Vascular Cambium

PRESENTED BY: GAMIT ABHAYKUMAR

BSC BOTANY
PAPER 502
ROLL NO. :4
• A cambium (plural cambia or cambiums), in
plants, is a tissue layer that provides partially
undifferentiated cells for plant growth.
• It is found in the area between xylem and
phloem.
• A cambium can also be defined as a cellular
plant tissue from which phloem, xylem, or
cork grows by result in secondary thickening.
In Dicots:

• The vascular cambium is in dicot stems and

roots, located between the xylem and the
phloem in the stem and root of a vascular
plant, and is the source of both the secondary
xylem growth (inwards, towards the pith) and
the secondary phloem growth (outwards).
In Monocots:

• Monocot stems, such as bamboos, do not have corn,

palms and a vascular cambium and do not exhibit
secondary growth by the production of concentric
annual rings
• They cannot increase in girth by adding lateral
layers of cells as in conifers and woody dicots.
 Types Of vascular Cambium

1 . Intra Fascicular Cambium:

The cambium that arises within

the bundles of primary vascular
tissue of the stem is known as
intra fascicular cambium.
2. Inter Fascicular Cambium:

The strip of intra fascicular cambium generally

becomes jointed by additional strips of
cambium which are called Inter fascicular
cambium. This evolves from the inter fascicular
parenchyma. As it is not in continuation with
the intra fascicular cambium .
 Types Of cell

• Vascular cambium is a very thin layer that lies between the

primary xylem inside and primary phloem on outside.
• They contain meristematic cells that can form the
secondary xylem inside and secondary phloem outside.
• There are two kinds of meristematic cells called fusiform
initials which are vertically elongated and ray initials which
are horizontally elongated.
SEASONAL ACTIVITY OF CAMBIUM

1. Cambium of some plants remains active for the entire

period of their life, i.e., cambial cells divide and
resulting cells mature to form xylem and phloem
elements.
2. This type of seasonal activity usually found in the
plants present in the tropical regions, and not all plants
show cambial activity.
3. Percentage of ringless trees in the rain forests of;India:
75%. Amazon: 43%. Malaysia : 15%
3. In regions with definite seasonal climate; seasonal activity of
cambium ceased with onset of unfavorable conditions

4.. In Autumn, it enters the dormant state and lasts for the end
of summer; In Spring, cambium again becomes active.

5. Duration of cambial activity is also affected by day length,

e.g., In Robinia pseudoacacia, cambium is dormant under short-
day condition.
Mcq's
1.How many types of vascular cambium
(a) 2 (b) 4
(c) 3 (d) 5

2.In dicot stem the cells of cambium present between primary xylem and
primary phloem is the
(A) Intrafascicular cambium
(B) Interfascicular cambium
(C) Metafascicular cambium
(D) Radial cambium
3.THE VASCULAR CAMBIUM NORMALLY GIVES RISE TO:
(A) PRIMARY PHLOEM. (B) SECONDARY XYLEM
(C) PERIDERM. (C) PHELLODERM
4.The vascular cambium normally gives rise to
(A). Primary Phloem. (B)Secondary xylem
(C). Periderm. (D) Phelloderm

5.Which meristematic cells are vertically elongated ?

(A)Ray initials. (B) Parenchyma
(c) Fusiform initial. (C) Disc Initial
6. secondary xylem growth towards the ......
(A) Medulla. (C) Pith
(B) Pericycle. (D) cortex

7.Percentage of ringless trees in the rain forests of India

(A)55% (B) 75% (c) 25% (D). 78%

8.In which plant interfascicular cambium grow

(A) Maize. (B) rice. (C) banyan tree (D) wheat