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• n  (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

• Sweeping out of the Middle West was an even more deadly disease, phloem necrosis, which kills thousands of elms every year.

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• Coastal Bend Garden Calendar: 02.08.14
  Be careful using weed trimmers and mowers around young trees. Each time the bark is hit by the string or a mower, some of the bark is removed, and so is the phloem underneath. The phloem allows the tree to move sugars to the root system. If it is damaged or removed, the roots will starve slowly killing the tree. A tree guard, a strip of plastic about six inches wide and 12 inches long that wraps ...
  Feb. 8, 2014 - Corpus Christi Caller-Times