Lycophytes, Quillworts & the "Great Dying"
I became fixated on lycophytes because of some of the cool desert-dwelling members of the genus Selaginella, not to mention the utterly weird "clubmosses" that thrive in places as disparate as Norther...
16 Sep 20242h 37min
West Texas Pine Harvest and Alternation of Generations
A rant about West Texas Pines and the sand blazing star. At the 40 minute mark we begin our dive into the convoluted, confusing but utterly cool phenomenon of Alternation of Generations we talk mostly...
13 Sep 20241h 44min
A Conversation with Dan Hosage
A conversation with Chemist, Genius, Botanist,, Propagator, & Madman Dan Hosage about Texas Native Plants, Texas History, and more.
7 Sep 20243h 5min
Convincing Mice to Vote for Cats
NON-BOTANY PODCAST! This week's podcast is a conversation with my friend Jay Lesoleil, political anthropologist and half the means behind the "Fucking Cancelled" podcast about right-wing populism, th...
30 Aug 20241h 8min
Oaks Are the Beasts of An Ecosystem! A Discussion with Dr. Andrew Hipp
Andrew Hipp is the director of the herbarium and Senior Sciensist and Researcher in Plant Systematics at Morton Arboretum in Chicago. This is one of the most fun and inspiring conversations I've had i...
22 Aug 20241h 26min
Aquatic Botany with Casey Williams
Casey Williams is an botanist and plant ecologist specializing in aquatic plants - both plants that grow completely submerged and which can emerge above the water surface. In this episode, we discuss ...
14 Aug 20242h 36min
Rustbelt Tour Recap & Ouachita Orogeny
Vernonia lettermannii and other cool plants of Western Arkansas Novaculite, Ouachita Mountain Orogeny, Chert Glades of Western Missouri, the most obnoxious cicada species in the world, Detroit Rustic,...
6 Aug 20242h
Mycology Catch-Up w/ Alan Rockefeller
Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist and educator who has been studying mushrooms all over the world for the past 20 years and recently helped described two new species of Psilocybin mushroom from South A...
7 Juli 20241h 56min
