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Seed photos?

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Would they be of use to you? I have lots of different seeds of species without photos on this guide. i can get pretty detailed photos with a microscope if interested.

Will have more pics for you of species you no photos of once my plants grow lol.

but for now, are pics of seeds useful at all?
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You know, that probably would be a good thing. I think the more photos, the better. I know some places post images of flowers cut in half and so on. So yeah, can you e-mail me the images? I've got some images piling up so will be doing another update soon.
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When flowers and/or fruit still question the plants ID, seeds are next in line. But you'll have to wait for flowers and fruit to grow on the plant in question...and then hope they set seed!

I hadn't thought about taking pics of seeds (lord knows i take lots of pics and have lots of seeds :roll: )
but i'll be thinking of it now!
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indeed!

Daiv, you want flower cross sections too? lol... i got some of those as well from past experiments.

i feel bad, i just sowed a whole whack of seeds (about 10,000....some species i ran out of seeds, but the rest i will photograph and email you :) lol, whoops!
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ok i brought out the scope and took some pics....i just realized, should of thought of this earlier, that under the microscope there is almost no depth of field....i men its like looking at slices....so the focus is not really that good, sorry!!!! but the main details are clear enough i think.

i tried cranking up the f stop to f31 but to no avail, the scope limits things a LOT when there is height involved :(

here are some.

Cereus bageanus not sure where this specie is thrown now???
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Cereus forbesii
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Cereus hexagonus
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Cereus hildmannianus
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Cereus horridus
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Cereus jamacaru
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Cereus peruvianus
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Cereus pitaya
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Cereus xanthocarpus
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Hylocereus polyrhizus
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Hylocereus purpusii
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Lophophora decipiens
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Lophophora diffusa
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Lophophora fricii
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Lophophora jourdaniana
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Lophophora koehresii
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Lophophora williamsii
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Myrtillocactus eichlamii
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Myrtillocactus schenckii
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Selenicereus grandiflorus
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Stenocereus fricii
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Trichocereus bridgesii
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Trichocereus macrogonus
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Trichocereus pachanoi
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Trichocereus peruvianus
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Trichocereus spachianoides
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Weberbauerocereus albus
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thats it for now.

im posting them here cause photobucket uploads one in 40 secs, hotmail takes about minutes......very slow!!!!and these are all scaled down from 4-8mb, the originals take about 25 mins each on hotmail to upload :(
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Hey Loph,
Don't worry about e-mail or posting. Just load them to your photobucket and I can pull them down from there.

That will save you a lot of posting time!

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ohh ok....well they are posted already but i know for next time :)
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Well, no harm done. :)
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Very interesting! TFS
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