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Pericycle vs Cambium - What's the difference?

pericycle | cambium |

In botany terms the difference between pericycle and cambium

is that pericycle is : In a plant root, the cylinder of plant tissue between the endodermis and phloem while cambium is a layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.

pericycle

English

Noun

(wikipedia pericycle) (en noun)
  • (botany): In a plant root, the cylinder of plant tissue between the endodermis and phloem.

    • cambium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
  • * 1863 , Harland Coultas, What may be learned from a tree
    • During winter we perceive no change in the cells of the cambium layer, which are filled with nutritive matter […].
  • (obsolete) One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
  • *, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.147:
    • The radical or innate is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium , and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it […].