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#PlantsInside As much as I love all plants, I'm not a house plant person 😅 this cutie was gifted recently, its called Dawidjieswortel, Cissampelos capensis. A plant medicine used as a blood purifier, to treat diabetes and used to expel retained placenta.
#BlackBotanistsWeek2022
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Look at these tiny #Dioscoreaquaternata flowers from the @ArnoldArboretum! Judging by all the shine and glisten at the base of the flowers in these pictures, it looks like the flowers have #nectar! 1/2

ALT A dioscorea flower. Two pale yellow flowers with 6 tepals (petal-like) found in the middle and bottom of the images with a orange yellow background. The middle flower is more in focus than the bottom flower. An arrow points to the area where there might be nectar.

ALT Another picture of the dioscorea flower. Taken under a microscope and colors adjusted, which is why the tepals (looks like petals) are more yellow-green. 6 tepaled flowers that look yellow green against a black background. Several tiny arrows point to the areas where there might be little dots of nectar at the base of the flower.
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Caught a #Nesocodon flower with one #nectar droplet still potentially lagging behind in the pH transition from acidic (~6.5) to alkaline (~9) which then prevents the red color that comes with the formation of the #nesocodin pigment. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21…
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Experience the bloom cycle of our first #CorpseFlower of 2022: Scentennial.🌱🌺🥀
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The corpse flower opens when it’s warm, and its survival strategy is based on deception. It’s not a flower and it’s not a rotting dead animal, but it mimics both. A specimen @SFConservatory is blooming now. Learn more in this @KQEDscience episode:
kqed.org/science/1918845/thi…
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Seniors in my capstone grant writing clss are presenting final pitches with research objectives, expected outcomes, potential limitations, timelines for their chosen topics where they found a gap in the literature! And I remember them on the first day when it was just a mindmap!
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First-generation students should use information interviewing as part of their job search katiecareervc.stkate.edu/?p=…
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Look what we found in an old research stock of Rapid-cycling Brassica rapa!!
Stay tuned… we’ll be looking to amplify this fused cotyledon trait and investigate its inheritance 🤔 #wisconsinfastplants #fastplants #RealResearchInAction #NatureOfScience #coolphenomenon
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A great way to end the semester with a tour to the new & state of the art @cbsconservatory experiencing the biomes. Always blows my mind, especially walking in during winters. Thanks to @koeblerang and Lisa Philander for hosting. @stkateBIO @StKate @UMNews @umncbs
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Repotting tropical tree and liana saplings with @BoteroAriadna @Laura_ToroG @phamtbchau @Vivsack all day in the greenhouse = AWESOME!
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Done with the seeds of #tropicaldryforest in @ACGuanacaste project for awhile.
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In 2020, @BlkBotanistsWk brought you #BlackBotanistsWeek. This year, we are back: July 26-31 #BlackBotanistsWeek2021. Watch this space.
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It’s pretty unusual for a scientist to remember a specific day that changed the course of their research. But here's an exception. Thanks to a new @NSF grant, a team will explore colored nectars in 30 plant species, including this @cbsconservatory plant. z.umn.edu/colored-nectars
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Sound on. There's lots of rare plants at the Garden, including this very rare Strelitzia reginae sonorous, the only plant in the world to emit sound. Air is forced through chambers in the flower to mimics bird mating calls. #gardens #plants #april #flowers #spring #glasshouses
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Cannot wait for @cbsconservatory to share the new space and show off some new and unique plants in the collection #UMNproud
In March 2020, the @umncbs conservatory was set to open, but the pandemic had other plans. While we were at home, the conservatory's plants grew and thrived. Take a look at what's inside! legacy.umn.edu/stories/a-wor…






























