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In addition to that, Bromeliads also have some metabolic changes (CAM photosynthesis) you usually see in cacti, so they absorb most of their CO2 at night, when they'll lose less water to evaporation
Making a point: In dry places (mostly in winter), these plants will just shrivel and die unless they are palced in a terrarium or next to a humidifier. I had one and it was molding if sprayed and drying if not. It's really hard to keep them at room conditions. The two in my reptile's enclosure are doing just fine tho
Have similar experiences with these. I've been able to grow a lot of "normal" houseplants, but the air in my house is way too dry for a tillandsia to live on the humidity. Putting them in a terrarium should work though, I didn't think of that...
Actually they can tolerate drought periods really well as low as 45% humidity, as in the night time humidity usually will get up to 70/75% or above. These are really easy to keep and I have big clumps with dozens of rosettes living outdoors. Ofcourse in many parts of the world this can't be done. But here nearly every house has one or two clumps.
@@elljorgo Drought tolerance is one thing, properly dry locations are another. It's a shame this distinction isn't made more often, because I often see these suggested alongside succulents for easy care. But where succulents with occasional water love sub-40% humidity (the norm here 8+ months of the year), one of these will shrivel and die without regular spritzing or some other artificial humidity.
My tillandsia lives in my bathroom and is totally fine as long as I throw it in a bowl of water overnight once every 2 weeks or so. I neglected it for a month and when it was looking particularly crunchy, I let it soak for 2 days and it was back to its old self. Easiest living thing in the house.
In Honduras I saw epiphytes growing on power and telephone lines.. pretty cool! This was a really great video! I know some of these facts and I'm always amazed at your ability to teach so much!
Those water arrows are just _Beautiful_ , congratulations to the artist who drew them! Also, weather forecast's thumbnail is also VERY VERY COOL and beautifully artistic
@@insertnamehere5373 no the wonders of nature Op wasn’t talking about how cool these adaptations and features etc arose were he was talking about connectivity of nature etc
@@insertnamehere5373 OP was talking about nature in itself not mechanisms etc behind it that govern it literally said and addressed this in my previous comment just read what op said
may i make a critique. Tillandsia are bromeliads, several species (T. deppeana and T. imperialis for example) do possess water tanks opposed to absorbent trichromes. (the encyclopaedia of bromeliads by Eric J. Gouda - Derek Butcher - Kees Gouda (Uni of Utrecht botanical gardens is a great resource for bromeliad study)
Certain epiphytes might work well for this if they adhere to other surfaces such as rocks or bark. I would look into plants from the native environment of your ant species and see what fills the dirt-less role in that ecosystem. Nature has a good habit of already doing the work for us :) Good luck!
They don't even have to be on plants there's a chain link fence in my yard is completely covered in wild ones that just decided on their own to grow there ( I live in Florida)
As a note, plants on plants isn't the requirement to call it an epyphites. There are lots of aquatic epyphites and most of them grow on rocks, dead sticks, gravel etc.
Actually that's just non-scientists (mostly the aquarium hobby) using the wrong term. The correct term is Lithophyte. The distinction is VERY important for collectors of certain plants (such as orchids) which have some that are Lithophytes and some that are Epyphites. Confusing the two will lead to dead expensive plants
Wish I could get them to grow here, they're so interesting, but the humidity in my state is exactly 0% humidity for most of the year Edit: if people do want them, they're usually just labeled "air plants", and I've found them for sale at big box stores before
I am also from a low humidity area, so I understand the struggle. However, if you are interested in air plants/epiphytes, I recommend a bathroom window seal in a bathroom with a regularly used shower if you've got it 😁 That or some species tolerate low humidity if you soak them in a water bowl once every 2 weeks or so.
Maybe we used slightly weird phrasing :) but you can compare things without numbers! Like, "The ISS is moving really fast. For comparison, an F1 car can only reach a tiny fraction of its speed."
