Higher Plants - Floral Structures

Cryo-SEM: Forget-me-not (Boraginaeace) plant petal and pollen

Prepared by cryo-SEM using a Quorum Technologies PP3000T series Cryo-preparation system attached to a Carl Zeiss Sigma FE-SEM.
Images courtesy of the Image and Analysis Unit at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton and Carl Zeiss UK.

Cryo-SEM: Forget-me-not (Boraginaeace) plant petal surface with pollen

Prepared using a Quorum Technologies PP3000T Cryo-SEM Preparation System attached to a Carl Zeiss Sigma FE-SEM.

Images courtesy of the Image and Analysis Unit at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, and Carl Zeiss SNT.

Cryo-SEM: plant pollen

Examples of pollen prepared by cryo-SEM, including "mother and baby", bottom right