This was the lily from which the pollen was taken. Yellow speckles of the pollen be seen on the petal of the flower.

• The sample was taken from outside of Broad Institute at Caltech. Caltech is located in Pasadena which is in Southern California, near LA.
• The sample was obtained at 17:50 on the 8th of May, 2019.
• It was obtained by removing the stamen. I took these back and dabbed the stamen onto a sticky slide provided by the foldscope kit. Then a similarly sticky cover was placed on top and then the sample was observed under the Foldscope.
• I identified the flower from which the pollen was taken as a red daylily. I was able to determine the genus as Hemerocallis.
• The species, however, was not identified.
• The magnification of the Foldscope is 140x. In the image, the grains are around 1 mm across. Therefore, the pollen is actually around 0.007 mm across.

This is the magnified pollen. We cans see that the pollen is actually small rice shaped grains.
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