Plant Collection Set - 5 Plant Life Cycle Specimen Slide (in 5 square clear Lucite Block)  SSLC02

5 genuine different Plant Life Cycle specimens permanently encased in clear lucite material (in 5 separate individual square block). The specimens are crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put living specimens right at your fingertips!
Anyone can safely explore the specimens from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of each block is 75x75x9 mm (3.0x3.0x0.4 inch).

Weight of each block is 60 g.

Total weight of the whole set is 300 g and 440 g with packing box.

Size of the packing box : 181x121x35 mm (7.1x4.8x1.4 inch)

This is a handmade real plant specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing is just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

*** These plants are all from China.              

Bamboo, Rice, Fern, Chilli, Swamp Mahogany              

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Golden Bamboo - Phyllostachys aurea

Order: Poales    Family: Poaceae   Subf amily: Bambusoideae    Supertribe: Bambusodae    Tribe: Bambuseae

Subtribe: Shibataeinae   Genus: Phyllostachys    Species: P. aurea

Phyllostachys aurea, Golden bamboo, is a bamboo species in the genus Phyllostachys native to China. It is a 'running bamboo' type.

Phyllostachys aurea is cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens. It is the most commonly cultivated bamboo in the United States, where it can grow very aggressively in the warm climates of the southeastern U.S. and California.

This bamboo is great for making bamboo pipes.

This bamboo can be difficult to identify as it has varied growth characteristics depending on location. In full shade the culms are apt to remain green. In partial or full sun the culms slowly turn yellow over the first year or two, then deeper gold and orange as they mature. The best way to identify this species is the compressed internodes that occur on random culms, usually (but not always) at the base. These compressed internode growths are called 'tortoise shell'. The leaves tend to grow all the way to the ground on this species, and the type form leaves are green and lack any stripes or streaks. They can grow short, dense and shrubby in poor conditions, or tall and upright. In ideal conditions they can grow to 30 feet tall and 3 inches in diameter. They can be rampant runners and grow aggressively if left unchecked in gardens. Golden bamboo is listed as an invasive plant species in several states.

Chinese Creepingfern - Sphenomeris chusana

Kingdom: Plantae  Subkingdom: Tracheobionta  Division: Pteridophyta

Class: Filicopsida   Order: Polypodiales    Family: Dennstaedtiaceae   Genus: Odontosoria

A pretty, lacy medium sized fern with short-creeping to sub-erect rhizomes. Grows well under medium to high light in well-drained, moist garden soil or potting mix. Native from Madagascar to Polynesia and Japan.

Rare in cultivation.

The Chinese creepingfern is generally described as a Perennial Forb or herb.

Description
The hairless fronds of the fern are glossy light green on burnt-orange stalks and are finely divided (divided 3 times). They can grow from 2 to 5 feet tall and clumps can reach several feet in diameter. Spores are formed at the tips of the smallest segments.

Habitat and Geographic Range
Odontosoria chinensis  is indigenous to Hawai'i, other parts of Polynesia, and east Asia. It is commonly found in forest openings and other disturbed areas such as along trails or roads, or on landslides when there is adequate moisture. This fern grows from sea level to an elevation of at least 4,000 feet.

Propagation by Cuttings
Sphenomeris chinensis is most easily propagated from rhizome cuttings. Cuttings should have a minimum of 3 or 4 mature fronds and some new growth.

Propagation by Division
Sphenomeris chinensis clumps can be easily dug up and divided. Divisions should not be smaller than 4 to 6 inches in diameter.

Chili - Capsicum frutescens

Order: Solanales   Family: Solanaceae   Genus: Capsicum
Capsicum frutescens is a species of chili pepper that includes the following cultivar and varieties:

Piri piri, also called African Bird's Eye or African devil

Malagueta pepper

Tabasco pepper, used to make Tabasco sauce

Thai pepper, also called Bird's Eye chili, Chili Padi[, or Siling labuyo

According to Richard Pankhurst, C. frutescens (known as barbaré) was so important to the national cuisine of Ethiopia, at least as early as the 19th century, "that it was cultivated extensively in the warmer areas wherever the soil was suitable." Although it was grown in every province, barbaré was especially extensive in Yejju, "which supplied much of Showa as well as other neighboring provinces." He singles out the upper Golima river valley as being almost entirely devoted to the cultivation of this plant, where thousands of acres were devoted to the plant and it was harvested year round.

