Orchids, Ferns, & El Cachote Cloud Forest
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Barahona Province, Dominican Republic.
In this video we ascend from near sea level up to 5,000' to check out a warm, humid Caribbean cloud forest filled with epiphytic orchids, endemic Magnolias, strange birds and crazy ferns and bromeliads.
The bummer about this episode is that many of these plants were not identified until after filming, as they were just too strange and the habitat was as yet unemployed by CPBBD.
Regardless, it still makes for a very interesting episode documenting some of the rare higher elevation flora of the Dominican Republic.
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Thanks, GFY.
The tone gets so gentle and easy going when there isn't a strip mall in view. I get it.
i stumbled across his videos and he reminds me of everyone's tight dad on a road trip half an hour in and someone asks to pee, BUT ONLY in urban videos. then its more like a sunday morning hike with your dad after he got into a fight with mom.
It's humble and speaks volumes that you were fully willing to admit that you don't know what the plants are... Yet keep the camera going and allow us to enjoy the beauty. Thank you
I for one would be alright with some songs to fill in that space.
@@wyattarich what songs, the same royalty free trite everyone on youtube uses? nah.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I agree. The content is great as is. I come here to look at plants with someone who loves plants like I do but has even more exp than I do. It’s one of my favorite ways to relax but learn at the same time!
"Notorious Anthers of the Melastomes" Finally, a Real Housewives spinoff I'm interested in
It was a GOOD episode, you saying sometimes “I don’t know what the fucx it is.” Is great for the rest of us, you know....
This is one of my favorite episodes of some asshole lost in the woods. Every beginner botany freak can relate. Brilliant exploration of the flora. How can we learn new plants if first we don't know them?
Honestly, I get the same way in tropical wet forested areas. I'm a botanist in a temperate region, and the plant diversity is so overwhelming in the tropics. I end up getting excited when I figure out just the families of some of that stuff.
@@jospinner1183 Right!? I know many of the plants in the great lakes region, but traveling to a new biome of such diversity is awe inspiring.
This video goes hard!! Nobody expects you to know everything about every plant. You're real in the field, saying what you know and what you don't. This vid gives off a chill and immersive vibe which is needed for such a diverse environment. You're good fam, we love the authenticity!
Extreme Botanizing. When orchids look like ferns, you know my mind is blown.
This is the kind of content the world needs. 🧡
Just loved traveling vicariously to the tropics with the effing orchids!
Regardless of whether you identify the plants or not, the quality of the camera and video is fabulous and the lighting is gorgeous. Always enjoy a new upload. Have you thought about doing a live Q&A with your CZcams subscribers?
Yeah I'd like to at some point
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt yeah you could tell us to GFYS in person... prick ❤
I love seeing you dis-oriented. Just know the families! Best botany advice I've ever received from a friend, ten years ago. Take good photos and figure it out later so you can enjoy the walk!
The color of that lobelia, that hot fuchsia pink, is absolutely stunning!
FINE tropical field trip!
Ah man, that was beautiful. Thanks for putting the names on your video - it makes it easier to remember when I see it written down.
Lovely, as always! My husband, who is of Italian American descent, gets overly excited when I watch/listen to your videos, and he, not being into botany, drowns out your narrative with his over-the-top Italian American improvisational interpretatation of the shit I'm really trying to hear! But at least he likes you!
You're doing great- keeping it interesting!
what a great video, thanks for going though all the trouble and showing us all these wonderful plants many of us will never get to see.
All I can say is absolutely stunning the plant diversity is mind-boggling and you get to show us all the beauty that nature has to offer and then some
i love you more than you'll ever know! I randomly mentioned you to some friends recently and one of them gifted me one of your stickers!!! WHAT A SMALL WORLD = STOKED>>>
This is more along the lines of what I enjoying hiking in, pretty similar to here in Costa Rica. That hot dry stuff is interesting, but the sun kicks my ass if I'm out there all day.
