about Cactus

Cactus

Cactus, desert plant a good example to bear the thirst and dry deserts, which may extend for many years. And produces some of fruits such as figs. And grow flowers of some kind.Some types of birds live in the desert cactus and considers it a safe haven from enemies. And grow some types of cactus to reach great heights.

Adaptation to the desert environment

Of the cactus remarkable ability to afford living in the desert, he can stay alive for years in the hot desert sun without water and is characterized by the following:

* Cactus either do not have papers or papers lean to reduce the proportion of evaporation of water and replace by conducting photosynthesis in the logs.

* Cactus is covered with thorns, which reduces exposure to the sun and protected from animals that feed on it, except the camel is a desert animal adapted to eat thorny plants and can eat with scattered spines and then later from his mouth.

* Cactus trunks working as a store of water Vtaatdkhm in the case of the abundance of water to store and the folds of the contract in the case of consumption of water in a period of prolonged drought.

* His whole body is covered with a waxy layer reduces the evaporation of water from rainfall in the case of water on the slide wax to the ground do not evaporate, but are absorbed by the roots.

* Most forms of cactus cylindrical or circular, and this reduces the size of the surface in relation to the total volume, which reduces evaporation while maintaining a high capacity to store water.

* Some of them have deep roots to reach groundwater and others with roots grow quickly and spread horizontally for long distances when it rains to collect water. There is a kind of giant cactus can absorb 3000 liters of water in ten days.

* A high proportion of salts in the roots to help absorb the water pressure changes Alozmosze.

* Cactus can absorb moisture from dew or moisture from within the market.

* The holes in the roof that allows the exchange of air has very little to reduce the evaporation of water. These are open only to absorb the evening of carbon dioxide when the humidity high and low temperature and the rate of evaporation is low. Vabbar has the ability to store carbon dioxide in the form of chemical compounds for use in the process of photosynthesis when the brightness of the sun in the following day.

Figs

Figs type of cactus, and native to South American countries such as Argentina, which blooms in summer and slow growth that is threatened with extinction. And small plants which do not bear direct sunlight for a long time, but after it becomes from more than a year or two years required for breeding to the sun and bloom. The soil needs to be well ventilated.

Spiny cactus plant leaves, which we see very forklift. Called all the paper "about patience," because of its weight it is thick and dense. Patience fruits are eaten in summer, the delicious taste and was peeling the fruit requires a lot of caution given the fact that the fruits of forklift forks and also patience is very small and hardly be seen with the naked eye and skin Ilqt quickly. Is called the fruit of fig spindle (patience) is called the cone patience, as we see here looks before harvest. The core of sweet fruit, but the seeds inside of fairly large size. Sold fruit on the intersections and public markets in the province of Jninvi the summer months in some areas, such as the village of Gilboa in Palestine.

Uses of cactus

Cactus juice is used in some types of hair care products because of its usefulness in strengthening the hair follicles and maintain the freshness of the skin in general, and uses a treatment for certain skin diseases, some mothers are also used in some areas, the bitterness of cactus juice to wean their young on breastfeeding.