Secondary Growth in Dicot Roots
- In the dicot root, the vascular cambium is completely secondary in origin.
- It originates from the tissue located just below the phloem bundles, a portion of pericycle tissue, above the protoxylem forming a complete and continuous wavy ring, which later becomes circular.
- Further events are similar to those already described above for a dicotyledon stem.

Both the phellogen and root vascular cambium are secondary in origin.
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