difference between homoxylic and heteroxylic wood with examples from gymnosperms
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The secondary thickening of woody plants is provided by continuous divisions of the cambium ... However, gymnosperm wood is homoxylous, because tracheas and fibers are absent. Plants with homoxylous wood are called Homoxylous plants. ... Gymnosperms including ferns and mosses have homoxylous wood.
Secondary xylem is of different types is called heteroxylous wood. In this, the formation of sapwood and heartwood takes place. It is mostly found in dicotyledons.❤️
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Homoxylic wood is present in the gymnosperm whereas heterocyclic wood is present in the angiosperms
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- In case of most of the gymnospermic plants there is extra growth of the cambium.
- This is known as secondary growth in the gymnosperm and the wood formed is deficient in several ways like absence of the xylem vessels and the tracheids.
- However in the dicot variety of the angiosperms the wood is the heterocyclic wood and the components of the plant is almost found all the time.
To know more about heteroxylic wood,
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