Diospyros lotus L. (small fruit persimmon) with Diospyros kaki L. (big fruit persimmon) anatomy of wood

The objective of this study is to identify the anatomical wood structures of Diospyros kak iL., an exotic plant for Turkey and Diospyros lotus L. a native plant for Turkey. It have been found out anatomical wood structures of these taxga by this study. Anatomical differences in the woods of these taxa were also determined. Therefore, the differences in wood anatomies of these plants that have same name in Turkish were determined. In this study, wood samples were taken at the breast height 1.30 m of trees from sapwood area without completely cutting trees from Kaşüstü, Bulak, and Çimenli villages of Trabzon on 2014. Tranverse sections were obtained for anatomical measurements of wood elements and permanent preparations of the samples were made. In permanent preparations, maceration method were applied to beable tomake the measurements of the wood elements easily. Anatomical characteristics; vessels (tangential and radial diameter of vessel, vessel length, number of vessel per mm2), fibers (fiber length, fiber width, fiber lumen width, wall thicknes of fiber), rays (ray height, ray width and number of rays per mm2) and longitudinal position of wood parenchyma were determined. The results obtained from measurements and enumerations were evalueted with t test and the fiber lenghts, vessel radial diameters, vessel tangential diameters, ray width, the number of vessels per mm2 and the number of rays per mm2 between two species were similar. Key Words: Wood Anatomy,Vessel, Ray, Fibre, Woodparenchyma