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Because that is how it stores water for when it needs it.

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Why is a cactus a fleshy water filled body in the dry hot desert?

The insides of all plant tissues are fleshy. The cactus is particularly so, because of its adaptation to its native environment. Its native environments are the deserts and jungles of Latin and North America.In terms of the desert, a cactus needs to hold onto every drop of moisture that its roots get hold of. Once inside, everything is done to keep water and its solutions and related products inside. So the inside is thick and fleshy, to keep water from evaporating through the stem. The breathing pores, or stomata, are controlled by guard cells that approve the entry of gases and disapprove the exit of water. And the entire internal contents are encased in the stem's thick outer covering that is equally hostile to the loss of water and watery products and solutions.


Where does a cactus store most of its water?

A cactus stores most of its water in its stem or body


What is the structure of the cactus?

A cactus has adapted by making it's leaves into small spikes so it has a small amount of surface area so that a small amount of water is let out through the leaves. no, actually a catus has spikes that are its leaves that it uses as its structural adaptation it has its fleshy body that stores water as its physiological adaptation.cactii lives in deserts long due to its great storage of water protective adaptations...


What is the structure of a cactus?

A cactus has adapted by making it's leaves into small spikes so it has a small amount of surface area so that a small amount of water is let out through the leaves. no, actually a catus has spikes that are its leaves that it uses as its structural adaptation it has its fleshy body that stores water as its physiological adaptation.cactii lives in deserts long due to its great storage of water protective adaptations...


What is the structural adaptations of a cactus?

A cactus has adapted by making it's leaves into small spikes so it has a small amount of surface area so that a small amount of water is let out through the leaves. no, actually a catus has spikes that are its leaves that it uses as its structural adaptation it has its fleshy body that stores water as its physiological adaptation.cactii lives in deserts long due to its great storage of water protective adaptations...


Where do cacti store water and food?

In the body of a cactus is pleated spines. The cactus expands like a balloon with pleats. Some cactus can store up to a ton of water.


How much of the cactus is water?

How much of the cactus plant is water depends upon the size of the cactus and the amount of water in moving, processing and stored forms. But no matter the cactus' size and regardless of how much or little water that it holds, the cactus devotes over 90% of its inside body parts to handling, circulating and building up supplies of water.


How does the cactus suvurive?

in the body of a catus, water is stored as not much rain falls where a cactus so water is stored to prevent the cactus from dying out. there are thorns on cacti to prevent it from being eaten by a predator.


What is the body covering of the worms?

fleshy body.


Fact about cactus?

An interesting fact about a cactus is that a cactus has a thick, juicy and swollen stem inside his body which helps it to store water and when it gets thirsty because of the extremely hot weather, he can drink the water anytime he wants.


Is a cactus is a producer?

Yes, a cactus is a producer. It makes energizing food from the photosynthetic interaction of sunlight with the plant's water, minerals, and dissolved nutrients. That food feeds the cactus, and cactus body parts may feed the consumers of the food chain.


Is a cactus a producers?

Yes, a cactus is a producer. It makes energizing food from the photosynthetic interaction of sunlight with the plant's water, minerals, and dissolved nutrients. That food feeds the cactus, and cactus body parts may feed the consumers of the food chain.