Hostas Anther And Pollen Stacks

We have a large area of Hostas growing near our porch. This morning I grabbed one of the flowers to see what it held. I have a nice collection of about 20 plant species flowers and pollen samples from my yard.

I am practicing my stacking and they seem to be getting better.

1. A stack of 12 shots of the anthers split open and showing its load of pollen grains.

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nice series...those pollen grains look similar too wheat grains...where last two shots stacked?...cause i cant figure it out...lots of blurriness...

Thanks Rakesh. No, the last two were not stacked. It looked like one of those spiky rubber dog toys on the end of a stick. It was just too thick to get any real sense of the depth though and I didn't think it would stack well, with those transparent spikes.

The pollen does look like wheat grains, or barley. I have looked a lot of pollen this spring, and a lot of it has that shape, or it's round with little spikes, like a mace ball. But, all of it is yellow.

Wow, that is an interesting window into the unseen. Nice job.

Thanks Crimzon. Yes, it's great for the really small stuff. I am finding though, there is still a gap between the highest macro lens magnification and the lowest microscope lens magnification. At least for the lenses I own. The MPE-65 goes to 5x, and the smallest lens for the microscope I own is a 2x, with 10x oculars, so in effect, 20x. That's quite a gap, and for objects like flower parts, it doesn't really do the job.

For recording images, the ocular or Projector lens I use is only 2.5x, so it should be 5x out of the lens, but then I have two sets of Kenko tubes in line, plus a 1.6x crop sensor. I can't quite do the math for that though, so if anyone with a MPE-65 can compare my images with what he thinks a 5x magnification would be, it would help.