00:00Up on Old Thai Mesa, we're in search of a rare native tree called Tecate cypress, which
00:07we'd love to see take root in Lisa and Patrick's yard.
00:11Look how sketchy this road is.
00:13I look down the side.
00:14Don't look at your phone while we drive on this sketchy ridge.
00:17Yeah, this is wild.
00:20Come on, get jolly.
00:22Oh, there's our first Tecate.
00:24There's our first Tecate cypress.
00:26I guess we're going to pull over here and look at this guy.
00:28God, I'm so glad we're out walking around doing s***.
00:32Yeah, f*** the suburbs, man.
00:34So here we are on beautiful Old Thai Mountain.
00:37This is Tecate cypress, Hesperocyprus forbesii.
00:40The entire world population of this plant probably consists of less than 10,000 to 15,000
00:45trees.
00:46What if we get some of these seeds from the Tecate cypress?
00:50What if we brought them back to Rancho Bernardo and said, hey, we brought you this gift real
00:54nice?
00:56We could help you start.
00:57Oh, I see what you're doing.
00:58You're planting a seed figuratively and literally.
01:02Oh!
01:03You're doing it.
01:04You gotta tell him.
01:05We could do that.
01:06We're going to need one of the little drug baggies.
01:08Oh, yeah.
01:09You know?
01:10You got some bags?
01:11I got bags.
01:12And ecologically, this plant is the only known host plant for an endangered species.
01:16It's a butterfly known as Thorn's hair streak.
01:19I tend to like butterflies because they make me feel less homicidal when I have to go to
01:23terrible places like the shopping center, the bank, the DMV, etc.
01:29How do butterflies make you feel, Al?
01:31They too bring me relief from living in a hellscape of a built environment.
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