Your amazing macroscopic plant detail photos.

Ganoderma · 09-12-2008

I am doing a fair bit of research lately (mainly to do with photosynthesis and c02), and am finding i LOVE looking at great photos of plants parts.

i would love to see YOUR (please no google copies, i have seen them already

) photos without the scope, just camera shots. specifically of up close parts of the plants, roots, reproductive organs etc. how detailed can we get with "just" a camera?

cant wait to see if there are others with my perverse photo addiction

Tormod · 09-12-2008

I recommend starting a User group for this and then use that group's album - it makes it easier.

Or we could open up a folder in the gallery if you like?

Tormod · 09-12-2008

Here is a pic...not what you're looking for perhaps, but I think it's cool.

Turtle · 09-12-2008

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Originally Posted by Ganoderma

I am doing a fair bit of research lately (mainly to do with photosynthesis and c02), and am finding i LOVE looking at great photos of plants parts.

i would love to see YOUR (please no google copies, i have seen them already

) photos without the scope, just camera shots. specifically of up close parts of the plants, roots, reproductive organs etc. how detailed can we get with "just" a camera?

cant wait to see if there are others with my perverse photo addiction

I wish I had a microscope! Do you have one?

My plant hobbying has rather slacked back the last couple months, but I do enjoy the closeups. I see Tormod has put up a cool shot of a Rhododendron after the blooms have wilted, and one of my cooler accidental close-up shots of flower giblets is of a Rhody too.

Sounds like a fun theme to me; here's that shot.

Tormod · 09-12-2008

Ooooh...that is a beautiful shot, Turtle!

Ganoderma · 09-13-2008

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.

Turtle · 09-13-2008

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Originally Posted by Ganoderma

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.
...
and for now the final pic, natures paintbrushes! unknown tree specie.

I'll put 'em wherever you fellas point me.

On the microscope, I was thinking plant bits without slides & sectioning. That last photo Ganoderma, may be Rhodora. Celebrating Wildflowers - Plant of the Week - Rhodora, Rhododendron canadense

I'll leave my ID off for the time being and focus on structure.

mynah · 09-13-2008

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Originally Posted by Turtle

I'll put 'em wherever you fellas point me.

On the microscope, I was thinking plant bits without slides & sectioning. That last photo Ganoderma, may be Rhodora. Celebrating Wildflowers - Plant of the Week - Rhodora, Rhododendron canadense

I thought it could be a Bauhinia species - but after looking at rhodora I am no longer sure! If the plant is still around, look at the anthers and leaves: Bauhinia has "normal" anthers with slit-like openings, and its leaves are bilobed (hence a common name of these trees, camel's foot.) Rhododendrons have anthers opening in pores at their tips (see first photo, which illustrates this beautifully) and entire leaves.

Turtle · 09-13-2008

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Originally Posted by mynah

I thought it could be a Bauhinia species - but after looking at rhodora I am no longer sure! If the plant is still around, look at the anthers and leaves: Bauhinia has "normal" anthers with slit-like openings, and its leaves are bilobed (hence a common name of these trees, camel's foot.) Rhododendrons have anthers opening in pores at their tips (see first photo, which illustrates this beautifully) and entire leaves.

Roger. Speaking of leaves, I got this shot this afternoon by placing the leaf directly over the lens & pointing it at the full Sun.