What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. We're here again with

Josh Rosen of Air Plant Man.com. So yesterday we heard his story and today we're going to hear his species.

What are his favorite species of air plants?

And so I don't know a ton about individual species. Josh, I could probably tell you them by the way that they

look but that doesn't really help people on the podcast so what are some of your favorite

species of airplanes?

Yeah so you know as we've What are some of your favorite species of airplanes?

Yeah, so, you know, as we mentioned before,

there's over 600 different species

and they hybridize, so that means there's even more.

So there really are a lot of different ones out there of that you know total global population

You know a smaller subset of you know 20 to 30 are the most popular and you can get a few hundred maybe are available at all.

I'll just talk about a couple of my favorites today.

A little bit about naming first though, all plants have both common and Latin names.

Latin names are going to be a lot more precise even though they get reclassified now

and then that's sort of a very specific way to talk about a plant, whereas common names you can sort of,

many different plants can have the same common name,

such as Air Plant.

But with so many different different species of

Tylansia, they don't all have common names.

They're all Latin names, basically.

So we're gonna start talking Latin.

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