wound wood

In woody stems, the new wood developing in response to a wound, often resulting in a swelling (as round a pruning wound) which gradually occludes the wound. Wound wood, or the scar it forms over a healed wound, is sometimes called a cicatrix or cicatrice.



This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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