It is marked by small raised horizontal lines which are the lenticels or breathing pores.
Point out the lenticels on the bark of birch and sweet cherry trees and explain how trees breathe.
These lenticels are characteristic of all birch and cherry trees.
Trunk fluted; catkins not present in winter; lenticels not elongated horizontally; low tree or bushy shrub.
These lenticels are to be found on all trees, even where the bark is very thick, as old oaks and chestnuts, but in these the lenticels are in the bottoms of the deep cracks.
The variety is readily told by the upright habit of growth and by the large lenticels on trunk and branches.
Sorosporium, Oospora, Spongospora,--the latter making their way into the ruptured tissue of the lenticels and irritating the cells to further growth.
Lenticels are also formed on some leaf-galls, and are remarkable as being structures not normal on leaves.
In most species of grapes, the bark has distinct lenticels and on the old wood separates in long thin strips and fibers; but in two species from southeastern North America, the bark bears prominent lenticels and never shreds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lenticels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