Sometimes we overthink our problems to find a solution… but sometimes it’s literally outside our doorstep as Nature herself has already provided us with the solution..
Any tips on plants that can survive low water on the ground? The drought in Germany this summer caused my father to water all the grass on the lawn he planted this spring. This of course is unsustainable so I'm looking for a plant that can replace the grass when it dies the next time.
Been doing tons of research for my new terrarium lately. This came at a super interesting time... I'm not used to knowing the subject matter of your vids already!! Put a huge smile on my face! ^^;
Note cacti are surprisingly effective epiphytes. You might expect them not to like the humidity, but their drought tolerance really gives them an advantage.
Crimes Pays But Botany Doesn't mentioned that Air Plants are endangered. Watch out, because succulents and air plants are prone to getting poached from the wild, that means they are removed from their habitats.
Remember also that it is fine to buy air plants that are nursery propagated rather than poached, propagated air plants do not negatively impact natural populations
Once you described their abilities, I immediately had to think of another plant which are epiphytes: Moss. I would certainly say that moss would be one of the best urban plants given that they can grow basically everywhere (at least in shaded areas) and with how effective they're collecting and storing water, this is yet another reason to deploy moss. They also would certainly make a great combination with fungus.
The problem I would say is that moss, much like fungus, is very invasive. If you cultivate It outside, It wont be too long until It starts growing inside the wall itself
@@JSTama To be fair, the combination with fungus is a reference to an older video where their spores, among other particles, are responsible for rail. I do agree that you have to take care of moss given that they can grow quite everywhere. Nonetheless, they still are useful for urban regions where it can get quite difficult to grow some plants.
@@JSTama Us humans sure do love our invasive species for landscaping 😅 You could always look for natives, though that may be a clip harder for something niche like mosses and lichens/fungi.
We’ve got a lot here in Florida. The pecan trees are covered with ferns and I even saw a palmetto bush growing in the space between a bunch of branches
What I have learned from this video is that I must be part tillandsia. Because on rainy days I have to drink much less over the day, I just don't get as thirsty 😄
I'm a bit confused; how can the epiphytes be reducing the amount of humidity escaping the forest through evaporation; yet simultaneously supercharging the clouds above the forest due to the "concentrated moisture"?
I imagine it is talking about tiny particles in the air that helps the clouds to form by holding the water in the sky, I'll see if I find something on the net
So This guy www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133766/ Said: Through cloud stripping, epiphytes increase total moisture captured by forest canopies This basic means water from the air condensates on the leaves, is stored on the forest as a wole and then slowly evaporates forming clouds He used 2 sources for the information: Water balances of old-growth and regenerating montane cloud forests in central Veracruz, Mexico LE Muñoz-Villers, Et Al AND Rainfall and cloud-water interception in tropical montane forests in the eastern Andes of Central Peru Daniel Gomez-Peralta, Et Al
The kind of things the random chance of mutation and the expansion of evolution can do that we can't even replicate with all our technology. What a fascinating marble we all live on.
i have owned one of these plants before. you still have to spray them with water, and humidity is quite low often. I'd say, if you see one getting bad, douse them in water. these plants still need proper care.
"...plants that can survive without getting watered in the first place." It's still a play on words! "In the first place" is a general English phrase, in this case referencing the fact that the plant doesn't need watering to begin with. But also, literally, the first place they talk about in the video is your house, and the animation also shows it on screen. Literally the "first place."
Orchids are another popular examples of epiphytes! (Not all orchids are epiphytes!) My Vanda orchids all grow their roots hanging in mid air. Evaporation is an epiphytes worst enemy, that makes humidity their best friend!
Though not strictly plants, the most amazing plantlike things to me are lichens. Most of them can grow on bare rock, which means they can't get any nutrients from the soil. Everything they need--not just water, but every nutrient, like nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur--they get from rain and dust blowing on the wind.
Great question - some can actually get them from airborne particles, or derive them from rain. Others grab nutrients from debris that accumulates in their crevices or around their base.
