Botanist here. Saying "they can photosynthesise on both sides" (3:15) is a bit of a disservice to how interesting trees are. Normal trees, for example a lemon tree, have one side of the leaf which always faces the sun and one side which never faces the sun. As a result of this they developed one type of tissue on the sunny side called palisade mesophyll which is densely packed with chloroplasts and has an epidermis covered on thick wax to reduce water loss. The underside contains all of the stomata and the spongy mesophyll adapted for gas exchange- letting CO2 in and O2 and water vapour out. This loss of water vapour is why the plant tries to keep this tissue on the shady side. Both sides of the leaf are necessary for photosynthesis. Because of that weeping habit you described, it is much less likely for many Eucalypt species to have a defined sunny side and a defined shady side- one side might be in the sun at 10am but then in the shade at 3pm. These species have therefore adapted to have stomata and palisade mesophyll on both sides of the leaf. We call these species "concolorous" because both surfaces of the leaf are the same colour. But there are also species like sugar gum E. cladocalyx which are "discolorous" like the lemon tree described above with defined sides for spongy and palisade mesophyll.
@@CatBahptista No problem, I wrote a response earlier but I think it got deleted because it had a link in it. If you are interested, there's an interesting paper available online for free: Azevedo, G., et al. (2022). Use of light-emitting diodes on the morpho-anatomical characteristics of Corymbia citriodora seedlings. Scientia Forestalis, 50, e3897.
You've got a lot of Aussie fans who are keen for more of your content! A testament to your skills and presentation style And I must say, Vivaldi is an excellent touch!
I was disappointed to see you’ve only done 2 videos. I enjoyed both very much and I’ll definitely watch them again. I love eucalyptus and have about 40 propagating in the greenhouse and the threatened Eucalyptus synandra at about 30cm in height in the backyard.
These two videos have been great to watch especially since Australian flora and fauna are so often overlooked in nature videos. So keep up the great work! 👍
I lived in an area heavily affected by the black Saturday fires - watched over the years as the acres of blackened gum trees sprouted up with new growth. They're tough buggers, and you can't help but be heartened by how resilient nature is. Keep up the great videos!
We took them to California in the 1850's thinking they were some great wood producers. an aussie guy tried to set up a business selling them, they never took off but he planted a lot of trees which are now getting to full height, and now we have different weather conditions and it is going to end REALLY BADLY in the next few years. T'm so glad i'm here for the final chapter of the series "how stupid are humans?"
I saw them at the foot of the hill in Bernal Heights Park in SF recently and was floored that they were there. I assumed they were introduced by humans, but I was amazed that balmy, cool, damp San Francisco could grow trees adapted to such extremes. Interesting to know their backstory, thanks!
California gave Australia Monterrey pine or Pinus radiata and Monterey cyprus, or cyprus leyandii as the weather in South eastern Australia is similar to California. The SEPO Trees give us Aussies a headache just as the eucalypts give them one. Sorry about the spelling but it is late.
@paulphotios3920 by the way since Australia gave california eucalyptus trees california has been in flames ever since because they are not supposed to be in california only Australia is built different for those types of trees
They are all over in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 . They are almost the national trees. The story goes by Ethiopian King, which went to Australia and got the seeds as a gift.
I grew up on the Murray River, and some of the River Gums along the bank are absolutely magnificant. Spent many a summers day as a kid climbing in, and falling a long way out of, the mid upper regions of those trees (seems strange calling them just 'trees') looking for the best spot to tie on a rope swing. Never broke anything but got nicely winded hitting the water from about 20 meters up once 🤕
The algorithm's got you in its claws because YT recommended your magpie video to me right after you uploaded this one! Your video style reminds me of a channel I've been watching for years, Ben G Thomas. Informative but with bits of silliness injected in to add humour and help keep those with glider-style attention spans engaged, clear narration and a set format with a nice intro. Subbed!
Commenting for the algorithm, and to let you know that your videos so far have been fantastic. Love your presentation style, the jokes, and also learning about local flora/fauna. Can't wait for more!
