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Matt Wang

@botanydude80.bsky.social

I do rare plant stuff. Sometimes I cook food.

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Tissue culture lab is coming together.

20.06.2025 00:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tragic. I’m a botanist in Utah and know a lot of the land that could be for sale very well. Tons of endangered and rare plants on that land.

18.06.2025 02:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bought and refurbished this lamp today. She’s a beaut.

01.06.2025 03:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some field work pics.

24.05.2025 01:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My lab at Red Butte Garden is just starting up a tissue culture lab. Kevin Alison (Catalina conservancy) and I are trying to start up a tissue culture working group that would meet every month and discuss our work and help each other out. Let me know if you know anyone that may be interested.

24.05.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I will be there!

21.04.2025 17:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New restoration project.

31.03.2025 01:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also interesting to note, these seeds are 7 years old and were not in the seed bank. They sat for 7 years at room temp in an envelope and are still germinating which may say something about their persistence in the soil seed bank.

25.03.2025 02:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So far it’s looking like nick and 24 hour soak was the winner but I got germination in the straight nick and scarification treatments as well.

25.03.2025 02:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grow little cactus grow! Having some success germinating the endangered Sclerocactus wrightiae. It’s a notoriously difficult genus to germinate.

24.03.2025 17:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Saturday night with some new records.

16.03.2025 02:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Waffle perfection

26.01.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Champs!!

21.01.2025 05:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Waffle experiments

19.01.2025 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It turns out the most important part of this is that it will become a highway. That means they could potentially pave the entire road. Naming it after the Cheeto is just an extra slap in the face.

16.01.2025 04:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why?

15.01.2025 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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I live here now

14.01.2025 07:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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