About this podcast
Tree advocate Casey Clapp and his tree-curious friend Alex Crowson bring you a podcast about trees and other related topics. History, culture, art, religion, science... trees affect and are affected by everything. Join Casey and Alex on their silly and educational journey to prove it.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 309 episodes
- Quince U Been Gone (Quince) · 53 min · Episode 205Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on InstagramFind Arbortrary…
- *𝘛𝘏𝘌* (Munz Oak) · 44 min · Episode 204Originally aired 10/10/2024Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- To Kākāpō, Thanks for Everything! (Rimu) · 60 min · Episode 203Originally aired 1/18/2024Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Leave Juglone Alone (Black Walnut) · 37 min · Episode 202Originally aired 1/28/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Syrup Season (Sugar Maple) · 49 min · Episode 201Originally aired 3/11/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Jungle Buffet When the Figs Come to Play (Strangler Fig) · 45 min · Episode 200Originally aired 5/13/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Completely Awful Mutton (Nutmeg) · 48 min · Episode 199Originally aired 11/4/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Concerning Tree Care (Pedunculate Oak) · 56 min · Episode 198Originally aired 3/24/2022Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Endocarpe Treeum (Ice Cream Bean Tree) · 50 min · Episode 197Originally aired 7/25/2024Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Once Upon a Turtle Time (Beach Sheoak) · 59 min · Episode 196Originally aired 8/10/2023Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Mixed Treelings (Black Cottonwood) · 50 min · Episode 195Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on InstagramFind Arbortrary…
- Putrid Gums & Dreadful Terrors (Meyer Lemon) · 52 min · Episode 194Originally aired 12/16/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Spoonful of Sugar (Noni) · 60 min · Episode 193Originally aired 3/16/2023Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Milkshakes (Western Red Cedar) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 192Originally aired 8/19/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Fancy Timbers (Cedar of Lebanon) · 46 min · Episode 191Originally aired 5/6/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- What's in a Name? A Lot (Ghost Pine) · 1 h 2 min · Episode 190Originally aired 10/26/2023Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Only the Lonely (Kentucky Coffeetree) · 43 min · Episode 189Originally aired 4/20/2023Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Sakura, Hanami, Shinto, Kami (Japanese Cherry) · 50 min · Episode 188Originally aired 4/15/2021Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Chock-Full of Deadly Poison (Sea-Mango) · 39 min · Episode 187Originally aired 10/31/2024Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Fruit That Serves Itself (Passionfruit) · 50 min · Episode 185Originally aired 9/25/2025Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Night Vision (Honey Locust) · 59 min · Episode 184Originally aired 10/19/2023Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonFollow along on…
- Situationship (Trumpet Tree) · 45 min · Episode 183Originally aired 8/18/2022Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and join the Cone ClubFollow along on InstagramFind…
- That's the Game of the Name (Nootka Cypress) · 53 min · Episode 181Originally aired 6/12/2023Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club to support the pod. Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex…
- Pirate's Booty (Coco-de-Mer) · 37 min · Episode 180Originally aired 3/28/24Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club to support the pod.Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex…
- Silk Road Kill (White Mulberry) · 53 min · Episode 178Originally aired 4/28/2022Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and join the Cone ClubFollow along on InstagramFind…
- Das Root (Sassafras) · 50 min · Episode 177Originally aired 12/9/2021Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and join the Cone ClubFollow along on InstagramFind…
- Boioioioing (Rubber) · 46 min · Episode 176Originally aired 2/27/2025Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and join the Cone ClubFollow along on InstagramFind…
- Death Row Chocolate Milk (Cacao) · 1 h 5 min · Episode 175Originally aired 12/23/21Join the Cone Club, our snail-mail botanical sticker club to support the pod. Link in the bio!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp…
- Positively Petrified (Rainbow Wood) · 45 min · Episode 174Originally Aired 10/27/2022Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and become a Treemium MemberFollow along on InstagramFind…
- Shinto My God! (Sakaki) · 58 min · Episode 173Originally aired 12/07/2023Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and become a Treemium MemberFollow along on InstagramFind…