How truly wonderful to learn everything about Eucalyptus trees, Koalas and Flying Gliders from you. I enjoy your relaxing voice, and touch of humour. Thankyou so much 😊
These videos are so enjoyable, yes please make infinitely more. I'm moving to Australia, I've always loved it and it has always felt like home and it's difficult to find videos like these to show my family in the US aussie flora and fauna. I'm always searching for many many just clips or recordings of birds and their noises along with terrain and vegetation. I don't always catch things myself on video when I'm visiting Australia so it's a smidge frustrating when trying to explain things or show them. These videos are informative and they make me laugh at the editing. They're absolutely perfect lol. Thanks for your hard work indefinitely!
I'd stay in the states....... nice for a visit, but as a lifelong resident, citizen, this place has seriously degraded in the past 30 years. I would leave my options open.....
How lovely that you feel like this is your true home❤ ignore the yank bashers. Some of us forget that heaps of us come from immigrants, in my case Italy. You'll end up knowing more about this country than many inhabitants if you keep educating yourself like this!
The self pruning of gum trees is a looming threat around built-up areas of the Bay of Islands. They were brought to NZ early in the piece for wind breaks and firewood but they liked the climate so much that they bolted upwards, meaning the logs were not as useful for lumber as hoped for, apart from the red gum, but it's not so common.
Ive always loved Maggie's... your video was great. You are easy to listen to and I like your simple humour. Keep it up please and ignore any negativity please. I hope your channel does well for you
Excellent video mate, with very well researched info and the added touch of typical Aussie humour is awesomely entertaining. We laughed heaps, thanks! Really looking forward to many more videos, keep them coming. 💜❤️👍🏼
What an awesome channel. I really like the recognition that your giving us Aussies. I see this channel going a long way with this level of production quality, and relaxed vibe.
Fascinating. Never clicked in my brain before the connection between eucalyptus oil and the intensity of the fires, and never knew that was the cause of the Blue Mountains haze.
wow, just found your channel. Love it. Eucalypts are beautiful and I have 8 giant gums in my backyard. The two biggest are the ironbarks. The yard backs onto a reserve and is a subtropical rain forest.
I believe you are correct in stating Eucalypts are not always the reason for large fires spreading.By way of contrast some of the worst fires in the Canberra area in 2003 were attributed to some of the Pinus forests located in the area.
Really interesting commentary. Especially the fact that the oils cause fire to rage quick and hot and leave the interior untouched! Grateful for the measurements supplied in Victorian units. Hahaha!
I like the gum tree, got one of the different 800 species in my yard. definitely learnt some new things about them from your video. You did forget to mention that they are one of the thirstiest trees around, strange for the driest continent.
? The Goldfields region has a very diverse range of eucalyptus endemic and it has a rainfall of around 250mm (10"). This is a pretty arid climate They cover the whole continent and have adapted to every soil and climate type
On a holiday in Crete, Greece at the moment. Plenty of Eucalyptus trees here. I think they were imported at some point and then began to thrive in the climate up here
Nice job! Not what I expected but informative, uplifting and entertaining -all wrapped up into something just the right length for my attention span. Thanks mate.
I love your videos and watched the magpie episode more than twice. I know I will watch the magpie one and this one more because I really enjoy them. Your speech is perfect. I am wondering whether you could slow down the pictures motion and make your EIGHT minutes video program into around TWELVE minutes, same content, just slow down. ❤your videos and longing for more.
Bro you need mroe subscribers! Really dotn stop making contents i look fowarrd to your videos the humor + the editing and the accurate knowledge! Please keep it up
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you. I live in Portugal where many eucalyptus grow in these northern mountains. They are truly beautiful and I now admire them even more after watching this.
Many years ago heading to Lisbon I was amazed descending the plateau from Spain to see eucalypt forests outside the train window. I had to look twice and shake my head, it was so familiar. Along Californian freeways too.
@@emceeboogieboots1608 - Australian eucalypts were widely distributed in the 19thC because they were thought of as a hardy dry land tree. When in fact they just have a long tap root that searches down for the water table, which is a problem in many places now. There’s even hybrid species unknown in Australia, one at least in Brazil.
