The part of living wood where sap flows, as distinct from the heartwood, where it doesn't.
Soft wood of a tree, between the bark and the heartwood.
1 This external evidence should be supplemented by cutting down to the sapwood .
2 Where the wound is large, the exposed sapwood dies, dries out, and cracks.
3 As the tree gets larger, the sapwood must necessarily become thinner or increase materially in volume.
4 There is no definite relation between the annual rings of growth and the amount of sapwood .
5 A stab wound revealed the bark loose and full of holes which extended into the sapwood .
6 Each year one ring of this sapwood develops.
7 Pit morphology was only negatively correlated with sapwood - and leaf-specific hydraulic conductivity and D v .
8 All the sapwood was adzed off; the ends were "checked" so that they would interlock.
9 There is a time in the early history of every tree when its wood is all sapwood .
10 Because it takes up so much moisture and plant food, sapwood rots much more quickly than heartwood.
11 The living sapwood surrounds the heartwood.
12 Whatever advantages, however, that sapwood may have in this connection are due solely to its relative age and position.
13 ALBURNUM ( sapwood ) , the outermost and youngest part of the wood of a tree, through which the sap rises.
14 The sapwood really acts as a pipe line to carry water from the roots to the top of the tree.
15 In some of our largest trees the moisture is raised as high as 300 feet or more through the sapwood .
16 As a tree increases in age and diameter an inner portion of the sapwood becomes inactive and finally ceases to function.
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