While
walking in my local park I noticed several tiny blue attractive flowers growing
on the edge of the woodland. Back home I identified them as Common Speedwell.
Each flower has a long purple pistyl and two long stamens with colourful anthers which here are loaded with pollen.
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| 40x , 70 images stacked in Photoshop CS6 |
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| 200x, 64 images stacked in PS CS6 |
At 200x magnification the individual pollen grains reveal their elliptical shape with grooves running along the longitudinal axis.
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| Speedwell flower, 40x, 23 images stacked. |
Transparent hairs surround the central part of the flower as seen in the above image.
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| Speedwell Plant Hairs 200x, 26 images stacked |
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