I'm 34, wasted a decade trying to be an economist. I fucking hate it. I recently discovered permaculture, which led me into botany. I need to pursue this.
Nice primer! Looking at your illustrations and lettering, I'd be willing to buy your book. I think it would be a hit. I'd love to have a book with captions like "Generic-ass female flower." Sure, it may take you 10 years to write and publish, but if I'm around that long, I'm in for at least one copy. Put me on your pre-release list.
We could prepay 50% that is pretty standard for commissioning from an artist or other craft person. Don't worry! there is no risk of falling into a housing development lifestyle by taking preorders.
Horticulture is a whole other thing. I'd highly recommend reading orthos all about orchids. Once I read that, I could grow anything because it teaches you about what you can and cannot grow in your area. However-because it doesnt deal with terrestrial plants, you also need to learn about soil types and pH and and water quality in your area so you can figure out what will and won't grow in your area. So if you dont live in the Pacific northwest, don't get a gardening book written in england. Try to learn from locals that know about the specific challenges of growing things in your area. I dont know if master gardener programs are going to be offered online, but if you want to learn to grow, that's a good place to start. Also look up how to harden things off if you want to just start playing around with growing things
@@missanna208802 Crime Pays has got me interested in growing native plants that thrive where I am. I live in zone 6 in the southern part of the rocky mountain zone. I just need to know where to start. Your answer has helped me out.
@@MaxG-jk8ty yes, and from a 32 years in point of view if you compost significantly get ready for mice and rats to love the pile. Even in a container they recognize their comfy place.
Been looking forward to this and really appreciated the previous book recommendation video. Botany In A Day has served me well to get started with just identification. It's been pretty easy to identify the family of several wildflowers in my area thanks to it, which alone helps narrow the search for a genus or exact species. Having iNat in my pocket hasn't hurt either. Since I finished "Planet of Viruses" (really enjoyed that one) I've gone back to reading Plant Systematics. It's a struggle, having been a slacker in high school, but thanks to the internet age I can at least learn what I should've already known whenever I get stuck. Gonna bite the bullet on a hard-copy of the third edition soon. E-readers are great but sometimes I need pages to physically turn and label.
Got my unauthorized forester t-shirt today. Thank you. I'm going to wear it at the first annual Don't Bring Me Down vine removal event planned for next year's January thaw.
Nothing quite gets me excited like botanists who will not only explore current plant diversity, but will try and tie in the fantastic diversity from previous epochs in all their strangeness! This was awesome to watch, once again. You should consider doing a video just on super primitive plants, ferns, lycophytes, and extinct forms. Maybe some fossils if you have any to show.
somebody else on line had a way to remember pistol female “She was a pistol packin; mama” Stamens male. They Stay Men. Might be too cute for you but it does help
I'm working from home. I've been pretty lucky, work is mostly unaffected by the pandemic. You've got me eyeing up swampy areas nearby to look for plants that thrive in nitrogen poor areas. I'm also growing some potted plants. I chucked a couple old potatoes in a planter I got, and got a couple cacti. I also got my folks looking at some native ground cover plants to maybe replace part of the god forsaken lawn.
Brian CP, you can find some neat stuff around there! If you’re in a wetter area, you might find bladderwort, an underwater carnivorous plant with a yellow flower that pokes up out of the water.
Man, I think that you are doing an important thing. ADHD (you have alluded to your's often) educators are probably disrespected in mainstream academia and certainly not effective on all students but some of us learn differently and for my brain, your style is incredibly effective. The way that you repeat important points in different ways with disparate examples is one of the best techniques that I have encountered. Your method makes not one blase`, lukewarm synoptic path but often several varied neural retrieval mechanisms. LEARNING and cheek pouching cute mnemonic tricks for the fortnightly regurgitation on a test to navigate some smarmy instructors uninspired didactic bumblefuckery are not even the same thing. You TEACH. If more people in the business could and would employ more of your style that makes learning fun we might begin producing more kids who know how to learn. The public school system in America suffocates more potential than it stimulates. Formal education in this country is more indoctrination than preperation for understanding the subjects at hand. Thank you for taking your time to teach people, you are very good at it.
There’s no way I could fall asleep. I think I got a caffeine buzz just watching! That’s a lot of plant science and some evolutionary bio and genetics in a short time!
I regret not taking a botany class SO MUCH when I was in school for biochemistry. I’ve developed such a love for it since I started doing plant epigenetic research and growing my summer vegetable garden. Please know that everything about your videos brings me such joy!
