Dogwood flower by Noa
Dogwood flower is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae. This flower has a technical name: Cornus florida. Dogwood trees grow and bloom over most of the eastern half of the United States and along the Pacific Coast in U.S. Under ideal conditions, the trees can reach a height of around 30 feet, with multilayered branches that can spread out to about 20 feet.
Picture found on: https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/flowering-dogwood
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Interesting fact: The four showy dogwood flower petals aren’t actually petals as botanists define them. The dogwood petals instead are modified leaves called bracts that surround a cluster of about 20 tiny yellow flowers. As the flowers bloom, the showy bracts expand to attract pollinating insects. Each bract has a dark red-brown indentation at its tip.
Common Name
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Scientific Name
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Pollen size (µm)
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Pollen Type
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Number of Apertures
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Surface Texture
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Dogwood
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Cornus florida
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22µm 39µm
| tricolpate | 3 | smooth |
Link for informations: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/fast-dogwood-flowers-69805.html
Passion Flower by Kayla
The passion flower (Passiflora incarnata) is also known for its Maypop fruit and its unique corona filaments coming in at a range of colors from Blue and purple, red, yellow and white. This 3-6 foot rapid growing vine that has many medical uses. With the extract of the flower, you can create sleep inducing medicine and also eat its fruit called the maypop shown below.
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| http://cloudmind.info/passionflower-and-passion-fruit-natural-herbal-remedy-and-its-sacred-symbol/ |
| Maypop fruit http://cloudmind.info/passionflower-and-passion-fruit-natural-herbal-remedy-and-its-sacred-symbol/ |
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| SEM pictures at 2000x Passion Flower 81.2 nm W 83.1nm L |
The passion flower's pollen has crater like holes (Reticulate) with thicker lines as dents going through the middle of each single pollen.
Light scope (400x) point of view
The pollen of the Passion flower has some darker green, yellow and grayish areas in each pollen. while having different colors, there are various sizes ranging from either being really large or really small.
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| Dissecting scope (35x) |
The pollen of the Passion flower is waxy with a dark yellowish tone throughout the whole anther.
The table below displays the key things of our experiment for this specific plant. I
Common name
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Scientific Name
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Pollen type
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Pollen size (nm)
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Number of apertures
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Surface texture
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Purple passion Flower | Passiflora Incarnata | Triporate |
81.2 nm w
83.1nm L
| Tricoplate | Reticulate |
Magnolia by Amelia
Magnolias can be both herbaceous and woody plants. The magnolias are a pan of variety, there are around 8,000 different species also are closely related to Monocots and eudicots, although the spiral pattern of their petals which are traits of basal angiosperms
Common name
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Scientific Name
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Pollen size
2000x
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Pollen type
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Number of aperture
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Surface texture
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Magnolia
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Magnolia sp.
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39.9µm x 45.3µm
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Monocolpate
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1
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Reticulate
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Live picture address; North American Magnolia
http://garden.lovetoknow.com/image/174366~magnolia-blossom.jpg
