Who else likes the videos before you even know what it is about because you know the knowledge bomb is about to be dropped? Thanks again Adam for the informative video.
As a nature lover I don't claim to have a ton of knowledge about plants but I do know some. But finding your site an watching all your videos has made learning fun and interesting again. Thank you for that. An thank you for sharing your vast knowledge with all of us.
Being autistic and my special interest being plants this plant blew my mind. Didn't know it even existed but at the age of forty I drove up one of our hollers and thought I was having a flash back. Lol the entire creek bank on both sides as far as the eye could see was covered in a neon orange cotton candy looking I didn't know what? I had to stop and figure it out thought I knew all that grew in my part of Appalachia. It reminded me of the ground up people that covered everything on war of the world's. Turns out it had little white flowers and the Google monster that is evil told me it was a dodder vine. One of the most bizarre unnatural looking natural things I've seen. This was so much more than the behaved vine in the video it was an all out infestation. Mind was blown
I have to point out Michael Moore, the herbalist, says in his book (Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West) that you can gather the whole plant for use. As well as dry it out and store for later. For medicine: a rounded teaspoon of the chopped plant is a good laxative-cathartic, and smaller quantities drunk every few hours, will aid in reducing spleen inflammations, lymph node swellings, and "liver torpor". It contains bergenin (cuscitin). The Chinese use the seed to treat impotence or, at least, deficient kidney yang. Use only for a few day and *Do not use during pregnancy*. Species to use: Cuscuta approximata, C. californica, C. cuspidata, C. gronovii, C. indecora, C. megalocarpa, C. pentagona, C. salina, C. suksdorfi. I love your video as always! Thank you so much for helping me learn more about this beautiful and fascinating plant. I love it even more now. Big hugs!
Excellent info! Thank you!So to summarize.. Dodder is the ultimate plant hacker... and can act as a token ring network between plants.. sort of like intranet vs mycorizzial fungi as internet. :) I have seen this plant before.. and will DEFNINTELY be taking a fresh look at it next time I encounter it
Your timing is excellent, I was just hiking through the national forest in Tennessee/North Carolina and saw a huge patch of that stuff climbing all over the vegetation and was going to look it up to see what it was... THANKS !!
You could prolly make your own survival plant identification guide from your vids, I like the Peterson Field Guidee but without full color and better descriptions on how to use the plant for food, meds, or material its kinda hard to use
I did some plant biology research at my university on this particular plant. You put an incredible amount of detail and effort into your explanation of the plant! One of the things I find most interesting about this plant is that it can act kind of like an inter-plant bridge, like you described, transferring proteins & mRNA between plants. In that way, it can give the plants a greater arsenal of biological tools and resources than either plant could have on it own. Really cool stuff!
WOW! 🤔I just learn something new today, thank you for all you do🤗😍I Love learning about new plants that I don't know of' never heard of' never seen. Thanks again keep up the good work
Another fantastic video. I still think you should do the occasional forage and cook video though. You know so much about these plants and fungi, and people are into these paleo diets now, it would be interesting to see all that knowledge put towards meal prep ideas. Maybe run a poll to see if anyone would be interested.
Around the 11:00 mark when talking about one plant communicating about being predated upon to a different plant, a caterpillar is munching on the 1st plant.
Your videos are awesome and I look forward to every new one you make ! I don’t know how one person can know so much! You are so good at explaining things and enjoyable to listen to. The way you go about your videos, shows you truly LOVE the material you are teaching ! Do you talk about this stuff in your sleep ? Lol I bet ya do !
@@LearnYourLand While I love foraging, I really appreciated the focus on ecology in this video. I also shared this video in a permaculture discord server haha
So awesome, I just saw some of this yesterday down by the creek across from my house I was wondering how it could be useful and here you are Adam thank you so much. I am just north east of you south of Syracuse, outside a town called Hamilton, I love your post and am always telling my, head of a biology lab-sister about your show. I think you should come up and stay at my brother in laws air b&b and see the awesome stuff growing here and do some posts. thanks again for the great post. Joy Peace Love
Thank you for the knowledge you give all of us. I love the outdoors and watch all your videos. I’m from Beaver County PA and have been to Raccoon State Park many times. I only say this because of your mention of it in a previous video. Enjoy the beautiful Pennsylvania woods!
Interesting video! Of course I was wondering if we could eat it the whole time, LOL! Great info as per usual and indeed a very interesting plant and new info for me.
It’s amazing to learn more about this plant. I grew up in Vietnam and we have this plant or at least the same genus and we are using this plant for medical purposes.
