Episode 649: Epiphytes & Parasites
Species: Rhipsalis baccifera, Codonanthopsis Sp, Anthurium obtusum, Anthurium gracile
Location: Turrialba, Costa Rica
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Mentioned in this episode:
Corpse Flower: https://youtu.be/-ILx0LsXNJc
Ghost Pipe Plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfmhHMoms-M
Oaks of Note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqf3xWWB2HI
Boson particle?? How many very stiff hardons did he have to collide to produce enough anions/onions to make supporting this food channel viable. Must be a genius.
Sing stoma. They have cell walls with tubes that connect each other so they can share water and nutrients
"Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." -Anonymous
The royal taste tester, has a rough job. But it is an essential.
OH GOD YOU DID NOT EAT AN ANTHURIUM FRUIT
You did a good job on explaining what epiphytes are. Pronouncing the word however 😂
some mistletoe may be toxic, some are not – some are partially parasitic (hemiparasites) they take water from the host tree, and they do their own photosynthesis – some are mostly parasitic – just depends on the particular species
Maybe you came in once that corpse flower stopped smelling? it seems the smell only lasts a few days before the flower slowly rots.
really interesting, thanks for sharing!
Great vid. Learned a lot. Thank you
Marco💚😎😁
Although if you look up pronunciation of "Rafflesia" and it says it is raf·fle·sia with a long e , it should really be be pronounced as raf·fel·sia since it is named in honor of Sir T. Stamford Raffles. When a genus is named for someone , their name is pronounced as it would be pronounced.
Epiphite plants make great air purifiers. They use dust for their soil.
False dichotomy. Some epiphytes are parasitic. Some aren't. Some plant parasites are epiphytic. Some aren't. They're two different categorizations.
Have you ever eaten wild strawberries 🍓.
Jared I love your channel but the amount of times you said EPITHYTE is embarrassing. You can hear it.
Spathiphyllum (peace lily/white flower) are not anthurium, but closely related. ; )
I can’t believe you got to see a corpse flower in person. And ghost pipes! I want to see those in my lifetime. Bucket list stuff
You're saying it wrong. Its a ph not a th
Did you know parasitism is one of the three types of symbiotic relationship?
It probably didn't smell for you because it saw you and thought, "I better not smell like meat or this guy is gonna eat me".
Strangler figs are ficus trees that can start out as epiphytes. The seed is left by an animal and sprouts on a different tree, and it sends roots to the ground. When they hit the ground the trunks start growing and roots keep going down and getting thicker, strangling the host tree. And the canopy grows up over the host, shading it out and eventually killing the host. Then it can rot out and leave a hollow tangle of roots for a trunk that is very cool looking. I used to collect them for bonsai when I lived in Costa Rica for 9 years. I never saw edible figs on a strangler fig tree, they don't seem to do it. It seems like there's no end to the fruits and edibles and medicinal plants down there. I miss living there every day. I can talk to the locals about plants or whatever all day long in Spanish.
Vanilla beans come from an epiphytic orchid. I saw it in Costa Rica.
Dang, I just love this channel. But as a small request, can we(Meaning you) start making some weird ketchups again?
Pineapple and false pineapple are two very important epithets.
I love Marco episodes! I love the way his facial expression and tone of voice are always neutral. His plants and bees etc are so interesting. He's so knowledgeable. Anthurium obtusum fruits look like pearls. Look very delicious.
this was indeed good
Why you keep pronouncing ph as th?
Can anyone recommend an encyclopedia of fruits book (with the most fruits) and pictures
Epi-FIGHT.
I've always wanted to try my anthurium berries, I'll have to cautiously test them 🙂
Have you ever thought about just having a botinists on your show. Like for example CrimePaysButBotonyDoesn't?
You should try Dead Man's Fingers. Descaisnea fargesii. I'm growing it here in NW Indiana. My shrub is only two years old so hadn't produced yet. It will soon bear blue pods with edible pulp that's supposed to taste like wateemelon.
I have elephant foot yam
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius planted on my property , I believe some plans will only produce this rotten meat smell at the time of pollination for a day or two of its life .
Where I’m from we call “Spanish moss” Witch’s Hair. I’d never heard another word for it until this video.
Actually we use the fruit of one specific orchid as a spice. Vanilla Beans are not legumes, they're orchids and very picky about where they can grow. Also they have to be fertilized by a little midge fly or hand pollinated.
And it was a slave who discovered this in Madagascar. He took a small skewer and took the pollen from the stamen of one flower and hit the pistil of the recipient flower and the flap slammed shut and he taught everyone of his fellow slaves to do this and they took it to other plantations and Madagascar outcompeted Mexico in the Vanilla Industry.
Wow, I've often wondered if other aroids, like the berries on anthuriums, are edible. Even Japanese konjac (a thickening jelly) is made directly from a well known aroid, called Amorphophallus konjac ! Most ppl are more familiar with its smelly cousin, the titan arum aka corpse flower. So Araceae maybe toxic, but some have used and some even taste great.
The anthurium berries intrigue me. They're virtually the same thing as on a monstera inflorescence. Just look a lil different & function uniquely! I mean, Monstera DELICIOSA has amazing edible fruit when ripe.. so it's no surprise really. I'm so glad you made this video!!
Another edible aroid fruit… the split-leaf "philodendron," now technically known as Thaumatophyllum bipinnafidense (sp?close enough?) within Araceae. Lol. Better known as houseplants with names like Philodendron "Hope", or "Selloum", or the "Lickety Split" cultivar. It seems not that many people know these "philodendrons" (thaumatophyllum) have nearly identical fruits to monstera deliciosa. Of course, I'm lucky that my family has one that's 50 years old and 20 FEET wide, 8 feet tall and goes back about six feet. Massive with multiple plants. Blooms yearly or every other year when they're mature like this. Like 50+ mature haha. I'm surprised by some of its behavior. It hasn't even attempted to crawl up the 60 ft. Lebanese cedar right next to it, it's just been self-supporting after all this time! Multiple tree "heads" over six feet, most are 7-8 feet high. and they all fruit it seems once mature 😇✌🏼