Pollen and anther of Crown of Thorns!

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College
name: CMR National PU College, ITPL
Sample name: Euphorbia
milii. ‘Katie’s Crown’. Euphorbiaceae, Spurge family.
Common
English Name.—Crown of Thorns.
Sample
collected from and date: Its captive/cultivated in a garden in
Bangalore, IN-KA and it
was
collected on 7 th march 2019.
Sample
observed at and date: CMR
National PU College, ITPL on
8 th march 2019.
Students
involved: Vedant, Chiranth, Siddarth, Shashank, Nandish, Arun
Its a perennial plant with upright bushy habit. The new cultivar is compact and bushy, with multiple offshoots coming from single stems, where a fallen leaf had been attached to a stem a new branch will form. Multiple flower shoots, as many as 9 or 10, arising from single stems. Stems are generally round about 1.3 cm in diameter. Plants will grow about 30 cm in one summers growth period, holding leaves about 20 cm down the stem which adds to its bushy appearance. Single silver gray thorns about 1 cm in length extend from stem.
Anther’s color is red and from the above image one can clearly
see that there is a light amount of bright yellow pollen.

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