76 - Trees
SciShow Tangents
English - April 21, 2020 16:00 - 28.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsSocial Sciences Science Education schultz comedy sam schultz education ceri riley science hank green stefan chin scishow tangents Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's both Earth Day and Arbor Day this week! Ok, nature, we get it! We should appreciate you more!
Hope you're all well! Enjoy!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Dragon’s Blood Tree
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/socotra-yemen-biodiversity-photography/
https://owlcation.com/stem/The-Dragon-Blood-Tree-of-Socotra-Island-Dracaena-cinnabari
Dynamite Tree
https://asknature.org/strategy/evaporation-releases-seeds/
West Tall Coconut
http://www.agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/coconut/coconut/coconut_varieties.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coconuts-kill-more-sharks/
[Fact Off]
Vampire stump
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30146-4
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/cp-ats071819.php
https://www.livescience.com/66025-kauri-tree-superorganism-root-grafting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/science/tree-stump-alive.html
Ghost redwoods
https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/11/28/albino-redwoods-hold-scientific-mystery/
https://sempervirens.org/discover-redwoods/ghost-redwoods-solving-the-albino-redwoods-mystery/
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Redwood2016/files/250645.pdf
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Redwood2016/files/243400.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Tree definition
https://www.americanforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AF-Tree-Measuring-Guidelines_LR.pdf
Willows
https://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadleaf_genera/willow.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/worlds-smallest-tree-species-1343503
Bonsai / Pygmy Forests
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/426/426-601/426-601_pdf.pdf
Other trees
https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C944&title=Crape%20Myrtle%20Culture
http://www.pnwplants.wsu.edu/PlantDisplay.aspx?PlantID=169
[Butt One More Thing]
Butt rot
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2007/7-11/root_butt_rot.html
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5347109.pdf
This Arbor Day, give your favorite tree the gift they really want: this tree-themed episode of SciShow Tangents. Just put the headphones around its trunk or in a knothole!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out SciShowTangents.org!