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Interxylary as well as intraxylary phloem is present in

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In the stem of Strychnos, phloem occurs both outside the xylem (normal) and in patches inside the xylem (interxylary phloem), in addition to the usual intraxylary (internal) phloem found towards the pith side, an example of a bicollateral-type bundle with extra internal phloem strands. Bignonia shows only

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