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We had to get out of here. So had some stuff to do last week. So we have a lot of stuff to do this week. Do we do we got the convention convention next week? We're gonna get geared up for that.
And I think nine days.
Yeah, you gotta finish. You gotta get your wigs wigs already
in multiple wigs ready? And my website?
Gotta get the website up and go. Yeah, why don't you tell them about the
website? I'm gonna be making
stuff. You're gonna be like, cookies. Why not? Now, because then you'd have to like, deal with them and they'd be all broken. I think there's like, laws about selling food. You have to like, be careful with that.
Yeah, I gotta get an FDA or whatever.
I could sell a spice mix. I don't think you have to do the FDA. There
was a girl that started selling stuff without FDA, but we're not gonna
talk with was that the pink stuff? Yeah. Pink. Oh, no. Yeah, look into that. It's interesting. It's not,
it's not really,
it's not an appropriate appropriate. It's just not our thing.
Not our thing. We're not like gossipy. Except we basically will do a bunch of gossip. But go look it up on your own time. We're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about trees. Yes. So we didn't get paid by trees by the way. That was just a bit.
Yes. Trees. I mean, they used to, they used to make money. They used to make
money. People grow on trees at one point right now it's fair. It's plastic. Yeah, everything which is honestly better. All right, okay. Non truth anyways, trees are longest living organisms on Earth and never die of old age.
No, no, they die from getting cut down or disease. Those aren't really fun facts but talking about, we were talking about what we want to do this week. And we were like, oh, let's do trees. And we're like, I don't know if we'll find enough about tree. Oh my gosh, I found so much about trees. And then on daily dose of internet today, there was a tree, a tree fact. And we're like, Oh, we got to do it. We got to do this trees. There's a website relief paper. And this company makes
paper without cutting down trees they use which I love. Yeah, it's awesome. They use the dead leaves that just naturally fall. And it's better for for the trees. You know, it's just like the leaves already there. Why not use them for paper instead of a tree? You know? So it's pretty cool. I like it. Link will be in the show notes for that. So we're like that kind of just confirmed we need to do trees. So we started looking for facts for trees and oh my goodness. I found some tree facts.
I'm talking about redwoods later. Yeah, because right but they're really interesting. So
there's lots of types of trees. Oh, that's a lot. So I'm just just let let me do this. Let me do this. How many trees are there? There on this list? There's 50 types of trees. There is there is but some of them are bolt together. Yeah. And yeah, I mean you've got like Ash Trees aspen trees base wood Beech birch. All types of birch you got cherry trees get black cherry pick cherry get the chestnut yet Cottonwood, cucumber tree get American Elm slippery elm. balsam fir,
Hawthorne, Eastern hemlock. You got your pitch pine red pine, your eastern red cedar your SassaFrass yours? Shad busher red spruce. Your white spruce. Your Sycamore your tulip tree or scarlet oak. Your black oak, chestnut oak, your white oak, your Eastern White Pine. You got your your honey locust. You got your black locust just to hold on to trees. John jump jumped around a bit. Yeah, I could tell I was trying to read with you. She was following along. But then I jumped down. What are you
doing? I got a list of the 50 trees I was just reading off of I didn't read all of them. But
you're like when the packets at school. One of them you have like nine questions. And one of them goes in columns. And one of them goes in rows with the numbering. But like you have a passage to go along with it. And the questions are in chronological order. So you try and read with the questions, but they don't make sense because you're reading them wrong.
Yeah, cuz question three has something to do with question two. Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah.
You read question one and then question three.
Yeah, because it's just not right. That's yeah. So do you want to jump into your I? What were you said? You said you were gonna do the escalator. Oh, okay. So I'm, I got down a rabbit hole of the most dangerous trees. That girl doesn't look like she's dangerous. Yes, the website 8 billion trees.com.
Here's a woman on little illustration that looks very
dangerous trees and police tape around a tree and she looks like she's like running away and sheer terror, which I gotta say. Some of the trees that I'm about to talk about are pretty terrifying. And I'm not sure whatever you're doing, oh my God. It's not like air leaking out of a basketball or something. So some of the the trees that I found that are considered the most dangerous, some of them are just like if
you eat the leaves or anything, you're the most poisonous. So I'm not really going to go into those but some of them have really interesting things going on. Like the Manchin mentioned Neal tree, Florida. It's one of the most dangerous trees. It's a rare tropical plant that grows in the sandy soils of North northern South America and the Caribbean. It's ranked as the most dangerous tree in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. 11 Okay, so the Caribbean Caribbean thing.
