| Its annual growth rings are fairly easy to see and the transition from earlywood to latewood is abrupt. |
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| The uniform texture is due to the earlywood zone comprising almost the entire ring width. |
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| A clear boundary can exist between earlywood and latewood, representing a false tree ring. |
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| The difference in colour between the tamarack's earlywood and darker toned latewood creates an attractive striped pattern that makes for eye-catching furniture and finishing lumber. |
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| Transition from earlywood to latewood is usually abrupt. |
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| This often results in a sharp disjunction between growth rings, as the next cell formed will be a large-diameter, thin-walled cell that marks initiation of the next year's earlywood. |
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| The tracheids of earlywood formed at the beginning of a growing season have large radial sizes and smaller, thinner cell walls. |
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| It is usually lighter in color than that near the outer portion of the ring, and is known as earlywood or springwood. |
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| In temperate softwoods, there often is a marked difference between latewood and earlywood. |
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| No satisfactory explanation can as yet be given for the exact mechanisms determining the formation of earlywood and latewood. |
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| In choosing a piece of pine where strength or stiffness is the important consideration, the principal thing to observe is the comparative amounts of earlywood and latewood. |
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