The Rarest Milkweed in Texas
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Finally we catch one of the US's rarest milkweeds - Asclepias prostrata - in flower. This bizarre and cryptic plant can go dormant for years, only appearing sporadically in a few scattered populations in the hot and sunny Tamaulipan Thornscrub of South Texas and Northern Mexican Scrublands when conditions are right, like after a rain. Growing on sands eroded from the Eocene Jackson Group sandstone, this plant can lay dormant for years waiting for amenable conditions.
Twice in the last two years we've come out here to see that the entire population had been seemingly destroyed by the frivolous and unnecessary grading of the road. It always feels like the end of the line for this plant, but somehow those rhizomes survive and it always pops up again later on. Eventually they'll pave this road and this will mean the true end of the line for prostrata. Another population nearby was set to the border wall (fence) built right on top of it, but the border fence has project has been put on hold for now.
*Flower damage probably due to caterpillars, not rabbits as stated in the video, as you can see the frass (shit).
Notable about this species are the undulate margins (probably am adaptation to sun exposure), prostrate habit, cryptic nature, long dormancy, leaf and stem coat of tiny hairs, and red pigmentation on the margins of the leaves. The flowersa are extremely fragrant.
If you're curious how milkweed flowers are pollinated or what the shit is going on with these flowers, look up "milkweed pollination" on RUclips. I did a video explaining it two years ago.
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Thanks, GFY.
You are the single best thing to happen to botany in the last century. Thank you for the AMAZING content.
The repeated display of plant names is AWESOME for learning retention. Asclepias Prostrata!
As a Texan that grew up in the monté from Freer to corpus Christi (and now lives in Austin), I LIVE for these Texas videos.
Mom, there is a man yelling at a caterpillar in the bushes.
Mark Fishbein was my first plant taxonomy teacher back in 2002! Great guy and THE MAN on Asclepias. Glad to hear his name mentioned.
what an amazing milkweed. the leaves and flowers are other worldly. you can't drive by at breakneck speed and observe the wonders of nature. thank you for sharing.
I planted 100 milk weeds this fall on our organic farm, we had a dozen wild ones pop up. Really hoping to see a monarch army next year
Do a controlled burn and see the power of common milkweed
@@fredhall8089 im a big fan of control burns.
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That’s so cool! My Grandparents in the 20’s to late 50s had them growing in their ditches just to help the monarchs and other species that like it.
I just have 2 hackberry trees in my backyard, full grown. I see snoutnose butterflies and others all the time
I'm not over eating, I'm cooking up carbs to store in my underground tuber so I can flower next year.
I clicked on this video so fast because I remember last time when you shared a bit of a rant after a fresh grating left no sign of the milkweeds. So glad to see them sticking it out still.
I was so excited when I saw this video because I was hoping you were filming back in the RGV! This year I had a personal project to try and photograph native bees and wasps and the plants they preferred. I have had an easier time remembering plants since watching your videos. Thank you for the education that actually sticks with me!!
I love this guy. No nonsense knowledge about all things.
The fart during the land clearing part totally threw me off, I thought my partner had just ripped the loudest fart ever
I just picture Tony watching where he's walking at all times, don't want to step on some poor bastard tiny rare plant of some kind.
Sometimes our milkweeds in vermont will grow a purple phenotype. I always spread the seeds around, as far as I can throw em. Many more people are growing them for the butterflies.
It would be an honor to be your friend Tony, keep recording thoes bangers!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for everything. I really enjoy the map zooms at the start of the videos and the still shots of the flowers throughout. The quality just keeps getting better and and better.
Keep rockin on!
Excellent documentation of the 956-area botany. The continued coverage is appreciated too!
Seriously. #puro956 😂
Nice one Joey! Glad to be along for the ride when you finally saw it!
You got a great location to film. Thank you for showing the wild peyotes. I hope you collected the plastic waste.
Best content available on the internet. Thanks Ton
"Do YoU lIkE iT wHeN iT's NiCe?"
(Nature immediately knee-caps him)
Thanks Tony, you rock dude. Keep up the good work
@14:58
Wow those blooms! Milkweed going off! I'd have never guessed that plant making its home in the road was a rare milkweed. Beautiful! Just imagine what that area looked like before things like buffelgrass and grading.....
Someday, maybe in a parallel universe, Tony will come down here to the everglades and check out all the epiphytes!
