Single edge razor treatment of a meadow plant.

[charlie g]

The forum botanical microtechnique and microscopy are a joy for me. I plucked a Fall'15 meadow plants leaf for bench microscopy.

I thought this rather long leaf would permit easy section of it's tissues to a plane only a few cells in thickness. I was wrong!

charlie guevara, finger lakes/US

[charlie g]

dl-phase with no treatments other than my failed section attempt. charlie guevara

[charlie g]

Bright field image of this same Fall'16 meadow leaf. charlie guevara

[charlie g]

Botanical microscopy is a joy...thank you folk who share it with the rest of us in forum. charlie guevara

[mrsonchus]

These are very nice Mr G! Good detail of the stomata in both - thanks for a nice post old chap.

[billbillt]

I think they turned out very well..
BillT

[einman]

Yes I agree. Not bad at all!

[charlie g]

Good doggies and I collected some orchard mushrooms from a fairy ring recently. I've intent to hand section some of these soon. On the walk to the fairy ring, this gun-metal blue insect in the meadow was quite active for 11/16...crazy weather we have.

Again forum folk, thanks for your microscopy shared in these threads we enjoy. charlie guevara

[charlie g]

Ooops, I forgot to mention it, if you carefully look at the tufts of dead grass in the first meadow image...and look for a dead thick cut plant shaft in the last meadow image ( 9-O-clock position about 1/4 th into the image from the left image border)...you are observing cutting of the meadow from a few months ago. The new fresh growth has not had my mowing since! Too much rain whenever I had time to mow...heh, heh. charlie guevara