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➢ Macro: Micro:
■ The fracture is ▪ few anomocytic

granular. stomata
■ Odor :characteristic ▪ Parenchymatous

and faintly smoky. cells containing
■ Taste :bitter and spheroidal masses of
sinistrin.
slightly astringent.
■ It colors Saliva ▪ Mucilage cells
containing acicular
yellow. crystals of Ca .
➢ Micro: Oxalate
✓ Pith contain
▪ Mesophyll
anomalous structure consisting of thin-
amphivasal V.B (star walled
spot) parenchymatous
cells ,some of which
➢ Key element: contain bundles of
✓ Giant Ca .Oxalate large raphides of
calcium oxalate
clusters embedded in
✓ Reticulate xylem mucilage which
stains pink with
vessel corallin soda.

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