- Hades! Hades! Hades! (English Yew) · 58 min · Episode 172Originally aired 1/27/2022Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and become a Treemium MemberFollow along on InstagramFind…
- Episode III: Revenge of the Pith (Douglas-fir 3) · 1 h 35 min · Episode 171In our final mainline episode of Completely Arbortrary, we revisit the tree that started it all: the Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii).Completely Arbortrary is produced and…
- Wood Vibrations (Wild Whiskey Cherry) · 1 h 15 min · Episode 170In our penultimate episode of Completely Arbortrary (as we know it), we discuss the wild whiskey cherry (Prunus serotina) and its many wooden accolades.Completely Arbortrary is…
- BONUS EPISODE: Trees of the Deserts · 11 min · Episode 169Alex is unexpectedly out this week so you get a bunch of ums and uhhs from Casey along with an audio essay about desert trees! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy…
- Anastasianism (Siberian Stone Pine) · 1 h 13 min · Episode 168Be one with the land (and also learn teleportation) with Anastasianism, a religion centered around the Siberian stone pine (Pinus siberica).Completely Arbortrary is produced and…
- How Casey Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apple (Apple 3) · 1 h 12 min · Episode 167260 episodes and 5 years later, and Casey has found an apple he loves, (Malus hupehensis), which he dubs by far the most interesting apple in the world.Completely Arbortrary is…
- Are You There, Fog? (Coast Redwood 2) · 1 h 10 min · Episode 166Fog: the coast redwood's strongest ally through a process called folial uptake.Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and…
- Reinventing the (Wheel Tree) · 1 h 3 min · Episode 165Don't go reinventing the wheel tree (Trochodendron aralioides), it certainly isn't.Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonSupport the pod and…
- Even Older Growth (Western Juniper 2) · 1 h 30 min · Episode 164You’ve heard of old growth forest… but how about old growth woodland? For more info, ask the western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis), a tree that is helping to redefine the…
- Renaissance Tree (Superb Schima) · 1 h 8 min · Episode 163A tree that lacks nothing… except for name recognition: the superb schima (Schima superba) (yes, that is its real name.)Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey…
- Cones on the Spectrum (Celerytop-Pine) · 1 h 19 min · Episode 162Forget everything you thought you knew about conifers, and make way for the celerytop-pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius) with leaves and cones like no other, and raises the…
- Evolutionary Naïveté (Blue Ash) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 161When the emerald ash borer came to North America, few ashes survived. But one native species, the blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata), survived. How did this lucky survivor beat…
- Bird Influence (Limber Pine) · 1 h 26 min · Episode 160Today we discuss our flexible friend the limber pine (Pinus flexilis) and its curious co-evolutionary relationship with, you guessed it, BIRDS.Completely Arbortrary is produced…
- Burning Hot Fresh Root News (Scots Pine) · 1 h 10 min · Episode 159Welcome to Season X of Completely Arbortrary, our final hoorah! To begin the end, we talk about senses of smell and the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).Completely Arbortrary is…
- It's The End of Completely Arbortrary (As We Know It) · 51 min · Episode 158It's been 5 years of weekly tree podcasts, but after this final season, Casey and Alex will be moseying on to the next chapter for an extended hiatus. Buckle up for THE FINAL…
- How Water Moves Through Trees (Oyster Bay-Pine) · 1 h 17 min · Episode 157Turgor pressure, negative pressure, vessels and tracheids, embolisms… It’s a fact-packed Christmas Day episode of Completely Arbortrary, featuring the Oyster Bay-pine (Callitris…
- Underplanted, Underrated, Underappreciated (Japanese Pagodatree) · 1 h 18 min · Episode 156Underrated, underplanted, underappreciated… so why isn’t the Japanese pagodatree (Styphnolobium japonicum) a more popular as a street tree in our urban forests?Completely…
- Ivory & (Ebony) · 1 h 14 min · Episode 155work together in perfect harmony (guitar reference). Today, learn all about the ebony (Diospyros ebenum), it's typical path through capitalism, and the guitar luthier who gave it…
- The Odysseed (Lotus Tree) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 154Hop aboard the good ship Odyssey to make for the island of the lotus tree (Diospyros lotus). But, could this be a case of mistaken idenitree?...Completely Arbortrary is produced…
- Holiday Merch Sale + Urban Trees and Racism · 1 h 11 min · Episode 153As we take a quick break we're here to remind you that our holiday merch sale ends ON BLACK FRIDAY, and reintroduce you to our talk on urban trees and racism. Completely…
