Morphology

H, 40 - 80cm

Ecology

hill and mountain hedge

Chorology

European

Xylem

Indistinct rings, vessels solitary simple perforations, vessel diameter 70 – 140µm, with scalariform and vestured intervessel pits, groups of fibers fibers thick-walled, parenchyma vasicentric and pervasive, ray width 5 -15 cells, with sheet cells, more or less homocellular with square cells.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

With tangential bands of collapsed sieve tubes, with ray dilatations, small groups of thick-walled sclerenchyma cells, with a few prismatic crystals in rays.

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