UMWELT (ITALIAN CYPRESS)
How do you see the world? How do you organize the world, all the plants and animals around you? This week we have a discussion about taxonomy that revolves around the gorgeous Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), and it opens a door to an entirely new way to see the world.
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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
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Additional Reading:
The Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
Fact Sheet for the Italian cypress
The catchy named 'Diversification and biogeography of Juniperus (Cupressaceae): Variable diversification rates and multiple intercontinental dispersals'
The Molecular Clock Hypothesis
Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
A brief History of the Cypresses
Why Conservationists Should Heed Pokémon