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
Texas Sandsheet, Sand Endemics,Twitter Fights with Furries
In this episode we discuss the rare and endangered Texas Almond, a sand endemic. We also discuss the trough urinal at Taqueria Jalisco by the Pilot Station in Falfurrias, whether Tetragonotheca rrpand...
5 Apr 20221h 12min
Undescribed Buckwheats, KILL YOUR LAWN, Limestone Erotica, Rod Blagojevich, etc
In this episode we talk about the notorious Bristol Mountains Buckwheat which is still formally undescribed despite being known of for a decade and a half. We also talked about limestone geology of th...
14 Mars 20221h 23min
How Do Fungi Bang (and evolve)?
Generic Recombination is the means through which mutations (and evolution/speciation /phenotypic variation) occur, leading to changes in an organism's adaptation to and tolerance of its environment. I...
19 Feb 20221h 20min
Lichens Are Weirder Than Helll
A ninety minute conversation just scratching the surface of the bizarre-ass phenomenon of lichens, with Matt Berger aka Sheriff Woody. This is a talk about fungi enslaving/farming algae and cyanobacte...
2 Feb 20221h 33min
Rants About Peyote Conservation, Cryptogamic Crusts, Perithecium
In this episode we listen to a 50 minute rant about peyote conservation in South Texas, the importance of the hundredth Meridian and the humidity differential and the differences in habitat it causes,...
29 Jan 202250min
Legume Phylogeny Dungeon
The family Fabaceae is one of the most ecologically successful and diverse plant families in the world, especially in arid and subtropical regions. In this episode we talk Legumes - their ecology, flo...
20 Jan 20221h 51min
Mycoheterotrophy, Resurrection Plants, Orchid Biogeography
In this episode we talk with Tom Givnish, a well-known research botanist at UW Madison about a diverse number of topics including plants that can completely dry out and not die, how orchids came to be...
25 Dec 20212h 47min
