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Cactus Gardening
All cactus plants are succulents, but not all succulents are cactus plants. Being able to tell the difference is one of the concerns in the cactus gardening section. Other questions to be asked and answered include the specifics of a cactus plant's adaptability, environmental impact, growing conditions, harmful stresses, native habitats, propagation methods, and value for people and wildlife.
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Why do cactus live in dessert?
Cactus plants live by making changes within themselves to fit better with their extreme environments. For example, jungle equivalents of cactus plants don't grow on the tropical forest floor. Instead, they're epiphytic, which means that their roots are air born. They anchor themselves high up on tree trunks and branches. This is because jungle cactus plants face the opposite situation of desert cactus plants. They have access to enough moisture, in the hot humid tropics. But they'd be light deprived on the darker forest floor, where not enough sunlight filters down. So jungle cactus plants grow high up in the thick forest canopy, to be closer to what's in short supply: direct sunlight.
well it is hard to tell i think they eat grass or something or either they eat spiders yeah i think they eat tinsie winsie spiders
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Some do eat bugs. The Lady Bug, which is a beetle, loves a feast of plump aphids. Dung Beetles eat flies and parasitic worms.
What is a very tall cactus that can store water inside there stem?
Water, dissolved nutrients, and byproductsof photosynthesis are stored in the cactus stem. The water and the dissolved nutrients are sent up into the stem from the cactus plant's roots. They're held in the stem until they can be used in the photosynthetic interaction with sunlight. From that interaction are made the energizing carbohydrates, starches and sugars that the cactus needs for such activities as flowering, fruiting, growing, reproducing, and responding to stresses and stressors.
How long does it take a cactus to mature?
That depend upon the species. Some, such as the opuntias (prickly pear, cholla) can go from seed to a sizable plant in just a few short years. Others, such as the saguaro and barrel cacti, can take many decades to grow to a respectable size.
What eats cacti in the Sahara Desert?
people leopards lions (although these will only eat the small or the young ones,] jackals and hyenas.
Answer #1 The cactus has needles to lessen the loss of moisture through evaporation. Needles are the cactus plant's equivalent of leaves. The smaller the leaf or needle surface, the less the loss of precious moisture through evaporation. The needles also let moisture and rain water drip to the soil surface. The water then seeps below ground. Underground, the water adds to soil moisture levels and is taken in by plant roots. It dissolves nutrients that only can be used in soluble form by plants. Then it travels up through the plant by capillary action, for the meeting with sunlight in the photosynthetic interaction. Additionally, the needles offer general protection to cactus body parts from such environmental stressors as pests. Specifically, it may protect fruits, flowers, and fleshy parts from predators. Answer #2Cactuses are prickly so the animals stay out of the way, and so the animals can't drink their water up.
How are the roots of a cactus plant an adaptation?
Cactus roots are adapted to take in water and store it below ground. Moisture may be taken from a wider below ground area by shallow, fibrous roots. Some of the water is sent upwards for joint food making with the sun through the process of photosynthesis. Some of the water is stored for use during extended droughts. For example, moisture may be stored below ground in swollen or tuberous roots.
Which cactus plants store water in their stems?
Cactus plants hold water temporarily in their roots. They also hold it temporarily on their modified leaves. They hold it permanently in their stems.
What adaptations has a cactus made to survive within its environment?
The old man cactus [Cephalocereus senilis] is found in subtropical and tropical Mexico. It adds blue green color to Mexican seashores and mountains. It's a steady growing cactus that slowly reaches an adult height of 50 feet/15 meters within its 200+ year life span. That's in the wild. But in cultivation, they rarely get any taller than 3 feet/90 centimeters.
The old man cactus is known for its long, silky spines that may provide a beard like cover to the upper stem. It also is known for its beautiful, yellow, white or pink blossoms that flower briefly at night. But an audience has to wait until the cactus is at least 20 years old before seeing such a spectacular night show of color and smell.
How does the old man cactus survive in a bright dry hot environment?
The old man cactus [Cephalocereus senilis] survives in a bright, dry, hot environment because of its adapted body parts. Its thickened outer stemmoves, processes, and stores nutrient solutions and photosynthetic products. The responsibility for storage tends to be taken up by the roots in many plants. But the cactus plants of the desert save on energy by having above ground all that's needed for the energizing food making interaction of photosynthesis with sunlight. Its spreading, shallow, fibrous roots anchor the plant in the ground, hold the soil together, and take in dissolved nutrients and water. Its modified leaves are in the form of long hairs to protect the stem from predators and the excesses of desert heat and light. The hairs also direct any moisture - in the form of dew, fog, or rainfall - to the ground, for adding to soil moisture levels and for intake by the plant's roots.
Is a cactus or a jackrabbit or a snake or a woodpecker 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.
Flower gardens are any sized plots in your yard where you plant and grow flowers for your enjoyment. In some instances, people will grow flowers in pots or window boxes, if yard space is not available. ( Balcony gardens, etc for those who live in apartments. ) It would still be considered a flower garden.
Any flowers you grow. whether directly in the ground or in containers, are considered flower gardens.
You can eat the nopal cactus, which is also known as the prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica). It must be prepared carefully so that you remove the spines before you eat it.
Also: pitaya (Hyelocereus undatus or polyrhizus or Seleunicerus megalanthus).
Those are known as Indian figs, nopales, prickly pears, or beaver tail cacti.
Preparation methods can vary.
What alcoholic beveridge is made from Cacti?
As far as I know the only alcoholic beverages made from Agave (not a cactus) are Mezcal and Tequila. Agave is a succulent, not a cactus.
Cacti get food the same way as all other plants, by photosynthesis. They use the sun, water, nutrients and the air (only certain gases) to produce their own food. Just because of their difference in appearance doesn't mean they get food any other way they are just adapted to their normal environment.
What is the name for cactus juice?
Exudate is the scientific name for 'cactus juice'. The fluid appears when cactus plant tissues are damaged or opened. The term also refers to the solutions that the roots release into the soil, as the cactus plant's waste products.
What parts of the catnip plant are used for medicinal purposes?
Both the flowering tops and the leaves of the catnip plant are used for medicinal purposes. Catnip is harvested in the summer and fall, and dried for medicinal use.
How do cactus protect from being eaten?
It does get eaten.
By humans and camels and such...
But normal animals don't because they have little pointy things that jab your face.
It hurts a lot!
