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Wood types
This document discusses different types of wood, including coniferous wood which is composed of radial files of cells with resin ducts and tracheids. It also discusses ring porous wood which has large earlywood vessels and diffuse porous wood which has small vessels throughout. Examples of different species are provided for each wood type.
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- 2. Coniferous Diffuse PorousRing Porous
- 3. Conifers: radial filesof cells (for most species) Note: colors are inverted! This is an x-ray!
- 5. Conifers: radial filesof cells (for most species)
- 6. Conifers: radial filesof cells (for most species) Resin ducts Tracheids Horizontal rays
- 7. Conifers: radial filesof cells (for most species)
- 8. Yellow Pines =thick latewood Southern Pines Ponderosa Pine Red Pine
- 9. White Pines =thin latewood Eastern White Pine Western White Pine Sugar Pine
- 10. Balsam Fir WhiteFir Grand Fir
- 11. Wood Type 1:Conifer Wood
- 12. Wood Type 1:Conifer Wood
- 13. Wood Type 1:Conifer Wood
- 14. Ring porous: largeearlywood vessels
- 16. Ring porous: largeearlywood vessels Vessels Fibers Rays
- 17. Chestnut and Oak Elm and Hackberry Sassafras and Black Locust Hickory and Pecan
- 19. Oaks rarely have missing rings but they can have very compressed growth.
- 20. Oak often exhibitsan offset in the rings across rays.
- 21. Diffuse porous: smallvessels throughout
- 22. Diffuse porous: smallvessels throughout Vessels Fibers Rays
- 23. Sugar Maple RedMaple Dogwood
- 24. American Holly BlackCherry Tulip-Poplar