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Hi Benji. I’m a kidney specialist at the veterans hospital in Phoenix. The Latin word for kidney is “ Rene” hence the shape of the leaves of that one plant “ Reniform” means Kidney Shaped! Just FYI. ❤️
very simple vidoe topic that i wish more poeple would pick up on tbh! no need for hype or anytthing just sharing ones favourites is so interesting imo :3 hope everyones doing well, wishing you all the best!
One of the plants that I personally really like is literally ANY kind of Philodendron. I just love the varieties in the size, color and leaf shapes
Your enthusiasm shines through the whole video!! Thank you for finding and creating references so we could understand how cool these plants are in depth.
I think that the spiraling has a mathematical origin, namely its the most compact packing of the leaves. Why the plant wants to grow as compactly as possible is a different question tho.
Way to go Benji, identifying the issue with zebra mussels. Very nice, gentle reminder to be aware and practice environmental safety.
I have Azolla in my aquarium and had no idea about the symbiotic cyanobacteria!! Thanks for the fun facts and diagrams!
Plant collector in Hawaii here. Love all your videos, you, and Chris. Thanks Benji. PS My partner is also a great Vietnamese guy :-)
The last comment you made about the club with thorns on it was such a beautiful fantasy. Loved it!
Utricularia Gibba is a wild plant in our ponds and marshes here in Kerala, India.
We grew up eating Miners Lettuce. It grows wild in the shaded areas of our pastures at my parent’s ranch in the SF Bay Area. It is good… I wouldn’t say it’s that crunchy. It’s more of a Butter Lettuce crunch.
I could listen to you all the day long, your voice is so soothing to me!
These types of videos where people share things they like are some of my favorite videos to watch! And this video is extra interesting because of a book I'm currently reading called Annihilation. Where you follow a biologists expedition in a very strange environment, highly recco…
There's plenty of Ceiba Speciosa where i live and i loved them since i was a kid (I'm from Argentina) they call them Palo Borracho here, they are funky, beautiful, fat and the flowers smell great, everyone i know thinks they're really ugly haha, I'm glad someone like you apprecia…
Great to see a new video Benji!!!🎉🎉🎉
To add to the azolla, it's actually used as chicken feed here in the Philippines and I think in other asian countries.
Agree, that Azolla fern is really cool. We have some growing at school.
Mosaic Ludwigia is probably one of the coolest water plants
Love how you include aquatic plants
The first plant is so awesome, kind of cartoonish looking or something you could find at super Mario world ! Sad that we can’t buy/grow it :(
When I clean my Marimo Ball enclosures I am usually left with enough algae to form little tiny ones. You can have an endless Marimo Ball glitch!
Palo borrac*** another coronación de gloria!! 🇦🇷
ENPalo borrac*** another crowning glory!! 🇦🇷
You might already know this but when you mention cactus thorns around 3:10... Cactus thorns are actually not thorns either. They are highly modified leaves so a completely different structure to rose thorns.
I live in the uk and grow the spiral aloe (aloe polyphylla) in my garden, as long as they have sandy, free draining soil they can take -15°C ( 5°F), frost and light snow
While yardstick (Azorella compacta) is very slow and now endangered, the closely related Azorella trifurcata is very similar, much faster, and available at many retail nurseries
Cool that you mentioned miner's lettuce. I grew up in the Bay Area, where it grows natively in the hills. I remember as a kid being taken on a field trip in the Santa Cruz Mountains and coming across miner's lettuce and being told you cold eat it. I found that fascinating and I u…
Hey Benji! It's sweet that you mention how you asked Chris if he'd find this type of info interesting! Tbh when I saw the title of your new video I wasn't sure I was gonna like it that much, but I watch all your videos anyway <3 but damn my assumption was wrong!!! I loved that yo…
Thank you for introducing these fascinating varieties of plants and sharing their backstory. Your love for plants in general comes through with your enthusiasm.
Llareta know this is gonna be great video!! 😅🌱🪴💪
This video title is so cute
OMG! Benji!!! I have llareta around my home hehe, My favorite is one is the one that looks like it's eating a giant rock that an old family used to live in about 20 years ago. You can transfer it form one place to another but they become sensitive for the first few years. I love …
the first plant inspired me to design an alien plant for my worldbuilding project. Its called a Starchwood and the sapling of the plant acts like a giant rock-hard potato thing.
I love begonia rex and essentially any plant that looks like it came from the era of the dinosaurs lol
Hi Benji, I noticed your energy seems a lot lighter since Vietnam. It's really heartwarming to see this gentle side that felt lost to the fire. I dont know you personally, but this recent content is almost nostalgic to a time I thought was overgrown in some sort. Love your conten…
The zebra mussel thing isn't a big deal as long as everyone is aware of it. Your aquarium is isolated from the waterways so basic hygiene procedures should be sufficient, and if you see the mussels you can then take steps to kill them off within the aquarium without harming the m…
I really love this kind of planty-content🌿 Y’know you get to learn about some amazing and pretty cool plants - but focused on the admiration of the plant and not so much ‘uhh look at all these plants I’ve bought’
I have never like hoya or begonia. They take up most of my collection now. My son decided begonia were his favorite which now has become my entire personality haha (clearly) but hoya kinda juat started bc my friend sent me some in a freebie. I genuinely fell in love
Thank you! You´ve inspired me to get new plants in a wide variety. I buy them as cheap mini plants and enjoy seeing them grow big. Many greetings from Sweden ☺
For me its the hawaiian silversword plant look it up its amazing
I love learning through you🫶