What is a parenchyma cell?

Answer 1

A parenchyma cell is the most common type of plant cell. It stores starch, oils, and water for the plant. You can find parenchyma cells throughout a plant. These cells have thin walls and large water-filled vacuoles in the middle. Photosynthesis occurs in green chloroplasts within parenchyma cells in leaves. Both chloroplasts and colorless plastids in parenchyma cells within roots and stems store starch. The flesh of many fruits we eat is also made of parenchyma cells. Parenchyma cells are sometimes thought of as the least specialized of plant cells, but they have one very special trait, the ability to divide throughout their entire lives. Oh, the parenchyma cell, as it says at the top of this answer, "is the most common type of a plant cell..." well, what are the other cells, I'll tell ya', a parenchyma cell is one of three of the basic plant cell types, along with collenchyma and sclerenchyma, you should check them out, as they are cousins in this topic.

Answer 2

A generalized plant cell type, parenchyma cells are alive at maturity. They function in storage, photosynthesis, and as the bulk of ground and vascular tissues. Palisade parenchyma cells are elogated cells located in many leaves just below the epidermal tissue. Spongy mesophyll cells occur below the one or two layers of palisade cells. Ray parenchyma cells occur in wood rays, the structures that transport materials laterally within a woody stem. Parenchyma cells also occur within the xylem and phloem of vascular bundles. The largest parenchyma cells occur in the pith region, often, as in corn (Zea ) stems, being larger than the vascular bundles. In many prepared slides they stain green.

Answer 3

Parenchyma cells are located in leaf below epidermal tissue. It is a elongated cell that functions to help plants on their photosynthesis.

Answer 4

At the growing root and shoot apices.