: a complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants that consists mainly of sieve tubes and elongated parenchyma cells usually with fibers and that functions in translocation and in support and storage compare xylem
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This growth produces xylem cells to the outside and phloem cells to the inside; xylem conducts water and minerals from the roots up into the tree branches and leaves while phloem conducts sugar made in leaves in the opposite direction.
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Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2025
The remnants of the xylem and phloem — tubules that transport water, sugars and nutrients throughout living leaves — somehow become a root.
—Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
The xylem helps to transport water, while the phloem helps move nutrients and sugars.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Just inside the bark is a tissue called phloem.
—Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
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Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2025
The remnants of the xylem and phloem — tubules that transport water, sugars and nutrients throughout living leaves — somehow become a root.
—Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
The xylem helps to transport water, while the phloem helps move nutrients and sugars.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Just inside the bark is a tissue called phloem.
—Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
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“Phloem.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phloem. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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