phloem

The tissue of vascular plants that conducts food produced by photosynthesis to all parts of the plant and consists of sieve elements, fibers, and parenchyma.

In botany, the bast or liber portion of a vascular bundle, or the region of a vascular bundle or axis with secondary thickening which contains sieve-tubes. Compare xylem.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; — distinguished from xylem.

A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes