7 Deadly Stems: SLOTH (Weeping Willow)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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*Yawn*. The weeping willow (Salix babylonica) is one of the most recognized trees in the world, but boy is it lazy! Learn about the questionable roots (ha) of this tree and what makes it such a beautiful mess. Then we answer a question from 12-year-old Gus!

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:05.0	up, uh, what's up, Fungal Associates.
0:10.0	Hey.
0:11.0	Welcome to completely arbitrary.
0:13.0	The, uh, uh, podcast about trees and other related topics.
0:17.0	Eze, now it's slow it down a little bit.
0:21.0	Sorry.
0:22.0	Sorry. Anyway. I'm being of it virtuous. Yeah you are gosh. Yeah yeah going at normal speed. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croson. I'm another one of your hosts.
0:34.0	I'm Casey Clapp and today,
0:38.0	just feeling sloth-like.
0:40.0	Now we've got to be careful with this.
0:42.0	You're right. I'm not actually climbing a tree upside down growing mold on my back.
0:47.0	Although you do have giant six inch talons for nails.
0:50.0	Don't get close. Don't get close.
0:52.0	Swipe at you quickly in my opinion.
0:55.0	Right. At a quarter mile an hour.
0:57.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:58.0	Have you seen that?
0:59.0	You seen that?
1:00.0	Oh yeah, sure.
1:01.0	It's just lovely.
1:02.0	Love me a sloth. It's just a slow motion fight with a bird going
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