As a plant nerd who also knows the common and latin names of the plants i would say that the best part was the bird noises. I was between being relaxed listening to the birds and laughing at your jokes. You kill me man. 😂
I love how he pronounces the plants! I never related to a video so much in my life!!!🤣🤣🤣
@@taliaquinlan8590 Is it because he says fuckin before each one? It's a good teaching strategy. No one is gonna remember what a orchid is. Everyone is gonna remember what a fuckin orchid is. Way to make learning fun! 😂😂😂
Sporangia shot at 7:50 DID SOMETHING FOR ME
Loving these tropical episodes. You should take a trip to the Ecuadorian cloud forests for all of us araceae freaks
Keep on keeping on! Don’t have to name everything, eye candy is good candy 👍🏼
I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this series. I lived a couple of years in the DR but more toward the east (Monte Plata). I didn’t get a chance to see all of this...wouldn't even have known enough to look back then. Thank you, and I'm definitely adding you to my Patreon account in gratitude.
I always enjoy your videos! Enjoy listening to you talk, too!
Some of the most interesting plants I’ve seen you finger
I'd love to just sit in that Fern Forest, listen and watch. If I had a good cold beer while there then more to the experience. Not sleeping well, not eating well (I've tried but you can't make your stomach always to follow protocol), I'm right there with you Brother.
Good luck getting a cold beer there. One could pack in a blunt though.
@@katiekane5247, LOL, maybe NASA or someone can come up with a forever cold drink blanket or something. Not much down with the Blunts.
I hope you can at least find a good tree to sit under. Does me a world of good.
"Put it in 4-low"
Best advice ever.
Also now my motto
Thank you 🤣
my advice, 4 low never gets you out of trouble, just 50 yards further into it.
I enjoyed that you brought us along without knowing everything you were going to find. And as a non-botanist, I wasn't interested in anything more than the basic ideas, like 'look, here's an orchid'. And for those who were interested, you added many of the names on the screen, so it was all good.
Congrats on 200k! ❤️
Santore: “Don’t do it. Just don’t do it!”
Georgia O’Keeffe: “But it’s just so pretty . . . so vaginal . . . “
nice. thanks for sharing.
I could stand there and listen to those birds all day.
i love going for walks to clear my head and look at plants. when i dont get to do that i can just watch this channel. i love that.
Damn that's some alien looking flora. Like seriously guy, what kind of evolutionary pressure made them look like dat?
i have grown orchids for 30 years and this tour is where you gain the best information...to see what "filtered light" actually means...and understory and differences in life...This video is what i try to recreate in my greenhouse
You did a perfect job! I'm gonna see that spiky red balls in 2022 runway outfit for sure. I love all the ferns, plants covering trees, the pink ginger I wanted to eat! Looks like a place for gorillas. Eat some barbadensis aloe. Thank you.
this made my nausea go away for a little bit, thank you. mossy moss is always appreciated
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you very much. More orchids please.
Another banger video. Enjoy everything you throw up.
so refreshing to hear someone speak like me, thank you for sharing. please keep the island of Hawaii in mind, we got some diversity i like to host and share with you
Our favorite botanist has a case of diversititis.
Nice
Hey Joey love all the epiphytes, id love to see more of this kind of habitat someday from you.
4:10 I was definitely waiting for you to walk into a spiderweb or some other horror to poke it's head out of the tangle of twigs.
Fern dungeon sounds like a dream 😻
Yeah! It's the 'Cloud Forest Epiphytic Attic'!
So great; I was in a cloud forest in Venezuela years ago, need to get back to one. A completely different world.
Beautiful habitat
"Let's step into the fern dungeon real quick." 😂
Lovely stuff!
You should do a city one were you walk around some local parks or drive by some or whatever it would be cool to see you go from city to city showing us what there doing and tell us if there doing more harm then good with what there planting or growing with farms. Let me know what you think please and thank you 😊
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He did "botanizing a toilet"
Guarilla gardens in open oakland spaces.
This man is a dream, and he's dreamy
@@markchinguz4401 I know I mean like travel say he's in a small town 500 miles away from home if theres plants theres no reason not to do a video on a small backwater town or city and let us know we are helping or killing the area hes at me vegas and we are killing it Idaho ah 50 50 on good and bad water usage
@@markchinguz4401 Yep, the backside of Oakland. I'm sure any town would he honored to be featured like this. Heh.
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As I’m watching this episode, I had to turn the volume up to compete with the nerve jangling constancy of noise from the mowing tractor of the building next door, flattening the plot of land next door. What a contrast to what you’re showing us here. I’m going all Zen on you and saying, “Thanks for creating a balance so I don’t spontaneously combust.
