Structure of Different Flower Types (BioE80 Spr2015)
May 24, 2015 • 12:04 PM UTC
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At first, I was interested in learning about how different colors of flowers were structured at the microscopic level. To investigate this, I picked 5 different colors/types of flowers from around Stanford:
Once my samples had been collected, I used the foldscope with cellphone attachment to look closely at each of my samples.
My first sample was a small purple flower as shown. I found that this sample (One with purple petals) retained its purple color at the microscopic level.
My first sample was a small purple flower as shown. I found that this sample (One with purple petals) retained its purple color at the microscopic level.
My second sample at a red spined flower. This sample had a completely different structure from the petal one. It still retained the red color but its structure was much more tree-like.
My third sample was a large white petaled flower. This sample had a very similar structure to the purple flower but it seemed like the color “white” was practically gone at the microscopic level.
My forth sample was of a blue petal flower. This similarly had the cell-like structure at the microscopic level and maintained its color.
The fifth and final sample I took was of a simple dandelion yellow flower. This had more string-like petals than the others and looking at it through the foldscope revealed that it had much smaller looking cells that the ones in the other petals.
From this, I believe the color has little to do with the structure of the flower at this level. But maybe if magnification were increased, could structure play a great role in the color of the petals?
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