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The jumping cholla [Cylindropuntia bigelovii] doesn't need to launch its thorns. The thorns just loosen easily in response to strong wind events, or contact. The cactus is native to North America. In Mexico, it's found in the Sonoran Desert. In the U.S., it's found in Arizona, California, and Texas. It's also known by a number of common names, including the ironic Teddy Bear cholla.
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∙ 9y agoNo, a cactus does not have thorns, it has spines.
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Its stem has thorns that keep predators from eating its flowers?
The desert cactus
What plant stem has thorns that keep predators from eating its flowers?
The desert cactus
What is the protective structure rose?
The protective structure of a rose is the thorns. The thorns grow up and down the stems of the plant. It protects the plant from being eaten.
Is cactus a leaf or a stem?
Leaves provide extra surface area for water to evaporate out of the plant. In the arid desert, plants need all the water they can get.
What is the thorns on the cactus for?
The cactus is one of the few plants found in the desert, and in order to survive it needs a massive amount of water. Since it does not rain all year round in a desert, cacti store water when it does rain. So the needles on the cactus protect their water-rich flesh from other things in the desert.
What the plant has thorns?
cactus
What are thorns made of?
cactus thorns are made up of Leaves
What does pairs look like?
The cactus has flat green "paddles" covered in long thorns. The "paddles" can be eaten like a vegetable after pulling the thorns, peeling, and cooking. If you want dice. The fruit is round red or orange "Pears" covered in short thorns. The "pears" can be eaten like a fruit after pulling the thorns and washing (peeling is usually unnecessary).
What does prickly pair look like?
The cactus has flat green "paddles" covered in long thorns. The "paddles" can be eaten like a vegetable after pulling the thorns, peeling, and cooking. If you want dice. The fruit is round red or orange "pears" covered in short thorns. The "pears" can be eaten like a fruit after pulling the thorns and washing (peeling is usually unnecessary).
Why does a cactus symbolizes warmth protection?
Warmth because they grow in deserts and hot climates. Protection because their surfaces are covered with sharp thorns.
What is the function of leaves on a cactus?
defence. the cacti leaves are the thorns...
What are the structural adaptations of bamboo and the cactus and the rose?
the thorns is a structural adaption of rose,cactus,bamboo
What parts of cactus plants and roses make them difficult to hold?
It's the thorns on cactus plants and roses that make them both difficult to hold. On both plants, the thorns serve to defend and protect the stem and the flower. But on the cactus, the thorn is a modified leaf. On a rose, the stem has both thorns and regular leaves.
Is the cactus a plant?
no it is a mammle those thorns are really hairs
How big are cactus thorns?
They vary in size from species to species and my be the size of nails or like small hairs.
What is a sentence using the word cactus?
The thorns on cacti are like seeds, if you want to reproduce a cactus you will probably need a green house, if you don't have a greenhouse you can take a plastic bag and poke small holes in it and drape it over the cactus. Cactus thorns are sharp and prickly they are a natural defence system.
Its stem has thorns that keep predators from eating its flowers?
The desert cactus
