Name the living mechanical tissue? What is its function?

Name the living mechanical tissue? What is its function?
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Ans: Collenchyma. It helps in providing mechanical strength in aerial parts of dicots. If green, it carries out photosynthesis. Sometimes it is meristematic and gives rise cork cambium in dicot stems at the time of secondary growth.  
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