S02E21: Miami Vice(s) — Our First IAS Tropical Plant Expo, Aroid Royalty, Doc Block, Silver Krome & Fairchild Botanical Garden

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-perfect Voronoi diagram around its hydathodes. This could change how botanists think leaf veins form.Who grew your houseplant? Grist reports on the WeCount! campaign asking Costa Farms and big retailers to sign a worker-written code of conduct on heat safety. Ethical sourcing shouldn't stop at the forest edge.Miami:Two visits to Bill Rotolante's Silver Krome GardensA barbecue that turned into a who's-who of the aroid world, with Dr. Tom Croat at the tableBooth lessons from a bootstrapped European startupJos's talk on intersectional hybridization in AnthuriumAroids After DarkA private tour of Dr. Jeff Block's gardenFairchild's outdoor rainforestHot or Nah: Anthurium 'Titan Fingers', Hoya 'Parfum Pagode', Adenium socotranumRate That Weird Plant: Haworthia pumila 'Donuts', Verticordia staminosa subsp. cylindracea var. cylindracea, Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. graciliusFollow Prop Culture for new episodes every two weeks, and find us on ⁠YouTube⁠, ⁠Substack⁠, and ⁠Instagram⁠ for the full plant-nerd experience.