This is some sort of weird therapy for me.

This man right here is the reason I have become obsessed with botany. Pure crude unscientific botanical devil.

At 6:30 on Chrysothamnus Those are Longhorn Beetles. The tan one is Crossidius hirtipes and the black and red one is C. coralinus.

Deserts are interesting

I think the sun gets to him, he acts a lot more goofy in the desert

Tony, I hope you get this message... I had mentioned to the fine folks at the Ruth Bankroft Garden how much I enjoyed your channel and I wondered if you had any connection to them... They responded to me and asked if I could pass on to you that they would love for you to come visit their garden! You must be aware of the RBG, Ruth was a legend in Bay Area horticulturists!!! My partner Jim (RIP) and I were charter members of the Hortisexuals! Members of our group were instrumental in gaining acceptance into the Garden Conservancy for RBG... Brian Kemble lead researcher (who you might know) would very much like you to come to visit their garden!!! They are easy to find, in Walnut Creek California... Anyway I turned them on to your channel but I suspect they already knew about you because they were very eager to get you to visit them!!! My work is done here, now it's up to you to decide if you want to follow through........ Thanks!

Waiting for the bus the other day, I look down on the sidewalk and there was this little bush coming out from the crack in the concrete with some purple flowers going off ... I reach down to have a closer look and BUZZZZ ... my immediate thought "Hey there is a guy inside!"🤣 Anyway, big cheers from São Paulo, hope you come down over here to check our big-ass araucárias in southern Brazil!

Many thanks again for suffering through the “Hot as Balls” heat to enlighten us morons. A lot of this stuff is beginning to stick in my pea-brain, aided greatly by the vivid and colorful (and off-colorful) commentary. Keep on keepin’ on!

this man is a legend

What is up my loudmouth botanist friend As always an excellent video Hope everything is doing good out there in the dunes Stay warm on the cool days and stay cool on the warm nights These adventures are quite awesome

On form today 👍

I used to go to that adult bookstore all the time. 😄🤐

Good video Thanks. Entertaining and Knowledgeable

Damn dude, you're going to look like a piece of fruit leather after all of these desert journeys, thanks for sacrificing yourself for our low brow entertainment!

To echo what others have said, you sir are a bright spot to my 2020 🌿

Yay you are in Nevada!

Thank you joey

Dude thank you for the laugh I really need these

Smoke coming their way in one month. Air quality index has been hovering at around the high five hundreds for about ten days here in Oregon. Like living in a camp fire.

This one was great glad he went to the desert for us, what a guy!!

I'm a fan of the endangered Desert Pupfish and the Lahoten Trout. But the plants are cool too.

A bleak beauty. Thank you for suffering for us.

The desert is amazingly alive. I really like the high deserts of Oregon too.

I often think you need one of Mike Stinnet's "sticks" for your walk-abouts. One that has a little hole designed into it so that you could somehow attach whatever you're filming with and poke it into the ground like a tripod. Then you could be in some of the shots too and you've got something to lean on when scaling rough terrain (okay, in 20 years you'll know what I mean). Besides which, he's got much the same eye for tiny details and shares your appreciation of little things in nature I think. And they're very special sticks and you're very special!

such a blue sky!

I grow that rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus) in my front yard native xeriscape. It's full of flowers right up until the snow falls. Super easy to grow, spreads nearly as readily as russian sage.

Therapy. Come to Missouri and you will find similar in the woods

In Seattle: air quality index is 263 from fire smoke ... homicidal feelings index : -20% ...

Love your vids! Getting me through the Anthropocene nightmare. Can you do me a huge solid though? Could you leave the name of plants on the screen longer? My tiny brain can't remember the name while listening to your hilarious commentary. Also could you put the film date in the description? I get confused with the timing on some of your vids. Thanks. GFYB.

Damn you have SO MANY great tees and hoodies at that shop! I wanted every fuckin one :-/ but it must wait. Nice to see the variety growing .. I remember when you first started that up it was just a few types. Love them so much, cute mask too ;-)

Out there without a thumper.. very bold

Jackasses do very well in the desert. Thanks for the visit! 💘Made me laugh and I learned something. There are some gypsum dunes next to limestone alluvium near Las Vegas in Sandy Valley/ Mesquite Dry Lake that I'm sure you would enjoy. Let me know if you'd like directions

"the wonderful town of winnemucca" best joke you have made so far

Waiting patiently for videos from Illinois

Oh, Art Bell nostalgia. "From the High Desert" etc.

This dude is the fucking highlight of my otherwise dull and pedantic week.

Another banger as always thank u for sharing

What a beautiful singing voice you have, 2nd only to my own!

Nice!

So funny and informative

People definitely overheard me listening to this

Listened to this camping on a hillside Permaculture course in UK - don't know who my course mates thought I had in the tent.

