Lathyrus Odoratus

By lathyrus

"Abutilon, Jim, but not as we know it"

Misquoting a misquotation for my title (not from Star Trek but from the 1987 'novelty' song Star Trekkin). I've decided to have another go at hybridising a new abutilon by collecting pollen from Abutilon 'Roter Vulkan' and depositing it on Abutilon 'Buttercup'. For my blip today I borrowed my daughter's digital microscope to photograph some abutilon pollen grains prior to transferring them to their new host. The keen-eyed will spot that the image is date stamped 04/02/2013 at 00:44. That's not when it was taken but I didn't know how to reset the date and time on the microscope. The result (Abutilon 'Emily Rose') from my previous attempt can be seen here.

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