Air plants usually collect dust and other debris but orchids live in symbiosis which certain fungus that gives them nutrients. And then there are nepenthes that catch and digest insects lmao
Good to know they operate by pulling humidity out of the air, because I'd never be able to keep an air plant alive for long with where I live! Indoor humidity gets down to like 2% in the winter. They wouldn't survive me leaving for a week to go visit family for Christmas, or me forgetting its existence, which I tend to do periodically with plants
"For comparison a kitchen sponge can only absorb a tiny fraction of that." Thank you for the comparison now I can tell that that is a lot of water absorption.
I used to grow tons of these. When well grown, they become dense colonies and bloom beautifully. Though they can tolerate extreme neglect, for sure, they will never grow to their full, spectacular potential that way. Bright light, moving air, and regular drenching with weak fertilizer will get you a Tillandsia that'll turn heads.
"... For comparison, a good kitchen sponge can uh... Only well... absorb a... Fraction. Of that. I guess." Good job. Great comparison. I understand much better now.
I had a Selaginella plant that i kept in my room. No research, assumed it would survive off of the humidity. It started drying up and softening. Thought it was weird and did some research, and put a glass jar over it. INSTANTLY did better. Sure, you don't need to water them, but they need to be kept in very humid conditions and if you're not living in a jungle, that probably isn't the case in your room. Moral of the story, do your research.
and this is why I keep losing my tillandsia, my apartment gets so damn dry i lose good numbers of my houseplants in winter and even the cactus is annoyed. the fungus gnats get so desperate that they flock to any unattended sweet smelling drink, including my coffee and tea.
Actually as time of writing this, no plants have been found that can harvest water straight from air humidity. The only way for them to get water is either rain, mist or when water condensates on the surface.
Big props for explaining how plants benefit the water cycle. If only the western US knew how important plant life is for preventing drought, they would all be out there planting forests.
Drought is pretty much the historical and ecological standard for the western US. We've just decided that growing crops in the desert and suppressing all the beneficial wildfire are good ideas 😅 Highly recommend you look into chaparral ecosystems of the south west though, you might find em interesting!
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Love the use of oddish!
do u know that your channel is on my textbook
@@justwanttoknowhow888 cool! which one?
I very much enjoy your videos!
I’m subscribed to all your channels ❤❤
In addition to that, Bromeliads also have some metabolic changes (CAM photosynthesis) you usually see in cacti, so they absorb most of their CO2 at night, when they'll lose less water to evaporation
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Yup they make malic acid in day and store it into the bundle sheath cells and use it at night 😀
Making a point: In dry places (mostly in winter), these plants will just shrivel and die unless they are palced in a terrarium or next to a humidifier. I had one and it was molding if sprayed and drying if not. It's really hard to keep them at room conditions. The two in my reptile's enclosure are doing just fine tho
Have similar experiences with these. I've been able to grow a lot of "normal" houseplants, but the air in my house is way too dry for a tillandsia to live on the humidity.
Putting them in a terrarium should work though, I didn't think of that...
Yes a lot of these - especially ones that come from the rainforest - have very high humidity requirements!
Actually they can tolerate drought periods really well as low as 45% humidity, as in the night time humidity usually will get up to 70/75% or above. These are really easy to keep and I have big clumps with dozens of rosettes living outdoors. Ofcourse in many parts of the world this can't be done. But here nearly every house has one or two clumps.
@@elljorgo they can tolerate it, but here, in winter at night, it never goes over 45% humidity, it's worse in the day. It's way too dry for them
@@elljorgo Drought tolerance is one thing, properly dry locations are another. It's a shame this distinction isn't made more often, because I often see these suggested alongside succulents for easy care. But where succulents with occasional water love sub-40% humidity (the norm here 8+ months of the year), one of these will shrivel and die without regular spritzing or some other artificial humidity.