Please do more videos like this! I found this really helpful for a class I am taking right now; I didn't understand why we were focusing on flowers rather than leaves for identification until you explained that the synapomorphies of flowers provide so much information on common ancestor and family.
Me: Day #32 of physical distancing. I feel like I have my life back! Gardening, composting, weeding, observing, musing, reading, planting seeds, watching the rain, feeding the red wriggled, you know, enjoying nature. The way it was meant to be.
I started taking pictures of plants and searching them in this massive book i got for plants that grow here in Switzerland and writing it down thanks to you you sparked a little fire inside of me , i used to take my dog out and just walk and be like dead inside looking at the ground but since you got me into the whole plant identifying and to know what the shit is going on i got so much more curious into looking at the seemingly boring plants that pop up . Anyways im still a kook learning a lot by watching your videos and looking at the illegally downloaded botany in a day book you recommended.
THANK YOU ! I needed this I'm a 34 yr old who works in range and wildlife management. I have a true love for the many ecoregions of Texas. This really helps me rejuvenate my excitement. It starts to feel more like business than a passion sometimes.
I've really been enjoying your videos as of late. I'm a 17 year old guy, and ur definitely right about the stereotypes. Never thought I'd get into flowers, always thought they were kinda gay. But for me it's exploding into a huge interest. Keep up the great work! 👍
Not only are gay flowers pretty cool, most gay people arent as bad as you think. Anyone can be a sickening jackass, whether they suck dick or not. Try to discriminate between flowers, not against folks just lookin to get their prostate tickled. Or be an asshole yourself. I dont care, I hope I never see your face.
I have been looking at all kinds of flowers and plants that are right outside my apartment door, taking pictures of them and putting them up on iNat to see what they are. Then I try to find out everything I can about them as far as where they are from and what they might be doing where I found them THANKS TO YOU!
from Diana Shallard $:0$ by accident and funny 4:04 'it would be hoove you" priceless. Around my garden there currently is a lot of machine noise.. if it was not there i would have no alternative but to go into my garden that way (sweet violets and briar only taking my so far ... for so long and i'm away for a smoke). Today i will not rush to noise that disturbs me intrinsically. I will watch you and be thoroughly delighted with a stimuli more appealing, in attention to your presentation. Happily glued.. feeling very far behind.. and it is June and many intoxicating roses are blooming right now... they drift too mine ... my smile is wide.. a real joy. Winter here will leave me plenty of winter and hunkered down. Short days to come and today they are wonderfully long. On my say sure to revisit again and again.
Please be careful, where a mask and gloves and wash your clothes when you get home from work each day. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that but the neurotic schmuck in me can't help myself.
You're maybe one of a handful of teachers that's successfully kept my add brain focused for 30+ minutes, damn. Thanks for the primer! I've picked up Botany in a Day and been loving that rascal so far 😄
It’s great that you’re honest about what u haven’t learnt yet makes me feel better for some reason lol. I know the pressure sometimes but then I just relax and flow and love life again as always.
This video blew my mind. I've been interested in taxonomy for a while but felt recognizing plants based on families was too difficult to wrap my head around. But after watching this, I went to my backyard and looked at the strawberries and blackberries we've got, and I noticed the flowers have very similar corollas and calyxes. I look it up, and it turns out both are Rosaceae. Then I remembered that we usually get Potentilla indica (aka Indian strawberry) growing wild in our yard, and that it has similar flowers. I look it up and sure enough, also Rosaceae. Mind blown. This is incredible! I'm getting the Botany in a Day book from my local library, can't wait to get it in my hands!
In Earth Science class, our teacher taught us the phrase “pistol-packin’ mama” to remember that the pistil is the female part of a plant. And it looks like it worked, because it’s like 25 years later and I still remember that.
Its funny you mention the first flowers were likely aquatic and unimpressive, cause I keep aquariums full of aquatic plants and they usually make plain Jane little white flowers, but they’re so lovely and they really chill me out. Trying to find field guides for aquatic plants down here in the southeast to have more fun in the rivers I grew up in. Edit: I feel like I need to watch this at 3/4 speed several times over. Christ, dyslexia is a bastard
Hell yeah!! I took Dr. Michael G Simpson's plant taxonomy class at SDSU and it was unequivocally the most impactful course I've ever taken. Nearly failed it at first before things eventually clicked, but it totally and completely changed my life. Now I pull off the sides of roads to get on my belly to admire a plant, do ethnobotanical teas and frequently forage for the dinner salad 🤙 keep up the great material! Side note, any stickers left?
Please continue doing these. You could totally compile a power point with your illustrations and fonts with you explaining the info you got going. Great job!! And thank you.
