Decidious Tree Diagram of Parts. USDA,Forest Service - Tree Owner Manual
Although a tree is common and familiar to all of us, how a tree grows, functions and its unique biology is not so familiar. The interrelationship of all a tree's parts is very complex and especially so is it's photosynthetic properties. A tree begins life looking very much like every other plant you've seen. But give that seedling about a month and you will begin to see a true single stem, tree-like leaves or needles, bark and the formation of wood. It takes only a few short weeks to see a plant showing its grand transformation into a tree.
Like everything else on earth, ancient trees sprung from the sea and are dependent on water. A tree's root system comprises the important water-collecting mechanism that makes life possible for trees and ultimately for everything on the planet that depends on trees.
A Tree's Roots
An important biologic functionary of the tree root system is the tiny, nearly invisible root "hair". Root hairs are located just behind the hard, earth-probing root tips that burrow, elongate and expand in search of moisture while at the same time building a tree's ground support. Millions of those delicate, microscopic root hairs wrap themselves around individual grains of soil and absorb moisture along with dissolved minerals.
A major soil benefit occurs when these root hairs grab soil particles. Gradually, the tiny roots reach out to so many particles of earth that the soil becomes firmly tied into place. The result is that soil is capable of resisting the erosion of wind and rain and becomes a firm platform for the tree itself.
Interestingly, root hairs have a very short life so the root system is always in expansion mode, growing to provide sustained maximum root hair production. To take full advantage of finding available moisture, tree roots run shallow with the exception of the anchoring tap root. The majority of roots are found in the top 18 inches of soil and over half are actually in the top six inches of soil. The root and drip zone of a tree is fragile and any significant soil disturbance close to the trunk can potentially harm a tree's health.
A Tree's Trunk
A tree's trunk is critical for limb support and root-to-leaf nutrient and moisture transport. The tree trunk has to lengthen and expand as the tree grows in its search for moisture and sunlight. A tree's diameter growth is done via cell divisions in the cambium layer of the bark. The cambium is comprised of growth tissue cells and found just under the bark.
Xylem and phloem cells are formed on both sides of the cambium and continually adding a new layer each year. These visible layers are called annual rings. Cells to the inside make up the xylem which conducts water and nutrients. In xylem cells the fibers provide strength in the form of wood; the vessels allow water and nutrient flow to the leaves. Cells to the outside make up the phloem, which transports sugars, amino acids, vitamins, hormones, and stored food.
I cannot overstate the importance of tree trunk bark and how it protects the trunk and tree. Trees ultimately deteriorate and die due to damaged bark from insects, pathogens and environmental damage. The condition of a tree's trunk bark is one of the most important factors effecting a tree's health.
A Tree's Leafy Crown
A tree crown is where most bud formation takes place. The tree bud is simply a small bundle of growing tissue which develops into embryonic leaves, flowers and shoots and is essential for primary tree crown and canopy growth. In addition to branch growth, buds are responsible for flower formation and leaf production. A tree's small budding structure is wrapped in a simple protecting leaf called the cataphylls. These protected buds allow all plants to continue to grow and produce tiny new leaves and flowers even when environmental conditions are adverse or limiting.
So, A tree's "crown" is that majestic system of leaves and branches which are formed by growing buds. Like roots and trunks, branches grow in length from growth cells that make up the meristimatic tissues which are contained in growing buds. This limb and branch bud growth determines a tree crown shape, size and height. The tree crown's central and terminal leader grows from a bud cell called the apical meristem which determines tree height.
Remember, not all buds contain tiny leaves. Some buds contain tiny preformed flowers, or both leaves and flowers. Buds may be terminal (on the end of the shoot) or lateral (on the side of the shoot, usually at the base of the leaves).
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LEARN THE PARTS OF A FLOWERING PLANT
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Tissue Structure of Tree Leaf. By Zephyris - commons.wikimedia.org
Leaves are food factories for the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green substance in leaves called chlorophyll, use carbon dioxide and water to produce life-sustaining carbohydrates (sugars). The entire process is called photosynthesis.
A tree's leaves are also responsible for the twin functions of respiration and transpiration. Both of these processes support evapotranspiration which allows the tree to move water and nutrients up from the roots.
Through small openings on the leaf, called stomata, a tree can regulate moisture and gasses. With the exchange of water and the absorption of carbon dioxide during the process of photosynthesis, the release of life-sustaining oxygen occurs as a by-product.
INTERNAL TREE LEAF STRUCTURES
The leaf blade is composed of tissue layers, each having an important part to play in a functioning leaf. Find these structures on the attached diagram of cellular leaf tissues.