My tillandsia lives in my bathroom and is totally fine as long as I throw it in a bowl of water overnight once every 2 weeks or so. I neglected it for a month and when it was looking particularly crunchy, I let it soak for 2 days and it was back to its old self. Easiest living thing in the house.
"particularly crunchy" is the 24/7 state of all my plants 😅🥲
CRUNCHY😭😭😭
Thanks for making videos on the absorption mechanism of Hygroscopic plants!
Our pleasure!
I belive hygroscopic will not be the correct therm for this
Alternate title: how to collect Free water
Hydroscopic
And yet it still died..
Do you live in Utah or Luke somewhere frozen
@Poggersvale have you considered that they're one of the few people who live outside the usa
@@pezvonpezfrrr 😂
just like your username, 😂 you eat you sleep yet still die 😂😂
@@male20yearsoldsad reality 🤧
In Honduras I saw epiphytes growing on power and telephone lines.. pretty cool!
This was a really great video! I know some of these facts and I'm always amazed at your ability to teach so much!
come to the us deserts we will show you power outages from bromeliads
I saw one in Bangladesh too
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1:15 "For a good comparison ..." kitchen sponges do less, but we won't actually give you any numbers that provide an actual comparison.
...helpful
Those water arrows are just _Beautiful_ , congratulations to the artist who drew them!
Also, weather forecast's thumbnail is also VERY VERY COOL and beautifully artistic
It's wonderful how in nature, everything is linked and has it's purpose
yes ^^ but at the same time thats dangerous.. if some key-animals/plants become extinct, everything could fall apart :c
I mean everything that doesn’t have a “purpose”, i.e. have lost their biological niche, just do not have enough fitness to survive natural selection
@@insertnamehere5373 no the wonders of nature
Op wasn’t talking about how cool these adaptations and features etc arose were he was talking about connectivity of nature etc
@@insertnamehere5373 OP was talking about nature in itself not mechanisms etc behind it that govern it
literally said and addressed this in my previous comment just read what op said
@@insertnamehere5373 ok i agree
Thanks, next time I'll use moss instead of a sponge.
Good one x)
Super power idea: You can grab water and stay hydrated if its humid enough but your sweat decreases by 75%
Whoaaaa
Huh this is one of those name a super power the comment below is your weakness lol
As someone who sweat waterfalls, I don't see this as a negative.
I would totally read a comic about someone fighting crime with this super power just to see how they apply this niche power 😂
may i make a critique. Tillandsia are bromeliads, several species (T. deppeana and T. imperialis for example) do possess water tanks opposed to absorbent trichromes. (the encyclopaedia of bromeliads by Eric J. Gouda - Derek Butcher - Kees Gouda (Uni of Utrecht botanical gardens is a great resource for bromeliad study)
I worked in a garden for 5 years and am just now realized those weren’t fake plants 😳
A garden center*? Or...?
Would epiphytes potentially be better for growing in an outworld for ants that couldn't have dirt?
Certain epiphytes might work well for this if they adhere to other surfaces such as rocks or bark.
I would look into plants from the native environment of your ant species and see what fills the dirt-less role in that ecosystem. Nature has a good habit of already doing the work for us :) Good luck!
They don't even have to be on plants there's a chain link fence in my yard is completely covered in wild ones that just decided on their own to grow there ( I live in Florida)
As a note, plants on plants isn't the requirement to call it an epyphites. There are lots of aquatic epyphites and most of them grow on rocks, dead sticks, gravel etc.
Actually that's just non-scientists (mostly the aquarium hobby) using the wrong term.
The correct term is Lithophyte.
The distinction is VERY important for collectors of certain plants (such as orchids) which have some that are Lithophytes and some that are Epyphites.
Confusing the two will lead to dead expensive plants
The most selfless plant i've ever heard, if its a person i bet they gonna be the coolest and chillest person ever
Wish I could get them to grow here, they're so interesting, but the humidity in my state is exactly 0% humidity for most of the year
Edit: if people do want them, they're usually just labeled "air plants", and I've found them for sale at big box stores before
I am also from a low humidity area, so I understand the struggle. However, if you are interested in air plants/epiphytes, I recommend a bathroom window seal in a bathroom with a regularly used shower if you've got it 😁 That or some species tolerate low humidity if you soak them in a water bowl once every 2 weeks or so.
