Well done Diane. I particularly like your microscopy efforts that being a particular interest area of mine. Would you care to share information about your techniques?
I use a Leica dissecting microscope: EZ4 W. Because the depth of focus is very shallow, for most pix I hand focus a series of shots at varying distance and then photostack them in Photoshop. Is there anything else I can tell you about?
Another program that you may want to consider to do your stacking is Zerene Stacker by zerenesystems.com. It is free to try and the author is very supportive.
Great information, Diane! I have this plant flourishing and spreading in my rain garden and shade garden. I love it! I didn't notice the fertile frond until this year when I stumbled in it a couple weeks ago. I looked it up to confirm what I saw then. I'm in the piedmont area of northeast Georgia. It's a lovely little fern!
How delightful to discover a fellow admirer of grape ferns! I'm pretty impressed that you have this fern in a garden. I haven't ever seen them for sale from nurseries. Did it predate the garden, or maybe did you transplant it from a nearby source, or did nature herself plant it there for you?
How fine a thing it must be to study ferns around Edinburgh. Well, around anywhere — but Edinburgh must have a magnificent array! Thank you for commenting.
Fascinating information!! Thank you Diane for sharing and doing the research, so we all learn!! Your posts are enjoyable to read! What a fun way to learn about our amazing natural world we share with so many plants and critters!
Thank you Patti. Ah, the Coulter Pines we lived under, those many decades ago. And we were young. I didn't even know yet what I would come to care most about at the other end of life. Did you?
Your post, Diane, was remarkable! I’d like to pose a question. I take images of fungi that grow near my home in north FL. Armed with my IPhone 15 Pro Max, I recently captured a few images. On returning home I checked Siri’s ID of them. Zero. Nada. Not a single attempt. As Siri brokers input to Apple’s AI building efforts I expected better. Is the bottleneck just the vastness of the Fungi Kingdom, compared with the Animal and Plant Kingdoms? I would think the opposite.
I suspect the science is far behind birds, insects, and wildflowers. It's hard to find any information, let alone consistent information. But there are some Facebook groups that focus on fungi.
Thank you for permission to republish!
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/11/20/iowa-wildflower-wednesday-cutleaf-grapefern/
And thank you for publishing it, Laura!
Well done Diane. I particularly like your microscopy efforts that being a particular interest area of mine. Would you care to share information about your techniques?
Thank you Murray.
I use a Leica dissecting microscope: EZ4 W. Because the depth of focus is very shallow, for most pix I hand focus a series of shots at varying distance and then photostack them in Photoshop. Is there anything else I can tell you about?
Neat! Does Photoshop have the ability to perform deconvolution in it's stacking algorithm?
I don't know what deconvolution is.
These guys explain it much better than I can.
https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/microscope-resource/primer/digitalimaging/deconvolution/deconvolutionhome/
I'll check it out. Thanks.
Another program that you may want to consider to do your stacking is Zerene Stacker by zerenesystems.com. It is free to try and the author is very supportive.
Belatedly commenting: I agree with Lora, a fascinating article! If you are willing, I would be honored to publish this at Bleeding Heartland.
Thank you Laura. I'd be very pleased if you did that.
A fascinating article. I learned a lot. Appreciate your microscope detailed views especially.
Thank you for spotlighting this golden being and telling us its ways. Lovely. xo
I appreciate your taking the time to make that comment, Carmine. Very satisfying to me.
Great information, Diane! I have this plant flourishing and spreading in my rain garden and shade garden. I love it! I didn't notice the fertile frond until this year when I stumbled in it a couple weeks ago. I looked it up to confirm what I saw then. I'm in the piedmont area of northeast Georgia. It's a lovely little fern!
How delightful to discover a fellow admirer of grape ferns! I'm pretty impressed that you have this fern in a garden. I haven't ever seen them for sale from nurseries. Did it predate the garden, or maybe did you transplant it from a nearby source, or did nature herself plant it there for you?
Thanks for sharing!
Fascinating. Thank you.
I studied the ferns around Edinburgh as an honours project for my undergraduate degree, so I'm delighted to find out about this beautiful fern.
How fine a thing it must be to study ferns around Edinburgh. Well, around anywhere — but Edinburgh must have a magnificent array! Thank you for commenting.
We do have a lovely selection of ferns in and around Edinburgh and across Scotland. I very much enjoyed my honours project!
Fascinating information!! Thank you Diane for sharing and doing the research, so we all learn!! Your posts are enjoyable to read! What a fun way to learn about our amazing natural world we share with so many plants and critters!
Thank you Moni.
Thank you! Thorough, and as always brilliant exegesis on something so tiny one could easily have missed it. Keep on informing us!
Thank you Patti. Ah, the Coulter Pines we lived under, those many decades ago. And we were young. I didn't even know yet what I would come to care most about at the other end of life. Did you?
Your post, Diane, was remarkable! I’d like to pose a question. I take images of fungi that grow near my home in north FL. Armed with my IPhone 15 Pro Max, I recently captured a few images. On returning home I checked Siri’s ID of them. Zero. Nada. Not a single attempt. As Siri brokers input to Apple’s AI building efforts I expected better. Is the bottleneck just the vastness of the Fungi Kingdom, compared with the Animal and Plant Kingdoms? I would think the opposite.
Thanks ever so much, Diane.
I suspect the science is far behind birds, insects, and wildflowers. It's hard to find any information, let alone consistent information. But there are some Facebook groups that focus on fungi.