Parts of a Portulaca oleracea flower
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Hi, My name is Udit Sancheti. I am an undergraduate at IIT Kanpur, majoring in Chemistry. I was introduced to foldscopes during my summer internship at TIFR Hyderabad. While there, I worked with TCIS Outreach to promote the usage of foldscopes, in nearby schools, as a device for scientific education.
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Hi, I am Udit Sancheti, a summer visiting student at TIFR Hyderabad’s Science Education and Outreach Program . Here is the microcosmos link .
In my explorations with the foldscope, I made many observations with fairly random objects such as my skin tissue, jeans fabric, sand grains, among others. Some of them were really good. However, the most fascinating observation that I made was that of a flower.
The flower was from the plant Portulaca Oleracea or Common Purslane (‘ganga payala’ in Telugu) growing in the campus garden.
The setup
In my explorations with the foldscope, I made many observations with fairly random objects such as my skin tissue, jeans fabric, sand grains, among others. Some of them were really good. However, the most fascinating observation that I made was that of a flower.
The flower was from the plant Portulaca Oleracea or Common Purslane (‘ganga payala’ in Telugu) growing in the campus garden.
The setup
The Purslane plant
The flower
The slide that I observed Observations under Foldscope The flower petal These images are of three different regions of one petal. The last one had some pollens grains stuck to it.
A region near the edge of the petal
A region slightly away from the edge of the petal
A region of the petal with some pollen grains stuck to it The Stigma The stigma had five lobes. These are pictures of some of the lobes, with pollen grains stuck to them.
An edge of a lobe with pollen grains stuck to it
Hair-like structures present in every lobe of stigma
The hair-like structures help the pollen grains to stick to the lobes
A zoomed-in view showing the hair-like structure
A zoomed-in view of a lobe with pollen grains stuck to the hair-like structure The Stamen
The anther of the flower
Pollen grains
A zoomed-in view of the pollen grains The actual pictures are hyperlinked with all the pictures used in this post for a better view.
Cheers, Udit .
Cheers, Udit .
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