Some strains of S marcescens are capable of producing a pigment called prodigiosin, which ranges in color from dark red to pale pink, depending on the age of the colonies.
Vascular Tissue: the xylem and phloem in leaves are confined to vascular bundles or veins. Veins are surrounded by a layer of cells call the bundle sheath. The bundle sheath can be composed of parenchyma, colenchyma, or fibers.
Main veins looping at ends to veins above, lobed or mitten-shaped leaves may be found but some trees may have only unlobed leaves, sap milky, fruit a multiple of druplets (a conglomerate of single-seeded fleshy fruits):