@TenOrbital That is very true for some. Many though are drought resistant. Inland western Australia particularly has no water table to speak of, and is often saline where it exists. These trees are not likely to be widespread overseas though I imagine
really enjoyed this, was going to keep scrolling but something caught my attention and im glad it did. thank you for making this, will stick around to see the journey of your channel!
Thank you for that intro! Anyone that thinks plants are boring does indeed share many things with the most mundane of plants… Honestly I’m not half as interesting as these trees! Excellent presentation and good info.
Love the videos. Can't wait to see more. Eucalyptus trees dropping there limbs is no joke, for real. A guy was actually hit by one falling at my Dad's golf club and the poor guy was paralysed. Always be careful under tall gum trees in teh summer.
Botanist here.
Saying "they can photosynthesise on both sides" (3:15) is a bit of a disservice to how interesting trees are.
Normal trees, for example a lemon tree, have one side of the leaf which always faces the sun and one side which never faces the sun.
As a result of this they developed one type of tissue on the sunny side called palisade mesophyll which is densely packed with chloroplasts and has an epidermis covered on thick wax to reduce water loss. The underside contains all of the stomata and the spongy mesophyll adapted for gas exchange- letting CO2 in and O2 and water vapour out. This loss of water vapour is why the plant tries to keep this tissue on the shady side.
Both sides of the leaf are necessary for photosynthesis.
Because of that weeping habit you described, it is much less likely for many Eucalypt species to have a defined sunny side and a defined shady side- one side might be in the sun at 10am but then in the shade at 3pm. These species have therefore adapted to have stomata and palisade mesophyll on both sides of the leaf. We call these species "concolorous" because both surfaces of the leaf are the same colour.
But there are also species like sugar gum E. cladocalyx which are "discolorous" like the lemon tree described above with defined sides for spongy and palisade mesophyll.
Thanks for the explanation
@@CatBahptista No problem, I wrote a response earlier but I think it got deleted because it had a link in it. If you are interested, there's an interesting paper available online for free:
Azevedo, G., et al.
(2022). Use of light-emitting diodes on the morpho-anatomical characteristics of Corymbia citriodora seedlings.
Scientia Forestalis, 50, e3897.
I appreciate anytime others take the time to share their knowledge, thank you!
Keep the vids coming mate! The quality and your deap-pan delivery are exactly what we need to show off Australia's epic flora and fauna!
Totally agree.
Great video, thanks!
Deap pan?? He's not cookin bloody pizzas mate 🤷♂😂
Top tier mate, love your work. You will get big if you keep this quality up
I agree 😁👌
My boyfriend said the same thing when he bought me a penis pump
Totally agree, great work 👍
Agreed, I'm upset there's only 3 videos. That's a good thing.
You've got a lot of Aussie fans who are keen for more of your content! A testament to your skills and presentation style
And I must say, Vivaldi is an excellent touch!
Came here after accidentally stumbling on your magpie video and instantly subscribed, mixing education and humour is a recipe for success
I was disappointed to see you’ve only done 2 videos. I enjoyed both very much and I’ll definitely watch them again. I love eucalyptus and have about 40 propagating in the greenhouse and the threatened Eucalyptus synandra at about 30cm in height in the backyard.
These two videos have been great to watch especially since Australian flora and fauna are so often overlooked in nature videos. So keep up the great work! 👍
I lived in an area heavily affected by the black Saturday fires - watched over the years as the acres of blackened gum trees sprouted up with new growth. They're tough buggers, and you can't help but be heartened by how resilient nature is. Keep up the great videos!
I just subscribed to your channel today after watching your magpie video. You’re brilliant! Love your work.
We took them to California in the 1850's thinking they were some great wood producers. an aussie guy tried to set up a business selling them, they never took off but he planted a lot of trees which are now getting to full height, and now we have different weather conditions and it is going to end REALLY BADLY in the next few years. T'm so glad i'm here for the final chapter of the series "how stupid are humans?"
