Everything about Woody Plant totally explained
A
woody plant is any
vascular plant that has a
perennial stem that's above ground and covered by a layer of thickened
bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next.
A perennial plant with true woody stems contain
wood, which is primarily composed of structures of
cellulose and
lignin which provide support and a
vascular system used to move water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves and
sugars from the leaves to the rest of the plant. Most woody plants form new layers of woody tissue each year, and so increase their stem diameter from year to year. The new wood is deposited on the outer parts of the stem under the bark on most plants but in some monocotyledons such as
palms and
dracaenas, the wood is formed in bundles from
meristem cells within the trunk. In palms, the wood is formed in the center of the stems. The dermal layer has been modified to protect the stems from the elements with a thickened covering of dead tissue, generally called bark.
Woody plants are usually either
trees,
shrubs,
cactus, or perennial
vines.
Some annual plants appear to form woody stems in their first year, but die at the end of the growing season. They are
herbaceous stems without the dead bark covering.
Woody
herbs are herbaceous plants that don't have the thickened bark covering, but develop hard stems with vascular bundles. They include such plants as
Uraria picta and certain species in family
Polygonaceae. These herbs are not truly woody but have hard densely packed stem tissue. Other herbaceous plants have woody stems called a
caudex, which is a thickened stem base often found in plants that grow in
alpine or dry environments. In
tree ferns the caudex is the stout woody trunk.
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