SEM Pictures

Primrose pollen
Captured By: Toby, Haven and Henry

This is a photo of Primrose pollen at 2000x. It is hard to see but we measured this pollen grain and it was 132 um. The Primrose Pollen was much larger than the Wild Rose or Red Rose pollen.

Primrose pollen
Captured by: Toby, Haven, and Henry

Our primrose pollen was not fully dried so most of it was covered in a fungus that was decomposing it. The fungal hyphae are the long strings wrapped around the pollen grain but you can still see through to the speckled texture of the pollen cell wall.

Red Rose Pollen
Captured By: Toby, Haven, and Henry

This is a photo of Red Rose pollen at 2000x. The top pollen grain measured to 41.3 um. This was very similar to the Red Rose that we measured at 39.1 um.

Red Rose pollen
Captured By: Toby, Haven, and Henry

This picture of a Red Rose pollen grain was taken at 20000x. The texture looks somewhat like a finger print wrinkly and curved. It looks very different from the Primrose pollen but similar to the Wild Rose.

Wild Rose Pollen
Captured By Henry, Toby And Haven

The photo above shows a picture of a single wild rose pollen at 2000X also this photo has a measurement on it showing that the pollens length is 39.1 um it is the smallest pollen out of the three and vastly different from the primrose but similar to the red rose.

Wild Rose Pollen 

Captured By Henry, Toby and Haven

This photo was taken of wild rose pollen at 5250X as you can see the closer you get to the pollen the more you can see that the surface of the pollen looks similar to a finger print. And you can see that the pollen grain only has one opening so it is known as a ……

Wild Rose Pollen 

Captured By Toby, Henry and Haven 

The photo about is of wild rose pollen at 14000X in the photo you can see the opening and and the surface looks as if it has little trails on it as well as little black dots that have no pattern to them, they are just at random. 

Primrose Pollen 

Captured By Henry, Toby and Haven 

This is a photo of fungal hyphae that is growing on the pollen, fungal hyphae is a form of mold and we think that it is growing on the pollen because the sample got stored when it was still a little damp for the fungal hyphae started to grow.