Okay, wait. I'm waiting Pirates of the Caribbean. The Caribbean islands, two different things.
Royal Caribbean, Royal Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean Pirates of the Caribbean. It's
not Pirates of the Caribbean. That's a movie. Right? But alright, so the Caribbean,
this sentence is none of those things. So I had to kind of just go with what felt right.
Caribbean anywho and
they're apart. Basically, they have this milky sap that secretes from Every part of the tree, the bark, the leaves, the branches, the fruit, everything. And when it comes in contact with the human body, it can cause extreme pain blisters, it can eat away your skin. It can actually even kill you. That was like tree them. It's like yeah, it's like, in the old sci fi movies when you can name three venom. Yeah. I imagined the Venom symbiote like that from the Spider Man comics, like on a
tree? And would just, it couldn't attack anybody because it's just yeah. Or you know,
just that tree. It's just a picture of that tree.
Right. But yeah, so the, even if you burn the tree, the smoke produced when you burn it can cause blindness, skin irritation and other problems. So I'm just gonna say this. The Manson yield tree needs to calm down. Right. See? Throwback? No, no good. Was that right? Was that a dad joke? Yeah. All right. So
trees are able to communicate and defend themselves against attacking inside.
Yeah, I've heard that too. It wasn't there a movie about that? The happening? What? Mm hmm. Milan. M Night Shyamalan made a movie called The happening where all the plants fought back. Because they were all No kidding.
Yeah, maybe? Yeah. I watched a review on that. I didn't watch the movie. It's not a good. I know, the review. I saw what I needed to see. Isn't the review. I think I got a good
idea. Yeah, there's worst
look like a very great movie. But the they scientists have found that trees can flood their leaves with chemical called Fen Fen phenolics. With the pH when the insects begin their raid, they can also signal danger to other trees so they can start their own defense. willow trees, for example, emit certain certain chemicals when they're attacked by webworms. Other willows produce more tannin, making their lives harder for the past to digest. Ah, that's pretty cool. I need to start producing tannin
get on it. So in this defense, there is there's all this what the defense that the trees put up. Like you're talking about? Oh,
I could just say yes. Like
you were literally just talking about
really going off of what you've already said. No, what's
crazy, is that the defense of some of these is actually also how they spread their their seeds around. Like there's this one called the sandbox tree. And it's the entire trunk of the tree is covered in these spikes that are like an inch long, right. And then they have these large pods on them. Not the inch long spikes, but the tree also has this large pot. It's like the fruit of the tree and it's got all the seeds in it. Right? Once the seed or once the fruit
becomes ripe, it literally explodes. Firing it's cool firing the seeds at high speed. So it's a grenade tree. It's a grenade tree. It's called the sandbox tree. It's very interesting. My gosh.
I'm gonna Oh my gosh, I love I love my favorite tree.
It's it's a little crazy. I'd like it. I don't understand why I've never heard of this before. Then there's this isn't I don't know this isn't really a defense. It's almost like a defect but it also makes the tree dangerous. It's called the East Eastern cottonwood. It's a very large tree. They can grow up to 100 foot tall, but it's fragile.
So it's like a like a prince Bruford drop tail.
Oh, yeah, the glass. Yeah. But um, yeah, there's just these really tall trees that can get very easily knocked over. The seeds are also mildly toxic. So that's the thing. A lot of trees seeds are toxic. There's another one that milky mangrove. It draws grows on tropical coastlines, and it is also one that oozes a
sap Oh, I hate that word.
I hate both of those words, cause blisters and swelling and whatnot. Let's see what was the other really
interesting one? Let's see. i This one I didn't know that while cherry trees are not typically dangerous but depending on the conditions like storms and whatnot, if it causes wilting, it'll break down the glycosides found in the wild cherry leaves and release a toxic component it's called a prussic acid and it is fatal when consumed so don't go around just eating leaves if you have Chet wild cherry trees around you never know cat Castor beans don't castor oil is now is
usually used as like a medicine for medicinal purposes I believe to get get things moving if you're having an issue with with regularity yes
we're a kids show we're not
the yeah they used to they used to give castor oil and maybe they still do maybe they use it for other medicinal purposes but they have removed the toxins from castor bean trees grow Castor beans which are not it contains rice and which is deadly and highly toxic chemical but the castor oil has removed it so great. And the rest of them the rest of them on this list are all pretty much just like like poison oak. I think we all know what that does. You get it on your skin.
