Ep. 383 - Aroid Pollination is Wild!
In Defense of Plants Podcast
In Defense of Plants
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This episode, we revisit a conversation I had with University of Vienna PhD student Florian Etl regarding an in depth look at a pollination system involving some of our most beloved houseplants. Florian focuses on genera like Philodendron, Anthurium, Dieffenbachia, and Spathiphyllum to shine light on how the plants manage to reproduce in the hyper diverse rainforests of Costa Rica. This is not easy work by any means but Florian and his colleagues are finding out new and wonderful things about the natural world. This episode was produced in part by Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Indefense of Plants podcast, the official podcast of Indefenseauplants.com. What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How is everyone doing this week? Speaking of this week, we are diving back into the coffers to look at an old episode that I think didn't get the attention it deserved when it came out. There's a lot of new eyes and ears on the podcast these days and what better time than now to release it. Also, an interview I had this week fell through. So |
| 0:26.5 | this is what we're doing. Today we're going to revisit a really fun conversation I had with a botanist |
| 0:32.4 | named Florian Edel. We did this in the forests of Costa Rica. So you're going to get all of the |
| 0:37.2 | wonderful background noise that comes with that, but Florian's interest includes chemical ecology and |
| 0:42.7 | pollination, and he looks at that through some of the most familiar genera to most of you listening. |
| 0:48.0 | We're talking genera that contain a lot of our favorite houseplants, such as philodendron, |
| 0:52.6 | anetherium, diphthambacia, and spathophilum. |
| 0:55.6 | Florian's insights into this world are going to make you appreciate those plants even more |
| 0:59.7 | than you already do, but who better than him to tell you about it? So without further ado, |
| 1:04.1 | here's my conversation with Florian etl. I hope you enjoy. Aeroid garden, a racy garden. |
| 1:22.6 | I tried to get all species from the Gulf of Dulce region here from South Pacific |
| 1:28.3 | Costa Rica and plant them here near the trees when they are climber or here in |
| 1:33.8 | these parts here and then I can observe the flowers here yeah this one and go |
| 1:42.0 | around and it's like a sandwalk of Starvin. |
| 1:45.0 | I love it. |
| 1:46.0 | What you think you go here like this. |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.0 | It's inspiration. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.0 | It's neat a string. |
| 1:53.0 | People need that. |
| 1:54.0 | I think being outside helps generate questions, provides inspiration, observation. |
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