It was and is tried to understand the plant body as a three-dimensional structure, and to get an idea of the meaning of the spatial relations of single tissues. There is no typical plant cell. What is taken in some textbooks as such is a compendium from observations of different cell types. But a number of properties are shared by all cells and some are typical only for plant cells. A third group of characteristics distinguishes undifferentiated from differentiated cells.
Every cell is surrounded by a membrane.
Both animal and plant cells contain a nucleus that is missing in bacteria and blue green algae. Cell walls can also be found with bacteria and blue green algae, but no chemical likeness of structure and formation with plant cells can be found. It is therefore considered an analogous feature, i.e. a structure with the same function, which did not derive from a common earlier stage. Differentiated cells are marked by a voluminous vacuole . Besides the clearly visible structures like cell nucleus and chloroplasts can a lot of other granular particles be viewed in a light microscope, some of which can be selectively dyed.