Fig.
10.2-5. Transverse section of tobacco stem (Nicotiana tabacum).
This epidermis has a cuticle so thin that it is not
really visible here. On the microscope, close examination at high
power reveals a small amount of pink-stained cuticle, but only very little.
However, a cuticle is present; even the protoderm in meristems has a cuticle.