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| Separable SOMSO plant models - an ever expanding collection. Nearly every botanical SOMSO model has been developed in cooperation with Prof. Dr. W. Weber. |
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BoS 15/2 - Garden-Tulip, Flower
Tulipa gesneriana, model enlarged approx. 4 times, made in SOMSO-Plast®. After Prof. Dr. W. Jung and Prof. Dr. W. Weber. Half the corolla can be removed to show the stamens and pistil. In the detachable node the arrangement of the seed is shown in section. Model separates into 3 parts. On a green base with explanatory note.
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BoS 15/3 - Tulip Bulb
Tulipa gesneriana, model enlarged approx. 5 times, made in SOMSO-Plast®. After Prof. Dr. W. Weber, Reutlingen. The model shows the longitudinal section of a shooting tulip bulb. The dry outer scale encompasses the fleshy inner leaves (or leaf bases). The young shoot carries a flower bud. A replacement bulb forms down the axis of the innermost scale and an offshoot bulb down the axis of another leaf. Model separates into 3 parts. On a green base with key.
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BoS 15/5- Ear of Rye
Secale cereale, model enlarged approx. 25 times, made in SOMSO-Plast®. After Prof. Dr. W. Jung and Prof. Dr. W. Weber. The separable model (in 4 parts) shows the typical structure of an ear of grass: the outer husk, aristate husk, front husk, swollen body, and hermaphroditic blossom (3 spoon-shaped stamens, nodes with pollen sacs and two feather-shaped stigma). On a stand with green base and explanatory note.
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BoS 18 - Model of a Cross-Section of a Wheat-Grain as an Example of a Caryopsis
Triticum aestivum L., model enlarged approx. 75 times, made in SOMSO-Plast®. After Prof. Dr. W. Jung. The model demonstrates a wheat-grain divided in half lengthways. The embryo can be removed. The cell layers of the fused fruit and seed shell are represented in cross-section, longitudinal and surface section. The remainer of the pistil pulvinus with the "awns" is located at the tip, opposite the basal germinal layer. Model separates into 2 parts, on a stand with green base and explanatory key.
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