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 Dec 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 Dec 20232h 4min
Plant Anatomy with Jim Mauseth
Jim Mauseth is a wizard with a microscope and a retired professor of plant anatomy at UT Austin, where he taught for 30+ years. Jim is an expert in Plant Anatomy with an emphasis on Cacti. In this pod...
12 Dec 20231h 34min
Going to Jail for Botany
Dr. Peter Breslin is a Botanist out of Tucson Arizona specializing in Cacti, and recently did time in Brewster County Jail for "trespassing" to photograph some rare endemics that only grow on Novaculi...
5 Dec 20231h 59min
