Morphology

H, 10 - 40cm

Ecology

hill and mountain zone, dry site

Chorology

SE-Europ. W.Asiat

Xylem

Indistinct rings, vessel mostly solitary, simple perforation, vessel diameter 30-40µm, round intervessel pits, fibers thick-walled, rare parenchyma, round vessel-ray pits, homocellular multiseriate, rays with upright cells.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Stem slightly lobed, with ray dilatations, and many lactifers in a thin-walled parenchymatic tissue of the cortex.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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Radial section
 
Bark
 

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