I saw them at the foot of the hill in Bernal Heights Park in SF recently and was floored that they were there. I assumed they were introduced by humans, but I was amazed that balmy, cool, damp San Francisco could grow trees adapted to such extremes. Interesting to know their backstory, thanks!
I feel like it's been known since the times of ancient Greek that Eucalyptus is poor for would and paper production, but what did they know, right?
Well is not the Australians fault
California gave Australia Monterrey pine or Pinus radiata and Monterey cyprus, or cyprus leyandii as the weather in South eastern Australia is similar to California. The SEPO Trees give us Aussies a headache just as the eucalypts give them one. Sorry about the spelling but it is late.
@paulphotios3920 by the way since Australia gave california eucalyptus trees california has been in flames ever since because they are not supposed to be in california only Australia is built different for those types of trees
Another great video! This channel could blow up with this level of quality!
They are all over in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 . They are almost the national trees. The story goes by Ethiopian King, which went to Australia and got the seeds as a gift.
Greece and California too.
careful about the bushfires!
Queensland Too.
@@bikepacker9850add Portugal to the list
Educational content with humour sprinkled in is some of my favorite content and you are making some great content. I hope to see this channel grow
I grew up on the Murray River, and some of the River Gums along the bank are absolutely magnificant. Spent many a summers day as a kid climbing in, and falling a long way out of, the mid upper regions of those trees (seems strange calling them just 'trees') looking for the best spot to tie on a rope swing. Never broke anything but got nicely winded hitting the water from about 20 meters up once 🤕
The algorithm's got you in its claws because YT recommended your magpie video to me right after you uploaded this one!
Your video style reminds me of a channel I've been watching for years, Ben G Thomas. Informative but with bits of silliness injected in to add humour and help keep those with glider-style attention spans engaged, clear narration and a set format with a nice intro. Subbed!
Another great video man! Learnt some things , had a laugh.
You're doing great!
I don't thumbs up videos normally, but your content is exceptional and definitely a GOAT in the making
Our son has eucalypts in his suburban yard in South Australia. It is part of a koala corridor.
Australian flora: resilient, beautiful, successful
Australian fauna: smooth brained, endangered, cute tho
And the wildlife is super underrated 👌
Love seeing the Australian flora and fauna, and these videos are so well made, keep it up!
From here in the States we thank you for sharing this excellent video and wish you the best of luck!
The best tree of all 👌
Fantastic!! Great Video mate about our favourite birds. 💜❤️👍🏼
Commenting for the algorithm, and to let you know that your videos so far have been fantastic. Love your presentation style, the jokes, and also learning about local flora/fauna. Can't wait for more!
How truly wonderful to learn everything about Eucalyptus trees, Koalas and Flying Gliders from you. I enjoy your relaxing voice, and touch of humour. Thankyou so much 😊
I’m loving your content as I’m from Australia!
These videos are so enjoyable, yes please make infinitely more. I'm moving to Australia, I've always loved it and it has always felt like home and it's difficult to find videos like these to show my family in the US aussie flora and fauna. I'm always searching for many many just clips or recordings of birds and their noises along with terrain and vegetation. I don't always catch things myself on video when I'm visiting Australia so it's a smidge frustrating when trying to explain things or show them. These videos are informative and they make me laugh at the editing. They're absolutely perfect lol. Thanks for your hard work indefinitely!
Australia's landscape is majestic and unique but you'll be giving up many of your freedoms and may be required to be poisoned should you wish to work.
We're full
I'd stay in the states....... nice for a visit, but as a lifelong resident, citizen, this place has seriously degraded in the past 30 years. I would leave my options open.....
"I've always loved it and it has always felt like home' bahaha wtf?
How lovely that you feel like this is your true home❤ ignore the yank bashers. Some of us forget that heaps of us come from immigrants, in my case Italy.
You'll end up knowing more about this country than many inhabitants if you keep educating yourself like this!
I love this channel! Relaxing and informative, the best combination.
The self pruning of gum trees is a looming threat around built-up areas of the Bay of Islands. They were brought to NZ early in the piece for wind breaks and firewood but they liked the climate so much that they bolted upwards, meaning the logs were not as useful for lumber as hoped for, apart from the red gum, but it's not so common.
