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Initiation of lenticel in the bark of a young elderberry (presence of collenchyma)
Legend:
1 cork
3 collenchyma
4 lenticel
5 parenchyma
7 phloem
2 cork cambium
6 sclerenchyma
English name: Elderberry
Scientific name: Sambucus sp.
Familia: Caprifoliaceae
Classis: Dicotyledonas
Phylum: Angiospermae
Regnum: Plantae
Lenticels are formed in areas where a stoma was present The cork cambium has a greater activity in these zones and forms to the outside parenchyma cells that degenerate.