Giant trees - tiny blossoms
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Microscopy_is_fun
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Giant trees - tiny blossoms
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Microscopy_is_fun
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Re: Giant trees - tiny blossoms
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Greg Howald
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Re: Giant trees - tiny blossoms
Excellent work!. Your results out do anything commercially available except maybe for Carolina Science. You should be really proud of what you were able to accomplish.
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Re: Giant trees - tiny blossoms
I recently played around with paraffin embedding. One object I tried out were the sequoia blossoms, and I want to show a longitudinal section here. Thickness of the slice is around 15µm, staining was done using Etzold FCA . Quite funny and "fishy" geometry in my view.
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Re: Giant trees - tiny blossoms
Love your work!!
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Great work on those sections, I need to start learning how to do that. I live in the Pacific Northwest, near Seattle but I was just down in the Redwoods of California a few weeks ago, it's always impressive. There is a very large Sequoia in my neighborhood, I'm not sure how it got there, they are not native to the area. Someone must have planted it a long time ago, it's over 100 feet tall. The lowest branches are probably 30 feet off the ground. I have collected a few cones from under it.
Most of the trees around here are Douglas Fir, they are dropping pollen right now. There is so much pollen you almost have to get out the snow shovel. I've been putting out microscope slides each month to catch the pollen. I leave it out for a few weeks then make a permanent mount. I'm going to do it each month to see if I can figure out what other pollen we are getting, I think the Western Red Cedar also drop a lot of pollen here.
Most of the trees around here are Douglas Fir, they are dropping pollen right now. There is so much pollen you almost have to get out the snow shovel. I've been putting out microscope slides each month to catch the pollen. I leave it out for a few weeks then make a permanent mount. I'm going to do it each month to see if I can figure out what other pollen we are getting, I think the Western Red Cedar also drop a lot of pollen here.