I can sometimes identify plants with the aid of a field guide
and sometimes not. Sometimes leaves and other stuff from the plant
falls on the ground and is easily collected for its own sake, just
to have a record of what I found. I own a microscope which can give
magnification from 50X to 675X. I don't have a laboratory and am
certainly not going to try doing DNA sequencing. I'm just wondering
whether there are easy ways to distinguish, say, different trees by
looking at parts of them (e.g. leaves) under a microscope. E.g. maybe
their cells look different?
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Ignorantly,
Allan Adler
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