Gypsophila Background

Gypsophila: 

"Any of a large genus (Gypsophila) of Old World herbs of the pink family having small delicate usually paniculate flowers" (Merriam Webster)

- Dicot
- Perrenial
- Caryophyllaceae Family 

Flowers - Many flowers 6-8mm in diameter, 5 white petals 2-4mm long, 5 fused cup like sepals. (Link)

Our gypsophila pollen grains were roughly 112.5 micrometers in length when we estimated under the compound mircoscope, it willl be interesting to find out if the sem microscope gives us a similar result, considering it is more accurate than my calculations.