When at last I die my xylem floods with all these stories at once and I’m so full I break into scripture, into sweat, into four unique seasons. I’m wearing a sweatshirt that saysusa. It’s red and the text across the chest is blue and white. I buy it off a street vendor, a...
In many cases, the secondary xylem (wood) has annual or non-annual (false) growth-rings. These growth-rings are the biological foundation of tree-ring studies, known as dendrochronology (e.g., Schweingruber, 1996). The wood of dicotyledons as seen in cross sections may belong to several ...