Morphology

H, 40 - 80cm

Ecology

hill and mountain ruderal, dry site

Chorology

Eurasian

Xylem

Only one ring, vessels solitary and in radial multiples tangentially arranged, simple perforations, vessel diameter 50-70µm, with vestured intervessel pits, scalariform and round intervessel-pits, fibers thick-walled, parenchyma vasicentric and pervasive, ray width 5-12 cells, with sheet cells, heterocellular with many rows of square cells. With prismatic crystals around the rays.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

With ray dilatations, with isolated sclerenchyma cells, with prismatic crystals.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

Cross section
   
Tangential section
 
Radial section
 
Bark
 

© 2005 WSL - F. Schweingruber, W. Landolt, last update 18.11.2010