I haven't played with the microscope in a while. I wish it had a higher resolution and better under slide light but I'll have to sell a bunch of plants to afford the more professional digital scope models. anyway, here we go...
Nepenthes eustachya in cross section simply scanned on my flatbed (this image shown here is low res cos the pitcher is nearly 20 cm in height and I had to reduce it a good deal for the web).
microscope views:
20x view of nectar gland on underside of lid
20x view of digestive glands in digestive zone
100x view of digestive gland note the light reflecting the indented nature of the digestive cell clusters.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good view of the waxy plates from the upper waxy zone. Not from either of the WZ tissue samples I made for the microscope slides, nor from the split half.
Hopefully someone found this interesting anyway!
Nepenthes eustachya in cross section simply scanned on my flatbed (this image shown here is low res cos the pitcher is nearly 20 cm in height and I had to reduce it a good deal for the web).
microscope views:
20x view of nectar gland on underside of lid
20x view of digestive glands in digestive zone
100x view of digestive gland note the light reflecting the indented nature of the digestive cell clusters.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good view of the waxy plates from the upper waxy zone. Not from either of the WZ tissue samples I made for the microscope slides, nor from the split half.
Hopefully someone found this interesting anyway!