Wheat Field Burning Particle

This is cluster of pyrolzed silica phytoliths from an environmental tapelift collected in a home exposed to a wheat field fire. It includes two obvious stomata with elongated guard cells (center and left of center). The stomata are elongated and oriented parallel to the elongated cell elements. There are numerous rondels, rounded phytoliths like the one near the scale bars. Some of these are the bases of trisomes, plant hairs. The most common phytoliths are the carbon coated, elongated, dendritic, sheet elements.