Subject: Re: leaf area meter -
From: [email-masked] (Bryn James Richards)
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 22:48:02
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Lundberg) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (Peter Lundberg)
>Subject: Re: leaf area meter -
>Date: 18 May 1994 08:34:48 GMT

>Try to photocopy the leaves, and cut and weigh the copied
>"paper-leaves". If you know the weight per area for the photocopy
>paper, you'll get the area of the leaves by simple calculation.
>Obviously this approach is not non-destructive, nevertheless useful for
>some experiments...

>Peter

Alternatively you could trace them onto graph paper and count the squares and 
work out the area that way, or get some students to do it. Cheap!