What's up fungal associates welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about trees and other related topics. I am one of your hosts. My name is Alex

Grossen. Hello, I'm Casey Klapp. Also a host here today. I know you're expecting someone else. There's generally cases here. I'm going to fill in today. You're Casey too. I'm Casey too. I'm robot Casey. Have you ever seen the movie

multiplicity I think it's gone. I have not with that guy. Beeljuice. I know who you talk me. He's the famous guy who's in the drum the drum one. Michael Keaton. Michael Keaton. The famous. Yeah, he seems like I don't know if he's been canceled, but he's a great actor. I don't think he has been

Yeah, multiplicity. Yeah, okay. He gets kind of drafted for the scientific program that clones you. Yeah, because he is like a

typical 90s TV dad. Yeah, he hates his wife. And he just wants some time alone. I see. So he clones himself, but he's very busy at work to Casey. So you're going to need two clones. Yeah, I see. He ends up with like four or five and they all have different sort of defects because it's like inbreeding. Hey, yeah, I know exactly what you mean. You know

speaking of being canceled. There's a show. You know, the Mike or Morty, Jim and Morty Frank Frank Morty, Rick and Morty, Richard and Morty. They the guy who invented that show. I think he does the voice of the titular Morty. Yeah, that's just in

Justin Royland. Justin Royland made a show way back when yes, called the Cosby. Yes, House of Cosby. I've seen this. Yeah, they had the same thing where he would he would clone a

Cosby, but come out with some different weird attribute. And then every 10th Cosby, he cloned. It was a super Cosby. It was like data analysis. Cosby's the first one. It was like, we must solve the world. They made like five episodes and then the last one, they had a season

to assist from the Cosby's. Wow. And then they just made like a really scribbly thing to like close out the story and be like, fuck that Cosby. That's so funny. It was hilarious. I think that was a late college, late college thing. That was definitely canceled in every

regard except for Justin. He was canceled. He did a good job. Yeah, he went on to do a very popular things with Dan Harmon, the creator of community. Yeah, they co-created

Rick and Morty. Good for them, honestly. I love his voice. I think his voice is really funny. Yeah. Anyway, Casey speaking of co-creating. Let's co-create an episode of completely arbitrary right about now. This week, as we do every week, we're talking about a tree. And this tree is pretty special. It is. This is a fun one. It's this is the and this is the and Indian paper tree. Yes, Casey. Let's imagine that you and I. All right. All right. We have our oxygen masks. Yeah. And we are high.

Making the hills of the andies. The mountains of the andies. I call them mega hills. Yeah, it's a good term. And we come across some and Indian paper trees. We feel very blessed and grateful because they're so rare and high up. Yeah, yeah. And Casey. Let's ID this tree. All right, Alex. This is what we're going to do is cover a we're going to cover a species. But there's about 20 different species. And they're all in the genus poly lepus.

And this is poly lepus race a mosa is the one we're going to do race a mosa. Yes. Now race a mosa means that it's flowers are in a race seem.

Generally speaking, that's what that's referring to. Okay. I race seem being a kind of long central stem with flowers coming off of it, kind of alternating or rotating around. Oh, yeah. This is similar, maybe to a catkin, but different. Yeah, exactly.

The catkins, they're really tightly packed and very, very small. And usually the flowers are so reduced where they just are kind of like the bare minimum, you know, it's like they have that one part that does that one thing. Everything else is forgotten.

A race seem the flowers would still be almost full big flowers with sequels and pedals and I see all the different parts inside. And this is a hermaphroditic flower. So it has both parts inside of it. So essentially a perfect flower, like a magnolia, precisely.

Casey, I have a bit of an on topic slash off topic question. All right. Let's start with the off topic portion. Here we go. So flowers. Yeah, that grow on trees. Uh-huh.

Can you breed like a garden flower out of a flower that grows on a tree? Like if I were to take a Jacaranda. Yeah.

Flower. Uh-huh. And like, can I propagate that in my garden and make like a Jacaranda shrub? Ah, not not really. You would be it would you could you could take it and you could

market into a another thing you could grow it crafted onto something or just sticking in like root hormone and then have it grow new roots. Yeah, that would work, but it would just become a new tree.

Okay. It would you could keep it as a shrub, but you could also there are sometimes you can get species varieties that you can that are very small for whatever reason or their door for they just don't get very big for everything. So you could you could do that.

And you could breed it into this, you know, find the genes and like just select for the ones that are really small. But it sounds like what you're talking about is like almost evolved from a tree to a shrub or an herb of some sort. Yeah, like a rose bush, but like imagine if roses naturally grew on the rose.

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