1:15 Saying "For comparison" really makes no sense when you don't even give us a number to compare to.
Maybe we used slightly weird phrasing :) but you can compare things without numbers! Like, "The ISS is moving really fast. For comparison, an F1 car can only reach a tiny fraction of its speed."
@@MinuteEarth I see your point, but the phrasing kind of leaves the question unanswered.
@@MinuteEarth But... how much of its weight in water can a kitchen sponge absorb?
@@SimpleSaemple no one asked a question
@@Owen_loves_Butters about 20% of its dry weight!
Sometimes we overthink our problems to find a solution… but sometimes it’s literally outside our doorstep as Nature herself has already provided us with the solution..
Any tips on plants that can survive low water on the ground? The drought in Germany this summer caused my father to water all the grass on the lawn he planted this spring. This of course is unsustainable so I'm looking for a plant that can replace the grass when it dies the next time.
Clover is a great substitute for grass
@@ivicamilica +1 for clover. And you won't need to trim it
0:26
I never seen a forest floor look so shafty and testy...
This reminded me I hadn't watered my succulents in several months. Yes months. Yes they are still alive, but I just gave them some water
I've gone like 6 months without watering one of my snake plants🤦♀️ it doesn't even look any worse for wear, although it also hasn't grown any
Been doing tons of research for my new terrarium lately. This came at a super interesting time... I'm not used to knowing the subject matter of your vids already!! Put a huge smile on my face! ^^;
Note cacti are surprisingly effective epiphytes. You might expect them not to like the humidity, but their drought tolerance really gives them an advantage.
Crimes Pays But Botany Doesn't mentioned that Air Plants are endangered. Watch out, because succulents and air plants are prone to getting poached from the wild, that means they are removed from their habitats.
Yes! This! This issue doesn't get enough attention. Thank you for mentioning it!
Remember also that it is fine to buy air plants that are nursery propagated rather than poached, propagated air plants do not negatively impact natural populations
Love the Pokémon reference. Oddish chilling at 2:46
Awesome...now we all know who the virgin is
Graphics and images are really well done. I really like all the plant drawings and diagrams!
Once you described their abilities, I immediately had to think of another plant which are epiphytes: Moss. I would certainly say that moss would be one of the best urban plants given that they can grow basically everywhere (at least in shaded areas) and with how effective they're collecting and storing water, this is yet another reason to deploy moss.
They also would certainly make a great combination with fungus.
The problem I would say is that moss, much like fungus, is very invasive.
If you cultivate It outside, It wont be too long until It starts growing inside the wall itself
@@JSTama To be fair, the combination with fungus is a reference to an older video where their spores, among other particles, are responsible for rail.
I do agree that you have to take care of moss given that they can grow quite everywhere. Nonetheless, they still are useful for urban regions where it can get quite difficult to grow some plants.
@@JSTama bur that's the best part!
@@JSTama Us humans sure do love our invasive species for landscaping 😅 You could always look for natives, though that may be a clip harder for something niche like mosses and lichens/fungi.
1:15
It's not a very good comparison if you don't give us the actual numbers for the kitchen sponge... SMH
right?
We’ve got a lot here in Florida. The pecan trees are covered with ferns and I even saw a palmetto bush growing in the space between a bunch of branches
What I have learned from this video is that I must be part tillandsia. Because on rainy days I have to drink much less over the day, I just don't get as thirsty 😄
These plants would do well on Okinawa Island. It's like living in a steam room.
When that oddish appeared in the water pool I laughed very hard
Animations are great but it would be cool if you could include pictures of the plants.
