Morphology

T, 10-40 cm

Ecology

hill zone, dry site

Chorology

S-Europ.

Xylem

Only one ring, vessels solitary and in radial rows, vessels with simple perforations, intervessel pits round and scalariform, fibers thin walled with small pits, parenchyma not to recognize, ray width 1-3 cells, often confluent with axial tissue, ray cells exclusively square and upright, without crystals

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Sieve cell groups often surrounded by sclerenchyma cells.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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Tangential section
 
Radial section
  
Bark
  

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