Transmitted Brightfield Illumination
Definition/Function:
KINGDOM: Plantae (UNRANKED): Angiosperms (UNRANKED): Eudicots (UNRANKED): Rosids ORDER: Rosales FAMILY: Moraceae GENUS: Morus
SPECIES: rubra
Significance in the Environment:
Characteristic Features:
Libriform fibers (thick walls with a very small lumen, minute, simple pitting) occur in Morus rubra but are much more common in Quercus spp.
These structures only occure in hardwoods.
Associated Particles:
References:
Core, H.R., W.A. Cote, and A.C. Day, WOOD STRUCTURE AND IDENTIFICATION, Syracuse Wood Science Series, Vol. 6, 1979.
