Essential Woodcarving Techniques
Phloem or bast
Bark
Wood or xylem
Roots anchor the tree in the ground
Photosynthesis in the leaves generates sugar which the sap carries down in the phloem
Sap travels lip in the wood and down in the phloem
Rootlets
Fic. 2.1 The parts ofa tree.
which make it easy to take water out of the ground
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