16 August 2023
Superbly coloured tiles. An intricate sample. What ground, wall or ceiling holds this mosaic? Click on right here to see a closeup.
The photograph caption at Wikimedia Commons has the reply:
Woody Dicot Stem Vascular Cylinder in One 12 months Liriodendron, photograph from Berkshire Group Faculty Bioscience Picture Library, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The mosaic is manufactured from the cells within the woody stem of a one yr previous tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera), sliced skinny and magnified 100 occasions. The colours and shapes are particular to the species and its age. The outline signifies that issues change at lot in a one yr previous tulip tree.
The mosaic slice was photographed in 2014 at Berkshire Group Faculty in Pittsfield, MA from a sapling that in all probability grew in Western Massachusetts.
When a tulip tree grows up it has leaves and flowers like this.
Nonetheless stunning and complicated even when not magnified.
For extra data on the mosaic picture see the description of the picture right here. It’s so technical that I want a glossary to determine what it means.
(photographs from Wikimedia Commons and Kate St. John)
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