Dissections

Dissection. White spruce. 1/4

By Anne Young July 20, 2020 July 20, 2020

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Picea glauca White Spruce. This tree lives next to our house. It was approximately 2m tall in 1984 and is now approximately 20m in height.

Picea glauca pollen

Picea glauca. Samples for dissection from our tree.

Picea glauca bark or rhytidome.

Picea glauca. Seed

Picea glauca. Deconstructed seed cone.

Cone dissected bilaterally.

Picea glauca. Pollen cone. Whole and Deconstructed.

Picea glauca needles

One comment

Stefanie Ickert

July 21, 2020 at 8:42 am 4 years ago

Thanks Anne, this is very nicely done and for sure a first in this class. Well done on the longitudinal section of the seed cone, not easy to do.

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