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Pollen on Caltech Campus

| Fri, May 10, 2019, 11:12 AM



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Picture of pollen taken with foldscope

The pollen was collected from the yellow-orange flowers outside Page House at 10:15 AM on 5/10/2019.

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Picture of location where pollen sample was obtained

The pollen sample was obtained by gently brushing the anthers of the flower.

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Picture of flower from which the sample was taken with the anthers circled in red

The ball lens of the foldscope appears to be approximately 1 mm in diameter. Judging from the picture of the pollen under the foldscope, approximately 15 pollen grains could line up end to end to fill the diameter of the foldscope. Thus a single pollen grain appears to be 1/15 = 0.067 mm or 67 micrometers in diameter. Given that the foldscope magnification is 140 x, it is reasonable that the pollen grains would appear to be this size.



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Type of Sample
unknown
Foldscope Lens Magnification
140x

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