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Virtual microscope: maple leaf skeleton

This is a scan of maple leaf vascular tissue, done with a normal flat-bed scanner. Method: Preparing the leaf was the difficult and time-consuming part. The leaf was boiled for several hours until the cells started to separate. I then carefully lifted the leaf out of the pot and placed it on a plate with [...]

Observing leaf veins

This is a simple but somewhat time-consuming preparatory technique. It is possible to isolate the vascular bundles of certain leaves and prepare them for microscopic observation. The prepared leaf veins make an ideal specimen for stereo microscopy. The microscope allows the students to perform a quality-check of their preparation.