Completely Arbortrary

Originally Aired 10/27/2022 Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

Originally aired 12/07/2023 Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

Originally aired 1/27/2022 Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional reading on our  website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

In our final mainline episode of Completely Arbortrary, we revisit the tree that started it all: the Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ). Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional reading on our&nbsp...

In our penultimate episode of Completely Arbortrary (as we know it), we discuss the wild whiskey cherry ( Prunus serotina ) and its many wooden accolades. Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional read...

Alex is unexpectedly out this week so you get a bunch of ums and uhhs from Casey along with an audio essay about desert trees! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Be one with the land (and also learn teleportation) with Anastasianism, a religion centered around the Siberian stone pine ( Pinus siberica ). Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional reading on our&n...

260 episodes and 5 years later, and Casey has found an apple he loves, ( Malus hupehensis ), which he dubs by far the most interesting apple in the world. Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional read...

Fog: the coast redwood's strongest ally through a process called folial uptake. Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional reading on our  website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Music by Aves and Th...

Don't go reinventing the wheel tree ( Trochodendron aralioides ), it certainly isn't. Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our  store Find additional reading on our  website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Music by Aves...

You’ve heard of old growth forest… but how about old growth woodland? For more info, ask the western juniper ( Juniperus occidentalis ), a tree that is helping to redefine the meaning of old growth. Then, we play a brand new game! Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch...

A tree that lacks nothing… except for name recognition: the superb schima ( Schima superba ) (yes, that is its real name.) Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Music by Aves and The Min...

Forget everything you thought you knew about conifers, and make way for the celerytop-pine ( Phyllocladus aspleniifolius ) with leaves and cones like no other, and raises the question “what is a conifer”? Completely Arbortrary  is produced and hosted by  Casey Clapp  and  Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a  Treemium Member Follow along on  Instagram Find Arbort...

When the emerald ash borer came to North America, few ashes survived. But one native species, the blue ash ( Fraxinus quadrangulata ), survived. How did this lucky survivor beat the odds? Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on ou...

Today we discuss our flexible friend the limber pine ( Pinus flexilis ) and its curious co-evolutionary relationship with, you guessed it, BIRDS. Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Mu...

Welcome to Season X of Completely Arbortrary, our final hoorah! To begin the end, we talk about senses of smell and the Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ). Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Bart...

It's been 5 years of weekly tree podcasts, but after this final season, Casey and Alex will be moseying on to the next chapter for an extended hiatus. Buckle up for THE FINAL SEASON of  Completely Arbortrary. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Turgor pressure, negative pressure, vessels and tracheids, embolisms… It’s a fact-packed Christmas Day episode of Completely Arbortrary, featuring the Oyster Bay-pine ( Callitris rhomboidea ). This drought tolerant tree has a surprising mechanism for keeping its water closely guarded. Merry Christmas! Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and...

Underrated, underplanted, underappreciated… so why isn’t the Japanese pagodatree ( Styphnolobium japonicum ) a more popular as a street tree in our urban forests? Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Ji...

work together in perfect harmony (guitar reference). Today, learn all about the ebony ( Diospyros ebenum ), it's typical path through capitalism, and the guitar luthier who gave it back to the world. Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional r...

Hop aboard the good ship Odyssey to make for the island of the lotus tree ( Diospyros lotus ). But, could this be a case of mistaken idenitree?... Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Barthold M...

As we take a quick break we're here to remind you that our holiday merch sale ends ON BLACK FRIDAY, and reintroduce you to our talk on urban trees and racism. Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillia...

As the boys take a much needed break from the wild world of modern podcasting, they present to you the audio from a 2023 livestream entitled Fungus in the Fall. Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jill...

So many junipers, so little time. So let’s pick one! How about the weeping juniper ( Juniperus flaccida )? Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy one. Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our store Find additional reading on our website Cover art by Jillian Barthold Mus...

The boys are joined by their first ever third host to discuss goin' thig mode with thigmomorphogenesis and the Fraser fir ( Abies fraseri ). Then, a test of Casey's binomial spelling skills with The Spelling Tree.  Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson Support the pod and become a Treemium Member Follow along on Instagram Find Arbortrary merch on our sto...