I work in a women's treatment center so the pandemic didn't really affect me, my job wasn't one that shut down. I love your videos, my parents were survivalist hippies so I can identify a lot of what's edible in my area, but you are all about the science and I love it. There's a weird plant here that's recently been taking over a wooded area. I can't wait for it to bloom so I can check it out.
You sir, are a gifted educator. I used to fall asleep in college all the time and can't usually pay attention to most stuff for than a few minutes, but can watch your shit all the way through. I love how you move quick, go deep into something, then circle back to reiterate. Found your channel, been watching a bunch of your videos. I grow a bunch of my own food and have a lot of practical knowledge for growing shit/fertility and whatnot, but you have inspired me to learn about all this stuff.
Awesome thanks a ton *edit i wanna order more stickers soon Took the kids fishing today. Using inat and rockd. It does make the world a lot more exciting.
doing great tony! catching up on my online botany courses for a cert and working in my native plant gardens here in Michigan while I am not working. thanks for keeping the videos going!! I always look forward to them!
I feel like I've come to your house for some mentoring on super-cool botany sh*t, but I can't look you in the eye and just keep scanning the books and knick-knacks on your desk.
i'm doing ok man, holding out. playing soccer every day and by that i mean kicking the ball up over and over again. flowers are fantastic and so are you bud, hope you're staying good.
Working every other day here in PA. Gotta keep the country from rusting tight. Nature is the diva extraordinaire, as you well know. You had the perfect classroom on the train. All the plants and geology mile by mile. Time to be immersed in the landscape with the books describing what you were crossing. Good on ya' for bringing it back for future ears, like that'll be a thing. Keep kickin' it out, it's a good stretching exercise for 'tween ear jellies.
I watch a lot of your videos to help me out with knowledge and studying my apprenticeship, easiest possible way for me to learn through the way you explain things. Love the videos, Tony
Thanks so much for the video and keeping my sane. Going crazy here learning parisitology online and finishing the undergrad final thesis. Grad school soon though in a brand new ecosystem to explore!!! Just gotta wait out this pandemic.
Just so you know, not just hippies eat ferns. In Maine, fiddlehead ferns grow along trout streams. So trout and fiddleheads are the possum and sweet potatoes of Maine.
having some of these plant identification skills seems like having superpowers to me. Really like the learning sections (and the cultural anthropology). Will be revisiting and picking up where I can. Great x-rated teaching style as always although probably bit punchy for the junior classroom 😂
Prolly will never read this but man, I’m gettin high and watching your vids because it helps me see beauty in life.. I’ve been depressed for a while and your videos just being me laughter and teach me a thing or two lol keep it up
my mind blowed when you said "monocod eudicod" i have been organizing my plants into a tree of live, have a few monocods and a bunch of eudicods but that meaned nothing to me, no it is much clear, just like when i learn angiosperms are flowering plants and tracheophytes are vascular plants :) priceless, you really good at teaching I'L keep an eye for this alter ego of Tony Santoro
God damn, I love this guy! My whole life I have had NO intrest in botany at all. I watched one of these videos and there went my freedom for the past week.
Nice! It'd be cool to learn a little more about flowers and flowering plants. I just know what I can remember from lower-level bio in undergrad (and from cooking, fun fact, saffron is basically just the dried stigmas of a specific species of flower).
@@AmunDeus I've been thinking about growing a few but I don't use saffron often enough to justify buying some. There's only 3 saffron filaments per flower I think? That's why it's so expensive.
Jacob b.. you can get Crocus sativus bulbs from Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, they’re not too expensive. They are a easy to grow fall blooming bulb, with a very pretty lavender flower that’s bigger than a regular crocus. They come up each year and multiply, and yes the three orange stigmas can be harvested and dried. 🌱🌻 ps we are so fortunate to have access to Tony’s knowledge and close up view of botany !!
I grew some plants from seedbank and got a few dioecious grape plants. When they get big I will look to see if the flowers are different. I learned this from your video. I was going to just wait to see which made grapes. Now I can get the jump on that.
