Friday, January 9, 2009

Cotton, as you don't know it :)


Here is some coton plant sliced and viewed under a microscope.
Cotton, Genus: Gossypium it is a shrub up to 3 m high. It has supplied the human kind with fabric material since thousand of years. Normally you imagine cotton as a fruit of a cotton plant, lump of fibers, fluffy and soft. Here I would like to introduce to you the "inside" of this plant. On presented migrograph you can see: top left, how a cotton plant looks like in macroscale, top right it is a section through a stem of a cotton plant, lower left a leaf section showing some chlorofil (the green stuff) and a middle "nerve" of the leaf, lower right is the leaf. To me this picture shows the beauty of plants that can be find within, I mean if you slice them and review under the microscope ;) Plants can reveal a different kind of beauty appart of their flashy flowers and soductive smell.

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