Pro Ligno (Sep 2015)
ANATOMIC INVESTIGATION OF HUNGARY'S COMMON SHRUB SPECIES
Abstract
In Hungary a huge part of wooden plants are shrubs. Flora of hungarian forests is among the richest in Europe. Many plants can be classified as shrubs or trees as well, circumstances during their development define what they will become. The diverse world of shrubs and weeds delights the eye under 20-30 meter high trees. From these there are some well known which basically everybody recognises is lilac (Syringa vulgaris), elderberry (Sambucus nigra), dog-rose (Rosa canina), single-seeded hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) and common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica). To get these species better known – and occasionally foreshadowing their wood industry usage in some way – it is expendient to familiarize ourselves with their microscopic structure and characteristics. Nowadays there are several imaging methods known, however for examining floral tissue the optical microscope is still the most common one to be used.
