The adaxially placed palisade parenchyma in a dicot leaf is made up of elongated cells, which are arranged vertically and parallel to each other. The phloem of gymnosperms have albuminous cells and sieve cells. They lack sieve tubes and companion cells. The cambial ring becomes active and begins to cut off new cells, both towards the inner and the outer sides. The cells cut off towards pith, mature into secondary xylem and the cells cut off towards periphery mature into secondary phloem. The cambium is generally more active on the inner side than on the outer. As a result, the amount of secondary xylem produced is more than secondary phloem and soon forms a compact mass.