Phloem
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The food-conducting tissue in plants that transports dissolved sugars (primarily sucrose) and other organic compounds from photosynthetic leaves to all other parts of the plant. Located just inside the bark in woody plants.
Etymology
From Greek phloios, meaning "bark."
Example
“Girdling a tree destroys the phloem, cutting off the flow of sugars to the roots.”