Contributor: Oliver Wilson (University of Reading)
Number of printable pieces: 1
Recommended print material: Polyactic acid (PLA)
Licence: CC Attribution
Overview
Pollen from goat willow (Salix caprea, Salicaceae).
Male willow catkins are different from most flowers in that they don’t have petals or sepals - they’re just clusters of pollen-bearing stamens and nectar glands.
Technical description of Salix caprea pollen, from Paldat (Hesse & Halbritter, 2016): small isopolar monads, spheroidal or prolate, circular or lobate in polar view, tricolporate, with reticulate exine.
This model is part of the 3D Pollen Project.
In action photo
