Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Evidence of Life in the Citrus Growth Experiment

The citrus growth experiment has not been much of a success at this point, but today Kallan discovered a sign of life. At first, she was sure it was was a baby lemon tree, but we checked it out with a magnifying glass. She drew it, described it (e.g., white, bell-shaped, like a comb jelly at the top), and decided it was more like a mushroom then any seedling she had ever seen. We then removed it from the soil, and examined it under higher magnification (i.e., 100X, 200X). It does sort of resemble a ctenaphore and a monarch egg.

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