FORESTRY
PLANT AND WOOD ANATOMY
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Question
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Heartwood
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Cambium
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Outer bark
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Inner Bark
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Detailed explanation-1: -B: The inner bark, or “phloem”, is pipeline through which food is passed to the rest of the tree. It lives for only a short time, then dies and turns to cork to become part of the protective outer bark.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inner bark of a woody plant is phloemn & function of phloem is to transport food from the leaves to the other parts of plant. Xylem is another tansporting duct of plant that transport minerals & water from the roots to the leaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -The rhytidome is the most familiar part of bark, being the outer layer that covers the trunks of trees. It is composed mostly of dead cells and is produced by the formation of multiple layers of suberized periderm, cortical and phloem tissue. The rhytidome is especially well developed in older stems and roots of trees.