Plants and Animals

What are the characteristics of a cactus?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/characteristics-cactus-93593.html" >What are the characteristics of a cactus?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Cactus plant is conspicuous for its fleshy green stem, which performs the functions of leaves (commonly insignificant or absent), and for the spines (not always present) of various colors, shapes, and arrangements.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about cactus . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: How can you identify a cactus? What is a cactus known for? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Prickly pear cactus and pastoralism in Southwest Madagascar.
Magazine article from: Ethnology ...species of the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) into their subsistence...Opuntia, recognized by its characteristic thorned, flattened segments...roads, and camel trails with cactus fencing (Monjauze and Le...Pastoralists have used cacti as cattle fodder in Sicily...Houerou 1965:104). THE ...
Prickly victims. (saguaro cacti) (American Survey)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...desert, forests of saguaro cactuses march across the stony landscape...Mexico. The saguaro is the characteristic, ten-foot-high, branching cactus seen in westerns. It is...lets so much water out of a cactus that it kills it. One day, however, the cactuses might shoot back. In Texas...Guard ...
Cactus trackers: park rangers turn to a high-tech solution for combating cactus...
Magazine article from: Science World ...of the park's namesake cactuses missing. The saguaro (sa-WAH-ro) cactus is a tall, spiny plant...it is possible to move a cactus that large, it would require...thieves are targeting young cactuses that are just 1.4 to 2...big a job to tag all the cactuses. Instead, rangers have...and near ...
HOLIDAY IN BLOOM; CACTI SPECIES ADD COLOR, LONG-LASTING FLOWERS.(CNY)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) ...CONTRIBUTING WRITER Holiday cacti are everywhere this time...England, was puzzled by the characteristics of a plant that he found...anymore. Most "Christmas cacti" sold now are actually hybrids...the Thanksgiving or crab cactus, S. truncata, which was...flower colors. Thanksgiving cacti are ...
The search for Coryphantha ramillosa.(distribution of bunched cory cacti...
Newspaper article from: Endangered Species Update ...occurrence of a rare cactus at the park. Although...monitoring rare cacti in Mexico. This...species of little cacti. Dr. Anderson...work on the IOS Cactus Consensus Initiatives...Triangle, Threatened Cacti of Mexico, Peyote: The Divine Cactus, and The Cactus...surprisingly ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.