The roots to a cactus are long thick and go very wide and deep. When it rains the roots absorb the water and store it in its leaves. The cactus doesnt need a lot of water. A couple drops a year will keep it alive. Its leaves are protected with spines.
Some roots spread from 10-15 foot away; they can also change characteristics as the water supply fluctuates.
Desert biome
There is no such thing as a mesquite cactus. There are, however, mesquite trees and shrubs.
In the Sonoran Desert, one can find the agave, palm, desert marigold, summer poppy, and cactus are some plants or trees. A famous type of cactus native to this desert is the Saguaro cactus.
It can live in a desert or a rainforest, it can adapt to either.
The desert is the habitat of the saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea]. It's native to the Sonoran desert of northern Mexico and of the southwestern United States of America. It's a desert cactus that finds little in the way of competition among the sparse desert vegetation. It's adapted to situations of high heat and light, and of low humidity and moisture.
it may or may not depending on speices.
in the desert
desert
the desert
A cactus is a plant that lives in the desert.
Deserts do not adapt but organisms that live in the desert adapt.
Desert biome
The desert
Yes they do live there.
There is no such thing as a mesquite cactus. There are, however, mesquite trees and shrubs.
There are several species of barrel cactus that live in one or the other deserts of North America. The barrels occur most frequently in the Sonoran Desert.
The saguaro lives in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Mexico.