Mostly the birds and animals eat the fruit. The rest of the fruit dies and dries up eventually.
Some flowering desert plants of North America include. Four O'clocks Mojave Aster Prickly Pear Cactus Fishhook Barrel cactus Brittle bush Desert Ironwood Chain fruit cholla Pallo Verde Soaptree yucca
Not all cactus plants produce fruit, but some types of cacti do produce edible fruit. The fruit typically grows from the cactus flower after it has been pollinated. Examples of cacti that produce fruit include prickly pears and dragon fruit.
A cactus berry is one of the forms that cactus fruit may take. Different cactus plants make different types of fruit. For example, the fruit of the living rock or fossil cactus [Ariocarpusspp] looks like pale fleshy berries. In contrast, the saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea] makes fruit that looks like red plums.
Yes, they are flowering plants and they can bear fruit.
All cacti are flowering plants and do produce fruit (e.g. prickly pears, dragon fruit), however the cactus plant itself is sometimes used as a vegetable (e.g. prickly pear paddles).
Yes they did! They didnt really have much else to eat, did they.
manly cactus fruit because that was about the only thing they had toeat
Cactus flowers tend not to be long blooming. Some cactus plants have night flowering blooms. Others have day flowering blossoms. Either way, the flowers need to be pollinated. Once pollinated, the flowers wither and develop the ovary. From the ovary develops the fruit, which produces cactus seeds. The seeds may be used by the cactus to feed the available wildlife and to reproduce.
Yes, you can eat the fruit of this cactus
A Gymnosperm I think, How do you think I would know!!!!!!!! Gosh.!
Yes, prickly pear fruits develop on a number of cactus plants and are edible.
no The term ‘vegetable’ generally means the edible parts of plants, and has little meaning otherwise. The cactus is not a fruit, and so probably falls into the category of “vegetable’.