Two different types of pollen from one flower

May 30, 2019 • 6:29 PM UTC

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This is the first type of pollen I saw. Its darker in colour so maybe it is not as fresh anymore as compared to the other pollen I saw.

Here is the other pollen i saw form this flower. Its much lighter so maybe its younger pollen.
Location : I took this pollen from a pink flower outside of the Firestone flight laboratory at the California Institute of Technology which is in Pasadena, California.
Time: 30th May, 2019 16:15
How the sample was obtained: From the center of he flower I found on anther which I picked up with a tweezer and dabbed on a sticky slide. Then I placed another sticker on top of that.
Description: As we can see there were two different kinds of pollen o this flower, maybe also they just appeared different in the microscope. One was much darker in colour and seemed to have a brown casing around it. The other one has a much lighter colour. This may be because one sample was more dried than the other. The pollen is quite small and there wasn’t very much of it on the anther.