Exactly what I was looking for to start my study of botany, excellent and hilariously presented! I have been shooting macro photography as a hobby for 4 years now, flowers (and insects) . . .the big "quarantine project" has been getting a portfolio together. Which means lots of ID'ng. I have that done, but decided to take a deeper look at botany, I want and need to know more about this . . . this was my first intro (as an adult). Thanks so much for throwing some blocks at the base of this pyramid. I was just yesterday discussing w/my room mate that I need some books . . . will get those that you have suggested. Brilliant. Give those blue healers a boop and a scratch for me, thank you! PS-- please do not delete this video (mentioned as a possibility) . . . maybe a Part 2? cheers!
man, I studied some botany in the university and never got so much interested on it....and watching your videos I am getting in love with botany.....great job....you should be teaching at university instead of so many boring nerds who make people hate subjetcs
Thank you I love going out and looking at the wild flowers, now I a little bit about it, very interesting, but alot to learn. BTW love the hand on your desk, my trademark! Haha
Our hero went from talking about cows eating angiosperms to saying, "it would behoove you.." That kind of effortless talent pisses me off. You make the rest of us look like a bunch of mouth-breathing, ORV-riding, ignoramuses. Oh, and thank you for the excellent intro to identifying flowering plants. top-shelf content.
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I like remembering that my prehensile primate hands were selected specifically for grabbing ripe angiosperm fruits. Fig-graspers gone wild
I've fondled quite a few figs in my day
I...I want posters that explain "generic ass" plant stuff.
Yes please
Oh hell yes!!
This shit should be taught at school's. Remember the posters that were on the wall at biology class?
I would absolutely buy an overpriced “generic-ass plant stuff” poster
Yes! This!
i really needed this, im 20 and just getting into botany
i really needed this, im 40 and just getting into botany
I really needed this, im 2 and just getting into botany
Same, am 33 and I struggle with misanthropy too. I mean, I try my best to like people but... 😜
Just turned 38 and am just getting into it too. I've been doing natives for about 5 years but quickly realized I know nothing and am happy to learn!
I'm 34, wasted a decade trying to be an economist. I fucking hate it. I recently discovered permaculture, which led me into botany. I need to pursue this.
Nice primer! Looking at your illustrations and lettering, I'd be willing to buy your book. I think it would be a hit. I'd love to have a book with captions like "Generic-ass female flower." Sure, it may take you 10 years to write and publish, but if I'm around that long, I'm in for at least one copy. Put me on your pre-release list.
ditto
We could prepay 50% that is pretty standard for commissioning from an artist or other craft person. Don't worry! there is no risk of falling into a housing development lifestyle by taking preorders.
Id totally be down to preorder a “Generic-ass” botany book
same!
Ya please with your illistrations.
housewives on prozac, represent
🙏
Teenager on adderall, represent
Stoned 20 year old's represent
HAHAHA I felt personally called out here.
Legally stoned 45 year old housewives on Adderall with a 13-year-old teenager represent ;)
jaculators, bisexuals, hermaphrodites... this guy knows what we like
So fuckin niche but perfect
We would love a video of how to grow and plant some things! Your illegal planting video is the best. Need more of those. Show us the garden dude!!
Horticulture is a whole other thing. I'd highly recommend reading orthos all about orchids. Once I read that, I could grow anything because it teaches you about what you can and cannot grow in your area. However-because it doesnt deal with terrestrial plants, you also need to learn about soil types and pH and and water quality in your area so you can figure out what will and won't grow in your area. So if you dont live in the Pacific northwest, don't get a gardening book written in england. Try to learn from locals that know about the specific challenges of growing things in your area. I dont know if master gardener programs are going to be offered online, but if you want to learn to grow, that's a good place to start. Also look up how to harden things off if you want to just start playing around with growing things
@@missanna208802 Crime Pays has got me interested in growing native plants that thrive where I am. I live in zone 6 in the southern part of the rocky mountain zone. I just need to know where to start. Your answer has helped me out.
@@MaxG-jk8ty yes, and from a 32 years in point of view if you compost significantly get ready for mice and rats to love the pile. Even in a container they recognize their comfy place.
The man is amazing considering most of this is self-taught. I've known dozens of plant biologists that do not have this depth on the same topics.
Tony is a great example of learning about a subject matter on his own......Kudos to him
My pandemic's been full of Duolingo Spanish and learning about botany!
same, finished spanish and started Swahili
Saaaaaameee
Qué tal amigos
weird me too. just cleared 1000 day streak on there recently. finally got somethin to stick in the ol noggin lol
gutentag
Throw them stickers up on your storefront , I'd love to buy some.
Anyone else thinking how that generic-ass flower structure would go great on a sticker or clothing
Excellent idea.
I completely agree and I really want one lol
I'd chuck some more money his way for a t-shirt. Hoodie I've got's served me well, hiding my identity during the burglaries and stuff y'know?
Right, have one like on the top corner of your shirt like its a Polo or Ralph Lauren logo LMAO
@@danc3868 He's got a merch shop in the description of the video.
"let's have a look at some generic-ass flower structure"
*takes notes furiously*
I have my note pads ready and writing when this guy talks. He has a lot to teach.