11:03, check out the furry caterpillar having lunch on the leaf in the center. Live in a high desert and haven't come across anything that looks like that at all.
I've def seen this plant before.. Love that your vids open a whole other view of these incredible plants and fungi you present.. My hikes will be 100x more enjoyable thinking about how intricate this world really is
WoW...that's wild!...got this doddar living outside my living room window..returns to the same spot every year & it's been here longer than i have..lol..& as spring becomes summer it's always covering a variety of plants, like snakeroot, goldenrod, & asters & Ladys Rocket, etc etc (i plant mainly for the bees, butterflies, & hummers)....i saw how intense it was on them so..tried to unwind it..well, of course..that didn't work....then..i looked to pull up it's root...which..it didn't have...this quickly became a matter of principal to find that root, which, after much time passing & a wee bit of cussing (not cursing) ..was..simply not...there..nowhere to be found....ha....now i was completely baffled...what sort of strange sorcery is this?.......................Thank You for the Science! (all Magic is Science yet undiscovered) Love what you are doing, subbed to all available things ..& ohya, i live in NePa, right alongside NY state....Blessings to You & Yours!
Adam, This is a fantastic video. You covered an abundance of penetrating information. We have a wet meadow with nice diversty yet convolvulaceae cuscuta (dodder) is rampant. I appreciate your knowledge as among others I spend days pulling the cuscuta, now knowing it's a marginal strategy. Would a mid to early spring mowing help to discourage this vine? Thanks for sharing the turkeys! You're the best! 💚🌎
Thanks for the video. The two times I've come across dodder in southern Maine, it had formed impressive masses smothering the plants they were growing on. It was both cool and kinda gross.
I’m still trying to get my head around the cicadas carrying around a gut full of psilocybin fungi, then you throw a plant sucking vine at me. I could get weirded out if it wasn’t so fascinating. Beautiful camera work, Adam.
I saw these on a walk yesterday. Wrapped around spotted joe pye weed in a marsh and blooming away. I'm curious though, would it go after plants that smell intensely to humans? More than ones humans can't smell i mean.
Great video and information as always! One point of constructive criticism: the music overlay made it difficult for me to understand what you were saying. Maybe lower the volume by half when you’re talking, or wait until you’re done talking to start the music. Love the music, too! Thanks!
Your videos just blow my mind as to the incredible biodiversity of our planet. I don't intend to put you on the spot, but what are your thoughts on the eradication by fire of the amazon rainforest, and can we do anything about it?
Reminds me of the honey suckle and passion flower here. Not sure if they are actually parasitic, but they are hell to completely remove where you don't want them.
@11:11 you can see a poisonous caterpillar.. haha don't touch that thing. But anyway great video man! I enjoy your uploads. I also learn so much from them.
I found this plant on my sunflower and I have been watching it bc it looked like nothing I have ever seen before. Mine has a ton of those stringy parts that look like thousands of roots coming off the sunflower. I really don't want it traveling to any other part of garden so I am going to get rid of it. Once I pull up the host, will it jump to another host where it is dropped or do I need to burn it?
Spotted this in southeastern CT. Reminded me like something out of a science fiction movie. It was like orange spaghetti overtaking all the plants around it.
Wow! that is cool, where are you at when you found it? I just got back from camping, and harvested some pinesap and ghost flower.... I love parasitic plants. Something amazing
The dreaded dodder!! 😬 That dodder looks fairly innocuous but I've seen photos were it's just masses of yellow clumps completely covering the plants underneath.
@@cyndifoore7743 Synergistic is not a term that is applicable to the symbiotic relationships between organisms. Mutualism is an ecological interaction between two or more species in which each interacting species benefits.
These are becoming a real problem in the everglades. Idk if anyone has noticed but they can cover trees and reduce photosynthesis, weakening the tree and making it more susceptible to pests and pathogens. :/
I’m smart. But you. You are NEXT LEVEL of brilliant. You’re the first person in a VERY LONG TIME to short circuit my brain thinkers. ***dzzzt*** aaaannnnnddddd..... time to REWIND. AGAIN, FOR THE 20th time.... ** sigh*** Thank you.
Now we know. Always thought "It," was just a part of the larger plant/vine. We've learned some plants are naturally insect-repellent and a few in the Mohawk Valley of New York state, can relieve poison ivy and Hogweed...which deserves it's own episode. Got some hogweed sap on me, in 2018. Itched, burned, blistered for five months. Antibiotics did not help.
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Who else likes the videos before you even know what it is about because you know the knowledge bomb is about to be dropped? Thanks again Adam for the informative video.
