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 Kaylee fill the runtime with a stacked news round and two full plant-rating segments.

Tanya's off soaking up Corsica, so it's just Jos and Kaylee this week — and they've brought a full plate of plant news. Top of the list: the strange, orchid-based science behind stretchy Turkish ice cream, and why making it is quietly devastating wild orchid populations across Anatolia.

From there, the two cover the closure of legendary Florida nursery Tropiflora, a wild story of rare orchids thriving inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a cactus-smuggling bust at a Brazilian airport, and a deep dive into how aroids actually climb.

Plus: a hot take on Anthurium pricing, and two full rounds of Hot-or-Not and Weird Plant of the Week.

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