Most intimidating Prof I ever heard lecture. Was afraid to get out of my chair and take a piss until he was done.
Been looking forward to this and really appreciated the previous book recommendation video. Botany In A Day has served me well to get started with just identification. It's been pretty easy to identify the family of several wildflowers in my area thanks to it, which alone helps narrow the search for a genus or exact species. Having iNat in my pocket hasn't hurt either.
Since I finished "Planet of Viruses" (really enjoyed that one) I've gone back to reading Plant Systematics. It's a struggle, having been a slacker in high school, but thanks to the internet age I can at least learn what I should've already known whenever I get stuck. Gonna bite the bullet on a hard-copy of the third edition soon. E-readers are great but sometimes I need pages to physically turn and label.
You may want to check for a used copy at Powell's books online.
Got my unauthorized forester t-shirt today. Thank you. I'm going to wear it at the first annual Don't Bring Me Down vine removal event planned for next year's January thaw.
It's a legitimately great design.
Nothing quite gets me excited like botanists who will not only explore current plant diversity, but will try and tie in the fantastic diversity from previous epochs in all their strangeness! This was awesome to watch, once again.
You should consider doing a video just on super primitive plants, ferns, lycophytes, and extinct forms. Maybe some fossils if you have any to show.
somebody else on line had a way to remember pistol female “She was a pistol packin; mama”
Stamens male. They Stay Men. Might be too cute for you but it does help
I always used the mnemonic Crystal Pistil
A young woman in high school hated that...
I knew playing Fallout 4 would have an academic use.
Thanks buddy! I watched this video a week ago, & pistol packin mama & stamens Stay men is the one thing that easily stuck with me.
I'm working from home. I've been pretty lucky, work is mostly unaffected by the pandemic.
You've got me eyeing up swampy areas nearby to look for plants that thrive in nitrogen poor areas. I'm also growing some potted plants. I chucked a couple old potatoes in a planter I got, and got a couple cacti.
I also got my folks looking at some native ground cover plants to maybe replace part of the god forsaken lawn.
Brian CP, you can find some neat stuff around there! If you’re in a wetter area, you might find bladderwort, an underwater carnivorous plant with a yellow flower that pokes up out of the water.
I literally walked around my building today at work looking for plants to ID. This guy is a great teacher.
Bless you brother, any lawn you can replace is a win for the planet.
@@evanc1749 I've been doing that too - I guess next I'll need to start an iNaturalist account...
Yes do it! The lawn industry is a disease!
An "adult" coloring book about botany illustrated in your style would be there best. I would buy it immediately
YESSS!!
Man, I think that you are doing an important thing. ADHD (you have alluded to your's often) educators are probably disrespected in mainstream academia and certainly not effective on all students but some of us learn differently and for my brain, your style is incredibly effective. The way that you repeat important points in different ways with disparate examples is one of the best techniques that I have encountered. Your method makes not one blase`, lukewarm synoptic path but often several varied neural retrieval mechanisms. LEARNING and cheek pouching cute mnemonic tricks for the fortnightly regurgitation on a test to navigate some smarmy instructors uninspired didactic bumblefuckery are not even the same thing. You TEACH. If more people in the business could and would employ more of your style that makes learning fun we might begin producing more kids who know how to learn. The public school system in America suffocates more potential than it stimulates. Formal education in this country is more indoctrination than preperation for understanding the subjects at hand. Thank you for taking your time to teach people, you are very good at it.
There’s no way I could fall asleep. I think I got a caffeine buzz just watching! That’s a lot of plant science and some evolutionary bio and genetics in a short time!
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
“Watching a little bit too much Netflix -eh?”
Me: ... no
Me trying to not watch tiger king bc I know I’ll binge the fuck out of it
Been refreshing my plant knowledge after being outta school, and what a better way to do it with Tony.
“Happy pandemic” dude I died..
I am still happy except with local government wanting to open public pools.
I regret not taking a botany class SO MUCH when I was in school for biochemistry. I’ve developed such a love for it since I started doing plant epigenetic research and growing my summer vegetable garden. Please know that everything about your videos brings me such joy!
Please do more videos like this! I found this really helpful for a class I am taking right now; I didn't understand why we were focusing on flowers rather than leaves for identification until you explained that the synapomorphies of flowers provide so much information on common ancestor and family.
Me: Day #32 of physical distancing. I feel like I have my life back! Gardening, composting, weeding, observing, musing, reading, planting seeds, watching the rain, feeding the red wriggled, you know, enjoying nature. The way it was meant to be.
I need to learn to do this.
