Fig. 2: Anatomical structure of Group I wood. | npj Heritage Science

Fig. 2: Anatomical structure of Group I wood.

From: Timber species identification and selection principles of wooden components in the Sunjialou Cultural Relic Building, Nanyang City

Fig. 2: Anatomical structure of Group I wood.

Identification result: Larix sect. Multiseriales. a Transverse Section, 200×: growth ring boundaries slightly distinct; gradual transition from earlywood to latewood; earlywood tracheids with thin walls and latewood tracheids with thick walls; axial intercellular canals. b Transverse Section, 200×: earlywood tracheids with thin walls; axial intercellular canals. c Radial Section, 400×, and d Radial Section, 400×: ray cells are isodiametric or slightly isodiametric, comprising ray tracheids and ray parenchyma cells; Cross-field pitting Taxodioid-type. e Tangential Section, 200×, and f Tangential Section, 200×: uniseriate ray and fusiform ray; radial intercellular canals.

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