Use the following websites to confirm your flower identification by matching the pollen you observed and diagramed to pictures of pollen online.
- Start here! Pollen: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct08/bj-peru.html
- Great pollen sites:
- http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/polonmon.html
- http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/polondc1.html
- http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/polondc2.html http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/polondc3.html
- The links to the UofAz (University of Arizona) pictures are working, although others are not. You may need to do some exploring to find pictures of your pollen. Use the scientific name (genus) and not the common name.
- Great images of pollen: http://remf.dartmouth.edu/images/botanicalPollenSEM/
- Forensic database of pollen: http://www.cci.ca.gov/Reference/Pollen/pollen.htm
- There’s always Google Images if you get stuck!
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