Ive always loved Maggie's... your video was great. You are easy to listen to and I like your simple humour. Keep it up please and ignore any negativity please. I hope your channel does well for you
Keep these coming for sure Australia has great native plants and wildlife. 10|10
Oh man, you are brilliant! This is one of the best videos ive seen in ages.
Love this video. Funny and very informative.
Brilliant as always and an excellent quick foray into our beautiful iconic Eucalypts.
A fabulous production. Thankyou.
Love it. Well delivered, humorous and educational. Awesome to hear our Aussie accent in such a well made video ❤
Excellent video mate, with very well researched info and the added touch of typical Aussie humour is awesomely entertaining. We laughed heaps, thanks! Really looking forward to many more videos, keep them coming. 💜❤️👍🏼
We take them for granted but now and then you see a massive beautiful gumtree, I love em
What an awesome channel. I really like the recognition that your giving us Aussies. I see this channel going a long way with this level of production quality, and relaxed vibe.
Love the vid! Love learning about the things around me that I didn't appreciate until now!
I never thought I would be so interested in eucaplyts but you have truly surprised me this was very fun and informative to watch.
Please make more, really enjoyed both of your videos, high quality, fun, educational and very wholesome =)
A great video. Please don’t stop.
Fascinating. Never clicked in my brain before the connection between eucalyptus oil and the intensity of the fires, and never knew that was the cause of the Blue Mountains haze.
Letttssss gooo I hope this channel does really well ❤️🔥
This channel is gold mate, keep it up
Just moved to Australia and I know I'm going to love learning from this channel ✊🏾
Welcome mate. Where are you from? And where have you settled?
Wow I never had a second thought of these trees, but this vid made me appreciate how amazing seemingly mundane things could be.
I love your videos! They are not only entertaining but informative as well. Thank you for sharing them! ❤
Love the videos and look forward to more. Your delivery is great, mixed with humorous comments.
Great work mate. You should definitely branch out!
Greetings from Texas.
Love the videos
Just the sort of content I was looking for, would love to know more about all our amazing plants
The intelligence of David Attenborough and wit of Clive James. Loving your posts!! Thank you.
wow, just found your channel. Love it. Eucalypts are beautiful and I have 8 giant gums in my backyard. The two biggest are the ironbarks. The yard backs onto a reserve and is a subtropical rain forest.
Wow whereabouts are you
@@introtwerp mid-north coast nsw
Fascinating and funny! Looking forward to more!
Mate, your videos are first rate and I’ve just watched all three - please make lots more!
This video is fantastic. Informative, good writing, and super cozy. Awesome 👍
Love your sense of humour. It makes learning about "plants" less "boring". 😅 ❤
Loved this. Your videos should be extended to teaching in schools. Informative, interesting and delivered in the most fun aussie manner.
feel like it’s so rare to see such great, top quality RUclips videos particularly on Australian biology (on plants and animals) - keep it up!
I believe you are correct in stating Eucalypts are not always the reason for large fires spreading.By way of contrast some of the worst fires in the Canberra area in 2003 were attributed to some of the Pinus forests located in the area.
Loved both this and the last video - keep it up!
The Fevola reference is bloody spectacular mate, bravo. Your videos are wonderful, keep it up
Great topic. Hugely informative. Enormous potential. Please keep up with this important journey.
Keep the videos coming mate 😁👍
Please keep at it. You're informative and interesting and you don't speak down to us, you just speak to us.
I have watched both of your videos and I love them. I can't wait for your next video, you are interesting in a funny sort of way. Stay Beautiful 🌻
As a builder, I froth a all of my seams when I get to salvage Blackbutt or River Red from the homes areound NSW.
Wow so enjoyed this video, how you put it all together is wonderful. So informative, so visually appealing. Thank you
Bloody awesome stuff mate. Your channel is going to explode if you keep this up. Top tier
The most underrated tree of all time and i live in Australia i am truly lucky to live right next to these magnificent giants
Really interesting commentary. Especially the fact that the oils cause fire to rage quick and hot and leave the interior untouched! Grateful for the measurements supplied in Victorian units. Hahaha!
