Trumpet Vine

Description

Overgrowth of a flowering trumpet vine.

Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans/Bignoniaceae).The genus Campsis is composed of 2 species of woody vines (lianas) nativeto eastern Asia. It flowers in July and August and grows in thickets and fence rows. It is very plentiful in old tobacco fields in southern Maryland. This is not a commercial lumber species and thus, no technical information is available on the properties of the wood.

Characteristics

Characteristics found in the Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans):

  • Ring porous
  • Tangential/Ulmiform latewood
  • Spirals in vessels
  • I/V pits medium (8-12)
  • Rays 1-4 seriate & heterocellular
Close view of trumpet vine flowers, leaves, and vine.

 

 

 

 

 

Slides (Click on each image to view a larger image)

WOOD SLIDES

Microscope slide of transverse section of trumpet vine wood. Arrows points earlywood, growth ring boundary, and latewood.
Microscope slide of transverse section of trumpet vine at higher magnification. Arrow is identified large earlywood vessel, growth ring boundary, and small latewood vessels.
Microscope slide of radial section of trumpet vine wood. Arrows point to raise, earlywood vessels, and Lakewood vessels.
Microscope slide of radio section of trumpet vine wood at higher magnification. Arrows points early wood vessels and raise.
Microscope slide of radial section of trumpet vine wood. Arrows point to the ray, spirals, and vessel.
Microscope slide of radial section of trumpet vine wood at high magnification. Arrows point to uprights and procumbent vessels.
Microscope slide of tangential section of trumpet vine. Arrows point to rays and vessels.
Microscope slide of radio section of trumpet vine wood. Arrows point to inter-vessel pits and spirals.
Microscope slide of tangential section of trumpet vine wood at high magnification. Arrows point to vessels and rays.
Microscope slide of tangential section of trumpet vine wood at high magnification. Arrows point to spirals and inter-vessel pits.

CHARCOAL SLIDES

<icroscope slide of transverse section of trumpet vine charcoal. Arrows point to the growth ring boundary, latewood, and earlywood.
Microscope slide of transverse section of trumpet vine charcoal at high magnification. Arrows point to earlywood, the growth ring boundary, raise, and latewood vessels.
Microscope slide of transverse section of trumpet vine charcoal at high magnification. Arrows point to the growth ring boundary, rays, and latewood vessels.
Microscope slide of radial section of trumpet vine charcoal at high magnification. Arrows point to vessels and rays.
Microscope slide of radial section of trumpet vine charcoal at high magnification. Arrows point to the vessel, rays, and fibers.
Microscope slide of radial section of trumpet vine charcoal at high magnification. Arrows point out inter-vessel pitting.
Microscope slide of tangential section of trumpet vine charcoal. Arrows point to vessels and rays.
Microscope slide of tangential section of trumpet vine charcoal at high magnification. Arrows point to the vessel and rays.