Anatomy of a hibiscus flower
May 27, 2019 • 9:57 AM UTC
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Grace Hu
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Every day as I walk out of my residence here in Cape Town, I pass by this brilliant hibiscus flowering tree. Oftentimes I’ll snatch a flower down just to add some natural color to my room, and I was so wowed by the different parts of it I saw under my Foldscope:
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The inner petal, dark-red region
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The light pink flower petal in greater clarity! And below, pollen grains were starkly visible with Foldscope, which I found to be incredibly enrapturing.
Whenever I head out to work with students at a Foldscope workshop now, I always bring this flower for them to peer under the microscope with.
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Samples at the macro scale The stigma and style too were quite neat to observe!
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Crushed stigma And for fun, I had painted this flower during my first week of April here in Cape Town. Hope you enjoyed!
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