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Resource Number: 17145
Title: Tree Trichomes: Big Hairy Tree?
Description: Trees do not have hairs – trees have trichomes. Trees have many different types of thread-like or bristle-like growths on leaves, twigs, buds, and roots, but none of them are hairs. Mammals have hair and fur. Tree “hairs” are called trichomes. Trichomes can occur all over the tree – from leaf to root tip. Trichomes are generated from surface layers (epidermis) of leaf, twigs, buds, and roots
Last Updated: July 5, 2021
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tree anatomy

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