Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1064/en

The root tip consists of living tissue made up of dividing cells (meristem), with the mucilaginous root cap (calyptra) extending before it. Together they form the ever-renewing life pole of the root. A short distance further up the root, the root dies into its form pole, or death pole; it lignifies. Mediating between the two, as already described, a third member articulates itself, in which both poles — life and death — interpenetrate in the two functions