Epidermis – The leaf's outer layer and protective "skin" surrounding leaf tissues.
Cuticle – A waxy protective coating on the leaf epidermis that prevents water loss on leaves, green stems, and fruits.
Leaf hairs – Coverings on a leaf's epidermis that may or may not exist with every tree species.
Palisade layer – A tightly packed layer of long tube-like parenchyma tissues filled with chloroplasts for photosynthesis.
Chloroplasts – Sub-cellular, photosynthetic structures in leaves and other green tissues. Chloroplasts contain chlorophyll, a green plant pigment that captures the energy in light and begins the transformation of that energy into sugars.
Vascular bundle – Xylem and phloem tissues, commonly known as leaf veins.
Spongy mesophyll – Layer of parenchyma tissues loosely arranged to facilitate movement of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. It also may contain some chloroplasts.
Stomata – Natural openings in leaves and herbaceous stems that allow for gas exchange (water vapor, carbon dioxide and oxygen).
Guard cells – Specialized kidney-shaped cells that open and close the stomata.
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LEARN ABOUT PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Using Leaf Anatomy to Identify a Tree Leaf
Leaf Anatomy. Steve Nix
BOTANICAL STRUCTURES ON A LEAF
A tree's leaf is the best major botanical marker that helps in keying out and identifying any species of tree that has a leaf. Most trees can be identified by the leaf alone - they are unique! Tree Leaves come in many shapes and sizes, many with similar structures but most with subtle differences. Even slight differences can determine an exact tree species identification.
True leaves are blade-like and have a connection to the twig called a stalk or petiole. The edges of all leaves are called margins and can be smooth or toothed but can also be entire (without lobes) or with a lobe and a sinus.
A Tree leaf can be symmetric or asymmetric off the midrib or midvein. A leaf can have a single midrib or several radiating off the stalk. A leaf will have veins radiating off these midrib(s).
USING THESE STRUCTURES TO IDENTIFY A TREE
The most popular and easiest method to identify a tree is to use a tree leaf identification key. Most tree identification guides depend heavily on using the leaf as a starting point. I have also developed a quick way to ID the most common trees in North America - Tree Identification Using a Tree Leaf Key.
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Wood is a highly ordered arrangement of living, dying and dead cells. These tree cells function much like a lamp wick where the tree is anchored. The roots are bathed in a nutrient-rich liquid which transports these nutrients plus moisture to the top where all is consumed.
A tree (and the cells) supports an ever-flowing wet system that must be maintained at all times. If the process fails to provide water at any point the tree will eventually die due to the failure of both water and food requirements that are necessary for life. Here is a biology lesson on tree cells.
The cambium and its "zone" is a cell generator (reproductive tissue called growth meristem) that produces both the inner bark cells of the phloem and new living wood cells in the xylem. The phloem transports sugars from leaves to roots. The xylem is a transport tissue and both stores starch and conducts water and substances dissolved in water to leaves.
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HOW DOES A TREE GROW IN NATURE
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Phloem, A Tree's Inner Bark
A Tree's Inner Bark. (University of Florida/Landscaping)
Phloem, or inner bark, develops from the outside layer of the cambium and is the food track to the roots. Sugars are transported from leaves toward roots in the phloem. When the tree is healthy and growing and sugars are abundant, stored food in the form of starch can be converted back into sugars and moved to where it is needed in the tree.
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Xylem, A Tree's Nutrient Transport System
Xylem or "sapwood". (University of Florida/Landscaping)
Xylem is living "sapwood" and located inside the cambial zone. The outer portion of xylem is conducting and storing starch in the symplast plus conducts water and substances dissolved in water to the leaves. The inner portion of the xylem is non-conducting wood that stores starch and is sometimes called heartwood. The major structures for water transport in xylem are vessels in angiosperms (hardwoods) and tracheids in gymnosperms (conifers).
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Symplast, A Tree's Storage Network
A Tree's Symplast. (University of Florida/Landscaping)
Symplast is the network of living cells and the connections between living cells. Starch is stored in the symplast. Axial parenchyma, ray parenchyma, sieve tubes, companion cells, cork cambium, the cambium, and plasmodesmada make up the symplast.
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Vessels and Tracheids, A Tree's Conductors
Tree Vessels. (University of Florida/Landscaping)
Vessels (in hardwoods) and tracheids (in conifers) conduct water and substances dissolved in water. Vessels are vertically aligned tubes made up of dead cells that transport liquid. Vessels are found only in angiosperms. Tracheids are dead, single-celled "pipes" that act much like vessels but are o
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