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Jos Vanden Abeele and Tanya Quintieri are here to spill the plant communi-tea!This is a show for houseplant lovers, collectors, breeders, and hobbyists who want the gossip, the drama, the science, and the real talk about the changing plant community.
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S02E21: Miami Vice(s) — Our First IAS Tropical Plant Expo, Aroid Royalty, Doc Block, Silver Krome & Fairchild Botanical Garden (opens the original)
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Tanya and Jos are home from Miami, cold, jet-lagged, and still on speaking terms. This week they spill the tea on their first-ever IAS Tropical Plant Expo. In the news: Hold My Bud: oaks that got eaten by caterpillars one year open their buds about three days later the next. That's enough to starve the hatchlings, and enough to cancel out a decade of climate-driven early spring. Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution . Pilea does math: the vein loops on a Pilea peperomioides leaf form a near-pe
S02E20: Interview with Marco Cedeño-Fonseca, Fake Adansonii, Plastic Monsteras, and Tom Croat's Garden (opens the original)
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Episode 20 and we finally have an aroid taxonomist in the room. Marco Cedeño Fonseca is a Costa Rican botanist who did his master's on Monstera at the University of Costa Rica and just finished his PhD at the Berlin Botanical Garden — as in, he got the title the day before we recorded and told us at the very end. News : the Thomas B. Croat Aroid Garden was inaugurated in Tabasco, Mexico. A 5-meter plant gets a strong opinion out of Marco about plastic plants in Costa Rica. And a new Typhonium wa
S02E19: Red Light Special (For Your Plants) (opens the original)
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Your plant isn't being dramatic when it stretches for the window — it's reading the light. This week Tanya and Jos get into a red-shade-cloth vanilla farm in Hawaii, the real science of phytochrome and shade avoidance, and why cannabis growers manipulate far-red light on purpose. Plus: an AI plant-photo fraud scandal shakes the collector community, a Hawaiian botanist free-solos volcanic cliffs to save endangered plants by hand, two Australian orchids get pulled back from the brink, and Tanya dr
S02E18: Coopetition Over Competition with Veronica Moore of Plants Are Therapy (opens the original)
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Tanya's back from Corsica (barely rested, extremely tanned in spirit) and Jos has news about the UK's Plant Heritage — a royal-patronage plant conservation charity with over 600 protected collections, four of which now belong to King Charles III himself. It kicks off a real conversation about colonial extraction in the plant world, plus an update on the Monstera Stan bracket tournament (RIP to your wallet, congrats to Mexican Mint) and a citizen science detour into bird counts and Cape Cod sunfi
S02E17: Turkish Ice Cream Is Made From Orchids?! Also, We Look at Smuggled Catci & Chernobyl (opens the original)
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Hosts this episode: Jos Vanden Abeele & Kaylee Ellen (Tanya Quintieri is off the grid in Corsica this week — back next episode.) No guest interview this time, so Jos and Kaylee fill the runtime with a stacked news round and two full plant-rating segments. Tanya's off soaking up Corsica, so it's just Jos and Kaylee this week — and they've brought a full plate of plant news. Top of the list: the strange, orchid-based science behind stretchy Turkish ice cream, and why making it is quietly devastati
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