. So many places from the Ross Creek Cedars in Cabinet mountains out to the badlands of Makoshika.
I feel like it's a badge of honor if he is out exploring in your area.
hey man, dunno if you saw, but he's done some stuff over there the past little bit. don't know if it is the exact stuff you're talking about because i mostly just see his instagram content in passing and only tune into here if i have lots of time on my hands, but something's better than nothing, right?
The Chicago version of "nice" is more historically accurate. It's historically related to the French word "nieseu", which basically means simple and dumb, and "t'es nieseu?" (Are you being nice?) means something like "Are you fucking with me/Are you fucking around?".
Just a bit of intercultural fuckery we can share 👍
Très bien expliqué Monsieur Plante.
@Terton Merci bien!
@Unprocessed Cheese I would say, however, that "tu me niaise?" would be a better translation of "are you being nice?".
@Terton It's kind of context dependent, but yeah... you're endorsing my point
@Émile Julien yeah, don’t know about old French, but in France niaiseux doesn’t exist. C’est du made in Québec :)
The lichen at 5:43 looks like Usnea, also called "old man's beard" and is used medicinally as an antibiotic alternative.
It is Usnea
Really great for fire starting. Had to build a fire out in the wilds of idaho recently but no good tinder as everything was wet from the rain. But i tell ya, that dang witches hair/old mans beard did the trick!
The chartreuse lichen is Letharia. I don't see any Usnea, but Letharia and Usnea are in the same family. The lichen which is all over the branches is Hypogymnia. If you look closely (not sure if you can see in the video) it's hollow, which is why they're called tube lichens. While I don't advocate using lichens as antibiotics, if you do please don't ingest either Letharia or Usnea. Letharia is also know as the wolf lichen as it contains vulpinic acid was soaked with meat to poison wolves and foxes. Usnic acid in Usnea can also be poisonous.
Your ability to take a superficially mundane subject/species and make it fascinating is unmatched anywhere. This was a great video. Thank you for everything you do!
My parents has a Bald Cypress which is native to their area which they planted in an open area which matches up nicely with the old growth native Eastern Hemlocks on their property, which I didn't know but is now listed as threatened. P.S.- because of the devastating wild fires of several years ago, Florida has adopted a regime of controlled fires, done at the correct time of the year with proper precautions it has almost eliminated out of control wildfires, when they do happen they are confined to areas that is more manageable.
I'd love to see you explore the crazy trees and lichens in the North Atlantic, specifically Newfoundland. It's not your usual dry extreme type of location, but we've got some fascinating geology, and adapted plants.
I worked for the Dupage Co. Forest Preserve District for a few summers back in the late 80s/early 90s. I'm not offended at all (suburban horror in abundance), but I will say that there's lots of good stuff out there, and we were trying our best with the limited resources and feeble knowledge of the leadership.
I really enjoy all the knowledge you unload on us in each one of these videos. Great job, keep up the amazing work you are doing.
Recently reintroduced to these videos. Loving it. Especially now there’s a geology connection. Great!
Every fucking upload is so damn informative and entertaining, they end up banishing me to the shadow zone of endless googling and Wikipedia articles.
I cannot wait for a Florida video! I've been studying native plants here because of this channel and others!
I once saw a grove of trees I assumed were some kind of tall juniper on a ridge high above Port Angeles on the Olympic NF. The trees were not on my plot so I did not really worry about them, but I think about them from time to time. The area is exposed and rocky with lots of kinnickinick. They looked a lot like these. Is it possible that far north?
Thank you again. I love your videos. I've learned so much from you.
You sir are the reason i became interested in plants and fungi. Thank you!
Trees be kinky as hell needing an entire god damn fire to get them going.
I'm about to graduate with a bs in botanical biology and a minor in geology and I'm just so glad I found this guy on Facebook one or two months ago.
Definitely get a good field microscope for a smart device or laptop. We'd all love to hear your commentary on the reproductive bits under magnification.
That forest unfortunately is very common in that area. Definitely needs a fire soon. I sometimes walk up on areas like that deer hunting and walking quietly is nearly impossible. If you end up walking up on a deer, they’ve heard, spotted and smelled you way before you have. Very difficult hunting but rewarding if you get one.
Thank You. Saw down all the white firs. I agree. They thrive off of all of the anthropogenic nitrogen added to the forest by dry deposition.
I listen to your botanical adventures while I work my soulless day job. Thanks for the help.
Damn so close to where I live. It would be awesome next time your in this area to meet up and learn more about my local areas and maybe show you some areas a little more off the beaten path. If you drove on 299 east and drove through round mountain you were close to my parents place. The fountain fire in the early 90's actually started at the bottom of there hill my dad was the first on the fire. The news said it was a suspected arsonist but the same day pg&e was working on the power lines right around where the fire started, so the news was probably bullshit. Who knows though thats just what my parents and a few neighbors said they noticed I was only 2 at the time. If you go down big bend road you could find some cool stuff they have yew trees, dogwoods, ammonite fossils, and all sorts of other random plants that the surrounding areas dont have. Big bend road even cuts through to Mcloud so its just west of Burney which you can take Hagen flats road to big bend from Burney which has some nice camp grounds along the creek. Love your videos and am always looking forward to the more local ones
This member of the human tumor thanks you for your videos. This one was nice in a good way.