It makes you say hey, you streak out what
what? Yeah, y'all understood? Not totally heard me.
Oh, and then there's this other one was in the NAM Bian bottle tree. And it's shaped like a bottle. It's shaped like a bottle. Yes. And that's what holds the water for the tree. And it kind of it makes the water poisonous. You don't want to meet you want to drink any water around one of these trees because it may have leaked poison into the water and hole.
So I'm gonna talk about redwoods talk. Honestly kind of interested in. Yeah, it's
really neat. Go ahead.
redwoods. How big do you think everyone would get?
Like eight foot eight foot tall? A max? I mean, at least eight foot tall?
Well, maybe. But they usually reach more than 350 feet high.
Oh, that was read. Yeah, those records.
I think there are only are mostly found in California. But the endangered marbled murrelets lay their eggs upon the upper branches of the redwoods. And creatures like the wandering salamander can live their entire life in the Redwood canopy. So the redwood is kind of like split up into sections. So like if you imagine a redwood, most of it is okay. It's like it's split in half. The top half is leaves and the bottom half is like just the bark. And if you go from the top
down, there is 123456 sections. The Crown canopy, branches, trunk, bark, and roots.
Cool. Most trees
Yeah, most trees. Let's say Where was I redwoods can also can be so big and old that other trees and plants live on their branches and trunk. So they can be just like a like a little like a little stick. It's like a whole stuff to grow system. It's a whole that's why I'm calling it like the ultimate tree. redwoods leaves can both drink from fog and help make it rain. Which is neat. Redwood leaves clean air by pulling carbon, pulling in carbon and storing more of it than any
other tree. So they produce more oxygen than any other tree which makes them the elementary redwoods are resistant to rot and fire. So all but 5% of old growth were cut down for lumber. fire can burn I can't wait to just sit there fire resistant. Resistant doesn't mean Oh, that's true. fire can burn a cave like cave like hole in a living redwood, where owls and bats like to live. So it's like a little low key for him and the
tree shock. And the bark can be up to a foot thick. Yeah, just the bark.
They're massive. Have you seen the pictures of people standing on ones that they cut down? I know on ones that I've seen him standing next to these old timey pictures of out in California.
We just got like pine trees. Yeah, like oak trees
and eastern North Carolina.
In full of tannins, Oh I was just talking about tannins. Tannins are protected from bugs, rot and fire so it can live for 1000s of years. redwoods have survived for millions of years with some fossils dating back to the Jurassic age of dinosaurs. Oh wow. redwoods intertwine their roots with each other to stabilize one another and share nutrients. It was like a big it's like a big what to call. What to call it's like a
ecosystem. What are you talking about? Oh, just did
you mess me up networking?
No. tree roots.
It's just like one big tree. But it's got like,
Yeah, but they cut down like you said 95% of it. And but there's still some there's still some redwoods out in California. Yeah,
and they're being protected. There's
one driver.
Oh, yeah, there's really big a road through it. Redwood roots provide to help help provide clean water and habitat for the endangered co hosts out Salomon to lay their eggs Selma Selma. I say like it's spelled just to
you have made people miss Alma that dinner tonight. I
did. It was decent. Salmon needs to be seasoned very well. In a lot of places that cook salmon. Don't season it. Well, when they cook it. They it just tastes like fish. But when you get a good seasons, Salman Salman salmon,
the place we went tonight, back when they first opened, they seasoned it really well. They've slacked off since then.
I mean, it was it was better than like some of the salmon have had. Right. But it wasn't the best. Same I've had, you know, to
get lemon and squeezing on top. Now that adds that adds a lot.
I just go like little bit. There's even more facts on the site. This is sempervirens.org. No idea how to say that. Well,
but yeah, they got lots of really good pictures for the redwoods. redwoods are very, they're huge, interesting tree you can make you can make like a whole lot of stuff, how to cut one down. But yeah, they don't. They don't do that anymore. Those things are just too cool to look at. They're actually you know, they're making more money off the attraction. Yeah, you know, cutting down tourism from it,
which is good. They shouldn't kind of do, right.