"You like the fuzzy stem?...ya prick.?"
lol that one made my day
This is the best podcast I've heard. Acutely accurate and informative. Awesomely unpretentious. Absolutely inspirational. Astounding
I would love you to eventually explore the Sonoran Desert, its such a good place to observe desert botanical diversity.
Edit: a little bit of digging revealed that he already covered the Sonoran Desert
I'll put ten bucks hes willing to go back.
Ahhh yeah! Love those milkweeds. Thanks so much, Joey & cheers, from Southern Oregon, where the quakes are rolling right now offshore.
They're incredible. I've only ever seen Canadian ones.
Congrats on finally seeing the Asclepius Prostrata in bloom! What an exciting moment. 😁
Love your south Texas video as a transplant to the area they're great for more native landscaping ideas
I love the close up views. This area is truly a unique paradise. Thanks for the tour.
Plant some milkweed everyone please, nature needs us right now.
Some thing 100 million years in the future would fight wars for this footage. Some kinda highly intelligent plant people looking for their missing link
My asclepiuses might struggle here - 700m up in rich volcanic soil.... oooh. They haven't evolved for this. They're still going, but slowly. It's early summer here in Australia. Great video - all these little treasures underfoot..
Atherton area?😁 Townsville dry coastal tropics here. What Asclepius are you cultivating?
I totally agree Legalizing yote would help to preserve the species in its wild habitat, it’s actually easy to grow and in Thailand where it’s legal they grow it in mass numbers out of its natural habitat. What I’m saying is if people could cultivate it, the numbers of peyote would multiply and no longer be threatened.
That A. prostrata is probably a species that thrives in disturbed areas.
Good video, those panda express sound effects tickled my funny bone.
Curley dock is like that, trying to find one thats not on a road is difficult.
love it when you film in starr county, I get to see so many plants that are also found up in duval and mcmullen where my ranches are
Best South African back to South Texas Morphology Evah!!! Solid Brother, wish my basic Ass Naturalist Skills were anywhere near your amazing observations and Commentary!!!
Just found this channel and I'm already a big fan. Love all the videos and made me want to go outside and id some plants
loving these macros shots and so much info! Thank you always.
I have to admit I'm enjoying your videos a lot :D I like how raw and expressive you are. You make me want to go back, finish my Biology degree and become a Botanist ;) You just awaken that passion for plants again in me :D
This might be an odd request, but could you do a video about aquatic plants?
I run a fish discord and have been getting into aquariums plants pretty hard.
I always forget to water plants and guess what happens to plants in tanks.... You never need to water them. XD
You may need to write an article for wikipedia on Asclepias prostrata because it’s missing entirely 😊
Not anymore!
@@Lunar_Capital There we go!
beautiful little caterpillar! the Pipevines really are a crowd favorite, and that one looked far along. Maybe fourth or fifth instar. Also just wanted to say caterpillars chrysalize, which you are correct in saying metamorphisize as chrysalizing is a form of metamorphisis
Love the energy, love the information. I love how you explain things. 👍 Informative, no pretension. Keep it up.
This guy knows his business, I'm seriously impressed with his plant knowledge
Love my Milkweed plants ... Their flowers are so cool & Monarchs come all around my porch
There are other great plants for butterfly gardens like purple coneflower/Echinacea, bee balm and butterfly bush (the native species) to name a few. Monarchs are obligate milkweed feeders.
You are an inspiration to assholes likes me. thanks
24:21 was that an Aldous Huxley reference? lol
Thank you for the long drawn out fart noises
Joey is kinda like the Drill Instructor of Botany - He will yell facts into you. "This is just how evolution works, ya prick"
The farting noise at every mention of Panda Express really kicked it up a notch in my opinion.
"[A man is] going to take the opportunity to go drive the vroom vroom around and what the shit." Predictable to the core.
Yo Tony I didn’t get where the locality you are in is at, but in Janos (Chihuahua) las registered jaguar killed was les than 20 years ago, one of my university teachers Dr. Gatica registered this for the North corredor, the UACJ has part of the cranium (having the whole thing would make it illegal for the university to posses without a permit) and we did some really good work field botanical inventory if you are interested this was under the name “inventario multitaxonomico de medanos de Samalayuca” I was part of it and we registered a fuck load of cool shit (botanically speaking) UTEP & NMSU collaborated with us.
Excellent thanks a lot for the heads up
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt thank you dude, I have learned a lot from you’re videos, the simple explanations with right terminology makes it simple to know what to look for, I have to add much of the terminology since I studied in Mex. comes some what difficult but nothing a good scientific terminology book can’t solve. Keep the videos coming and please keep looking into Asteraceae these are the ones I work with most.
