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Hydrilla verticillata

Hydrilla verticillata

Photomicrographs of Hydrilla verticillata at different magnifications. The subject is a plant, native in a wide zone of Eurasia from Poland to India, but now introduced and an intrusive waterweed in much of the rest of the world.

Taken using a National Geographic branded microscope with its digimicroscoping* attachment. The microscope is designed for use by children, and occasionally appears in the special offers aisle at ALDI. Today’s pictures feature one of the prepared slides which is included in the purchase.

* My coinage, on the model of digiscoping, where birders put their mobile’s phones up to the eyepiece of their telescope to picture birds.