Real Mode Transmission of Plant Seed (4 types) specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimen right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the specimen from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of the lucite block is 140x63x17 mm(5.5x2.7x0.7 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the lucite block is 180 g and 220 g with packing box.

1) Siberian Cocklebur - Xanthium sibiricum        2) Soybean - Glycine max

3) Common Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale    4) Indian Lotus - Nelumbo nucifera

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

Shipping cost:

Free shipping cost.

We send the goods to USA buyers by E-express, a kind of postal express service set up by Hong Kong Post. It usually takes about 6 to 10 working days(depends on proximity to USPS international hubs) for delivery in USA.

We send the goods to other countries by registered airmail through Hong Kong Post. It usually takes about 12 to 18 working days for delivery, and it may take a bit longer to Central and South America.

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Siberian Cocklebur - Xanthium sibiricum

Family Asteraceae, genus Xanthium L.

This is an annual spring weed.

Stem 40-60 cm tall, straight, rigid, simple or somewhat branchy, rounded below, striated upwardly. Leaves are triangular-ovoid or cordate, 5-9 cm long, almost entire or indistinctly irregularly serrate-dentate, with fine thin decumbent hairs or bristly pubescent on both sides; petioles are 11 cm long. Involucre embracing hemicarp, oval or ellipsoid, narrowing basad, swollen, 12-15 mm long and 4-7 mm wide, with glandular pubescence; regularly covered with short (1-2 mm long) and thin, hardly thickened at base and hooked at apex, yellowish or greenish thorns. Involucral apical beaks are mostly straight, seldom crescent, sharp, frequently unequal, parallel, less often converging, pubescent, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Blossoming and fructifying occurs from July until September.

Distribution.

The Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia, the Far East, Central Asia, northern Iran, Kashmir, China, Japan.

Ecology.

The plant grows along river banks and valleys, in meadows, edges, waste grounds and dumps, near habitations. It grows well on fertilized grounds.

Economic significance.

The weed litters crops of soya, maize, vegetable cultures. Control measures include autumn plowing, pre-seeding treatment of grounds, cleaning of sowing material, two or three harrowings during the shooting stage of soya, inter-row treatments of tilled cultures, application of herbicides if necessary, maintenance of crop rotation.

Siberian cocklebur is a kind of herb which can be used to cure many diseases. This herbage plant can be seen almost everywhere of China, because it is easy to grow. When I was young, when I played with other children outside, we often picked the fruit up, threw it to each other as our tiny weapons. As it has many thorns, it is easy to stick on our clothes or hairs. At that time I did not know this small weed was so helpful to us, until recently, did I find its various functions.

The fruit of siberian cocklebur alone, which is the most poisonous part of it, is a common herbal medicine. It can reduce lumbago, cure allergic rhinitis,malaria, parotitis, and ulcer of lower limbs, toothache, etc.

As it is poisonous, patients can not take it without doctors’ advice. Most people think that Chinese medicine is safe to some extent, but it is not correct. So we still have to pay more attention to it.

Siberian cocklebur fruit

Fusiform or ovoid, 1~1.5 cm long, 4~7 mm in diameter. Externally yellowish-brown or yellowish-green, with hooked spines throughout. Summit with 2 relatively thick spines, separated or linked up, base with a fruit stalk scar. Texture hard and flexible, the centre of transverse section showing a septum and 2 loculi, each having an achene. Achene slightly fusiform, relatively even at one side, apex with a protruding remains of style, pericarp thin, grayish-black, with longitudinal wrinkle. Testa membranous, pale grey, cotyledons 2, oily. Odour, slight; taste, slightly bitter.

Fruits

1. Influenza and headache.

2. Sinusitis.

3. Rheumatic arthritis.

4. Malaria.

Whole herb

1. Uterine bleeding.

2. Deep abscesses.

3. Leprosy.

4. Eczema.

Soybean - Glycine max

Order: Fabales   Family: Fabaceae    Subfamily: Faboideae   Genus: Glycine

The soybean (US) or soya bean (UK) (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean which has numerous uses. The plant is classed as an oilseed rather than a pulse by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

Fat-free (defatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap source of protein for animal feeds and many prepackaged meals; soy vegetable oil is another product of processing the soybean crop. For example, soybean products such as textured vegetable protein (TVP) are ingredients in many meat and dairy analogues. Soybeans produce significantly more protein per acre than most other uses of land.