Holy shit geography actually came in useful I knew these were called epiphytes before I clicked
Lol same here
@@nope1904 lol same here
@@vivimannequin Lol same here
I'm a bit confused; how can the epiphytes be reducing the amount of humidity escaping the forest through evaporation; yet simultaneously supercharging the clouds above the forest due to the "concentrated moisture"?
I imagine it is talking about tiny particles in the air that helps the clouds to form by holding the water in the sky, I'll see if I find something on the net
So This guy www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133766/ Said:
Through cloud stripping, epiphytes increase total moisture captured by forest canopies
This basic means water from the air condensates on the leaves, is stored on the forest as a wole and then slowly evaporates forming clouds
He used 2 sources for the information:
Water balances of old-growth and regenerating montane cloud forests in central Veracruz, Mexico
LE Muñoz-Villers, Et Al
AND
Rainfall and cloud-water interception in tropical montane forests in the eastern Andes of Central Peru
Daniel Gomez-Peralta, Et Al
The kind of things the random chance of mutation and the expansion of evolution can do that we can't even replicate with all our technology.
What a fascinating marble we all live on.
noticed the oddish in this, and went back to find pokemon used in a few other minuteearth videos lol
My grandma has a tilladasia! She never watered it, she just a a humidifier running 24/7 in her plant room and that was enough for it!
2:25, they reduce evaporation, 2:55, they help supercharge clouds above. These two statements are incongruent.
i have owned one of these plants before. you still have to spray them with water, and humidity is quite low often. I'd say, if you see one getting bad, douse them in water. these plants still need proper care.
What happened to the rest of the script? There's no way you guys would end a video without a pun!
Sometimes we even surprise ourselves!
@@MinuteEarth Some special species of video have adapted to survive without requiring sustenance from puns.
"...plants that can survive without getting watered in the first place." It's still a play on words! "In the first place" is a general English phrase, in this case referencing the fact that the plant doesn't need watering to begin with. But also, literally, the first place they talk about in the video is your house, and the animation also shows it on screen. Literally the "first place."
I like the idea of filling my shower room with these
And the best thing about bromiliads is, of course, the frogs, as Grimma told Masklin.
Orchids are another popular examples of epiphytes! (Not all orchids are epiphytes!) My Vanda orchids all grow their roots hanging in mid air. Evaporation is an epiphytes worst enemy, that makes humidity their best friend!
the smiley faces on everything make the video so much better :)
Wild, those are like "hidden good dudes" in a forest. They can survive without lots of water but actually they help rain.
I have a test tommorow but this is more important.
Florida is epiphytic heaven...protecting habitat is important.
new favorite plants
I agree. There's much more to these plants that make them so fascinating
Animator did a great job 😄
pls keep making these
I love how you guys constantly add references to other media in your videos. Especially Pokemon, since that's one of my favorite things!
Epiphyte: Imma get my water by air
Cloud: I like this guy
My favorite type of video's. Plants on Plants.
Though not strictly plants, the most amazing plantlike things to me are lichens. Most of them can grow on bare rock, which means they can't get any nutrients from the soil. Everything they need--not just water, but every nutrient, like nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur--they get from rain and dust blowing on the wind.
So how do these plants get nutrients?
Great question - some can actually get them from airborne particles, or derive them from rain. Others grab nutrients from debris that accumulates in their crevices or around their base.
debris and dead leaves that fall between the tree branches (also dead bugs and bird poop)
Air plants usually collect dust and other debris but orchids live in symbiosis which certain fungus that gives them nutrients. And then there are nepenthes that catch and digest insects lmao
This is cool. Though I will say that an air plant, does not do well in a dry climate. Unless you simulate a wet one fairly often.
Good to know they operate by pulling humidity out of the air, because I'd never be able to keep an air plant alive for long with where I live! Indoor humidity gets down to like 2% in the winter. They wouldn't survive me leaving for a week to go visit family for Christmas, or me forgetting its existence, which I tend to do periodically with plants
"For comparison a kitchen sponge can only absorb a tiny fraction of that." Thank you for the comparison now I can tell that that is a lot of water absorption.