I would love to see you play geoguessr. I bet the plant knowledge would be handy
Enthralling. Thanks for telling me what those grey seedballs are that I've been collecting ;)
Love the money shotz, love the education and the questions.
One of the only channels, which has such long videos that I have no problem watching every second of.
Hey, Joey, have you ever shown your own yard? If so, which post was it?
I'd like to spend more effort studying Picea breweriana, Brewer's Weeping Spruce. In 2019 I was on the Pacific Crest Trail in the Trinity Alps and slept under a huge weeping tree next to a little alpine lake which turned out to be that spruce. Beautiful, especially the bark, and also very rare. I snapped a lot of photos of it and looked it up when I got into the next town.
Just gave one of those that grew from seed to UC Berkeley Botanic Garden. Great tree. Tilden regional parks botanic garden has one.
One of my favorite spots is really in need of a burn off.
I almost lit it this spring, and I kind of regret not doing it... it’s nature conservancy land anyway.
The only thing I’ve seen them do on this property is build new trails, cutting down any and all trees in the way and they lead right too vulnerable plant populations.
Bunch of grifters!
Crime Pays but Mother’s Day Doesn’t
"What're ya, fuckin' around?"
Earlier: Shaking a tree branch in the woods, moaning.
Exposed rock, shady elven forests. Everything's covered in loads either way.
The tamarack trees in northern Michigan especially on Mackinac island, their cones only open with fire
"They're just blowing loads all over the place". Quote of the day!
I'm likin' the lichen.This reminds me of the first CPBBD video I saw; the power company easements of the piney pinelands, and the carnivorous plants found therein.
Lol I started dying when he did the close up of the cypress dongs and started shaking it
NorCal is the prettiest part of Cali. I always enjoy driving around there. A lot of the logging there is pine products and various conifer, and cedar. A lot of work in parts of the region is reclamation of fire damage aka chips and salable logs if any. And of course replanting afterwords.
cypress trees are very useful in horticulture.
7:15 I would shit myself with giddiness if you released an album of you singing what-the-fuck-ever you want. Like 16 to 20 songs. Please make it happen, Senpai.
In the central Sierras, I see areas where the firs and pine can not complete with the black oaks. The oaks in the shade die out, those out on the granite domes with thin soil do better.
Please come to Vermont. I loved it when you walked us through a California grocery store and they were selling fiddle heads. I am surrounded with fiddle head ferns. So yummy!!!!!
If you ever get a chance to go to Japan... I would be REALLY interested in hearing about the Forests which have Japanese Ceder...
I believe they are called, "Cryptomeria japonica".
Could anyone recommend any gymnosperms to plant in a 4/5 climate that preform well, but don't get super weedy?
Not a gymnosperm, but I planted some aspen trees and instantly regret it.
Can you sesh out cladograms for those who want to know more about them. Make yourself useful. Thanks Joey!
BTW ~ Castanea mollissima in flower smells like splooge to no end.
Thanks man! The weird stuff looks like a snow mold of some sort?
this is one of your best ones fella...you're doing the work bro'....awesome...thank you..
4:40
And oddly enough, there was a decent size wildfire a couple weeks later…
😂🤔
Do they have a taproot that drives into cracks and crevices or do the roots grow more laterally kinda like the thuja and taxus that are planted in the hedgerows of my local suburbia?
E-possum ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ - 2021-05-11
Upper Burney Creek Baker Cypress Grove
1:50 "Modoc cypress" Hesperocyparis bakeri, Cupressaceae
2:30 Molecular phylogenies
4:07 "white fir" Abies concolor, Pinaceae
4:27 Jack
4:50 Modoc cypress cones
5:28 microstrobili, gymnosperm
5:40 "wolf lichen" Letharia vulpina, Parmeliaceae
5:45 lichenologist (a real job)
6:15 Jack + Louie
6:29 Typhula sp.?
6:57 andesite
7:15 John Prine - "Living in the Future"
10:31 microstrobili/megastrobili
10:51 "manzanita" Arctostaphylos patula, Ericaceae
10:52 "snowbrush ceanothus" Ceanothus velutinus, Rhamnaceae
11:22 stomata
12:05 "pinemat" Ceanothus prostratus, Rhamnaceae
12:52 "manzanita"
13:15 anemophilous
13:45 gymnosperms
14:03 valvate
15:09 "manzanita"
16:38 glomeromycota, arbuscular mycorrhizae
17:55 "old man's beard" Usnea sp., Parmeliaceae
7:57 "strap lichen" Ramalina sp., Ramalinaceae ?
18:02 "wolf lichen"
20:08 Jack eating snow
21:40 Louie
22:28 F.W. Schumacher Tree & Shrub Seeds
25:53 "sugar pine" Pinus lambertiana, Pinaceae
26:07 Louie
Powerline/Pipeline Easement
26:57 "Modoc cypress"
27:26 disturbance can enable diversity
28:42 public manual dehiscence
33:09 individual megastrobilus
34:50 ovule structures
35:58 Jack
36:27 Motivational Speech
Fuck U - 2021-05-17
Woah. Nice.
Kim Chi - 2021-05-18
Thank you!🙏🏼
E-possum ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ - 2021-05-18
@Kim Chi My pleasure