Basic cell types are called tracheids vessel members fibres and parenchyma.
Tracheids in hardwoods.
Vessels are found only in angiosperms.
Hardwood and heavy since it contains plenty of wood fibres fibre tracheids and libriform fibres.
Softwood trees generally grow faster than hardwoods and are usually less dense.
Softwoods are made of tracheids and parenchyma and hardwoods of vessel members fibres and parenchyma.
Vessels are vertically aligned tubes made up of dead cells that transport liquid.
Vessels in hardwoods and tracheids in conifers conduct water and substances dissolved in water.
Softwoods completely lack vessels and instead rely on tracheids for sap conduction vessel elements are the largest type of cells and unlike the other hardwood cell types they can be viewed individually oftentimes even without any sort of magnification.
The wood of gymnosperms is called softwood.
Tracheids within a conifer s trunk the majority of the wood is comprised of long thin cells called tracheids.
The softwood mainly composed of tracheids and wood rays parenchyma.
Tracheids perform the same function as the pores in hardwood trees and also produce sap which protects the trees from pests and transports water and other essential elements necessary for growth.
A few hardwood species contain tracheids but such instances are rare.