Wednesday 2 May 2012

Hidden beauties #2

Card 2 - A plant with spiral bands




Spirogyra, there are almost 400 species of this genus. I can visualise the slide I had of this alga, to the naked eye just a tangle of pale green threads, but under the microscope the spiral arrangement of chloroplasts was very clear.

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