Wood types

1. Wood Types

2. Coniferous Diffuse Porous Ring Porous

3. Conifers: radial files of cells (for most species) Note: colors are inverted! This is an x-ray!

5. Conifers: radial files of cells (for most species)

6. Conifers: radial files of cells (for most species) Resin ducts Tracheids Horizontal rays

7. Conifers: radial files of cells (for most species)

8. Yellow Pines = thick latewood Southern Pines Ponderosa Pine Red Pine

9. White Pines = thin latewood Eastern White Pine Western White Pine Sugar Pine

10. Balsam Fir White Fir Grand Fir

11. Wood Type 1: Conifer Wood

14. Ring porous: large earlywood vessels

16. Ring porous: large earlywood vessels Vessels Fibers Rays

17. Chestnut and Oak Elm and Hackberry Sassafras and Black Locust Hickory and Pecan

19. Oaks rarely have missing rings but they can have very compressed growth.

20. Oak often exhibits an offset in the rings across rays.

21. Diffuse porous: small vessels throughout

22. Diffuse porous: small vessels throughout Vessels Fibers Rays

23. Sugar Maple Red Maple Dogwood

24. American Holly Black Cherry Tulip-Poplar

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