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 (Maj...
6 Jul 20221h 45min
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.
27 Jun 20221h 55min
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 ...
15 Jun 20221h 35min
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 pressu...
1 Jun 20221h 57min
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 León...
25 Mai 20222h 2min
Namibia, Resurrection Plants, Welwitschia, Caucasians in South Africa
A long rant about Namibian Botany, Dark Humor, Myrothamnus flabellifolius the resurrection plant, Welwitschia habitat etc.
19 Mai 20221h 36min
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
20 Apr 20221h 39min
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 ...
6 Apr 20221h 34min
