Little Kid (Balsa)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The lightest wood there is, the balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) is one excited little kid. It grows fast, has ice cream cone flowers, and you can even carry it around on your shoulders! But what gives this tree the ability to grow in such a famous way?

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0:00.0	What's up? Fungal Associates, welcome. This is completely arbitrary. The podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croason. And of course, over on the big green couch, we got Mr. Casey Clap.
0:20.8	Hi, everyone. I'm really happy to be here Alex thanks for having me
0:23.9	thanks so much for joining us in the studio today Casey this is really a beautiful space I really just
0:29.0	am really comfortable here oh well thank you yeah I genuinely take that that compliment and I
0:34.3	thank you you're welcome now our first subject today is the balsa tree.
0:39.3	Oh, wow.
0:40.9	Man, what a lame show.
0:42.4	That's what we did all the time.
0:44.4	We've heard that show before.
0:46.1	Yeah, it's called MPR.
0:48.9	We gotta bleep that out.
0:50.1	That's too salacious.
0:52.2	I know.
0:53.2	I love MPR, you guys.
0:54.6	Buy our podcast.
0:56.1	Please buy.
0:57.1	Please save our ship.
1:00.1	Hi, Case.
1:01.2	Hey, Alex.
1:02.0	How you doing?
1:02.9	I'm doing okay.
1:03.8	Excellent.
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