Morphology

N 80-200 cm

Ecology

hill and mountain cultivated

Chorology

E-Asia

Xylem

Distinct rings, diffuse-porous, vessels solitary, mostly simple perforation, with a few scalariform perforation, vessel diameter 30-50µm, fibers partially with scalariform intervessel pits, fibers with large pits, fibers thick-walled, parenchyma paratracheal and apotracheal, rays uni- and multiseriate, with sheet cells, homocellular with prostrate cells, with prismatic crystals.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

With a few sclereids, with crystal druses, multilayered periderm with regular arranged cells.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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