Thank you so much for sharing your video. What interesting plant life. I hope all of this land does not go the way of the road grader.
@FilthyDankWastemanFabuless Sad
If sht hits the fan, I want to thank Tony for teaching me what the fuk to stay away from when plants come into play. Thanks, Tony. GFYS bye
A banger of a rare specimen this trash... : ) I really love milkweeds...so trippy!
working on making dead common milkweed into yarn. then I see you went on a nature walk that includes a milkweed I've NEVER heard of! that makes me really happy. are you going to try and propagate the prostrate milkweed? does it produce seeds like the common milkweed? have you seen dogbane anywhere in berkshire county mass? looking everywhere in my hood for it. :( i want to make dogbane yarn! i want to grow it in pots and the community garden. biiig shrub pots for dogbane!
I got a chuckle out of you being so entranced by the cactus flower that you missed the peyote literally right next to it. XD
Didn't miss it. Just seen plenty of peyote to not be so taken with it anymore. There were about eleven others in that same frame. This milkweed is pretty rare and endangered. I think San Antonio Botanic Garden is growing some of it. It needs to be propagated more and preserved in case the wild populations are destroyed.
I’ve got tons of elk horn milkweed plants on my place. They’re all over
"Maybe the road grater is at it again" is going to be a phrase I say so much now
I have a question that is way off topic, but it is about adaptation What adaptation does Witch Hazel have that protects its blossoms in the winter? I live in Louisville, Kentucky. There are some Witch Hazel bushes at a park my dog and I visit. It blooms in January-March here.
@@haseo8244 Thank you for answering my question. I looked up what pollinated Witch Hazel. It is some species of moth, I believe. An interesting plant… and oh the fragrance!
They do the roads like that because if they don't spend all the money allotted to them by the feds they get less next year. Its the same with fed money recipients like, prisons, the military, others I'm sure.
The problem is that that's the best they can come up with. Depending on the he department in charge of them, surely there's something constructive to do? It still speaks, in my mind, to Tony's exasperation.
Applies to water usage as well. Use it & or lose it right?
They should spend their money on plant conservation instead.
Time to get creative 😂❤
What amazing structure on the Milkweed flowers. 😍
Other than size and color many/most milkweed flowers look very similar, it’s the plants themselves that vary widely.
Great vid!
Thanks for filming this, really looking forward to more Texas vids, you exposed me to great California botany, Texas should be a banger for arid plants
Really pretty little plant! Do the butterflies like that kind? Monarch butterfly? Our milk weed gets much bigger!
They like all milkweed species and use the native species all up & down their migratory flight.
i love how no matter where you are in the world, way out in the boonies, or at the bottom of the ocean, you'll always find a good ol trash bag... ahh reminds me of home
This is so awesome!!! I love the accent. So great and funny! Love this guy ❤️😆❤️
There have been very few jaguar and ocelot sightings in Texas but i know they have Mountain lions for sure, as far north as Castroville and around the Hill country
That is right. The Texas brush lands and the brush lands of Arizona are especially great places to find and see unusual animals (and plants) from the tropical south. jaguarundis and bobcats like to live in those places as well!
Oh definitely. We'd here them near the Frio year after year. Also we've had ocelot sighting as far north as necessary county in recent years!! Exciting!
I heard about the sightings. It’s also possible that they may just be escaped pets. Apparently you can own anything you want as a pet in Texas without a permit or license.
Me, personally, I love da treash on the side of the road, really makes me feel at home
Showing the general area your at with the little map zoom. So good !
I am delighted whenever you talk to bugs
Asclepias with a tarantula hawk shout out- it just made my day. The tarantula hawk wasp is an amazing creature. Huge, blue, with orange wings and really rough on a tarantula. Hard to imagine, but this part of the wild kingdom can be found in Austin.
Personally, I prefer to have the Tarantulas hanging about.
As they do,
right outside of Austin.
@@gardengatesopen And in my yard just west of Mopac. I have seen a few dozen tarantulas over the years but just the one hawk dragging the tarantula along the curb. I got a bit too close and it let me know with a crazy display. Disturbing and beautiful.
@TheStereoClub
They ARE wild to see, I agree!!
I once was kneeling down, checking out a really big garden spider in the center of its web. It was one of those big ones with yellow on it.
I think people call them banana spiders?
