Morphology

N 80-200 cm

Ecology

hill and mountain dry meadow

Chorology

European

Xylem

Distinct rings, ring-porous, vessels solitary, simple perforation, vessel diameter 80-160µm, fibers with large pits, fibers thin- to thick-walled, parenchyma apotracheal, rays uniseriate and multiseriate, locally with sheet cells, heterocellular with prostrate and some rows of upright cells.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

With sieve tubes and parenchyma in tangential bands, sclerenchyma cells in tangential rows, with prismatic crystals, multilayered periderm with regular arranged cells.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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Bark
 

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