Hello fellow explorers of the microcosmos! Today, I observed the fluff of this seed pod under the foldscope.


 <img alt="Dried Seed Pod" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-30835 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="30835" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5X","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1517682793","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.67","iso":"373","shutter_speed":"0.033333336","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Dried Seed Pod" data-recalc-dims="1" height="225" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_30834/Dried-Seed-Pod.jpg" style="font-size: 1.8rem" width="300"/>


 <img alt="Fluff_3" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-30838 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="30838" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5X","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1517681340","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.67","iso":"1029","shutter_speed":"0.036749","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Fluff_3" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_30834/Fluff_3.jpg" width="225"/>


 I was struck by the beauty of the iridescent microscopic structure. It almost looks like a miniature forest or thicket of brush.


 <img alt="Fluff_1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-30836 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="30836" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5X","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1517681385","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.67","iso":"683","shutter_speed":"0.041669048","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Fluff_1" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_30834/Fluff_1.jpg" width="225"/>


 <img alt="Fluff_5" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-30840 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="30840" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5X","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1517681196","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.67","iso":"572","shutter_speed":"0.041669048","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Fluff_5" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_30834/Fluff_5.jpg" width="225"/>


 <img alt="Fluff_4" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-30839 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="30839" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5X","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1517681227","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.67","iso":"946","shutter_speed":"0.036074","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Fluff_4" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_30834/Fluff_4.jpg" width="225"/>


 The seed pod pictured in these images had been collected and dried some weeks in advance. This made it easier to fit it between the slide and coverslip.

Fluffy Seed Pod Bio60_2018

Julia Rathmann-Bloch

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