Perpetual Popularity (Colorado Blue Spruce)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What makes a tree popular? What keeps a tree popular? Ask the Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens), whose commercial popularity has lasted decades with no sign of slowing down. The “Norm” to plant nurseries’ Cheers, this spruce is a common character from corporate courtyards to suburban yards. Plus, we ask the question: will this tree’s popularity ever end?

Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson

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0:00.0	What's up, fungal associates. Welcome to completely arbitrary. The podcast about trees and other related topics. I am one of your hosts.
0:13.0	My name is Alex Croson, and as always, I am here with Mr. Casey Platt.
0:18.0	Good to see you, Alex.
0:20.0	Good to see you, Casey.
0:23.0	The pleasure is on mine.
0:24.0	Casey, if you were a Batman villain.
0:26.0	Okay.
0:27.0	Which are hilariously one note.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	What would you be?
0:34.0	Roots.
0:36.0	I would be a guy who goes roots out of his fingers.
0:41.0	Mr. Root.
0:42.0	Yeah, and then grows around your bed.
0:45.0	Oh.
0:46.0	Hold you down.
0:47.0	Spooky.
0:48.0	And then I walk in.
0:49.0	So you would attack Batman when he's at his most vulnerable, sleeping in his bed.
0:52.0	Exactly.
0:53.0	While he's upside down in his cave.
0:55.0	Yes.
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