Prop Culture

Prop Culture S02E22: Anthurium Papa, Lust Lists & the $40K Monstera Side-Eye

Brian Lagunas, aka Anthurium Papa, joins Tanya and Jos for an episode full of heart and a little chaos. News: The Crop Trust’s report on edible aroids and why collectors

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:

S02E20: Interview with Marco Cedeño-Fonseca, Fake Adansonii, Plastic Monsteras, and Tom Croat's Garden

Episode 20 and we finally have an aroid taxonomist in the room. Marco Cedeño Fonseca is a Costa Rican botanist who did his master's on Monstera at the University of Costa

S02E19: Red Light Special (For Your Plants)

Your plant isn't being dramatic when it stretches for the window — it's reading the light. This week Tanya and Jos get into a red-shade-cloth vanilla farm in Hawaii, the

S02E18: Coopetition Over Competition with Veronica Moore of Plants Are Therapy

Tanya's back from Corsica (barely rested, extremely tanned in spirit) and Jos has news about the UK's Plant Heritage — a royal-patronage plant conservation charity with o

S02E17: Turkish Ice Cream Is Made From Orchids?! Also, We Look at Smuggled Catci & Chernobyl

Hosts this episode: Jos Vanden Abeele & Kaylee Ellen(Tanya Quintieri is off the grid in Corsica this week — back next episode.) No guest interview this time, so Jos and

S02E16 | A Luxury Service Nobody Needs: Dr. Sarah Spaulding on Exporting Plants

Episode 16 — and it's Hortikult's two-year anniversary, so we're celebrating by talking about paperwork. Our guest is Dr. Sarah Spaulding, evolutionary biologist, Tanya'

S02E15: The Chocolate Botanist on Plants as Food, Medicine & Ancestry, and the Ugliest Orchid Alive

Derek Haynes — The Chocolate Botanist — joins us for one of our widest-ranging episodes yet: equal parts plant science, stand-up, and a conversation that genuinely matter

S02E14: Of Plant Shows, MOSS POLES, Living the Content Creator Life, aaaaand: Weird Plants!

The day has finally come. We've summoned the Master of Moss Poles, none other than Jan, aka SydneyPlantGuy! But first things first: In this episode, we discuss the lates

S02E13: It's Children's Day and We have a Special Guest! Also: Anthuriums are Making a Comeback. What Now?

International Children's Day is celebrated worldwide on June 1, and on the second Sunday of June in the United States. The day holds special significance for Czechs. 80 y

S02E12: Take Two, Really? Two Decades of Plant Collecting, Interview with @MonsteraStan

They say sh!t happens, right? Episode 12 has us handling a Take Two, because Tanya & Tech. Nonetheless, it's an enlightening episode! In the news segment, we cover the p

S02E11: Captain Aroid, aka Jos Was in China to Judge Anthurium and Platycerium

Jos returns from judging the first-ever Sensoria Expo in Hangzhou and reports back on what plant collecting looks like at China-scale. Plus: a sobering study on collapsin

S02E10: The Orchids Are Horny and the Bees Don't Know!

Tanya, Jos & Kaylee unpack a Facebook plant-DNA conspiracy, the wild trickery orchids use to scam pollinators (yes, including sex), Tanya's hot take on why rotating house

S02E09: Plant Gatekeeping, Plant Name Trademarks, Soil Mix Myths, and the (accidental) Birth of Fun Guy™

We kick off with the latest in plant trademark drama: Proven Winners' newly branded "Mythic Phoebus," which, under the trade name, is a variegated Alocasia (likely Alocas

S02E08: Exploring Plant Naming Wars, Futuristic Greenhouses, and Interview with New Host Kaylee Ellen!

In this episode of Prop Culture, hosts Tanya and Jos welcome Kaylee Ellen as their new co-host, a much-loved plant YouTuber known by many. The trio discusses plant nami

S02E07 | Guess The Guest! Plant Diplomacy, NoID, and some really weird plants that have us in the gutter

Tanya is officially back in Europe, but her "Queendom" is in a state of emergency. Between dry rot and a thrips infestation on her Thai Constellation, she’s facing the re

S02E06 | Plant Show in Thailand – Interview With Anastasia Shokhrin @foliage_fancies (and IAS Treasurer)

In this episode, Tanya and Jos bridge the gap between the royal gardens of England and the bustling plant markets of Bangkok. We look into the high-maintenance "Plant Shu

S02E05 | Podcastathon Special: Why the IAS Matters, Interview with ATL Plant Room

In this special "Podcastathon" edition of Prop Culture, Tanya is joined by Ashley (@ATLPlantRoom), the Marketing Chair for the International Aroid Society (IAS). Together

S02E04 | Daffodils, Community, and What’s the Deal Plant Content IP & Content Theft?

In this episode, Tanya and Jos bridge the gap between historic botanical discoveries and the modern digital landscape. Jos shares the incredible story of a South African

S02E03 | Plant Shipping, the History of A. 'Ace Of Spades' & Designer Plants

In this episode, Tanya and Jos explore the cutting edge of plant science and the "wild west" of online plant selling. We start with some major news regarding the EU’s New