The Loneliest Tree (Sahara Cypress)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

One of the world’s lonliest and most critically endangered trees, the Sahara cypress (Cupressus dupreziana) stands nearly alone in the dead center of the mindblowingly vast Sahara desert in northern Africa. With only a handful of these trees left, we ask the question… what in the world is going on with these curious reproducers.

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

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
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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
0:12.5	My name is Alex Frozen and there's always I'm here with mr. Casey clap as a good day to you Alex a good day Casey a very hot day here in Portland
0:22.3	Oh, yeah, I'm probably everyone in the Southwest is like tell me about it as well. Yeah, we're hitting 105 today
0:28.5	That's what they I heard yesterday was 105. Okay. Yeah, today's 101. Oh, okay. Yeah, so either way. It's just hot as hell
0:35.1	Yep, and we aren't gonna take it anymore as they say you know what also I noticed it's just there's so much like
0:42.1	Haze in the air. Yeah, it's just so bad like I drove out of where I was because I'm living much further away
0:49.3	Normally I read my bike here as most people know
0:52.5	But I have to pick up a bunch of stuff and do a bunch of things so fortunately I had to drive and
0:58.5	God, I was just filled with haze out there and every time that happens like yeah
1:02.3	I feel it's nice to be in the air conditioning, but I'm also like air conditioning is causing this problem. Oh
1:07.8	Yeah, I don't know it's it's the it's the tool we have unfortunately
1:11.9	It's the tool we have and honestly, it's not air conditioning. That is just I don't even want to remotely say that
1:18.1	It's energy just like anything else, but yeah, there's a lot of other stuff that probably
1:22.9	Way more exacerbating the problem than just people using air conditioning
1:26.4	I mean, it's it's air conditioning or death at this point
1:29.1	It's really easy. Yeah, yeah, so in that is more true than most people probably wish to admit. Yeah, it's like I meant it literally
1:36.8	Yeah, right Kasey anyway, woof. We can talk about that some other time. We sure can everything is cool. It's great
1:46.5	Kasey I wanted to say
1:49.5	To give our fungal associate it's a little update on
1:53.2	Some t-shirts that they may have pre-ordered last month. Is that like t-shirt you're wearing right? Oh my god
1:58.8	I literally did not even realize that I was wearing this t-shirt. No, man
2:02.3	I noticed and I was just like hell yeah, but here it is on my body
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