Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leaf tissue structure

Leaf tissue structure

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Original - The fine scale structure of a leaf showing the major tissues; the upper and lower epidermis (and associated cuticles), the palisade and spongy mesophyll and the guard cells of the stoma. Vascular tissue (veins) is not shown. Key plant cell organelles (the cell wall, nucleus, chloroplasts, vacuole and cytoplasm) are also shown.

Reason: A high quality representation of a simple but extremely important piece of biology.
Articles in which this image appears: Leaf, Epidermis (botany), Palisade cell, Plant cuticle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Others, Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams
Creator: Zephyris

Support as nominator --- Zephyris _Talk 00:35, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support: A good example of what is possible with SVG. Brings back memories of high school biology. This is actually an inset of File:Leaf Structure.svg and I'd like to propose they be voted on as a set.--RDBury (talk) 17:16, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:07, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The upper epidermal cells seem strangely large. See 1, 2, 3. Spencer^T♦C 23:30, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think the diagram is only supposed to represent a typical angiosperm. The details will vary from species to species so it's possible that large epidermal cells and small ones are both correct.--RDBury (talk) 06:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This diagram is loosely based on Arabidopsis thaliana which I believe does have large upper epithelial cells. As RDBury says, however, this is just a representative diagram; there are a great many variations to this structure which can, and do, occur, including size of upper epithelial cells. - Zephyris _Talk 10:23, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Spencer^T♦C 20:24, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. A wonderful diagram, assuming the content is accurate. Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 22:42, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support but you really should drop the number of required votes to 4. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:23, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Leaf Tissue Structure.svg --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:45, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]