# Поперечный срез побега Casuarina equisetifolia

- By: Anatoly Mikhaltsov
- Date: 2014-11-23
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0_Casuarina_equisetifolia.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0_Casuarina_equisetifolia.jpg/1920px-%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0_Casuarina_equisetifolia.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Cross-section of a shoot of an ancient dicotyledon - Casuarina equisetifolia subsp. equisetifolia

This evergreen plant grows in Australia and western Oceania Islands. Soft segmented shoots like an equisetum move away from the tree branches. The scaly leaves are arranged in whorls. This mount is valuable because the cross-section shows tissues of segmented shoots and scaly leaves together. Cross-section diameter: 1mm, cross-section thickness: 20 µm The authorial prepared mount, authorial technique of polychrome painted tissues

Light microscopy, bright-field in transmitted light, focus stacking – 6 sectors with 14-16 images in every one