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Amazing microscopic images of seeds and pollen

A petri dish creation of cultivated mold by artist <n>Daria Fedorova</n>.

A microscopic diatom, a single-celled algae with an intricate silica cell wall. Photo by <n>Jan Rosenboom</n>.

Microbes grown from plant tissue, photographed by <n>Tracy Debenport</n>.

A woodcut print of a tree cross-section by artist <n>Bryan Nash Gill</n>.

A fungal formation by <n>multitextured fungal formations</n>, a Kyiv-based art and science project.

The fungus <n>Talaromyces calidicanius</n>, from a time-lapse video by <n>Wim van Egmond</n>.

Leaf texture used for the <n>Kuphuka GREENS</n> food supplement.