✋🏻
The amount of information from your videos is incredible! I have to watch several times to retain! 🍃
How many times do you think he had to study the information, rehearse and rerecord it? He's definitely diligent though!!!
@@gregorygrimm5540 I asked the question. Amazing how people can't even understand basic linguistic concepts.. .🥴
As a nature lover I don't claim to have a ton of knowledge about plants but I do know some. But finding your site an watching all your videos has made learning fun and interesting again. Thank you for that. An thank you for sharing your vast knowledge with all of us.
Thanks for watching!
Being autistic and my special interest being plants this plant blew my mind. Didn't know it even existed but at the age of forty I drove up one of our hollers and thought I was having a flash back. Lol the entire creek bank on both sides as far as the eye could see was covered in a neon orange cotton candy looking I didn't know what? I had to stop and figure it out thought I knew all that grew in my part of Appalachia. It reminded me of the ground up people that covered everything on war of the world's. Turns out it had little white flowers and the Google monster that is evil told me it was a dodder vine. One of the most bizarre unnatural looking natural things I've seen. This was so much more than the behaved vine in the video it was an all out infestation. Mind was blown
It is clearly evident of how much work you put into your presentations, you are a wealth of knowledge and never fail to amaze! Excellent work!
I have to point out Michael Moore, the herbalist, says in his book (Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West) that you can gather the whole plant for use. As well as dry it out and store for later. For medicine: a rounded teaspoon of the chopped plant is a good laxative-cathartic, and smaller quantities drunk every few hours, will aid in reducing spleen inflammations, lymph node swellings, and "liver torpor". It contains bergenin (cuscitin). The Chinese use the seed to treat impotence or, at least, deficient kidney yang. Use only for a few day and *Do not use during pregnancy*.
Species to use: Cuscuta approximata, C. californica, C. cuspidata, C. gronovii, C. indecora, C. megalocarpa, C. pentagona, C. salina, C. suksdorfi.
I love your video as always! Thank you so much for helping me learn more about this beautiful and fascinating plant. I love it even more now. Big hugs!
Excellent info! Thank you!So to summarize.. Dodder is the ultimate plant hacker... and can act as a token ring network between plants.. sort of like intranet vs mycorizzial fungi as internet. :) I have seen this plant before.. and will DEFNINTELY be taking a fresh look at it next time I encounter it
Using in my AP Biology class...thanks!!
Good information. I actually found some on our property and didn't know for sure what it was. Now I do. Thank you
What a contrast in names. Late August. Slow down world.
The microrizal communication between plants. Amazing!!
Vampire Strangling Vines! We're all doomed!! LOL! Thanks yet again for educating me, Adam!
I'm so glad to hear you mention Western Pennsylvania.
I'm currently residing in Beaver Falls.
Plenty of dodder in Beaver Falls!
Let me know when yinz wanna go find some sheepshead mushrooms.
I have spots.
I’m from Aliquippa, living in NE Ohio now.
Awesome!
I've lived in Hopewell two different times in my life.
Thanks for all the information! Wow!
Thanks for another interesting video! I love your style! You present info in a very interesting and enthusiastic way!
Yes what a great video!
Thanks!
Fascinating stuff! You are a great teacher.
You're a treasure trove of knowledge! Incredible!
Your timing is excellent, I was just hiking through the national forest in Tennessee/North Carolina and saw a huge patch of that stuff climbing all over the vegetation and was going to look it up to see what it was... THANKS !!
Adam , my friend , you never cease to amaze by your knowledge of plants . You are in tune with nature . Im glad i subbed long ago.
You could prolly make your own survival plant identification guide from your vids, I like the Peterson Field Guidee but without full color and better descriptions on how to use the plant for food, meds, or material its kinda hard to use
Amazing video!!!
I did some plant biology research at my university on this particular plant. You put an incredible amount of detail and effort into your explanation of the plant! One of the things I find most interesting about this plant is that it can act kind of like an inter-plant bridge, like you described, transferring proteins & mRNA between plants. In that way, it can give the plants a greater arsenal of biological tools and resources than either plant could have on it own. Really cool stuff!
Never know what youre gonna learn! Thanks for the info.
WOW! 🤔I just learn something new today, thank you for all you do🤗😍I Love learning about new plants that I don't know of' never heard of' never seen. Thanks again keep up the good work
Absolutley crazy ! And cool! Thank you for this! So informative. So interesting
Thank you so much for this in all your posts!
Another fantastic video. I still think you should do the occasional forage and cook video though. You know so much about these plants and fungi, and people are into these paleo diets now, it would be interesting to see all that knowledge put towards meal prep ideas. Maybe run a poll to see if anyone would be interested.
