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What are the adaptation of aquatic plants?
they have a waxy coat
What plants of the desert have a waxy coating?
A few desert plants have a waxy coating that helps protect them from the heat and dry air of the dessert. These plants include some varieties of Yucca trees, Creosote and Beavertail Cactus. The waxy coating blocks the plants pores, trapping the moisture inside to prevent them from drying out.
What is waxy waterproof coating on plants is called?
A cuticle is the waxy material that helps plants retain water.
A thich waxy coating on the leaves of some desert plants most likely permits the plants to what?
The waxy coat helps to reduce water loss from the leaves.
What are interesting facts about plants?
One: Aquatic plants live in water. Two:Their leaves have a waxy coating on the surface to prevent them from rotting in the water.
Why the leaf of the lotus has a waxy coating on it?
Lotus have waxy coating on the leaves to protect them from water.
Why do some plants have thick waxy coating?
That way the water doesn't get absorbed through the leaves first off and also to block some harmful UV rays
What is the waxy layer land plants have that allows them to survive on land?
The waxy coating on leaves, known as the cuticle, prevents the leaves from drying out too quickly.
Some plants have a hard waxy coating on their leaves that helps prevent water loss In which environment do these plants most likely grow?
Desert
Why is the top of a leaf waxy?
Leaves have a waxy coating called a cuticle to prevent excess water loss through transpiration. Without this coating they would dry up. The waxy layer blocks the stomata preventing as much water evaporating from them
Why hydrocarbons are coated on cabbage leaves?
Many plants have a waxy (hydrocarbon) coating. In some cases this appears to inhibit the loss of water. We can polish an apple, because we smooth out the waxy coating on its skin. With apples, it appears that the storage life of the apple is influenced by this coating. No doubt cabbages have a similar strategy.
What is the waxy coating on this type of plant tissue helps reduce water loss through evaporation and includes such structurexs as the stomata and trichromes?
Most xerophytic plants have waxy coating on epidermal cells of leaves to minimize water loss by transpiration. For this reason these plants also have sunken stomato gaurded by trichomes etc.
