love both those photos!!!
tormod, i thought about a social forum, but they seem hard to find for new people, and not as easy to figure out (no offense, i like the idea...just seems more complicated to use to simpler folks such as myself

) if you made one i would join, but if possible i would like the thread in the forum as well
Turtle, i do have a microscope, but i need to figure out how to stain slides before i want to show my pathetic microscopic shots lol....so far my shots are rather plain.......natural we shall call them.
keep em coming. I think most of my pictures are of flowers too, but i think some nice root shots would be fascinating. one can learn so much just from looking at things, or at least we can assume so much
here area few i have taken, cacti related.
This shows the cambium/xylem/phloem (well that area anyway, maybe not all of us can see it).
this is a root of Lophophora williamsii. the top one is where the soil line is, rt meets plant.
2nd is about 1 cm down. you can seed the vascular bundle stretching
third is another 2-3 cm down where the tap root is splitting into 2
i lost the rest of the photos unfortunately.
here is a new cactus growing out from an areole (where the spines are).
Here is a lophophora "hybrid" (within the genus). these "spineless" cacti do have spines when young. this guy is about 3-4mm
this one is an Astrophytum asterias. cacti do have leaves, on their flower stems. some are easier to see than others.
same species' girly bits.
the birth of an areole on a crested Myrtillocactus geometrizans
and for now the final pic, natures paintbrushes! unknown tree specie.