Anyway, as I'm leaning in to get a closer look, this tarantula hawk comes swooping in from behind me and just instantly killed that spider, and then flew away with it!!
I admit, I was a bit shocked!
At the time, I didn't know about tarantula hawks, and honestly, I felt a little bit guilty, as if I had been an unknowing apprentice in that spider's demise! Like maybe I had been distracting the spider, and the T. Hawk took advantage of the situation!
Ha!
Of course, it would've happened with or without me!
I can't imagine having witnessed what you saw!
The size difference alone is just crazy!!
I live outside of Austin, on the Northwest side, whete the Hill Country starts, and I love seeing the tarantulas walking around over here!! They're really only seen during mating season, it's a real treat.
I wouldn't want to witness a tarantula hawk in its full hunting glory like you did!!
This conversation makes me uncomfortable. Also I’m pretty sure we got those blue wasps up here in the Chicago burbs.
I mean.. nah, I’ll leave the jokes for sommat else.
😁
I need more Joey Santore common names in my life. There could be a whole book of them
Gosh that's a beautiful one! I really love milkweeds!
Hello from a fellow South Texan. Nothing like 85 degree weather in December huh, yay climate change. Though we did finally just get a small cool front.
The Panda Express farts threw me so hard lmao
I’m so seeing this desert area in a new light. Thank you! This video is fantastic.
I was always looking at it as a wasteland. This is so amazing and I can’t thank you enough. I can’t wait to go exploring again and see things in a different light I never expected.
I am filled with joy that you finally got to see this guy bloomin Tony. When I saw that bastard full frontal I damn near jizzed my pants!
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and travels.
Always wanted to know what these were.
Butterflies make chrysalis. It's hard and crunchy. Moths make cocoons. They are soft and fluffy. Thanks for the ample ramble through the brambles.
Sorry if someone has already said this but: yes the changing of a caterpillar to butterfly is called metamorphosis. However, butterflies do not use cocoons. They use a chrysalis. But what's the difference, you may ask? Allow me to tell you! A chrysalis is made of hardened proteins that the butterfly makes and then hardens when ready to pupate into a butterfly. A cocoon is woven with silk that a caterpillar makes before curling up inside and becoming a moth.
I freaking love this plant so much. Thank you, brother.
I ordered a bunch of milkweed seed for my front yard. Looking forward to spring when I can start germinating them.
Another great video!
So your milkweed there has Anthocyanin. Other plants get their red from Betalain. How do you tell 'em apart?
Only plants in the order Caryophyllales produce betalain pigments
Caryophylales have betalain pigments, all other bois have anthos.
Usually it's cacti and Caryophylaceae that you see out in the wild in that order. Well, at least where I live
That bag is invasive.
the bottles look like they might have reproduced. and here I thought they were sterile hybrids.
Oh you are such a good laugh my man.
Right from the get go.
Love from Sydney Australia.
Thanks again Tony
I thought pipevine swallowtails were only a florida thing. That's pretty cool
They're here in San Antonio Texas alot
Yay, New video from Joey!
I'll plant some this spring... very interesting!
just before i went to bad. Thank you
Cool caterpillar, interesting plants. When I travel a rarity now, but I never feel I've gone somewhere unless I get to meet some of the local weeds, and beasts.
Good to see you got folks to see this before it went on the list
Your videos are the best.
I was in South Africa when you were and I live in south Texas you make the world small Tony
Excellent video brother
Love the botany, do you have an ideal choice for the environment? I hear your complaints but ideally what would you ideally like to see?
FYI you are unbelievably awesome! Holy mother of God.. you are amazing!
As always, great camera work !
Any long term fans know if there's another channel similar? But focus only on edible vegetation?
I wonder if it would be possible to take those A. prostrata that are on the road there and dig them up and move them to a more stable protected habitat. Or maybe take some of the damaged ones and try and rehab them ex situ.
Yeah, you never know how any plant will take to being dug, from garden plants to rare natives. Plus, he pointed out the invasive buffel grass's destructive march across the terrain..it might not end well for A. prostrata. Seed collection might be a way, would you think?
@@KHwut Yes digging up plants from wild habitat is never good for the plant. However, if the alternative is getting mulched from a road grading or fence line, I think trying to move them or rehab them in a controlled setting where the plant can be treated is a better alternative. I also do agree though that seed collection would be a good idea as well. I wouldn't mind trying to grow some if I could obtain some seed.
Was that a gummosis infection on that mesquite tree, or a natural trait of the species?