Micro images of seeds (top-bottom):
1. Crassula pellucida, a succulent, in the jade family. Image by Rob Kesseler.
2. Arabidopsis Thaliana (a European cress). The image shows a small, six-day-old seedling of Arabidopsis thaliana under a scanning electron microscope and captures the essence of seed germination, the tiny and delicate beginnings of a plant. Image by: Mark Talbot. maxisciences.com
3. Snapdragon Seed
4. Various. Image by Rob Kesseler.
5. Plant seed from freshwater pond, starting to sprout. Fluorescence, 10x by Dr. Daniel Stoupin, Moscow, Russia. olympusbioscapes.com
(with thanks to insteading)
