I like the gum tree, got one of the different 800 species in my yard. definitely learnt some new things about them from your video. You did forget to mention that they are one of the thirstiest trees around, strange for the driest continent.
They suck up as much water as possible when they can so that they can last through droughts
? The Goldfields region has a very diverse range of eucalyptus endemic and it has a rainfall of around 250mm (10"). This is a pretty arid climate
They cover the whole continent and have adapted to every soil and climate type
Super interesting to more about these beautiful giants that grace our continent. Thanks for the video 😮
Mate as an Aussie botanist, this is a great video and well researched. You described it all pretty accurately, well done 👌
This is wonderful! I’m so glad you do this channel
Thank you Sarah!
On a holiday in Crete, Greece at the moment. Plenty of Eucalyptus trees here. I think they were imported at some point and then began to thrive in the climate up here
Fantastic video and great info. I love the roo fight and the roo going through the steel fence.
Nice job! Not what I expected but informative, uplifting and entertaining -all wrapped up into something just the right length for my attention span. Thanks mate.
Sick vids mate, looking forward to the next ones!
I love your videos and watched the magpie episode more than twice. I know I will watch the magpie one and this one more because I really enjoy them. Your speech is perfect. I am wondering whether you could slow down the pictures motion and make your EIGHT minutes video program into around TWELVE minutes, same content, just slow down. ❤your videos and longing for more.
Amazing video 😊
Look forward to see more 👍
Excellent job mate.
Very well written! Don’t know how I randomly stumbled on this vid but I loved it! informative and funny. Two thumbs up!
The new David Attenborough, well not yet but your getting there. Great video, thank you.
Bro you need mroe subscribers! Really dotn stop making contents i look fowarrd to your videos the humor + the editing and the accurate knowledge! Please keep it up
This is the sort of top tier video that makes my day, incredibly well done mate!
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you. I live in Portugal where many eucalyptus grow in these northern mountains. They are truly beautiful and I now admire them even more after watching this.
Many years ago heading to Lisbon I was amazed descending the plateau from Spain to see eucalypt forests outside the train window. I had to look twice and shake my head, it was so familiar.
Along Californian freeways too.
Wow. I love them as an Aussie, but what have ther displaced to take over there? It is a bit concerning if they have pushed out local species
@@emceeboogieboots1608 - Australian eucalypts were widely distributed in the 19thC because they were thought of as a hardy dry land tree. When in fact they just have a long tap root that searches down for the water table, which is a problem in many places now.
There’s even hybrid species unknown in Australia, one at least in Brazil.
@TenOrbital That is very true for some. Many though are drought resistant. Inland western Australia particularly has no water table to speak of, and is often saline where it exists. These trees are not likely to be widespread overseas though I imagine
I’m loving these videos! please make one about paper bark trees I’ve been very much enjoying them lately!
Another excellent vid! Fire is indeed part of our landscape, and these trees are so important!
I recognise some shots from the Cranbourne gardens hehe. Love your work! :)
really enjoyed this, was going to keep scrolling but something caught my attention and im glad it did. thank you for making this, will stick around to see the journey of your channel!
Superb content. More please. This channel is going to be huge.
I enjoyed that. Another great eucalyptus is the massive Blue Gum at the Mt Helen Campus of FedUni in Ballarat. It absolutely massive.
Thank you for that intro!
Anyone that thinks plants are boring does indeed share many things with the most mundane of plants…
Honestly I’m not half as interesting as these trees! Excellent presentation and good info.
The dating preference and the tree puns are a nice apperitif to catch my interest 🤣. Keep it up!
00:53-00:58 I'm basking in your pun-expertise 🥰 Pls make more videos, I've already watched all on your channel!
might be my new favourite youtuber, thanks
Love the videos. Can't wait to see more. Eucalyptus trees dropping there limbs is no joke, for real. A guy was actually hit by one falling at my Dad's golf club and the poor guy was paralysed. Always be careful under tall gum trees in teh summer.