Ep. 411 - Chollas & Biodiversity Revisited

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In Defense of Plants

Botany, Natural Sciences, Ecology, Nature, Plants, Science

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🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When Dr. Jon Rebman decided to take on the diversity of cholla cacti, little did he know what he was getting into. Luckily, this work led him down a road stoked by a deep passion for understanding the biodiversity of not only cacti, but the entire flora of southern California and the Baja Peninsula. Dr. Rebman believes in maintaining a classical botanist’s approach to his work and as you will hear in our conversation, this has been quite fruitful. Thanks to Dr. Rebman and his colleagues, we have a deeper understanding of the flora of this region but there is still plenty of more work to be done. Join us as we revisit a fascinating discussion of botanical discovery. This episode was produced in part by Dorothy, Katherine, Emily, Theo, Nichole, Paul, Karen, Randi, Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, 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 Indefensive Plants podcast, the official podcast of
0:04.1	Indefensiveplants.com. What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How is
0:07.9	everyone doing this week? Today, we are going back into the history of this podcast, and we're
0:13.8	digging up an episode from 2019 featuring Dr. John Redmond. Dr. Redmond is the curator of botany
0:20.7	at the San Diego Natural History Museum,
0:22.8	and he has a particular interest in the prickly pear cacti. But from that vantage point,
0:28.8	he has expanded into trying to understand the biodiverse flora of Southern California and the Baja
0:33.8	Peninsula, and he brings a lot of great botanical skills to trying to understand
0:37.6	an underappreciated flora. Before I get to that, with the changing of the seasons comes changing
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0:55.4	the website, click on apparel, and pick out all of the wonderful colors, designs, and styles that
1:00.2	work best for you. But that's all I have to say about that. On with the show. Without further
1:04.6	ado, here's my conversation with Dr. John Redman. I hope you enjoy. Dr. John Redmond, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.
1:24.9	How about you tell everyone a little bit about who you are and what it is you do? Well, I am the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum,
1:34.4	and I specialize in the flora of San Diego and Imperial counties of California, but especially
1:41.1	all of Baja, California. Wow. That's a lot of plants to be in charge of, or at least trying to understand.
1:48.0	Were you always a botany-minded person, or is this something you kind of came to a little bit later in your education or career?
1:55.0	I started off actually, I'm from a very rural part of West Central Illinois, and I started off as a pre-vets major and was going that route until farm aid hit in the Midwest.
2:09.6	You know, the farms were going under, the mom and pop farms, and I wanted to be a country vet, and that didn't look, it was going to be continuing. And I just had some really good botany professors during my undergrad, which was at Milliken University.
2:23.3	And they said, you need to graduate school.
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