Pistil of Adenium obesum

Jose R. Almodovar Rivera of the biology department at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez captured this 10x photograph of the Pistil of Adenium obesum, a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that's native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan.

The image was awarded 14th place in the 2012 Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition.

October 25, 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Photo by: Jose R. Almodovar Rivera

| Caption by: James Martin

 

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