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Jun 20, 2019 • 2:00 PM UTC

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MananSuri

My name is Manan. I am a student from New Delhi, India. I like to explore the world around me, and foldscope acts like a gateway for me to delve into the microcosmos. Always open to learning new things, meeting new people and and having new memories.

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Aloe, is a plant with fleshy leaves and these leaves contain a jelly like substance. It’s quote popular for its cooling and detoxifying effect on the skin, so when my mom asked my to pouch a leaf of aloe to create a face pack, I took the remaining leaf, and using a needle+shear stress on the leaf by tearing, I was able to take out the almost transparent layer of epidermis.
I used a candle light as a source of illumination at that time, so the picture is in warm shades.
The slide showed stomatal apparatus in the form of dark spots.
What interested me more was how the cells appeared to be granular. Can we determine what cell organelle caused such an appearance.
Manan