Leaf Water Flow
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“Semi-diagrammatic cross section of a leaf showing by arrows how the water passes from the tracheal elements of a vein into the border parenchyma cells, and thence into the palisade and spongy parenchyma, from which it evaporates into the intercellular spaces and passes from the leaf through the stomata. a, upper epidermis; b, lower epidermis; c, palisade parenchyma; g, spongy parenchyma; d, border parenchyma; e, tracheal elements; and the stippled cells bellow e, the phloem cells.” -Stevens, 1916
Keywords
plant anatomy, plant cells, parenchyma, leaf structure, vascular bundle course, leaf water flow, leaf epidermisGalleries
Cellular BotanySource
William Chase Stevens Plant Anatomy (Philadelphia, PA: P. Blakiston, 1916)
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