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A saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea] helps desert animals by serving as a landmark in an otherwise monotonous desert environment. It helps by providing shade with the substantial shadows cast by its towering height and branching arms. It helps by offering drink and food through its colorful, edible, juicy fruits. It helps by giving jobs to pollinators, seeds to birds and rodents for wide area dispersion, and shelter to nesting birds. It helps by contributing to air purificationby taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. It helps by aerating the ground through the passageways that its spreading, shallow, fibrous roots create through the soil.
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Are there conservation efforts for the desert?
Conservation efforts in the desert included plants and animals that are in danger of going extinct. Some of these conservation efforts include saguaro cactus and certain types of reptiles.
What animals and plants are the producers of the desert?
a cactus
What do saguaro cactus plants eat?
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What are three specific plants in the desert biome?
Three specific plants found in the desert biome are the Saguaro cactus, Joshua tree, and Prickly pear cactus. These plants have adapted to survive in arid environments by storing water and having specialized structures to minimize water loss.
What plants live in the Sonoran Desert?
Some plants that live in the Sonoran Desert include saguaro cacti, ocotillo, creosote bush, and palo verde trees. These plants are adapted to the arid conditions of the desert and have unique features to help them survive in the harsh environment.
What are some desert plants that animals can get water from?
Cactus
How do flowers help cactus plants survive in the desert?
Flowers help cactus plants survive in the desert by attracting pollinators. Because of pollination, the cactus plants may have fruits full of seeds. For example, the giant saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea] depends upon bats for pollination of its huge, light colored bat blossoms.
What are some desert plants of the U.S. and Mexico?
The ocotillo sprouts leaves a day or two after a good rain in the desert. It blooms in the late winter.
Why is it illegal to remove a saguaro cactus?
The saguaro only grows in the deserts of Arizona. If they were not protected, commercial cactus nurseries would quickly remove the plants to sell for landscaping across the warmer regions of the southwest. Texas has no such rules and areas that were once covered by a variety of cactus species and other desert vegetation are now devoid of these interesting plants.
What are two kinds of plants that grow in the desert?
Cacti and succulents are two common types of plants that are well adapted to hot and arid desert conditions. Their ability to store water in their tissues allows them to survive in these harsh environments.
What are the producers in a desert food chain?
Saguaro cactus, sagebrush, creosote, and mesquite. All of which are types of plants in the desert and are considered producers.
How do saguaro and animals help each other?
In desert environtments, plants such as the saguaro cactus provide shade and nutrients to those animals who can brave their sharp spikes. The insides of these cacti hold a "milk" which can be drunk when water is scarce. Some small birds build nests inside.In turn, animals carry the seeds of the catus to farther reaching parts of the desert, increasing its area of population.
