| Throughout the growing season, hollow vessels in a tree's sapwood, or xylem, conduct water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves. |
| Old wood cut open reveals dead sapwood extending from an old pruning wound, the point of entry of the fungus. |
| It possesses a natural composite quality in the elastic sapwood and the more densely ringed heartwood. |
| A construction common, which contains some sapwood, is ideal for the deck boards. |
| Droplets of extractives only appeared in the inner ring of sapwood in some cells of the ray parenchyma as small refringent bodies. |
| The lighter colored sapwood will deteriorate just as quickly as pine or spruce. |