Gahd I laughed so hard at the 4-low bit. Great episode as always :)
God dam that bird really does sound like a rusty merry go round, little creepy and horror movie like when that the only thing you hear and everything else is quiet
How freaking beautiful. Thanks for bringing along those of us who might never have the chance to see places like these. I'm absolutely blown away.
Awesome episode 👏🏽 thanks for the effort you put in to making these GFY bye ✌🏽💚
"The grass is aggressive", t-shirt idea
Only native on native violence.
Cocogongrass with a silhouette of the SE US on the print would either sell like crazy or get sprayed with triclopyr.
Amazing flora🥰
Wow that Maxillaria is so beautiful!
In a future video, can you explain if there is a reason why the underside of some leaves are purple or gold? Thanks
Isn’t that great!
I was looking at a winter growing ground orchid, the top side looked a bit sick, which is normal, underside was just brilliant purple!
Great plants
Orchids are cool I have a few hundred lol
Kids these days, snap chatting each other pictures of flowers.
Amazing habitat, thank you for sharing this 🔥🕉🔥
epic scenes, thanks joe
So cool. Like something that’s been left in a broken refrigerator for a couple of years in the heat. Everything sprouting out of everything.
Sweet videos I like the way you present.
GFY 🙂
Amazing
Man... Thats crazy, I live in a central part of Brazil, the native vegetation around is called ''Mata Atlantica'' and a lot of the plants that grow here are shown in the video. Dominican Republic is really far away from here, more then 5000km according to google
Beautiful Fabacae, small florests in trees
Wonderful , great, beautiful diversity. I really enjoyed this video.
Beautiful and lovely. Thank you so much for sharing I may get another sweatshirt soon
Probably your best episode ever! So many cool plants!!
Maxillari Coccinea! Thank you for sharing that!
If anything man I would love to cultivate that Species of pine!!! Pinus occidentales and pines tropicales with is native to Cuba! Seems like no one is interested in cultivate such amazing pine species!😔✊
Epiphyte on a epiphyte; It's like Inception.
This channel is gold
I love watching your videos. Very informative with a touch of humor
Ive followed your instagram for easily 3 years but havent ever watched a video. And that was a mistake cuz these are awesome
Beautiful and amazing eye candy thank you, now fhking take care of your health
I know a guy lol I’m that guy so glad I found your channel you are the gold pal make some orchid videos I’ll be watching
Aww. Too bad you're not an orchid guy!! We have thousands of them, they're so amazing and I think you would enjoy getting to know the plants whose name translates to "testicle"! 😆 The orchid people are just as crazy as the plants we collect!
I would love to see you go to the Borneo highlands
I wish it were easier for me to retain everything from these videos, i love it nonetheless
Favorite episode ever;-)
well there's a t-shirt for ya: "C. domingensis: totally tubular!"
thanks for showing us around, what an awesome habitat. how do you find these places/choose where to visit?
Great video, very relaxing, but take care of yourself so you don't get too burnt out!
This was one of your best as far as i'm concerned! Thanks
Funny ha!ha! But , learned a lot, thank you!☺️
those bird calls are great
So cool to find someone I glanced off of over 20 years ago still well and wrecking people's realities in all the best ways.
@CPBBD have you ever considered using a camera adapted to filming in the ultraviolet/infrared to look at the flowers? BTW I love all of your videos :D
The little orange fungi in the leaf litter were Clavulinopsis sp.
Nice vid your a legend
would love to see you do a trek through the Tasmanian and Victorian temperate rainforests here in Aus. As well as some of the wet eucalypt forests.
How does it feel being a legend
I'm surprised bananas havent spread more down therw. Ive seen them spread like crazy in florida and a few spots in Louisiana and texas
Love the bird calls and watching you be overtaken(for once) by all the biodiversity. Wish it would happen more often. This might be a good time to plug my DR inspired coffee FourLOW; recommended to anyone that wants to get down and dirty...
The 'Sweaty Nutsack Dungeon' is right next to the 'Swollen Ovaries Dungeon".
Was not ready for the tongue fern reveal.
Love the orchids!
14:59 is an Isochilus