Water mostly enters a tree through the roots by osmosis and any dissolved mineral nutrients will travel with it upward through the inner bark's xylem (using capillary action) and into the leaves.

The phloem transports sugars from leaves to roots. The xylem is a transport tissue and both stores starch and conducts water and substances dissolved in water to leaves. 2. of 5.

Outside of preferring sandy soils and sun, carrots thrive on neglect. So it may come as a surprise when you cut into your freshly harvested carrot and see neat, vertical holes surrounding the core. In ...

On the other hand, several investigators have concluded that, in rapidly transpiring plants, salt moves into the root xylem by mass flow as well as by active transport4–6.

Cicada nymphs their needle-like mouths to drink watery fluid, called xylem, from tree roots. Every few years, the nymphs have to shed their hard exoskeleton to give their squishy bodies more room ...