Routes water can take between cells

• Cellulose walls have many water-filled spaces between the cellulose molecules
• Water can move between spaces and between the cells

• Water does not pass through any plasma membranes

- this means that dissolved mineral ions and salts can be carried with the water

• Water enters the cell cytoplasm through the plasma membrane
• It can then pass through the plasmodesmata (gaps in the cell wall that contain a thin strand of cytoplasm) from one cell to another

• Therefore, the cytoplasm of adjacent cells is linked
• One insde the cytoplasm, water can move through the continuous cytoplam from cell to cell

PLASMODESMA- fine strand of cytoplasm that links the contents of adjacent cells.

• Similar to symplast
• BUT, water not confined to cytoplasm of cells

• It is able to enter and pass through the vacuoles as well