Hardwood and heavy since it contains plenty of wood fibres fibre tracheids and libriform fibres.
Tracheids in hardwoods.
Softwoods are made of tracheids and parenchyma and hardwoods of vessel members fibres and parenchyma.
Softwood trees generally grow faster than hardwoods and are usually less dense.
The wood of gymnosperms is called softwood.
The softwood mainly composed of tracheids and wood rays parenchyma.
Basic cell types are called tracheids vessel members fibres and parenchyma.
Vessels are found only in angiosperms.
A few hardwood species contain tracheids but such instances are rare.
Vessels are vertically aligned tubes made up of dead cells that transport liquid.
In addition to giving the tree most of its strength tracheids also double as pores in a sense since conifers lack true pores they rely on tracheids for sap conduction.
Vessels in hardwoods and tracheids in conifers conduct water and substances dissolved in water.
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.
Tracheids within a conifer s trunk the majority of the wood is comprised of long thin cells called tracheids.