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 Manu came to National Geographic last week and I was lucky enough to get a Foldscope demo from him. We have Tradescantia (spiderwort) flowers in the courtyard and he showed us what the trichomes around the anthers look like under magnification.
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  These are trichomes from a Tradescantia (spiderwort) flower.
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  Tradescantia trichomes. Manu said the shorter cells are newer.
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Spiderwort flower trichomes

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