Cones on the Spectrum (Celerytop-Pine)
Completely Arbortrary
Completely Arbortrary
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Forget everything you thought you knew about conifers, and make way for the celerytop-pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius) with leaves and cones like no other, and raises the question “what is a conifer”?
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| 0:15.2 | Hey, everybody, Casey here. |
| 0:16.9 | This is our fifth year making completely arbitrary. |
| 0:20.4 | And to celebrate our cone of the month for this month, December 2025, This is our fifth year making completely arbitrary. |
| 0:27.4 | And to celebrate our cone of the month for this month, December 2025, is actually five cones. |
| 0:28.3 | That's right. |
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| 1:30.4 | Help us celebrate five years of Completely Arbitrary today and thank you so much. |
| 1:40.5 | What's up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to Completely Arbitrary's Deathbed, the podcast about trees and other related topics. Wow. My name is Alex Crows, and I'm one of your hosts. And, of course, over there on the couch, we have Casey clap. Casey. Hi. We were approached by a fan today. It was at a coffee shop. What? And they walked up and they said, RIP. |
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