So we're talking about, you're talking about the parts of the tree. You see. So on this site, on the nfw.com, which is the National Wildlife Federation, they list the parts of the tree known as the crown, which is the branches and leaves and whatnot, the trunk, which supports it, and it's thus the highway for the food that's made in leaves to travel. The Heartwood, which is when trees get older, the inner part becomes more stiff. It can't, it can no longer carry the sap of
another tree, and water and whatnot. So it gets like gets clogged up and becomes the support structure like the bones. And then there's the caveum or cabbie, I'm not sure it's a layer of cells or a zone of cells, one cell thick, inside the inner bark.
cambium cambium. Yeah, because they didn't see this. You didn't see the first time. That's fine. Oh, okay. Camp cambium cambium. Like having,
okay, my bad. It produces xylem and phloem cells. And
it sounds like a duo pop group,
right. And this, this is where the growth occurs like outwards, the diameter growth. And it's where the rings and the inner bark are formed. Basically, this carries this is the part that carries the water up to the leaves and then the leaves produce food and the food comes back down and feeds the roots and the trunk and all the all the rest of the tree. So it's actually a really neat, neat process of how the trees get get bigger and whatnot. And talking about that. There is a
tree oh, no, I don't want your newsletter. I couldn't find I didn't I didn't save the link. I found it but I couldn't say it didn't say the link there is a tree.
Whoa, what? I didn't know there's a trees. Oh, yeah.
Good. Nice. They were fake. It bleeds.
It looks like yeah, I looked it up earlier.
It looks like human blood. I forgot how like trees have SAP. Well this app is red in this tree. And the video URL. Yeah, the little video I watched a charmer put a link in the show notes. It They say that it's got medicinal purposes.
Yeah. So that's cool. It helps with pain. Okay,
well, there you go. So, but yeah, like the the people who cut into them the first time, like, Oh no, there's somebody in the tree. You know? What have I done? What am I done? But it was just a it was just the tree sap the tree. And then when I bring that up of course Leila with her mushroom obsession like oh my gosh, mushrooms does that to
mushrooms. They some of them have milk that if you cut into the gills, it'll like milk. Yeah, I don't know pretty much like SAP. And there is a fully white mushroom. By the way. If you find any white mushrooms in the forest that aren't like a puffball. Don't leave him alone. Leave him alone, but it's a white mushroom. And it's poisonous, obviously. And it has a blood red milk.
Yeah. I just want to clarify SHE SAID DON'T LEAVE don't. I know I said leave them alone. Know what I say? Yeah, you said Leave them alone. But you had to put it down in there. And then you said leave? Yes. Leave them alone.
Because the majority of white cap white guild mushrooms are very poisonous. Especially some local to here, which is scary.
It honestly if you don't know exactly what the mushroom is 100% Sure, just leave alone. Just look at it. Be like, oh, that's neat. Don't step on it because it can really spores to just just leave it just leave it alone. Let it be that the speaking of things that aren't trees on our tree episode. Bamboo, I fell backwards into bamboo fell down that rabbit holes will always fall
backwards into bamboo. I do. We don't live in a bamboo country.
Bamboo. Yeah, we gotta wait. I used to work at a place in Raleigh. That had a bamboo forest out front. Like a full on forest of bamboo. I've been proven wrong. So bamboo is not a tree. Yes, sure. Can it grass? But I call it a tree.
It is a tree to me.
It's a tree to me.
It's a tree to me.
Hey, there's this t shirt. Bamboo. It's a tricky one to be easy to convert. When you write that down. Comic Sans.
Everyone knows Comic Sans. So totally.
There's a whole bunch of different types of bamboo. The cool part is how strong it is. It has a tensile strength of 28,000 pounds per square inch.
That's not as strong as hexagons.
What if you had a hexagon made out of bamboo. That's like Nokia cell phone strength right there. No not. But to give you an idea of how strong that actually is. mild steel measures around 23,000 psi versus 20,000 of the bamboo. So it's strongest mild steel. You can eat bamboo and bamboo is made made into fiber for clothing. It can be used for concrete reinforcement, livestock feed, with its foliage being up to 22% protein can be machined into forms of lumber. You've seen bamboo like chopping
boards and stuff like that. Bamboo is very versatile and useful. But the interesting honest thing okay, just leave it leave it is the Grigoriadis flowering gregarious gregarious flowering is exactly what I said. Don't rewind it most woody bamboo species and this is coming from gwad owl bamboo.com. Okay, so most woody bamboo species are subject to gregarious flowering, which means that all the plants of a
particular species flower at the same time. Now you're like, Okay, so like, you know, you look out on the field all the corn flour and at the same time, well, this is different. Because it doesn't matter where on the planet what the climate is doing, what type of year it is. time of year, it is type of year, what type of year it is. We all know that some years are not the same as others. But no, across the entire planet. All of this certain species will flower at the same time. And it's just
they don't know why. And that's a really cool fact to me. Doesn't that kind of blow your mind. You can be winter and super snowy. But if this bamboo is alive, it's going to flower at the same time, as you know, middle of the summer on the other side of the planet. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. And they don't know why they don't know they're fake. The fake Aliens? Aliens. They're putting chemicals in the water.
