I love that Japan has so much untouched natural beauty. The trees form an almost alien landscape. Thanks for sharing.

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Many places in Japan do indeed have lots of diversity left, and Amami Oshima is special in this regard. As for untouched, well, not quite! These trees are "from another time" and they certainly give that impression in such large groups. Thanks for watching.

Oh I am so envious!So so beautiful!

Fascinating landscape! Just an amazing landscape taken in high digital capture. Looks great full screen 🙂 It takes me away even if it's just for a few minutes to watch your great videos. So glad to see others enjoying nature as much as I do.

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Funny, I've never seen one of my videos on a TV screen. The video quality is compressed a bunch on YT, so quality is just so-so. There are too many places I'd love to see in the world - the vast bulk being natural environments. Glad you enjoyed the vid!

@ResQuetzal

6 жыл бұрын

botanyboy1 I'm actually watching it full screen on my tablet. Looks good...colors are vibrant.

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Great! I really am happy you are getting a good image.

Just bought one to add to my 3 other cycads indigenous to my country.

wow!!! so many cycads! love it, love it, love it! awesome video!!!

Amazing video, it was very lovely to learn about history while focusing on just the beauty of the flowers.

great video! love your style of explanation. thanks for sharing :)

Amazing video thanks for sharing

Thanks for this fascinating video, and what a wonderful site to behold. I would love to visit this beautiful area one day. regards from a cycafan in Spain

Truly amazing. Thank you.

Great video.

Amazing! O.O I just got my first Sagos very recently (11 male pups locally, and also 10 seedlings from eBay)... I am very attracted to them for their super deep green foliage and most of all, their slow/smaller growth (compared to real palm trees anyways). I could never maintain a 30-50'+ palm tree, but I def can a short Sago :)

Forex of sagp palm !!!!!❤❤❤

Wow, looks wonderful there.

Awesome, thanks for sharing

wow it's beautiful. Thank you ♥

Great video! I had seen these cycads in a local garden store and wanted to see what they looked like in their natural habitat so I Googled "cycas revoluta native habitat" and got a load of useless garden and ugly modern landscaping pics, but nestled among them were pictures from your blog and this video. Perfect!

Great video！Thanks for sharing~

amazing!

Maginificent. ^_^ Really hope to visit that place someday, as the place looks absolutely beautiful with so many things to discover yourself. ;) Great narration and awesome video

Love cycas forest

Great video. Love Cycas revoluta

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Joe, how's your garden growing these days? Still got that large Dicksonia? Have you tried C. revoluta? Full sun a must that far north I'd guess!

@BananaJSSI

6 жыл бұрын

Everything here is thriving. Dicksonia has 6'ft of trunk on it now and we do have two species of Cycad in our garden, Cheers

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Great to hear. OK, you got me interested, so which do you have, C. revoluta and...

@BananaJSSI

6 жыл бұрын

We grow Cycas revoluta and this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycas_panzhihuaensis

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

C. panzhihuaensis is a great species! Has it been reliably cold hardy or do you have to protect it sometimes? I've heard of many growers in the UK who have written this species off, while many are successful with C. revoluta there. It grows quite well here in southern Japan, with our relatively mild winters and hot, hot summers. A lovely species IMO, not just another "sago palm" look alike.

Awesome video, thanks for sharing :)

Hello. I love this plant. Just be careful not to inhale the toxic polen that the male cones produce and let the wind carry in the air.

I love Japan is one of my favorite countries but a fun fact about the sago palm do you know that it's also indigenous to Mexico but it's very rare in Mexico

@botanyboy1

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed Mexico has some lovely cycads. I grow several, for example Dioon edule and spinulosum, as well as Ceratozamia hildae and robusta. I really want to get back to Mexico to botanize again one day. It is an amazing country all around!

@godzillapowerpufffan8142

3 жыл бұрын

botanyboy1 I agree and I've been to Mexico and I saw sago palms there which was really cool!

Very interesting video!

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks David. As you live in Japan, I highly recommend visiting Amami Oshima if you want to experience the Japan of yesteryear - rural and natural settings blending together seamlessly. And something almost unheard of in this country, beautiful LONG wild beaches with no seawalls, etc. Just pure nature. The diving in summer must be awesome too.

We just got back from Amakusa Islands (Kumamoto Pref) where we saw sotetsu in the garden around the rotemburo at the hotel and at Gion Jinja in Amakusa town. I think the one at the jinja was female with a cone developing. The cone was yellow and about 20 to 30 centimeters in diameter.

@botanyboy1

5 жыл бұрын

It certainly sounds like a female cone. The seeds typically mature in the winter months. BTW I like your handle.

Fantastic area, and quite good narrative. I assume the other comment was referring to mangrove , as I saw nothing about mangoes in the video

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. I'll have another vid up soon about the interior rainforest - think tree ferns and orchids.

I didn't know that plants have gender! Amazing to know!

