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Microscopic Wood Anatomy of Central European species

Identify your species with online
high resolution cross- and length sections
from trunks and twigs.

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Proposed citation:

Schoch,W.,Heller,I.,Schweingruber,F.H.,Kienast,F.,2004:
Wood anatomy of central European Species.
Online version: www.woodanatomy.ch
       
       
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This Web-based identification key is a completely revised (text, key) and updated (more and new photographs and new anatomic items) version of the book by Schweingruber F.H., 1990: Microscopic Wood Anatomy; Structural variability of stems and twigs in recent and subfossil woods from Central Europe. 3rd edition 1990. Birmensdorf, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt WSL.
The paper version is out of print.