The most common edible plant in the desert is the cactus. The liquid inside of it can also be a valuable source of water in the desert. However, many cactuses can be poisonous, so it is not safe to cut and eat a random cactus.
Deer in the desert primarily eat grass and other edible plants.
Hares and rabbits in any desert feed primarily on grasses and other edible plants growing there.
there are more plants and animals in the Arizona desert than most forests.the average person that is bitten by a rattlesnake needs twenty viles of anti venin to survive- one vile costs $3000.there are about 500 edible plants in the desert.
In the deserts of the American Southwest, seed pods from the mesquite tree/bush are edible as well as the fruits and tender new pads of the prickly pear cactus.
Sturt's Desert Pea is a legume, but does not taste pleasant. Nonetheless, it is quite safe and non-toxic.
A.J Hilliker has written: 'A literature survey of the genotoxic material in edible plants' -- subject(s): Dangerous plants, Edible Plants, Plants, Edible
Alan M Cvancara has written: 'Edible wild plants and herbs' -- subject(s): Edible Wild plants, Wild plants, Edible
Cacti are producers! Producers are plants and plants do not 'eat' other plants.
Paushali Das has written: 'Wild edible plants of Tripura tribes' -- subject(s): Edible Wild plants, Wild foods, Wild plants, Edible
Muriel Sweet has written: 'Common Edible & Useful Plants of the West' -- subject(s): Botany, Economic, Botany, Plants, Edible, Economic Botany, Edible Plants
The fruits of a number of cacti are edible as well as dates from date palms. The seed pods of the mesquite are also edible.
A. B. Katende has written: 'Wild food plants and mushrooms of Uganda' -- subject(s): Edible Mushrooms, Edible Wild plants, Identification, Mushrooms, Edible, Plant names, Popular, Popular Plant names, Wild plants, Edible