@roboticools
Fun fact with Vitis mustangensis is that in the 1800’s French vineyards were getting destroyed by blight (fungus or insects I forget). They searched for resilient rootstock across the Americas and V. mustangensis ended up being the most resistant and able to graft with the cultivated wine grape varieties. So almost all European wines to this day share rootstock from the humble TX mustang grape!
@johnc6228
People speeding by have no idea how many interesting, beautiful, and ecologically important plants are on that little rocky patch. Maybe even less idea of how many were destroyed.
@vitaeve
Relating to breeding native grapes in Texas, there's a vineyard up north in Denison containing grape varieties bred by some guy named TV Munson. He ended up getting some fancy medal from the government of France for his work on root stocks, but a lot of his focus was on trying to breed native wine grapes. Unfortunately his descendants seem pretty lame, but fortunately it's the local community college instead that seem to be managing most of the surviving collection.
@killsalot78
watching peewees big adventure 3 times a year explains everything, lol, love ya man
@christys5857
Listening to your horticultural terminology is like music to my ears. I really love your content, especially in Texas. Thank you!
@gardengatesopen
Thanks for all the official ID of all the plants in my yard! (Central Tx Hill Country) The Tinantia anomala - This is one of my absolute favorite wildflowers! I look forward to it every year! And luckily, it reseeds like crazy. I let it grow all over my yard, both sun and shade. It's a fantastic full shade plant. One of the common names is Widow's Tears. Which seems like a weird name to me, I don't see anything tearful about it. And it's a dumb common name especially since there's something like 5 or more other things with the same name. Such is the problem with common names. So I made up my own name for it. The Muppet Gang flower. The thing about this flower is I think they all look like a grouchy, old man's face to me! All those muppet whiskers! The nice kind of grouchy old grandpa type face is what I mean... And these flowers all stand up nice and tall, all close together, all facing the sun, making them look like a crowd of muppets to greet me every day when I go outside! They're my own personal Muppet Gang! And the periwinkle blue color of the petals is my absolute favorite color! Interesting thing - I have a patch of soil that I received (long story I'll leave out) which was full of some kind of poison. (I'm not paying to have it tested.) After 2 years of nothing growing in it, THIS plant is the only thing that will grow in that soil! So I've been using it to help pull out those toxins. Meanwhile, I get to be greeted by their cute Muppet faces every day! I also noticed in other good garden soil, the periwinkle petals have a darker purple streak right up the middle of it. Really, really, nice. Great plant!!
@brianreardon1795
So funny for me watch this video, as a San Antonio resident who lives literally less than 1.5 miles from this spot but who was raised by two Chicagoans from the south-side.
@TexaSurvival
Starts with belting out Charlie Pride (though my favorite version is by The Texas Tornadoes) but then rattles off with a very un-Texas accent. God I love this guy! SUBSCRIBED!
@cenizothefox
Really appreciate you coming to San Antonio. Trying to make a difference in my southside yard and always find inspiration to grab pods and seeds I find around town.
@Murdant
I've been hoping for a new Urban Botany video. Those have always been some of my favorites.
@WastrelWay
Those native grapes have decent fruit, when they make them. I found some hanging down in Austin at Zilker Park in Austin, in an isolated area near the river, and ate a lot of them. You have to get them when they are perfectly ripe. They don't always make fruit. I was very lucky that day. Regarding "Texas Mountain Laurel" I decided I needed a showy flowering plant for the front corner of the house and went to Mt. Bonnell and pulled a baby one out of the ground. It grew into a beautiful tree-bush. The purple flowers with their strong aroma are perhaps unique.
@robmcelwee389
Explored a habit that was preserved because it was a washing out ravine here in Louisiana yesterday. Had a population or Silene virginica there growing on the slopes. . Also close by was an excellent calcareous woodland remnant.
@grannyplants1764
Mistletoe is such a cool parasite, I thought it only grew in more northern climates…what always amazes me is no matter where, even areas that initially look so uninteresting turn out to be loaded with planty goodies if we just take time to really look. Really nice flower close ups, esp that Commelina - very fancy compared to the plain but pretty blue one scattered around the property here ( east central NJ) 🤗🌿
@realdragon
Government need to start neglecting more things
@appalachiafungorum
There's no basement in the Alamo, but there's still some crumbs of native habitat.
@macrosense
The automobile exhaust chemicals seeping into freeway curbs may have a new selective pressure on speciation.
@saysheate197
I walk my dogs at that spot nearly every day. Grew up going to concerts there. Thanks for explaining my environment to me. Great episode! Great channel!
@ManifestoConfrm
David Attenborough couldn't narrate the highway adjacent biology as well as Joey Santoro. Volume matters.
@RobertLouisMoore
The city of san antonio is destroying our public parks. There are multiple lawsuits. They routinely violate international bird migration treaty with permission of the usda, which is the entity that should be punishing people for that type of thing
@Heavilymoderated