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 ...
27 Feb 20241h 16min
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 floral...
24 Feb 20241h 31min
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 from...
8 Feb 20241h 19min
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, k...
1 Feb 20241h 4min
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 someo...
14 Jan 20241h 13min
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 ter...
6 Jan 20241h 33min
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 certainly...
20 Des 20231h 21min
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 sp...
14 Des 20232h 4min
