The Surprising Map of Plants

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Writer, art, animation and edited by Dominic Walliman
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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:01 Algae
03:32 Land Plants and Bryophytes
04:36 Vascular Plants and Ferns
06:24 Seed plants and Gymnosperms
07:26 Fungi and Lichens
08:26 Angiosperms the Flowering Plants
10:52 Angiosperm Minor Groups
11:53 Monocots
12:53 Eudicots
14:02 Early Diverging Eudicots
15:14 Rosids
17:12 Asterids
18:20 Brilliant

[KMPR]

Please do one on fungi!!!! This was amazing!

[ecoscinat]

As a botanist and ecologist - as well as a filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story of plant evolution - I can only offer my sincere congratulations on this beautiful, simple, educational and scientifically accurate video. Thank you!

[ScopeofScience]

Vanilla is from an orchid!?!? I grew up on a corn farm, studied plants for years in university, worked with plants in three different labs... and I still learned things from this video. What a fantastic overview. Great work Dom!

[QuintonMacCabe]

I’m in my last semester of a bachelor’s in Plant Science and I have not seen such a comprehensive and clearly explained taxonomic tree on plants. Took me four years to learn what you summed up in this video. Thank you!

[WhiteWolfeHU]

The Sapindales which contain Maples also include more than you would think, notably; Citrus, Cashews, Mangos, Frankincense, Myrrh, Mahogany, Horse Chestnut, and many others…

[tamikovacs]

A map of bacteria and one of archaea would be awesome too!

[UserAS]

Studied botany for years and i can safely say this is honestly better than anything I was ever shown in a lecture, bravo to you.

[Cepatino]

The Fungi map is highly needed. I have been expecting this one on plants for some time. For some reason I thought you already had a map on fungi. Thank you for your videos.

[SteampunkPirates]

I was already rather fond of plants and fungi, both for their aesthetic diversity and also because I learned that a "tree" was a type of plant "shape" rather than a type of plant itself. BUT NOW!!! Now I'm so deeply intrigued that I have to go forth and learn more on my own! Thank you for this wonderful video!

[guyedwards]

I don't know why, but it fills my heart with joy knowing that many familiar species we grow on our neighborhood streets, keep in our gardens, and stock in our pantries are all closely related in the Rosid and Asterid groups 🌱❤

[porschesbs]

The brassicas are such an incredible family. Like the video mentions, a single species can produce cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and others. But also in the family is mustard, turnip, rutabaga, rapeseed (canola), radish, horseradish, wasabi, arugula (rocket), watercress, and many more plants that can produce food, ornamental flowers, and dye.

[extropiantranshuman]

I love visual mind maps so much!! Thanks for all of these. I also love that you critique the strangeness of it all along with it.

[yeahminecraft]

I once did a presentation on this exact kind of thing (focused mostly on the phylogenetic differences between trees called 'cedar' just to narrow it down, but did some comparison within the other conifers, and within angiosperms including the rosids and other eudicots as well), and it's so incredibly amazing to see this as a whole video here on youtube. This is a topic that fascinates me and I love it!

[javen]

The fungus map would just be a giant circle that says "Who Knows?"

[Jack]

That was absolutely excellent! Simplifying plant taxonomy is a task that almost everyone who has ever attempted has failed. Wow, I almost wish I was a teacher just so that I could show kids this video. Just subbed great job 👍

[Ctrank]

Very cool! One 'snub' is the characterization of Alismatales as pond weeds. Although many of the groups are in fact 'pond weeds' and 'sea grasses' (~500 species) - Alismatales also includes Aroids which have 140 genera, over 4000 species. Including the most familiar houseplants (monstera, philodendron, anthurium, peace lilies), food crops (Colocasia - Taro) and the Amorphophallus titanum famous corpse flower (worlds largest unbranched effloresce).

[ripunicorn]

great video, one nitpick: apples and strawberries absolutely are fruits, botanically. Apples are Pomes, a kind of accessory fruit, and Strawberry are an aggregate accessory fruit. it's good to distinguish them from ~berries~ which they are not, but they're absolutely fruits

[nikkidragsim]

YES, DOMAIN OF SCIENCE POSTED A NEW VIDEO!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR BTW!🎉✨

Some inaccuracies: wild carrots being inedible, apples not being fruits because they don’t form from the "plant ovary" (also inaccurate) and therefore being “false fruits” (even though they’re accessory fruits the same way as cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, figs and many others), plant sexual reproduction (see alternation of generations), the number of edible plant species, etc.

[sanchari.c]

I did my undergraduate degree in Botany. This video reminded me of all the fascinating things I got to learn in college, and made me realize how much of it I'm yet to explore. This was absolutely wonderful. Also! I checked out the Gunnera leaves after this, ❤