bark
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0004518
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: corteza (Spanish)
- exact: portion of bark tissue
- exact: 樹皮 (Japanese)
- Definition
- All tissues outside the vascular cambium or the xylem; in older trees may be divided into dead outer bark and living inner bark, which consists of secondary phloem. [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- None
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