Compound Microscope

Our group made wet mounts of all three of pollen to see if pollen tube growth could occur. Sadly two of our pollen samples did not end up growing pollen tubes, but one of ours did. The wild rose had what we believe to be the start of a pollen tube but the tube did not continue growing it just stayed the same.

Photo of the Primrose Pollen 

Captured by Haven, Toby and Henry

This is a photo of the primrose pollen the circles that are touching the pollen are air bubble not pollen tubes growing from the pollen grain.

Photo of the Wild Rose

Captured By Henry, Toby and Haven 

You can sort of see at the very edge of the white circle the pollen tube beginning to grow off of the pollen. It looked almost as if the pollen tube had a little foot.