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Extremely fortunate to have had many adventures with Mark over the course of our friendship,

and today is a recap of one of those adventures. This is an old episode, episode 91 to be specific,

that was my first adventure in a long leave pines of Anna, and who better to take us through

such an incredibly diverse habitat than a botanist with the skills of Dr. Mark Witten?

It's such an enjoyable hike, it's very relaxing, and I learned a lot during this trip,

so I want to bring this out of the back catalog and share it again with you today,

because I know many of you listening are probably new to this podcast, so let's just jump

right into it without further ado, here is our hike with the late Dr. Mark Witten, I hope you enjoy.

I'm in a new spot, and I wanted to share some of it with you,

so I'm walking through a zirke hammock habitat outside of Gainesville, Florida, on a 10,000 acre property

owned by University of Florida, and this is some of the most stunning habitat I've seen in a long time.

In fact, I'm standing right next to a shrub right now that I've been wanting to see,

I've only heard about a Semina and Karna, it's a shrubby relative of the Paw Paw,

and it's end of December, so much as dormant, oh here's some a punchy up,

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