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Authors: Stefan and Richard Hollos
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Macro/Micro Picture of the Day
September 27, 2020
Lemon Balm Seed
Here is a lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) seed at 40x magnification. Lemon balm seed has dimensions of about 0.72 by 1.8 mm. Lemon balm is a perennial plant in the mint family.
To compensate for depth of field limitations, this image was created by focus stacking 7 images using Hugin Tools.
Equipment used: AmScope M150C microscope with Raspberry Pi camera module V2 (8MP).