The aesthetics are nail-polished💅🏻✨️
2:54 Bold move to kidnapp Oddish
I’ve never been able to keep air plants alive. They do best in their natural habitat.
I see a title and thumbnail in the notification bar, when I come to watch the video both of these always get changed....lol
Lol not saying the sponge's percentage, just saying a tiny fraction of that
We have these everywhere in Florida, they are really cute. :)
If the air is moist then are they really grabbing water from *thin* air
If I bought a couple hundred and hid them in a city at high places it would make the clouds rain much heavier? Good to know-
I used to grow tons of these. When well grown, they become dense colonies and bloom beautifully. Though they can tolerate extreme neglect, for sure, they will never grow to their full, spectacular potential that way. Bright light, moving air, and regular drenching with weak fertilizer will get you a Tillandsia that'll turn heads.
Fun facts Tilandsias and Bromeliads aren’t separate plants. Tilandsias are a type of Bromeliad.
I saw one of those things growing on an electric cable it was so surreal
"... For comparison, a good kitchen sponge can uh... Only well... absorb a... Fraction. Of that. I guess."
Good job. Great comparison. I understand much better now.
Odd thumbnail but very interesting and well made video
Thanks 😅
This is the perfect plant to grow in Florida it’s always humid
So basically they are like fish gills but with a bigger variety and the opposite.
Right?
Sure!
Sure!
@@nope1904 sure!
No one is talking about the fact that plant on plant crime is really starting to get off the ground
i love minute earth
I love air plants!! Mine is even growing babies right now!
I had air plants
Did anyone else just learn of a whole new awesome niche of botany? :D
I had a Selaginella plant that i kept in my room. No research, assumed it would survive off of the humidity. It started drying up and softening. Thought it was weird and did some research, and put a glass jar over it. INSTANTLY did better.
Sure, you don't need to water them, but they need to be kept in very humid conditions and if you're not living in a jungle, that probably isn't the case in your room. Moral of the story, do your research.
I live in a desert, and airplants die so fast if you dont mist them multiple times a day
2:13 that frog looks like it’s in a giant carnivorous plant.
I didn't know learning could be this so much fun : D
That's why reclamation projects of forest require more than just 1-3 type of plants and trees. It's require delicate biodiversity
Now I want to know how much percentage of it's dry weight a sponge can hold
Tree: This is my arm, dude, stop saying "It's free real estate" it's my arm!!
Ag I love this channel. Thank you, please keep it up!
Looking at the jungle or any tropical rainforest. You'd see this often and lots of mosquitos
and this is why I keep losing my tillandsia, my apartment gets so damn dry i lose good numbers of my houseplants in winter and even the cactus is annoyed. the fungus gnats get so desperate that they flock to any unattended sweet smelling drink, including my coffee and tea.
OH ITS BAD WHEN THE CACTUS IS ANNOYED
I learnt that moss would a more affective dish sponge
Actually as time of writing this, no plants have been found that can harvest water straight from air humidity. The only way for them to get water is either rain, mist or when water condensates on the surface.
Oddish!! 💚💜
Can they be used as dehumidifier?
Not really, only a tiny fraction of the water is stored in the plant, most of it is released again as part of their respiration.
Im gonna need myself a plant like that so it wont die
May I suggest nepenthes? Most of them grow in moss
Could I put something like this in the bathroom where there is lots of shower humidity? Any houseplants like this?
Yep! Just make sure it has enough light - epiphytes that live high in the canopy, for instance, have high light requirements.
You know something's up when the video doesnt end in a pun
Big props for explaining how plants benefit the water cycle. If only the western US knew how important plant life is for preventing drought, they would all be out there planting forests.
Drought is pretty much the historical and ecological standard for the western US. We've just decided that growing crops in the desert and suppressing all the beneficial wildfire are good ideas 😅
Highly recommend you look into chaparral ecosystems of the south west though, you might find em interesting!