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Typically the leaves of the plant play the greatest role in photosynthesis. However, on cacti, the needles are actually modified leaves. These needles are a characteristic of protection and cannot carry out photosynthesis due to little surface area. Therefore, it is the stem that does the photosynthesis for the plant.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoYes, the cactus plant, like other plants uses sunlight to make its food. However, what you think of as leaves on many cacti are in fact fleshy stems.
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∙ 11y agoIt reflect light away from the cactus stem theoretically lowery the stem temperature
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What type of plant has no leaves?
A cactus has no leaves.
Why there a chloroplast inside the cell of the stem of a cactus plant?
Cactus are desert plants.Their leaves have turned into thrones.
Is cactus a leaf or a stem?
Leaves provide extra surface area for water to evaporate out of the plant. In the arid desert, plants need all the water they can get.
What do herbaceous plants lack?
These are plants without leaves
How does the cactus produce food if the leaves are no longer able to do photosynthesis?
The stem which is the thick part of the cactus plant stores food.:)
How have leaves of a cactus adapt to the desert?
Leaves have evolved into spines on the cactus.
What do the leaves of cactus helps the cactus?
the leaves of a cactus help get the suns nutrition foe the plant to grow None pretty much and formally proper cactus have no leaves only it's convergently evolved cousins do.
What type of plant has no leaves?
A cactus has no leaves.
What desert plant has no leaves but has stems and spines?
A cactus has no leaves but does have a stem.
What plant have no leaves?
cactus
Does a cactus have leaves?
No. Some may be considered as leaves but not really. Christmas cactus for instance grows in thin segmented stalks reminiscent of leaves. Cactus flowers have petal that are leafy and green like leaves but not really leaves. barrel cactus and saquaros obviously have no leafy protrusions beyond their flowers.
How are a cactus leaves adapted to living in the dessert?
A cactus leaves get sunlight and they make photosynthesis and they get water from that and they save the water
Why cactus have spiny leaves?
a cactus has spiny leaves for protection and so the water wont evaporate so easily.
What plant has spiny leaves?
Acanthus and cactus but cactus not really leafy :)
What is the function of leaves on a cactus?
defence. the cacti leaves are the thorns...
Differences between cactus and water lettuce?
The main difference between cactus and succulent is that cactus consists of areoles and no leaves whereas succulent contains fleshy leaves and no areoles.
Plants grow from leaves?
cactus
