Today volunteers Bill and Bob spent the morning respectively cleaning and counting Echinacea achenes. Bill (pictured below) came across a receptacle that had a big hole in it–probably due to a burrowing critter:
In other news, Shona Sanford-Long, one of the 2012 summer REU interns, is here in the lab working on her Echinacea hybridization project. She spent the morning meticulously extracting achenes from the Echinacea pallida x angustifolia crosses she performed last summer.
![Share on Twitter twitter](https://echinaceaproject.org/wp-content/plugins/social-media-feather/synved-social/image/social/regular/48x48/twitter.png)
![Pin it with Pinterest pinterest](https://echinaceaproject.org/wp-content/plugins/social-media-feather/synved-social/image/social/regular/48x48/pinterest.png)
![Share by email mail](https://echinaceaproject.org/wp-content/plugins/social-media-feather/synved-social/image/social/regular/48x48/mail.png)
Leave a Reply