Thursday, June 14, 2012

Cross Section of a Blade of Grass


This is a cross section of a single blade of grass, stained for the microscope. The smiley faces are the channels that the water is drawn up through. It was just taken 2 weeks ago at the EM lab. Amazing!


4 comments:

  1. Oh man, I feel so bad for mowing my lawn now!

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  2. Beautiful! Thank you!

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  3. just amazing :)

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  4. Not just any grass, but marram (dune) grass. It was taken 3 years ago. BY this chap
    http://beyondthehumaneye.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/dune-builder.html

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