Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

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.

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March 5, 2026 72 mins

260 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 produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson

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Fog: the coast redwood's strongest ally through a process called folial uptake.

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February 19, 2026 63 mins

Don't go reinventing the wheel tree (Trochodendron aralioides), it certainly isn't.

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February 12, 2026 90 mins

You’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 meaning of old growth. Then, we play a brand new game!

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February 5, 2026 68 mins

A tree that lacks nothing… except for name recognition: the superb schima (Schima superba) (yes, that is its real name.)

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January 29, 2026 79 mins

Forget 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 question “what is a conifer”?

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January 22, 2026 60 mins

When 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 the odds?

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January 15, 2026 86 mins

Today we discuss our flexible friend the limber pine (Pinus flexilis) and its curious co-evolutionary relationship with, you guessed it, BIRDS.

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January 8, 2026 70 mins

Welcome 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).

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It'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 SEASON of Completely Arbortrary.

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Turgor pressure, negative pressure, vessels and tracheids, embolisms… It’s a fact-packed Christmas Day episode of Completely Arbortrary, featuring the Oyster Bay-pine (Callitris rhomboidea). This drought tolerant tree has a surprising mechanism for keeping its water closely guarded. Merry Christmas!

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Underrated, underplanted, underappreciated… so why isn’t the Japanese pagodatree (Styphnolobium japonicum) a more popular as a street tree in our urban forests?

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December 11, 2025 74 mins

work 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 back to the world.

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December 4, 2025 60 mins

Hop 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?...


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November 27, 2025 71 mins

As 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.


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November 20, 2025 70 mins

As the boys take a much needed break from the wild world of modern podcasting, they present to you the audio from a 2023 livestream entitled Fungus in the Fall.

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November 13, 2025 60 mins

So many junipers, so little time. So let’s pick one! How about the weeping juniper (Juniperus flaccida)? Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy one.

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November 6, 2025 64 mins

The boys are joined by their first ever third host to discuss goin' thig mode with thigmomorphogenesis and the Fraser fir (Abies fraseri). Then, a test of Casey's binomial spelling skills with The Spelling Tree. 

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October 30, 2025 69 mins

BEEware of the bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla). This tree made such a strong alliance with beetles, that any other insect trying to get in gets KILLED. Then we play a Halloween edition of Family Tree!

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DO NOT TOUCH this week’s tree (Hippomane mancinella), it makes horses go crazy!

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