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@gykim.bsky.social

PhD student @ EEB UConn🍁Opuntia explorer 🌵 She/Her

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It looks like it’s their normal behavior towards winter! I’ve seen many cases where they lying down and buried under the snow, overwintering. Unless the stem gets completely dried down (appearing brown), your Opuntia should be fine!

07.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stay warm everyone!
As temperature drops down, our Opuntia humifusa plants are all laid down to get ready for the winter! 🍂

06.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The first flower opened up in Heyduk Lab Opuntia garden!! 🌼

14.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Want to hear a little story about this beautiful Northeastern Cactus? Come visit the germinating idea section today! #Botany2025

30.07.2025 20:13 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Lots of lab presentations today, on this final day of #Botany2025!!

30.07.2025 14:55 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of a garden bed planted with Opuntia cactus plants.

Photo of a garden bed planted with Opuntia cactus plants.

Oh look, another CAM system entering our lab 😅 @gykim.bsky.social

(Shout-out to the Native Plant Trust for sourcing these plants!)

11.06.2025 17:21 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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I was mounting some algae specimens and the collection manager found this tiny brittle star (correct me if I’m wrong!) 🥹 so cute but couldn’t stop thinking about this poor thing suffered in a dryer ;(

27.10.2023 19:08 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of a cross section through a peperomia leaf stained blue with Toluidine blue. A large layer of succulent epidermis is on top, followed by a narrow band of palisade mesophyll and lots of large spongy mesophyll cells.

Photo of a cross section through a peperomia leaf stained blue with Toluidine blue. A large layer of succulent epidermis is on top, followed by a narrow band of palisade mesophyll and lots of large spongy mesophyll cells.

Love me some Peperomia leaf cross sections. Look at that chonky epidermis*!

*I don't know off the top of my head if this succulent tissue is really derived from epidermis or ground tissue, but I always thought epi. Either way it's juicy.

11.10.2023 17:32 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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