Reticulated parenchyma and vessels in radial multiples? ✅ Heterocellular rays? ✅ Silica bodies in ray cells? ✅ Enlarged vessel-ray pits? ✅ 👋 Hello #Sapotaceae (eg. shea butter and argan trees family) #Anthracology #WoodAnatomy

Ducts/canals in wood! Did you know Rutaceae naturally never have ducts, only cavities. However, if these plants undergo an injury, the can form traumatic ducts which produce gum, a putative defense mechanism (yet to be proved). Balfourodendron riedelinum.

Square bamboos. Check the recent work of Jiang et al. which explore the variation in the anatomy of the different sides of this interesting species, with high economical potential. brill.com/view/journals/…

Vessel dimorphism in lianas. The co-occurrence of very wide vessels and narrow ones, here in long chains. Beauty in wood featured by Heteropterys intermedia (Malpighiaceae)

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Very excited to be able to share our manuscript published, first part of my thesis PhD Voice - Independently Run . IAWA. Agains thanks to my authors 🙏 G3D-UE

** New Issue** “Tracing the world’s timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification” by Melita C. Low et al. is in #OpenAccess in the latest issue of IAWA Journal (Vol. 44, No. 1): brill.com/view/journals/…

Museum collections provide some of the most important data to help us understand and predict what is happening under a changing climate. However, our collections pre-date electronic databases by hundreds of years so how do we know what we have?

JOB POSITION The Technische Universität München School of Life Sciences seeks qualified candidates to a professorship in Wood Formation and Diversity More info in recruit.tum.de