Thanks, Vijayasankar ji, Wonderly different idea & picture. For others: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM): http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geochemsheets/techniques/SEM.html
A link for Scanning electron microscope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_electron_microscope On 10 January 2012 05:15, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > > Here is yet another b&w picture as 'my flora picture of the year 2011'. > I am not sure if this is suitable for this title, though. > > But this is my first ever SEM picture :) It was my dream....finally came > true! It was a great experience to learn the techniques without a tutor > (but now I am helping many...). > The picture shows glandular and non-glandular trichomes from leaf of > Salvia divinorum, a psychoactive plant endemic to Mexico. > I recorded 5 types and 33 sub-types of trichomes (some of them are new > reports), from a single leaf, thanks to SEM... > > Regards > > Vijayasankar Raman > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
