Figure 8: Garlic contains several broad, tubular vessels with elongated and polygonal cells linked together to form a long column (A). Strips of green onion have a lamellar pattern and even spacing (B), with quadrilateral-shaped cells. PAP stained smears from a ginger root yielded loose aggregate of oval to polygonal-shaped structures with distinctive glassy, refractive appearance with distinctive nuclei. They can mimic ova, if found in stool (C, D). A: Garlic, PAP stain, 20x magnification B: Green onion, MGG stain, 20x magnification C: Ginger, PAP stain, 100x oil magnification D: Ginger, PAP stain, 60x magnification