This Environmental Adaptations of Plants microscope slide set is a set of eighteen slides which have been assembled to demonstrate specific microscopic adaptations of plants to their environments and habitats, for example stinging cells of nettle, and photosynthetic tissue in C3 and C4 plants.

The set includes:

• Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
• C3 and C4 comparative leaf T.S. vascular
• Ficus (fig), sunken stomata
• Ammophila (Marram grass), T.S. leaf
• Erica (heather), Xerophyte leaf
• Drosera (sundew), W.M. leaf
• Urtica (nettles), T.S. stem stinging cells
• Solanum (potato)m T.S. storage stem
• Clematis (leather flower), climbing stem
• Potamogeton, hydrophyte
• Nymphaea (water lily), T.S. floating leaf
• Mesophyte and xerophyte leaf
• Dendrobium (orchid), aerial root
• Cuscuta (dodder), T.S. host to show haustoria
• Sambucus (elderberry), T.S. stem lenticel
• Sun and shade leaf, Fagus (beech)
• Pinguicula (Butterwort), T.S. leaf
• Pinus (pine), T.S. leaf

Glossary:

• T.S. - Transverse Section
• W.M. - Whole Mount

The product image shows Ammophila (Marram grass), T.S. leaf