Oh my gosh, I don't care that my computer can't be updated anymore. Okay, wait, what? My computer can be up to the Moorish not old.
What are you talking about? It can be updated.
Well, it can't be like serviced.
Oh, okay. It's the eighth. Okay. Yeah, that's hp. hp. Oh, wait. Wasn't a Windows Windows 10 still getting a bit anyway? Yeah, sorry, side tangent there. But they think that it's some sort of a bit genetic alarm clock, which means they don't know why it does this. So yeah, that's and then oh, then shortly, like a couple of years after it blooms, that whatever that species is dies. three to seven years later. So that's interesting. Very interesting.
I thought was asleep.
Oh, I should get an alarm clock. Genetic alarm clock speaking of clocks. Leila got a fancy watch.
You got a fancy watch.
They were on sale. Mom got it was Prime Day. Yeah, we got some little cheap money fitness watches.
If they don't doing that, but yeah, well, yeah. I'm making the rich richer.
dudes got to do that. Right. But yeah, she's been one we've been wanting to get some fitness watches to, to tell us we need to walk more and whatnot. So he was looking on
Amazon and he was like, Yo, come here.
Hey, these are cheap.
He called mom and first and she's like, Hey, come here. And I came. I was like,
but yeah, pretty excited
about it. You got his three days before we got ours. Yeah, and
it came in a different box, which I haven't seen happen that often. Like, it's the same product, same product. The SKU is like almost the size of the product number is the same except mine's black and there's or ivory white or whatever color it is. It's halfway halfway. And everything's the same. But mine came in a completely different box like mine was like this long flat box and there's was like a more like the watch was already in the wrist type shape inside of it. You know? I guess a
circle. Circles are fake. Circles are fake.
I hate circle XCOM hexagons.
So yeah, yeah, this is pretty exciting. We I got the cool pit boy watch face from Fallout games.
So I have a custom image of a tree with mushrooms on it.
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so I think you all done I had the majority of the stuff because I got interested in that that gregarious flowering things got me. So it's got me all messed up. Like trying to think of how that works. It's fake. I mean, it has to be some kind of genetic. I mean, it has to be genetic from the first ones. That we're of that species, right? Sure. Like, it's like, you know, 750 years from now, no matter where the seeds of this bamboo get transplanted. It's
That's it. That's the species like has a has a clock on it. Gotta be something like that. Anyway, it's neat. I thought it was neat. Even though there's not a tree. I consider bamboo trees is a tree to me. It's a tree to me. Oh, and I also included a link in the show notes to Matador network. And it's 21 spectacular and unique trees and forests around the world. And it's just some really cool pictures of trees from around the world tree tree like the Wisteria tunnel in Japan.
That's a cool tree, the rainbow eucalyptus tree they're they're really cool, but they're visually me describing them. doesn't really do much for the for the thing, but check out check out the matador network link for the cool trees. Anyone cool forests.
We have this here. Oh, for native to South Carolina. It's probably why
Angel oak. Those are I've seen those Nicole's climbing trees.
Yeah, the branches fall down onto the ground and they sprout and they sprout roots from the branches and then they eventually break off in the tree so they make more trees.
sequoias set choirs that's where the Giant Sequoias in California. That's what I was thinking about.
Not the redwoods.
I don't know is a Sequoia type of redwood.
Now
Yeah, I think I think so. Looks like it's really pretty big. Oh, look at the northern Island Anyway, check out the site. It's got some really cool pictures. Tight. Just neat, neat stuff. Neat. Good stuff for you're up to be a wallpaper on your. I know there's the Redwoods in California number a number 11. So this equation, the redwoods are different. That's something I just learned. All right, everybody have a fantastic weekend, week, day, month, year, whatever, whatever
you got going on. And we'll see you next week. And have a good one.
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