I started taking pictures of plants and searching them in this massive book i got for plants that grow here in Switzerland and writing it down thanks to you you sparked a little fire inside of me , i used to take my dog out and just walk and be like dead inside looking at the ground but since you got me into the whole plant identifying and to know what the shit is going on i got so much more curious into looking at the seemingly boring plants that pop up . Anyways im still a kook learning a lot by watching your videos and looking at the illegally downloaded botany in a day book you recommended.
I'm 2 years later but did you get it ?
THANK YOU ! I needed this I'm a 34 yr old who works in range and wildlife management. I have a true love for the many ecoregions of Texas. This really helps me rejuvenate my excitement. It starts to feel more like business than a passion sometimes.
I've really been enjoying your videos as of late. I'm a 17 year old guy, and ur definitely right about the stereotypes. Never thought I'd get into flowers, always thought they were kinda gay. But for me it's exploding into a huge interest. Keep up the great work! 👍
Not only are gay flowers pretty cool, most gay people arent as bad as you think. Anyone can be a sickening jackass, whether they suck dick or not. Try to discriminate between flowers, not against folks just lookin to get their prostate tickled. Or be an asshole yourself. I dont care, I hope I never see your face.
Flowers are bad ass. Fu..ck anyone that thinks differently!
I have been looking at all kinds of flowers and plants that are right outside my apartment door, taking pictures of them and putting them up on iNat to see what they are. Then I try to find out everything I can about them as far as where they are from and what they might be doing where I found them THANKS TO YOU!
I really appreciated this video :) You are a natural teacher because your enthusiasm is so evident in everything you say when you talk about botany.
I’m so excited! My copy of Botany in a Day should be delivered soon!
from Diana Shallard $:0$ by accident and funny 4:04 'it would be hoove you" priceless. Around my garden there currently is a lot of machine noise.. if it was not there i would have no alternative but to go into my garden that way (sweet violets and briar only taking my so far ... for so long and i'm away for a smoke). Today i will not rush to noise that disturbs me intrinsically. I will watch you and be thoroughly delighted with a stimuli more appealing, in attention to your presentation. Happily glued.. feeling very far behind.. and it is June and many intoxicating roses are blooming right now... they drift too mine ... my smile is wide.. a real joy. Winter here will leave me plenty of winter and hunkered down. Short days to come and today they are wonderfully long. On my say sure to revisit again and again.
Please keep going with the foundation vids. I just learned this stuff 6 months ago and already forgot most of it, so its very helpful.
hell yeah man thanks for the tips buddy. hope you're stayin safe out there. much love from norcal
This coincides with my botany class so well
Hey dude I'm still working in a grocery store and dying for the man.you put this vid up at the fight time tho. Love your dogs too.
Please be careful, where a mask and gloves and wash your clothes when you get home from work each day. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that but the neurotic schmuck in me can't help myself.
Hey brother, I put your "Stop Humanity" sticker on my bumper. Appreciate you.
Where did you get the sticker? I'd like to get some.
You're maybe one of a handful of teachers that's successfully kept my add brain focused for 30+ minutes, damn. Thanks for the primer! I've picked up Botany in a Day and been loving that rascal so far 😄
It’s great that you’re honest about what u haven’t learnt yet makes me feel better for some reason lol. I know the pressure sometimes but then I just relax and flow and love life again as always.
PLEASE do more of these. I loved this video. Your usual format is awesome too, but this. Whew. This is amazing.
This video blew my mind. I've been interested in taxonomy for a while but felt recognizing plants based on families was too difficult to wrap my head around. But after watching this, I went to my backyard and looked at the strawberries and blackberries we've got, and I noticed the flowers have very similar corollas and calyxes. I look it up, and it turns out both are Rosaceae. Then I remembered that we usually get Potentilla indica (aka Indian strawberry) growing wild in our yard, and that it has similar flowers. I look it up and sure enough, also Rosaceae. Mind blown. This is incredible! I'm getting the Botany in a Day book from my local library, can't wait to get it in my hands!
You’re the best teacher. I swear. I pay attention and that’s saying a lot.
In Earth Science class, our teacher taught us the phrase “pistol-packin’ mama” to remember that the pistil is the female part of a plant. And it looks like it worked, because it’s like 25 years later and I still remember that.
I DID NOT expect how much of an eye opener this was in some ways, thank you.
Its funny you mention the first flowers were likely aquatic and unimpressive, cause I keep aquariums full of aquatic plants and they usually make plain Jane little white flowers, but they’re so lovely and they really chill me out. Trying to find field guides for aquatic plants down here in the southeast to have more fun in the rivers I grew up in.
