Question

1. Please draw a cross section of a woody plant in it's 3rd year of growth. Make sure to include all of the tissues, including the meristems and vascular tissues. illustrate to what depth you would need to cut around the tree to effectively kill it via girdling (also called ringing). This is a file upload question, so please load a file here (jpg or png preferred). Choose a File

Answer 1

Cross section of a woody plant in its 3rd year of growth. Bark Cork Cortex Secondary phloem cambium 3rd year Xylem and year xylem Secondary xylem Primary xylem Pith

• Normaly the depth is half inches but one to two inches depth are used to effectively kill via gridling.