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Hardwoods
Angiosperms
Tracheids & Vessel
elements : Vessels =
pores in wood
Texture
heterogeneous
hard wood
Uses- furniture,
fuels
Not all are hard
woods if full of
pores
Vessel elements or
no vessel elements
Juniperus
Ash
Fraxinus
Thuja
Pseudotsuga
Thin-walled cells
Thick-walled cells
Chamaecyparis x.s.
r .l. s.
Traumatic parenchyma
Pinus r.l.s.
Ray tracheids
Fenestroid pits
Cupressoid pits
Taxodioid pits
Piceoid pits
Araucarioid pits
r.l.s.
Abies
Pinus
Pinus t.l.s.
Pinus t.l.s.
showing
vascular
raysuniseriate
and multiseriate
including a
radial resin
canal
Angiosperm with
No vessels!
Semi-ring
porous
Diffuse porous
Pore clusters
Radial pore
orientation
Pore
sizes
Complex nature
of
angiosperm
wood
Magnolia scalariform
vessels with scalariform
perforation plates
Scalariform perforation
plates
Simple
perforation
plates
Septate fibers
Spiral
thickenings
on
vessel
elements
Robinia tyloses
in vessels
Prunus tyloses
Traumatic parenchyma
Uniseriate,
biseriate, and
multiseriate
rays
Carpinus
Storied wood