Beyond the Human Eye

This is probably the low point of the year for exploring life in seaside rock pools but if you search amongst the fronds of seaweeds like th...

Looking like a stained glass window, this is the remains of the seed pod of one of last summer's garden flowers, Lunaria annua (...

This rather beautiful flower is Tibouchina urvilleana and the purple of its petals is due to the presence of anthocyanin pigments, which...

This is a cross section of the stem of the plant commonly known as goosegrass or sticky Jack and more scientifically as Galium aparine . Sti...

Deciding on the prime time to pick a bean pod is s tricky business. Leave it too late and the pod will become tough and stringy - and the re...

To appreciate the true beauty of mosses you really need to explore them with a hand lens or low power microscope. This is Tortula muralis , ...

This is a cell from a developing seed cotyledon of a broad bean Vicia faba plant. In the centre you can see the nucleus , floating like an...

Almost as soon as plants colonised the land surface they began to compete for light, struggling to grow out of each other’s mutual shade. T...

A while back I posted some pictures of the smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum infecting the anthers of white campion  . The flower above is...

I found this delightful little harvestman amongst some raspberries that I picked yesterday evening. Although they are carnivores, they do se...