Definitionn. newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant
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Doors and windows are made up of sapwood of sal tree. [Please select]
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The larch, from its lofty straight trunk and the high quality of its wood, is one of the most important of coniferous trees; its growth is extremely rapid, the stem attaining a large size in from sixty to eighty years, while the tree yields good useful timber at forty or fifty; it forms firm heartwood at an early age, and the sapwood is less perishable than that of the firs, rendering it more valuable in the young state. [Please select]
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The heartwood apparently rots rapidly in juniper trees, but the sapwood remains intact for many years--even after the tree is lying on the ground. [Please select]
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HEARTWOOD AND SAPWOOD Examination of the end of a log of many species reveals a darker-colored inner portion--the _heartwood_, surrounded by a lighter-colored zone--the _sapwood_. [Please select]
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The color of fresh sapwood is always light, sometimes pure white, but more often with a decided tinge of green or brown. [Please select]
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There is a time in the early history of every tree when its wood is all sapwood. [Please select]
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As a tree increases in age and diameter an inner portion of the sapwood becomes inactive and finally ceases to function. [Please select]
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There is no definite relation between the annual rings of growth and the amount of sapwood. [Please select]
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Within the same species the cross-sectional area of the sapwood is roughly proportional to the size of the crown of the tree. [Please select]
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As the tree gets larger, the sapwood must necessarily become thinner or increase materially in volume. [Please select]
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Consequently the sapwood of an old tree, and particularly of a forest-grown tree, will be freer from knots than the heartwood. [Please select]
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