Wednesday, February 11, 2009


This is an image of a spider plant root cross section. This image shows that the plant is a dicot, the vascular bundles are arranged sporadically. The darker image in the center is a vacuole.








This is an image of a spider plant leaf. The leaf is cut at a diagonal so you can see the layers of cells. The lighter, whiter pigment is the cells that have a lack of chloroplast. In this particular plant, the leaf is also the stem. The stem part of the leaf is the chloroplast-less cells that extend alongside the green part of the leaf and throughout the middle of the plant.