Edit: I feel like I need to watch this at 3/4 speed several times over. Christ, dyslexia is a bastard
Woah.. was that a convict lake, ca card at 6:14? I love that place!
I like that Vaughn Bode style lettering. Great vid as always. I’m constantly looking at the undersides of flowers when I go hiking now.
Hell yeah!! I took Dr. Michael G Simpson's plant taxonomy class at SDSU and it was unequivocally the most impactful course I've ever taken. Nearly failed it at first before things eventually clicked, but it totally and completely changed my life. Now I pull off the sides of roads to get on my belly to admire a plant, do ethnobotanical teas and frequently forage for the dinner salad 🤙 keep up the great material!
Side note, any stickers left?
This was fun! Thank you much for never wasting my time and always putting a smile on my face. You’re a gem
Please continue doing these. You could totally compile a power point with your illustrations and fonts with you explaining the info you got going. Great job!! And thank you.
Dude, you are very talented. You have got gorgeous drawings on the wall. You could definitely use some of those for merchandise.
Be well.
I work in a women's treatment center so the pandemic didn't really affect me, my job wasn't one that shut down. I love your videos, my parents were survivalist hippies so I can identify a lot of what's edible in my area, but you are all about the science and I love it. There's a weird plant here that's recently been taking over a wooded area. I can't wait for it to bloom so I can check it out.
You're awesome! I love your illustrative style.
This takes me back to my intro plant biology course. Good times. This was a good refresh on the content :)
I appreciate you and your work more than I have the words to describe. Thanks for everything.
The Guy is an inspiration to all those who wish to find there passion!
Thanks for helping prevent serious mental atrophy
You sir, are a gifted educator. I used to fall asleep in college all the time and can't usually pay attention to most stuff for than a few minutes, but can watch your shit all the way through. I love how you move quick, go deep into something, then circle back to reiterate. Found your channel, been watching a bunch of your videos. I grow a bunch of my own food and have a lot of practical knowledge for growing shit/fertility and whatnot, but you have inspired me to learn about all this stuff.
Awesome thanks a ton
*edit i wanna order more stickers soon
Took the kids fishing today. Using inat and rockd. It does make the world a lot more exciting.
Thanks Tony- my last botany lesson was in '75- nice to get a refresher.
Stay safe and (reasonably) sane!
doing great tony! catching up on my online botany courses for a cert and working in my native plant gardens here in Michigan while I am not working. thanks for keeping the videos going!! I always look forward to them!
I feel like I've come to your house for some mentoring on super-cool botany sh*t, but I can't look you in the eye and just keep scanning the books and knick-knacks on your desk.
Ha me too. The first thing you do at someone's house is check out their books and stuff on the walls...
I'm 63 years old and find you very entertaining! Not to mention, educational😉 Thanks
I use your soothing voice to fall asleep and get a dose of nature. Appreciate your sharing your knowledge.
Discovered you through your interview of the Hamilton Morris. I really appreciate the work you are doing. Thank you.
i'm doing ok man, holding out. playing soccer every day and by that i mean kicking the ball up over and over again. flowers are fantastic and so are you bud, hope you're staying good.
Working every other day here in PA. Gotta keep the country from rusting tight. Nature is the diva extraordinaire, as you well know.
You had the perfect classroom on the train. All the plants and geology mile by mile. Time to be immersed in the landscape with the books describing what you were crossing. Good on ya' for bringing it back for future ears, like that'll be a thing. Keep kickin' it out, it's a good stretching exercise for 'tween ear jellies.
Dude, a illustrated book of this intro class would be amazing and I'd throw so much money at it. Your art is fun, and you I fucking love your lessons.
I watch a lot of your videos to help me out with knowledge and studying my apprenticeship, easiest possible way for me to learn through the way you explain things. Love the videos, Tony
I LOVE this video!! Getting these books, thanks for taking the time do make this!
Thanks so much for the video and keeping my sane. Going crazy here learning parisitology online and finishing the undergrad final thesis. Grad school soon though in a brand new ecosystem to explore!!! Just gotta wait out this pandemic.
Thank you Joey for educating us!
Just so you know, not just hippies eat ferns. In Maine, fiddlehead ferns grow along trout streams. So trout and fiddleheads are the possum and sweet potatoes of Maine.
trout, fiddleheads, and morels: the lunch that means spring, here.
having some of these plant identification skills seems like having superpowers to me. Really like the learning sections (and the cultural anthropology). Will be revisiting and picking up where I can. Great x-rated teaching style as always although probably bit punchy for the junior classroom 😂
Prolly will never read this but man, I’m gettin high and watching your vids because it helps me see beauty in life.. I’ve been depressed for a while and your videos just being me laughter and teach me a thing or two lol keep it up
I’m basically bingeing on Netflix and Amazon Prime and RUclips...and you are definitely on our YT list of favorites!
