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It’s a tale of three summers on this summer vacation episode of rootbound.
Show Notes!Meteorlogical vs Astronomical Seasons
National Phenology Network
Listen and download “Phenological Summer”
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The guest on this episode is Phaan Howng! We talk about two botanical “snakes”, get slightly provocative regarding houseplants, go on several tangents, and finally end on the Future of Orchids. We also meet Virginia Thaxton, Interior Horticulturist at Smithsonian Gardens at the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery/American Art museum.
Show Notes!
The Kogod Courtyard
The Future of Orchids
Dracaena trifasciata
Mock Strawberry: A Disdained Common Edible
蛇莓
传说之物“蛇泡草”,你听老人讲过吗?其实没有毒!
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Brendel plant model
Art by Phaan Howng
Smithsonian Gardens
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Sophia Mahoney-Rohrl aka Gentle Millennial Friend. First, Steve is in Switzerland talking about clouds. Then, Sophia shares a big, fire-loving, mysterious tree. Steve shares about killer nuts and the tree they belong to. Finally, Steve discovers a tree in an unexpected place.
Show Notes!
Trees bend the laws of physics
Epicormic Growth
Trees of Mystery
Albino Redwoods
Ensatina salamanders
Bertholletia excelsa
Brazil nut harvesting proves a win-win for forest and community livelihood
Meet the Agouti: the master behind Brazil nuts
Giant Sequoia at Bleicherweg & Todistrasse in Zürich, Zurigo, Switzerland
Gentle Millennial Friend on Instagram
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Due to a sick kid, this won’t be a normal episode of the program. Steve is joined by Karla and they talk about chemistry and love near the straw-colored flat sedge.
Show Notes!
A Historical Overview of Natural Products in Drug Discovery
Discovery of Camptothecin and Taxol
Aspirin: Turn-of-the-Century Miracle Drug
episode 097: Variegated Winter Daphne and Mountain Mint
Download Near the Straw-Colored Flat Sedge
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Tina Guldhammer-Frei of Greet The Wild! First, Steve stands near some trees. Then, Tina shares the first fern on the show and how it has lead her on her journey into nature. Steve talks about yet another “weed” in his yard. Finally, Steve dives deep into the reproductive cycle of ferns.
Show Notes!
rootbound episode 028: Sassafras!
Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
Reasons to Love Sword Ferns
Virginia Copperleaf (Acalypha virginica)
The Fern Life Cycle
Watch Ferns Get Freaky
Greet The Wild on the web
Greet The Wild on Instagram
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Krystal Frame. It’s another special episode of rootbound and this time we’re talkin’ the humble potato! Steve and Krystal chat about potato joy, potato sorrow, outer space, potato face, and history — both family and world varieties. The show closes with some facts inspired by potato jams.
Show Notes!
Potato wikipedia
Frederick the Great, potatoes and the art of rebranding
Did Frederick The Great Introduce The Potato To Germany?
Space potatoes
The Lumper: A humble potato that changed history
The Irish Famine: Complicity in Murder
Rösti recipe
Crossing the Röstigraben
Idaho Potato Museum
George Crum aka George Speck
Sustain Frame on the web
Sustain Frame Instagram
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On this special spring episode we are talking total eclipses! April 8, 2024 was a total solar eclipse and Steve shares his experience — but this is a plant podcast and so Steve also talks with Daniel Beverly. Daniel shares is experience researching the effect of total solar eclipses on plants during not one, but two total solar eclipses!
Show Notes!
Hydraulic and photosynthetic responses of big sagebrush to the 2017 total solar eclipse
Eclipses give IU researcher a glimpse into plants’ reaction to environmental stressors
Why the Eclipse Leaves Us Awe-Struck
The AmeriFlux Network
A composite image I took at the 2017 eclipse
Daniel Beverly’s website
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Hannah Vega! First, Steve discusses the concept of medicine (again). Then Hannah explains a ghostly plant that loves mushrooms. Steve talks about avian excrement, the bible and yet another weed in his lawn. Finally, we speculate about the meaning of biblical text in a non-religious way.
Show Notes!
Monotropa uniflora (ghost pipe)
The Ghosts of the Forest Floor: Ghost Pipes
Ornithogalum umbellatum(eleven o’clock lady)
2 Kings 6:25
A exploration of Dove’s Dung from the biblicalcyclopedia.com
Definition of thermoperiodicity
Pedanius Dioscorides
Pharmacognosy
Hannah Vega on Instagram (@afroforagers)
Hannah Vega’s Photography
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This special Mixed Greens episode of rootbound is kind of all over the place. Steve eats cactus, learns about a gruesome tomato commercial, learns about the nuts history of his family and does a deep dive on fake music with Party Nails.
Show Notes!
How to Harvest Prickly Pear Pads
All fake rootbound theme songs!
Los Tomatitos Muy Contentitos through the decades
Black Walnut episode of rootbound
Article by my Great Grandfather about my 3xGreat Grandfather
All Versions of Nose Twister!
Party Nails on the web!
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Steve is still taking some spring break but has a chance to share some bluebonnet joy.
Show Notes!
Some info about paintbrushes and bluebonnets
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Steve is on spring break this week but don’t worry, there are still some plant-based fun facts and dazzling details, this time about D.C.’s famed cherry blossoms.
Show Notes!
How Does the National Mall Tidal Basin Actually Work?
