Investigating the Trees of Amazonia
When in doubt, sniff a tree. No, really! Botanists and rainforest ecologists follow their noses to identify certain species in addition to looking at the plant's flowers, and counting leaves...
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- Tree #83. I don't know... - Other... - This one? - The other. - Cut. [laughs] - So try to smell. - Oh, it smells spicy! - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, so the nutmeg family, mace. - It smells really good. - Yeah, no, this is a good one. And it's also in a group that people commonly call "chicken blood" because the latex is red on this one. So this is a group that's super diverse. It's sort of their version of oaks. - Oh, okay. So it's one of the more common things to see around here? - Yeah, that family and this genus. You run into it a lot. - The chicken blood tree. - Yeah, you can see a little bit of the red latex showing up there. - When you're locating these trees and they have all these different odors and things lik...
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- Tree #83. I don't know... - Other... - This one? - The other. - Cut. [laughs] - So try to smell. - Oh, it smells spicy! - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, so the nutmeg family, mace. - It smells really good. - Yeah, no, this is a good one. And it's also in a group that people commonly call "chicken blood" because the latex is red on this one. So this is a group that's super diverse. It's sort of their version of oaks. - Oh, okay. So it's one of the more common things to see around here? - Yeah, that family and this genus. You run into it a lot. - The chicken blood tree. - Yeah, you can see a little bit of the red latex showing up there. - When you're locating these trees and they have all these different odors and things lik...
