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Buxus sempervirens L.
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Box Tree
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Buxaceae
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Transversal section |
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Diffuse-porous. Small pores, solitary, numerous to relatively infrequent. Growth ring boundaries often indistinct. Thick-walled fibre-tracheids. Apotracheal diffuse parenchyma. |
             
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Radial section |
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Round to oval, scalariform perforation plates with 5 to 10 bars. Heterogeneous rays. Thick-walled ray cells, with 1 to 3 rows of square and upright marginal cells. Fibre tissue composed uniquely of fibre-tracheids. |
   
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Tangential section |
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Predominantly biseriate rays, rarely uni- or 3-seriate. Small ray cells in the central zone of ray, conspicuously bigger marginal cells. Ray height 6 to 12 cells. |
   
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Key characters |
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Diffuse-porous, small pores. Scalariform perforation plates. Heterogeneous biseriate rays. |
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