Mesophyll is the internal tissue of a plant leaf, excluding the vascular bundles All mesophyll cells contain chloroplasts, for photosynthesis, which lie close to the edge of the cell to gain maximum light and gas supply Mesophyll tissue also contains numerous intercellular spaces, which communicate with the atmosphere outside the leaf via stomata
The spongy inner tissue of a leaf, functionally similar to the cortex of stems and roots, where the raw materials - carbon dioxide and water vapor are held during the process of photosynthesis within the adjacent palisade cells
The ground tissue of a leaf, sandwiched between the upper and lower epidermis and specialized for photosynthesis
leaf tissue between the upper and lower epidermis, made up of parenchyma cells and often comprising two layers, palisade mesophyll and spongy mesophyll
The internal non-vascular tissue of a leaf In green plants it is in these cells that most chloroplasts are found and in which most photosynthesis occurs
Parenchymatous, photosynthetic cell layers within the leaf, consisting usually of palisade and spongy mesophyll tissues