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What is a cambium?

What is a cambium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
  2. (obsolete) One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
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A bifacial vascular cambium forming manoxylic secondary wood is also present.
Vessels differentiate immediately beneath the vascular cambium in the late-formed xylem.
The most obvious manifestation of this is the development of wood, or secondary xylem, from the vascular cambium.
It also may provide protected chewing access for small rodents and other animals, which can severely injure the bark and cambium.
It possessed secondary xylem and secondary phloem, which were produced by a bifacial vascular cambium with ray and fusiform initials.
If you girdle the base of the tree exposing the cambium layer, the tree will die.

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