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Plant Root Hair
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Description: "A single root hair on a large scale, showing that it is an outgrowth of an epidermal cell, and the fact that it possesses a living protoplast and large vacuole filled with cell-sap and traversed by cytoplasmic strands. The nucleus is near the apex of the hair." -Stevens, 1916
Source: Stevens, William Chase Plant Anatomy (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1916) 98
Keywords: plant anatomy, plant cells, plant root hair, root hair apex, plant epidermal outgrowth, protoplast, vacuole
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