He gulped and was silent the whole time. Without a word, he returned the leaf to study it further. Looking closer, he could also see clusters of tiny, rectangular things.
"Do you see the green rectangular things that seemed soft to touch?" she asked.
When he nodded, she continued to explain them to him. "They are filled with green liquid we call chlorophyll. The small structures within these cells, called Chloroplasts, capture the sunlight, which then brings life to the plant!"
Hoffen was fascinated. He could watch the so-called 'microscopic' entities dance within their confines all day. He also saw the tiny openings on the leaf's surface—which was apparently the aforementioned 'stomata'—that seemed to pulse as they opened and closed.
"This is amazing…"
"Because we know more intricately what each plant was made of, we can better understand its functions and how we can use it."