Named as in "bushy" or "shrubby" plant growth. It has been suggested that Capsicum frutescens, in its primitive form, may be the ancestor of Capsicum chinense. Normally treated as a perennial. This species is mainly represented by two cultivars, Tabasco and Malagueta. Tabasco is the most common cultivar of Capsicum frutescens. The Malagueta is a popular cultivar in Brazil. It is not related to Aframomum melegueta, the melegueta or Guinea pepper, from Africa, which is related to ginger.

Flowers solitary at each node (occasionally fasciculate). Pedicels erect at anthesis but flowers nodding. Corolla greenish-white, without diffuse spots at base of lobes, corolla lobes often slightly revolute. Calyx of mature fruit without annular constriction at junction with pedicel, though often irregularly wrinkled; veins usually not prolonged into teeth. Fruit flesh often soft. Seeds straw-coloured. Chromosome number 2n=24, with one pair of acrocentric chromosomes, e.g. Tabasco pepper.

Swamp Mahogany - Eucalyptus robusta

Order: Myrtales    Family: Myrtaceae    Genus: Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus robusta, commonly known as swamp mahogany or swamp messmate, is a tree native to eastern Australia. Growing in swampy or waterlogged soils, it is up to 30 m (100 ft) high with thick spongy reddish brown bark and dark green broad leaves, which help form a dense canopy. The white to cream flowers appear in autumn and winter. The leaves are commonly eaten by insects, and are a food item for the koala. It is an important winter-flowering species in eastern Australia, and has been planted extensively in many countries around the world. Its timber is used for firewood and in general construction.

Eucalyptus robusta grows as a tree to around 20–30 metres (65–100 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 1 metre (3 ft) in diameter at breast height (dbh). The trunk and branches are covered with thick red-brown bark, which has a spongy feel and is stringy—peeling in longitudinal strips. The long irregular branches spread laterally, and form a dense canopy with the broad green leaves. Arranged alternately along the stems, these measure 10–16 centimetres (4–6.4 in) long by 2.7 to 4.5 cm (1.1–1.8 in) wide. The white or cream flowers are clustered in inflorescences of from seven to 13 flowers. The flowers appear anywhere from March to September, and peak over May and June. The buds measure 2 cm by 0.8 cm (0.8 by 0.3 in) wide and are distinctive in that the operculum has a prominent long beak, making them fusiform (spindle-shaped). The woody fruits ripen by May to October.

Rice - Oryza sativa

Order: Poales  Family: Poaceae  Genus: Oryza
Binomial name Oryza sativa

Oryza sativa (common names include Asian rice) is the plant species known in English as rice. Oryza sativa has the smallest cereal genome consisting of just 430Mb across 12 chromosomes. It is renowned for being easy to genetically modify and is a model organism for cereal biology.

Rice is the seed of a monocot plant Oryza sativa. As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East, South, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the West Indies. It is the grain with the second highest worldwide production, after maize.

Rice is normally grown as an annual plant, although in tropical areas it can survive as a perennial and can produce a ratoon crop for up to 30 years.[4] The rice plant can grow to 1–1.8 m tall, occasionally more depending on the variety and soil fertility. The grass has long, slender leaves 50–100 cm long and 2–2.5 cm broad. The small wind-pollinated flowers are produced in a branched arching to pendulous inflorescence 30–50 cm long. The edible seed is a grain (caryopsis) 5–12 mm long and 2–3 mm thick.

Rice cultivation is well-suited to countries and regions with low labor costs and high rainfall, as it is very labor-intensive to cultivate and requires plenty of water for cultivation. Rice can be grown practically anywhere, even on a steep hill or mountain. Although its parent species are native to South Asia and certain parts of Africa, centuries of trade and exportation have made it commonplace in many cultures worldwide.

The traditional method for cultivating rice is flooding the fields while, or after, setting the young seedlings. This simple method requires sound planning and servicing of the water damming and channeling, but reduces the growth of less robust weed and pest plants that have no submerged growth state, and deters vermin. While with rice growing and cultivation the flooding is not mandatory, all other methods of irrigation require higher effort in weed and pest control during growth periods and a different approach for fertilizing the soil.