So Long, Stumpy: More Than 100 Iconic Cherry Trees In Washington Are Being Cut Down
National Park Service prepares for $113 million multi-year repair to Tidal Basin and West Potomac seawalls
Sakura by Rosalía
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Ashlyn Morgan of Green Canvas Farms. It’s a special episode where we talk everything about the black walnut including wood, nuts, syrup, hair die and industrial grinding. We close with a song named after the tree by Maya Elise and the Good Dream.
Show Notes!
Juglans nigra
Watch Ashlyn make black walnut syrup
Hammons Black Walnuts
Black walnut wood characteristics
Green Canvas Farms
Maya Elise and the Good Dream
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The guest on this episode rootbound is Tanya Sabrina. First, Steve confronts the problem we all have with ALAN. Then Tanya surprises Steve by talking about Diatoms and later some spiders. Steve shares about an evergreen tree that is an unlikely source of vanilla. Finally, Steve shares how to combat ALAN by avoiding ROY.
Show Notes!
Artificial light at night: an underappreciated effect on phenology of deciduous woody plants
Diatom on wikipedia
The Air We Breathe, and the Water We Drink: Why Diatoms are So Important
Sahara Dust Nourishes the Brazilian Rainforest, Which Nourishes Oceans, Which Produce Oxygen
Blue spruce
Carpathian Mountains
Free-roaming bison population in the Southern Carpathians continues to thrive
Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
European Spruce
Vanillin from Spruce
Tanya Sabrina on Instagram
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Honeycrush. First, a quote from Rachel Carson. Then Honeycrush talks about noticing plants for the first time, sharp grass, local monsters and how flowers are pretty. Steve tries to make vetch happen by discussing Vicia sativa. Finally, a little music and a discussion of Steve’s misunderstandings of a couple metaphors.
Show Notes!
Silent Spring
Gypsophila
Heart-Shaped Box
Vicia sativa
More about vetch
The Dangers of Uncooked Beans and Lentils
Lectin
Nitrogen fixation
Honey Crush
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Pam Covarrubias. First, Steve dishes on some perfect flowers. Then Pam shares about a warrior named Lisa and Steve shares about a plant that is the perfect ingredient to go along with molé or glassmaking. Finally, Steve ponders plants and queerness.
Show Notes!
Plant Reproductive Morphology
Monstera adansonii
Why Do Monsteras Have Holes?
Suaeda spp.
Romeritos: Mexican Greens for Your Holiday Table
Glasswort Galore
Verdolagas
Plants and Queerness by Will Dwyer
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Sebi Medina-Tayac of Red Cedar Farms. Sebi and Steve both share cedars which aren’t really cedar (but who is to say?) The cedar Sebi shares is connected to his culture as a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation. The cedar Steve shares is connected to an experience he had in Peru. Finally, we learn a bit more about the symbolic position of a sacred tree in Piscataway Park.
Show Notes!
Juniperus virginiana
All About the Eastern Red Cedar
Piscataway Park
The Flickering Flame — Life and Legacy of Chief Turkey Tayac
Cahokia Woodhenge
Cedrela odorata
U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest
CITES Cedrela spp. listing
Red Cedar Farms - organic regenerative sun-grown cannabis | on native lands by native hands
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Jessika Raisor. First, Steve talks cellulose. Then Jessika shares her passion for producing paper and a tree that started it all. Steve talks a quintessential spring flower. Finally, a poem by Wordsworth.
Show notes!
Cellulose
Paper mulberry
Making of Handmade Kozo
Garden | Morgan Conservatory
Why do Kozo papers have excellent longevity?
Shoji
Tapa Cloth
Narcissus (mythology)
Narcissus (plant)
Lycorine | C16H17NO4 | CID 72378 - PubChem
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
Jessika's Paper Supply
Jessika's Instagram
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On this episode of rootbound we welcome back Mallory O’Donnell. Mallory shares about flowers that grown in ditches. Steve shares about some other flowers. Finally, the plant-based Michael Barbaro send-up we have all been waiting for.
Show Notes!You’ll Never Starve if You Have Daylilies
Hemerocallis species inventory
Greene Deane on Day Lily
Tawny Daylily on the invasive plant atlas
Commelina communis
Genus Tradescantia
Day Flower, A Dainty and Overlooked Wild Edible
How to Cook a Weed
Mallory O’Donnell on Instagram
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is B.C. Vital! First, a list of plants named after parts of animals. Then B.C. shares a “strange” and “horrible” tree that has become the identity of an entire state. Steve shares a flower that is not a dandelion but still has a cat connection. Finally, the surprising etymology of the word ‘sycophant’.
Show Notes!
Aesculus glabra - Ohio Buckeye
Why are Ohioans called buckeyes?
Buckeye (candy)
Why is a buckeye seed in your pocket good luck?
Radicate definition
Hypochaeris radicata - Cat’s Ear
Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy
The Ancient Greek Story Behind the Word “Sycophant”
B.C. Vital on Instagram - follow along on her journey in publishing the Erie Legacies
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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Maria Wesserle of Four Season Foraging. First, Steve ponders spice. Then Maria explores a flavorful evergreen and Steve discusses a spice that changed the world. Finally, the etymology of Juniper.
Show Notes!
Spice on Wikipedia
Common Juniper
Fermented Juniper Berry Juice (Smreka or Kleka)
Introduction to Borovicka
Toxic Juniper
The Therapeutic Properties of Juniperus communis L.
Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice
Four Season Foraging
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