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The Wageningen University & Research houses a collection of almost 1200 drawings of the root systems of trees, grasses, crops, shrubs, weeds, flowers, and other plants. These drawings were done of plants in Europe, mostly in Austria, over a period of 40 years and are a wonderful combination of scientifically valuable and aesthetically pleasing.
Antennaria dioica
@david Amazingly complex really aren't they? 🤔
@david Amazingly complex really aren't they? 🤔
@prologic not just complex, but detailed. I am not sure how they were envisioned, but I imagine some of the plants—if not all—were planted on special containers, maybe with some glass involved, to be able to see their root system. Or, perhaps, they are extremely carefully uprooted with many notes, and drawings along the way. I might be looking too deep into it, but conceptualising the plants' root system without a visual cue would be, at least for me, extremely hard.
@david These are very lovely indeed. Reminds me of biology class in fifth grade or something around that era. We looked at all kind of different things with microscopes. Pretty nice.