Dang Bruhda, you in BFE gold country.Satisfactory 💪

Dunes are full off awesomeness

🌞” I’ve been through the Desert 🌵 on a Horse with No name………it Feels good to come in from the Rain 🌧 “ U bee 🐝 Desert Tripping 🌫

You commenting on the alfalfa fields in the desert made me think who TF grows that in a desert?? Then I remember the section of Colorado I'm from would be a desert if it wasn't for irrigation 🤣

Thank you. I really needed that today

I liked the vid right after that weird piss joke lol

Thanks for reminding us that there's still a fucking interesting world out there.

Thought he'd get some of those "Dune" views... I like the strategy.

Great commentary.... Don't change anything!!!!

GOOD MORNING

Reminds me of Chevy Chase wandering through the desert in Vacation.

we all appreciate your sufferings on the behalf of botany

Please please please dig into the history of Datura and the Kuksu Cult here in Central California!!

That is a generous dunes. I have some sunflowers that would thrive there

I'd love to see this guy visit the White Sands area and do a video.

Thank You ! :)

''If you had x-ray vision you would see a shit ton of roots just scattered everywhere''. 9:11

I can feel the caffeine shakes from here

Made my damn day, thanks for another field trip. Ffs those beetles!

Based on his voice and manner of speech, I always figured Tony would look like a cross between Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro.

Always wondered what happened to coach from homestarrunner

This guy is the AvE of Botany.

I miss the 45-min long videos! Give us some more b-roll or something, eh?!

Looks familiar. I lived in Winnemucca for a number of years ( way back when). One of the best periods of my life. When we were kids we used to forage for chokecherries and pine nuts. Lots of work and worth the effort. Did you get up to Paradise Valley.? Any comments on the "mountain Mahoganies".

I'll never fly S&M Airlines again

I wish this guy could come out to my familial land in texas and explain the plants and shit around there too

I could handle some desert time about now. Spring in Dunedin means gale force norwesters full of exotic pollen. The Prunus, Pinus and wattles are kicking my arse.

Most medicinal plants, valuable though they may be, often have their effectiveness *WAY* overblown. Aconite, for instance, was pretty much the only effective local anesthetic before modern medicine. (it is SUPER dangerous by modern standards btw) But, it was claimed to cure just about anything, including stomach aches. The most obvious symptom of aconite poisoning is severe gastrointestinal issues. It also causes irregular heartbeats. I am of the opinion that herbal medicine is underutilized, but that we shouldn't throw modern medicine (especially science and the method thereof) out with the bathwater, so to speak. Don't get me started on Saint John's wart. (in short, if you don't like antidepressants, just go to a therapist. *therapists don't make you allergic to sunlight*) Also, by herbal medicine, I mean medicine with herbs, NOT what most people call "herbal medicine"

where those blister beetles? they do love the alfalfa.

“Ya got wasps and shit”...😂

Thought I was watching bug hub for a minute. But a question in all seriousness. Is the white butt cream resin close to what is in an aloe plant. Always had an aloe plant living in Florida for sun burns and bug bites.

Little bean? Little bean. Tiny little bean.

Please take care to be safe when walking on dunes. Walk without rhythm to not attract the worm.

our own earthly Liet Kynes

Some spooky stuff in Nevada. We're you heading east on the 80? My brother is in Elko. If a Tom Waites song was a town, it'd be Elko.

Smoke on the water puts out purple rain.Everyone knows that?

Hilarious as always!!

Diane McEvoy just uploaded (past few hours) an acapella of Prince singing Purple Rain - if any of you guys wanna check it out 💜

Time for a field trip out to Great Sand Dunes NP outside Alamosa, CO? Thanks for suffering for us and the editted in info is wonderful. Helps me with spelling the wacky plant part names

And just completely glosses over the beetle sexy time at 6:35 lol

Alfalfa fields sucking up ancient aquifers

Hahahaha, the bug porn, hilarious

Any information on edible or medicinal history with these plants paired with your knowledge would be awesome

👍

maybe bring an Entomologist with you that would be cool

Crime pays, lobotomy doesn't.

must be an Illinois thing to lay down in the sun in the middle of nowhere..... cuz i know i do it.

keeping with the theme you might like a band called Yawning Man they are a desert rock band

It's very rare to find epicuticular bikini wax, on a woody stem.

Came for the plants, stayed for the bug sex & came again

New dune movie

Hey do you know AvE?

When you say "blow your nose or your you-know-what", what do you mean?

Where the hell can I find your stickers, I have some geurilla gardening to start and I wanna do it with style

One thing that becomes very clear when you deal with plants. Bugs are their nemesis. The war between plants and insects has been going on literally since the epoch of life itself.

What flavor is the sand?

The only reason to have antenna that long is to tickle your own ass. Got to be SOME reason that bug is living in the desert. Have had a great time finding tomato horn worms heavily parasitized, bad for the worm but good for those of us growing tomatoes. Rather the wasps take care of those plant munching bastards than apply chemicals anyway. Late summer is def weird bug season, they're all sick of the heat too.

Who got linked here from the Dune movie trailer?