Acorn Experiment

The plant part I chose to observe was an acorn. Although I was uncertain about what I was supposed to find, I took mental notes of the acorn and its location. The acorn, light brown in color, wearing a rigid little dark brown cap, had just fallen off a tree by the Agriculture Sciences building. It seemed abandoned in a sense, just left to lie on the concrete, among dead decaying leaves, and other fallen acorns. It looked as if it had been left to die. As people were walking by they began to kick it, or step on it. Eventually, it had been kicked in-between a crack in the concrete. The wind started to blow and it slowly started to tremble, but since it had been wedged in a crack between the concrete, it did not roll away. Then after the wind started to calm, I decided to get a better look at it and decide to pick it up. …show more content…
Intrigued by the whimsical acorn, I then began to dissect it. I pried off the brown cap (cupule), where it revealed a three rings on top of the acorn. Unfortunately, I dropped it accidentally and went to retrieve it. I then examined it and noticed that it did not even appear to have one scratch on it. Even after it had been kicked, trembled on, and dropped it still seemed to be unaffected. It was amazing to see nature's ingenuity in producing a durable, yet tiny acorn, that only seemed to be made out of wood. The longer I stared at the acorn, the more intricate its details became. The acorn seemed to have been the product of a fusion of rings spiraling around its edges of the top. The acorn also seemed to have blemishes in its color; some areas had blotches of light brown were the dark would be and vice versa. In addition to the blemishes, there was also one ring that was darker than all the others that wrapped around the acorn. I assumed it had been the mark of the start or the end of the series of