I have been doing puzzles and watching Netflix. I feel called out. Cool video, also!! You make biology way more interesting.
my mind blowed when you said "monocod eudicod" i have been organizing my plants into a tree of live, have a few monocods and a bunch of eudicods but that meaned nothing to me, no it is much clear, just like when i learn angiosperms are flowering plants and tracheophytes are vascular plants :) priceless, you really good at teaching I'L keep an eye for this alter ego of Tony Santoro
Thanks for the info. I now realise that I don't know anything. Would love to see more these lecture type videos.
God damn, I love this guy! My whole life I have had NO intrest in botany at all. I watched one of these videos and there went my freedom for the past week.
Nice! It'd be cool to learn a little more about flowers and flowering plants. I just know what I can remember from lower-level bio in undergrad (and from cooking, fun fact, saffron is basically just the dried stigmas of a specific species of flower).
Crocus sativus
Jacob B That's the one
@@AmunDeus I've been thinking about growing a few but I don't use saffron often enough to justify buying some. There's only 3 saffron filaments per flower I think? That's why it's so expensive.
Jacob B Yeah, it grows in small quantities and basically must be handpicked. One of my fave spices but even today it's one of the most expensive
Jacob b.. you can get Crocus sativus bulbs from Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, they’re not too expensive. They are a easy to grow fall blooming bulb, with a very pretty lavender flower that’s bigger than a regular crocus. They come up each year and multiply, and yes the three orange stigmas can be harvested and dried. 🌱🌻 ps we are so fortunate to have access to Tony’s knowledge and close up view of botany !!
every time I watch I get really comfortable with all the slang and then out of no where we hear a word like BEHOOVE
I grew some plants from seedbank and got a few dioecious grape plants. When they get big I will look to see if the flowers are different. I learned this from your video. I was going to just wait to see which made grapes. Now I can get the jump on that.
I needed this - I’m really trying to learn my plants and diving into the flowers should be a great way to start learning more. Thank you.
Tell me we are looking at the first part of your field guide. Please! I would back this on kickstarter so fast.
What's kickstand
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Kickstarter. I can't type.
Exactly what I was looking for to start my study of botany, excellent and hilariously presented! I have been shooting macro photography as a hobby for 4 years now, flowers (and insects) . . .the big "quarantine project" has been getting a portfolio together. Which means lots of ID'ng. I have that done, but decided to take a deeper look at botany, I want and need to know more about this . . . this was my first intro (as an adult). Thanks so much for throwing some blocks at the base of this pyramid. I was just yesterday discussing w/my room mate that I need some books . . . will get those that you have suggested. Brilliant. Give those blue healers a boop and a scratch for me, thank you! PS-- please do not delete this video (mentioned as a possibility) . . . maybe a Part 2? cheers!
I like the enthusiasm you have for learning about plants.
There's a great opportunity here for this channel. This guy is a born teacher.
I love your channel Tony keep up the great content my guy. I'd love to see some more guerrilla gardening videos :)
Treat them mean... keep ‘em keen! Love what you do man, greeting from the UK! Learning lots from you.
man, I studied some botany in the university and never got so much interested on it....and watching your videos I am getting in love with botany.....great job....you should be teaching at university instead of so many boring nerds who make people hate subjetcs
Man ~ I love this channel...it is becoming one of my favorites! Thank you so much ...Flowers are fascigoddamnednating !!!
Hello Mr. Chicaaaago man. I enjoy your videos quite a bit. In answer to your question, I am writing tons of music with my time.
Thank you I love going out and looking at the wild flowers, now I a little bit about it, very interesting, but alot to learn. BTW love the hand on your desk, my trademark! Haha
Enjoying the Darwin references. One of the few productive things I've been doing during the lockdown is reading The Origin of Species again.
Voyage of the Beagle is also very interesting and inspiring.
Our hero went from talking about cows eating angiosperms to saying, "it would behoove you.." That kind of effortless talent pisses me off. You make the rest of us look like a bunch of mouth-breathing, ORV-riding, ignoramuses. Oh, and thank you for the excellent intro to identifying flowering plants. top-shelf content.
looove your channel bro! you got me into botany so much and i get wait to learn a lot more!!! keep up the great work! buying some of your merch soon!
I would kill for more videos like this. Really takes me back to when I first started looking into botany and helps refreshes me.