sapwood

• Living cells divided at an exponential rate, then assembled themselves into tissue-types -- sapwood and heartwood, bark and vascular tubes. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
• Larvae eat away at the outer sapwood, creating wounds that may ooze sap, LaChance said. —  News from www.thesunchronicle.com
• 'Summer logs' tend to grow blue stain in the sapwood, ruining the cosmetics of the most valuable part of the tree ... the outside just under the bark. —  Mandolin Cafe News
• After repeated burnings have consumed the bark and sapwood, the sound charred surface, being full of cracks and sprinkled with leaves, is quickly overspread with a pure, rich, furred, ruby glow almost flameless and smokeless, producing a marvelous effect in the night. —  Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
• The second season it continues its work in the sapwood, and in case two or three are at work in the same tree may completely girdle it, thus destroying it. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884

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