interfascicular cambium

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noun Botany.

cambium that develops between the vascular bundles.

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When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The larv hatch and begin their work by burrowing across the cambium at right angles to the egg galleries.
Our National Forests|Richard H. Douai Boerker
They are evidently made to get at the tender, juicy bark, or cambium layer, next to the hard wood of the tree.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs
The bud is rooted in the branch, and draws its sustenance from the milk of the pulpy cambium layer beneath the bark.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs

In some cases he seems to refer to the phloem and cambium by this name, and in other cases to the perimedullary zone.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various
Coniferin, C16H22O8, occurs in the cambium of coniferous woods.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2|Various

interfascicular cambium

[ ĭn′tər-fə-sĭk′yə-lər ]

The cambium arising between the vascular bundles in the stem of a plant. See also fascicular cambium vascular bundle.