Around the 11:00 mark when talking about one plant communicating about being predated upon to a different plant, a caterpillar is munching on the 1st plant.
Your videos are awesome and I look forward to every new one you make ! I don’t know how one person can know so much! You are so good at explaining things and enjoyable to listen to. The way you go about your videos, shows you truly LOVE the material you are teaching ! Do you talk about this stuff in your sleep ? Lol I bet ya do !
Excellent. Very informative. Keep up the good work, Adam!
Thank you for sharing this information !! Great video !!😊
This is my favorite episode of yours tbh. This is so mind-blowing. Definitely gonna have to dig deeper into researching the dodder plant
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed this video.
@@LearnYourLand While I love foraging, I really appreciated the focus on ecology in this video. I also shared this video in a permaculture discord server haha
who does the music for most of your videos?!
Thanks 👍
So awesome, I just saw some of this yesterday down by the creek across from my house I was wondering how it could be useful and here you are Adam thank you so much. I am just north east of you south of Syracuse, outside a town called Hamilton, I love your post and am always telling my, head of a biology lab-sister about your show. I think you should come up and stay at my brother in laws air b&b and see the awesome stuff growing here and do some posts. thanks again for the great post.
Joy Peace Love
Thank you for the knowledge you give all of us.
I love the outdoors and watch all your videos.
I’m from Beaver County PA and have been to Raccoon State Park many times. I only say this because of your mention of it in a previous video.
Enjoy the beautiful Pennsylvania woods!
Seneca nation calls it golden thread
I know golden thread as plantain.
Your videos are top notch. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm dude. Cheers
Great video as always
Excellent video Adam . Thumbs up to you. Thanks again for sharing.
Thanks, Scott! Glad you're enjoying the summer videos.
invaluable demonstration! such fascinating stuff. thanks for sharing
Terrific video Adam! Your knowledge of the plant kingdom is truly amazing. New subscriber here & looking forward to checking out past & future videos!
Thank you for another extremely educational video. Gaia must be in love with your teachings.
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you!
Awesome!! I always enjoy learning from your videos. You have such an amazing passion for the creations of God.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊
Do you think this might be a controlling method for Japanese knotweed?
Interesting video! Of course I was wondering if we could eat it the whole time, LOL! Great info as per usual and indeed a very interesting plant and new info for me.
It’s amazing to learn more about this plant. I grew up in Vietnam and we have this plant or at least the same genus and we are using this plant for medical purposes.
Fascinating stuff. New sub, here. 10/10
Fascinating. Thank You.
11:03, check out the furry caterpillar having lunch on the leaf in the center. Live in a high desert and haven't come across anything that looks like that at all.
I've def seen this plant before.. Love that your vids open a whole other view of these incredible plants and fungi you present.. My hikes will be 100x more enjoyable thinking about how intricate this world really is
In Eastern VA, we call it scaldweed. And it makes a very pretty yellow natural dye. Around here, it grows on snapdragons.
WoW...that's wild!...got this doddar
living outside my living room window..returns to the same spot every year & it's been here longer than i have..lol..& as spring becomes summer it's always covering a variety of plants, like snakeroot, goldenrod, & asters & Ladys Rocket, etc etc (i plant mainly for the bees, butterflies, & hummers)....i saw how intense it was on them so..tried to unwind it..well, of course..that didn't work....then..i looked to pull up it's root...which..it didn't have...this quickly became a matter of principal to find that root, which, after much time passing & a wee bit of cussing (not cursing) ..was..simply not...there..nowhere to be found....ha....now i was completely baffled...what sort of strange sorcery is this?.......................Thank You for the Science! (all Magic is Science yet undiscovered) Love what you are doing, subbed to all available things ..& ohya, i live in NePa, right alongside NY state....Blessings to You & Yours!
How amazing! Very cool information. I so appreciate what you do!
Wow. Full of knowledge. Are morning glorys also considered parasitic?
One virtue of the dodder here (Hudson valley) is that its preferred host is purple loosestrife, an invasive.
hello, thanks for the video ! big thankx !!!
But can chicken destroy the seeds ?
how interesting!!! i have never seen this plant here in VT yet.
Adam, This is a fantastic video. You covered an abundance of penetrating information. We have a wet meadow with nice diversty yet convolvulaceae cuscuta (dodder) is rampant. I appreciate your knowledge as among others I spend days pulling the cuscuta, now knowing it's a marginal strategy. Would a mid to early spring mowing help to discourage this vine?
Thanks for sharing the turkeys! You're the best!