@botanyboy1

5 жыл бұрын

Haha! Actually, the separation of the sexes in plants is quite common. Many are hermaphroditic and some can switch sexes. Still others are self pollinating, and others can simply make clones of themselves. Mammals are a bore by comparison!

@vvadoicurbalvvadoicurbal8517

5 жыл бұрын

@@botanyboy1 Really?

@botanyboy1

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, no kidding, plants are crazy when it comes to sexuality. BTW, there are some fish that are capable of switching sex too if the male/female ratio gets too skewed - honestly!

Thanks for a great video, it was very interesting to watch, and really made me want to visit Amami. (How did you get there from Fukuoka?) Also, I love the Sago palm, but find it extremely difficult to keep alive "in captivity". :-) Cheers, Thomas

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas, Amami is best reached by plane, though you can take a boat from Kagoshima as well. The only problem is getting around - you really need a car or a good bicycle. It is all very rural. I have several sago palms, but all in pots. They tend to get too large if grown in the ground. Just pot them in normal garden soil, preferably in a fairly large clay pot and you can grow them semi-bonsai style that way. Thanks for watching!

I have a small one. I rescued it. It had two living leaves. 3 grew and immediately my dog killed them. So for the last 7 months or so it’s only had two leaves. Until about 3 weeks ago it’s sprouting 4 or 5. I’m pretty happy. I didn’t know anything about them. But now I’ve kinda learned some things. I finally know what kind of plant it is. And it’s fascinating. Thanks for your video pretty cool.

@botanyboy1

3 жыл бұрын

They are actually really tough plants. Be careful with your dog - all parts of the plant are very toxic so if he chews them he could get very sick. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

amaze iam speechless wow ;)

It’s fascinating that they are endemic to this restricted area. I would hazard to guess that they were able to persist by the protection provided by these isolated islands against climate and environmental changes that occurred on the mainland. (?) Thanks for sharing the wonder of those huge stands. ~ The info. on the mango tree was quite interesting too. Another example of nature / flora filling a niche with life.

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting idea. There are other species throughout southern Asia, the Indies and Australia on both islands and mainland areas, so it is hard to know exactly why plants are distributed the way they are. Also, these islands have been connected one way or another with mainland areas in the distant past. Given this species is so adaptable, being grown across the world, it is remarkable they don't have a more broad geographic range. Then again, virtually no cycad species does.

@Nhoj31neirbo47

6 жыл бұрын

botanyboy1 - Yes plant distribution/ phytogeography, is a complicated subject that interest me. Knowledge in this area will become increasingly important as changing climates impact species populations.

If I write down this for my composition, I shall get a 10/10

We have over 1000 at our house in San Jose California

Love these informative videos. I now have a new appreciation for these plants too! p.s. My sedirea japonica is in spike :). This winter I left it in a cool place and watered it as little as possible and it's in bud! Now the trick will be to not let it get too cold, the buds blasted last time I let that happen. :)

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

So many plants out there to appreciate! The variety and complexity of life on Earth is beyond reckoning. Great to hear your S. japonica is spiking again. My two plants are currently enjoying -1 C outside, so spiking won't commence for another 3 or 4 months!

@mysticshining

6 жыл бұрын

So great you have them outside experiencing their natural cycles. Mine is in a cool pantry with a south window but a warm sunny day comes here and there... not sure what triggered it :) The spike looks happy though, alot thicker than the first time it spiked for me. :) Would love to see yours in the spring, if you feel so inclined. Thnx!

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

I'll try to get it in a video this spring. They usually flower in late May/Early June.

@mysticshining

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds good.

Whitch species of pine tree have you mentionned ?

I would love to go there and see what's growing in the understory of that

@botanyboy1

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing before I went there. The cycads grow so thick in these colonies that there is no understory, just a mass of cycads!

Awesome video...no idea Japan grows Sago....

@botanyboy1

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, it's Japan's only native cycad, but so common throughout the world nowadays. Thanks for watching!

Imagine you were walking here looking at those tall Sago Palms that would look horrifying 😱😱😱

4:15 goosebumps!

@botanyboy1

3 жыл бұрын

For me too!

a "golden tip variety"? what's the name? variety "Orea"? ...I thought it was some sort of fungus on mine🙈

@botanyboy1

3 жыл бұрын

The yellow tipped variety is a genetic type. The fronds start out normal looking, but over time they start to turn gold at the tips. This progresses down each leaflet over several months giving it a distinctive, even look. The reason this happens is that the cell tissue on the outer leaflet is weak and essentially goes through an early death. The trick is to see it in its peak yellow form without any browning, usually a few months after the fronds flush. Some people like it, some don't. The variety name is "aurea", meaning golden.

@JaysonFerrero

3 жыл бұрын

@@botanyboy1 Thanks for the info, I thought mine had some sort of fungus.. lordie.

Send seeds pls