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Cambium: The layer of living tissue [typically green] between the sapwood and the bark.

 


CAMBIUM Green growth tissue directly below the bark, its increase adds to the girth of roots and stems.
CALLUS Tissue that forms over a wound on a branch or trunk as part of the healing process.

Cambium - The thin layer beneath the outer bark and the heartwood that produces new bark. Nutrients and water flow through the cambium.
Candles - New shoots on pine trees that emerge from the branch tips.

Cambium
The cambium is the only living layer of a tree's trunk and branches. It lies between the outer layer of bark and the inner layer of wood. Cambium cells divide and produce bark tissue on one side, and wood tissue on the other.
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Cambium.
Kengai (Ken gai ju kei)
The "cascade" bonsai style. One of the basic styles. The trunk starts growing upward, but then turns downward and reaches a point below the base of the pot. (See also section Bonsai styles in Encyclopedia).

The cambium cells continue to supply water to the leaves to replace any moisture lost through evaporation as normal. All the time the leaf base cells weaken until it is only the water connections that hold the leaf onto the tree.

If you keep cambium, the cell division
tissue, new bark will grow. So you should
remove the thin layer of cambium. This
will expose the xylem underneath. As
long as the xylem is there, nutrition and
water will be transported from roots to ...

Cambium - the thin layer of green colored cell tissue growing between the bark and the wood of a living tree.
11. Canopy - all of the upper-most branches that form the top of a tree.
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The bottom of the cutting is sliced thinly through the cambium for about an inch, taking out a sliver of bark without removing much wood. This is best done with the edge of sharp shears or a sharp knife to make a clean cut.

Use wire cutters to cut away wire from the branches as this minimises damage to the cambium and delicate leaf bud.
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Cambium - A narrow layer of cell tissue growing between the bark and the wood of woody plants. In live wood, the cambium is green and moist.
Collected tree - A tree taken from the wild for training as bonsai.

Another technique for an absent root is to scarify two faulty trees and place the cambium layers together, figures 21.

A green cambium below the outer bark indicates that the plant is still alive. A knife is also useful for digging out insect larvae, such as the peach tree borer in areas where sap is protruding from the main trunk.

For successful grafting to take place, the vascular cambium tissues of the stock and scion plants must be placed in contact with each other. Both tissues must be kept alive until the graft has taken, usually a period of a few weeks.

cambium - The layer of tissue between the xylem and phloem, where new wood is formed.
chokkan - Japanese term for the formal upright style
clump style - see Kabaduchi
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The wire was wrapped too tight; the branches bent too far; the cambium and phloem layers too damaged, as the tree's branches were carefully bent into shapes that would impart the right impression to the credulous crowd.

A second cut is made across the base from top to bottom, and slanting downward at the same angle as the cut lip on the under-stock (Fig 4b). The scion and under-stock are joined, the cambium layers matched and tied (Fig. 4c).

The distance between the top and bottom cuts should be at least 2 times the diameter of the branch being layered. Peel away the bark to reveal the cambium layer beneath. The cambium should look green and soft.

It is more risky to wire any other time, as during the growing season, the cambium is full of sap and is literally floating on the xylem and can be easily damaged, killing the branch.

This allows you to see if the cambium layer is still green. If it's green the tree is still alive, but if it's not it's dead (at least that area isn't). When you perform this test make sure you test several different areas on the tree.

The branch should be bent once into its final position so as not to harm the cambium layer under the bark. The wire should be wrapped taut, but not too tight, and should be removed just before it bites into the branch -- between 6 and 12 months.

See also: Tree, Bonsai, Trunk, Bark, Plant