💚🌎
Thanks for the video. The two times I've come across dodder in southern Maine, it had formed impressive masses smothering the plants they were growing on. It was both cool and kinda gross.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting :) Do you have or know of any videos on foraging in tropical areas like Florida?
yeah, they consider dandilions noxios too, and we could live on them alone. :) very interesting vid.
I’m still trying to get my head around the cicadas carrying around a gut full of psilocybin fungi, then you throw a plant sucking vine at me. I could get weirded out if it wasn’t so fascinating. Beautiful camera work, Adam.
WOW!!!! WOWW!!!!! Awamzing
You are amazing.. Thank you💜
I saw these on a walk yesterday. Wrapped around spotted joe pye weed in a marsh and blooming away. I'm curious though, would it go after plants that smell intensely to humans? More than ones humans can't smell i mean.
Great video and information as always!
One point of constructive criticism: the music overlay made it difficult for me to understand what you were saying. Maybe lower the volume by half when you’re talking, or wait until you’re done talking to start the music.
Love the music, too!
Thanks!
Your videos just blow my mind as to the incredible biodiversity of our planet. I don't intend to put you on the spot, but what are your thoughts on the eradication by fire of the amazon rainforest, and can we do anything about it?
Plants are freaking awesome!
Great video.
Reminds me of the honey suckle and passion flower here. Not sure if they are actually parasitic, but they are hell to completely remove where you don't want them.
Wow!!! Fascinating!!!
@11:11 you can see a poisonous caterpillar.. haha don't touch that thing. But anyway great video man! I enjoy your uploads. I also learn so much from them.
I found this plant on my sunflower and I have been watching it bc it looked like nothing I have ever seen before. Mine has a ton of those stringy parts that look like thousands of roots coming off the sunflower. I really don't want it traveling to any other part of garden so I am going to get rid of it. Once I pull up the host, will it jump to another host where it is dropped or do I need to burn it?
Spotted this in southeastern CT. Reminded me like something out of a science fiction movie. It was like orange spaghetti overtaking all the plants around it.
Love your videos. I used to see a lot of this Dodder (strangle weed) in western Pa as a young person but I haven't seen any in western NC.
An interesting plant. I've looked for it all my life. Never found it. In England, it normally grows on nettles...
I just noticed your video is not monetize, no ads
Wow! that is cool, where are you at when you found it? I just got back from camping, and harvested some pinesap and ghost flower.... I love parasitic plants. Something amazing
Adam, another great video! What is the plant at 50 seconds? Valerian?
Thanks!
Tim
Thanks for watching! The plant at 50 seconds is Common Boneset - Eupatorium perfoliatum.
Cool!!! Thank you!!!
The dreaded dodder!! 😬 That dodder looks fairly innocuous but I've seen photos were it's just masses of yellow clumps completely covering the plants underneath.
It is also Known as Cuscuta or Amarbel
Hey, you should do a video about the different types of reishi.
Where in pa are you? I’m about 35 mins north of Lehigh valley
The ones in Arizona love the creosote plant.
The orange dodder is one of the most the dodder's family that is full of medicinal benefits .
If dodder provides some benefits to its hosts, then the relationships wouldn't seem to be truly parasitic but more akin to mutualistic wouldn't it?
Roy Kropp synergistic
@@cyndifoore7743 Synergistic is not a term that is applicable to the symbiotic relationships between organisms. Mutualism is an ecological interaction between two or more species in which each interacting species benefits.
What’s the song called from the first part of the video ?
thanks
Time to use this in my manga
These are becoming a real problem in the everglades. Idk if anyone has noticed but they can cover trees and reduce photosynthesis, weakening the tree and making it more susceptible to pests and pathogens. :/
I’m smart. But you. You are NEXT LEVEL of brilliant. You’re the first person in a VERY LONG TIME to short circuit my brain thinkers. ***dzzzt*** aaaannnnnddddd..... time to REWIND. AGAIN, FOR THE 20th time.... ** sigh***
Thank you.
I get dodder growing on my carrots sometimes.
Now we know. Always thought "It," was just a part of the larger plant/vine. We've learned some plants are naturally insect-repellent and a few in the Mohawk Valley of New York state, can relieve poison ivy and Hogweed...which deserves it's own episode. Got some hogweed sap on me, in 2018. Itched, burned, blistered for five months. Antibiotics did not help.
Could Dodder be used as a means of controling invasive species such as kudzu or Japanese knotweed ?
It could never out-compete kudzu, even if kudzu made an acceptable host plant.
Love vine is Cassytha species plant.
Maybe useful against KUDZU???
these kind of remind me of Monotropa uniflora