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liquid water.
Examples of
xerophytes include cacti,
pineapple and some
gymnosperm plants. The
morphology and
physiology of
xerophytes are
adapted to conserve...
- to
living in dry
environments such as succulents, are
termed xerophytes. Not all
xerophytes are succulents,
since there are
other ways of
adapting to a...
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Euphorbia is a
large and
diverse genus of
flowering plants,
commonly called spurge, in the
family Euphorbiaceae.
Euphorbias range from tiny
annual plants...
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region in the state's
southern portions,
which is rich in a
landscape of
xerophyte plants such as the cactus. This region's
topography was
shaped by prehistoric...
- Some
xerophytes will
reduce the
surface of
their leaves during water deficiencies (left). If
temperatures are cool
enough and
water levels are adequate...
- light-absorption
efficiency in
favor of
protection from herbivory. For
xerophytes the
major constraint is not
light flux or intensity, but drought. Some...
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Xerophytes: Cardón
cacti in the Baja
California desert, Cataviña region, Mexico...
- in
other plants, a
hollow fruit or
inflorescence might detach instead.
Xerophyte tumbleweed species occur most
commonly in
steppe and arid ecosystems,...
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possessing CAM are
either epiphytes (e.g., orchids, bromeliads) or
succulent xerophytes (e.g., cacti,
cactoid Euphorbias), but CAM is also
found in hemiepiphytes...
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precursor to C4 and a
useful carbon-concentrating
mechanism in its own right.
Xerophytes, such as
cacti and most succulents, also use PEP
carboxylase to capture...