Traditional nonfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, and from the latter tofu and tofu skin. Fermented foods include soy sauce, fermented bean paste, natto, and tempeh, among others. The oil is used in many industrial applications. The main producers of soy are the United States (35%), Brazil (27%), Argentina (19%), China (6%) and India (4%). The beans contain significant amounts of phytic acid, alpha-linolenic acid, and isoflavones.

Common Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale

Order: Asterales  Family: Asteraceae    Tribe: Cichorieae    Genus: Taraxacum

Common dandelion (often simply called "dandelion"), is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae). It can be found growing in temperate regions of the world, in lawns, on roadsides, on disturbed banks and shores of water ways, and other areas with moist soils. T. officinale is considered a weed, especially in lawns and along roadsides, but it is sometimes used as a medical herb and in food preparation.

Common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of silver tufted fruits that disperse in the wind called "blowballs"[3] or "clocks".

Common dandelion grows from generally unbranched taproots and produces one to more than ten stems that are typically 5 to 40 cm tall, but sometimes up to 70 cm tall. The stems can be tinted purplish, they are upright or lax, and produce flower heads that are held as tall or taller than the foliage. The foliage may be upright-growing or horizontally spreading; the leaves have petioles that are either unwinged or narrowly winged. The stems can be glabrous or sparsely covered with short hairs. Plants have milky latex and the leaves are all basal; each flowering stem lacks bracts and has one single flower head. The yellow flower heads lack receptacle bracts and all the flowers, which are called florets, are ligulate and bisexual. The fruits are mostly produced by apomixis.

The leaves are 5 to 45 cm long and 1 to 10 cm wide, and are oblanceolate, oblong, or obovate in shape, with the bases gradually narrowing to the petiole. The leaf margins are typically shallowly lobed to deeply lobed and often lacerate or toothed with sharp or dull teeth.

The calyculi (the cuplike bracts that hold the florets) are composed of 12 to 18 segments: each segment is reflexed and sometimes glaucous. The lanceolate shaped bractlets are in two series, with the apices acuminate in shape. The 14- to 25-mm wide involucres are green to dark green or brownish-green, with the tips dark gray or purplish. The florets number 40 to over 100 per head, having corollas that are yellow or orange-yellow in color.

The fruits, called cypselae, range in color from olive-green or olive-brown to straw-colored to grayish, they are oblanceoloid in shape and 2 to 3 mm long with slender beaks. The fruits have 4 to 12 ribs that have sharp edges. The silky pappi, which form the parachutes, are white to silver-white in color and around 6 mm wide. Plants typically have 24 or 40 pairs of chromosomes but some plants have 16 or 32 chromosomes.

Indian Lotus - Nelumbo nucifera

Indian lotus is one of two species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. The Linnaean binomial Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names, Nelumbium speciosum (Willd.) and Nymphaea nelumbo, among others. Names other than Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) are obsolete synonyms and should not be used in current works. This plant is an aquatic perennial. Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.

A common misconception is referring to the lotus as a water lily (Nymphaea), an entirely different plant, as can be seen in the center of the flowers. Nymphaea lacks the structure that goes on to form the distinctive circular seed pod in the Nelumbo nucifera.

Native to Tropical Asia and Queensland, Australia, it is commonly cultivated in water gardens. It is also the national flower of India and Vietnam.

The roots of lotus are planted in the soil of the pond or river bottom, while the leaves float on top of the water surface or are held well above it. The flowers are usually found on thick stems rising several centimeters above the leaves. The plant normally grows up to a height of about 150 cm and a horizontal spread of up to 3 meters, but some unverified reports place the height as high as over 5 meters. The leaves may be as large as 60 cm in diameter, while the showy flowers can be up to 20 cm in diameter.

Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to regulate the temperature of its flowers to within a narrow range just as humans and other warmblooded animals do. Dr. Roger S. Seymour and Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel, physiologists at the University of Adelaide in Australia, found that lotus flowers blooming in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens maintained a temperature of 30–35 °C (86–95 °F), even when the air temperature dropped to 10 °C (50 °F). They suspect the flowers may be doing this to attract coldblooded insect pollinators. The study, published in the journal Nature, is the latest discovery in the field of thermoregulation, heat-producing, plants. Two other species known to be able to regulate their temperature include Symplocarpus foetidus and Philodendron selloum.

An individual lotus can live for over a thousand years and has the rare ability to revive into activity after stasis. In 1994, a seed from a sacred lotus, dated at roughly 1,300 years old ± 270 years, was successfully germinated.