Question

Distunguish between the wood of pinus and cycas ? Which one of the two yields commercial timber ?

Answer 1

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Pinus wood	Cycas wood
Pinus have pycnoxylic wood.	Cycas have manoxylic wood.
The wood is hard and compact.	The wood is soft and non-compact.
It contains a very little parenchyma.	It contains an abundance of parenchyma.
It is made up of more than one cambium ring and high amount of xylem tracheids.	It is formed by a persistent cambium ring and less amount of xylem tracheids.
It is commercially useful and yields timber	It is commercially useless.

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