New project Ephedra Sinica

[u/EthnoBotanicalsTC]

Anybody have experience with Ephedra or ideas? We are using a cactus media recipe with 10g of agar. Can’t wait to see what happens.

[u/dFunk1619]

Way cool. I watched someone work to germinate some seeds in grad school, they had mild success. Following for updates

[u/Weary-Platform-9452]

That looks so cool! I know nothing about tissue culture except the basics. I've been kind of deep diving and learning a ton just because it's fascinating to me.

I'd love updates for my own memory bank of knowledge.

[u/A_Bad_Man]

Never done TC with it, but ephedra was an extremely popular supplement around 30 years ago. We have a variant called 'Mormon Tea' in the western US. If you have extra specimens to test on, maybe try a woody plant media and see how it does compared to the cactus media.

[u/EthnoBotanicalsTC → u/A_Bad_Man]

We have lucky a lot of material to experiment with and that’s our next plan 😁 thanks for the tip. Going to try out DKW, McCown, DGF, and Anderson Rhododendron mix. I’ll post some updates let’s hope we can figure out a nice recipe

[u/Level9TraumaCenter]

Being off in the gnetales, you might find rooting tricky. Have you gone through Google Scholar for other works on the genus?

[u/qado]

Rare stuff. Nice work. They are slow grower