Why are succulents?

[ Agricultural Network] Why are succulents sotonous? As the name suggests, the meat is more, it is estimated to store energy and moisture! Let's take a look at the following to understand.

What is a succulent plant?

A succulent plant refers to a plant in which at least one of the three vegetative organs of the root, stem and leaf of the plant is thick and juicy and has a function of storing a large amount of water. It has at least one fleshy tissue, which is a living tissue that, among other functions, stores the water that can be used, when the soil water condition deteriorates, the plant roots can no longer be absorbed from the soil, and the necessary moisture is provided. It allows plants to survive independently from the outside water supply.

Are succulents a desert plant?

This is certainly not very accurate. Sometimes people like to call these plants desert plants or sand plants. There are many succulents in the desert, including some plants in more than 50 families, such as cactaceae , apricot , sedum, eucalyptus, oleander , sage, and asparagus, but Not all grow in the desert, but there are also many plants that are not succulents in the desert.

Is the cactus a succulent plant?

Cactus is a special succulent plant. As a result of long-term adaptation to the arid environment, the vegetative organs of cacti and succulents have undergone very large changes. The original leaves have degenerated into needle-like leaves in most cactus plants, and are often only found in the succulents of the genus Euphorbiaceae. It is traced or premature; but it still exists in the succulents of most other families, but has been succulent to varying degrees; stems have not only replaced leaves as the main organ for photosynthesis, but also because of the changes. Make it extremely ornamental. But many other succulent stems do not exist or have very short stems. In addition, cacti also have unique organ thorns. Therefore, the cactus must be listed separately when describing the form.

Which plants are succulents?

The plants with the sedative acid metabolism pathway are mostly succulent plants, which absorb CO2 through open pores at night, and then combine with phosphoenolpyruvate by PEP carboxylase to form oxaloacetate, and then dehydrogenate in malic acid. The enzyme is reduced to malic acid, enters the vacuole and accumulates acid (from pH 5 to 3); after the second day, the malic acid is transported from the vacuole back to the cytoplasm and chloroplast for decarboxylation, and the released CO2 is absorbed by RuBP to form carbohydrate.

What is the main role of flesh?

The water storage tissue is mainly in the leaves. The stems are generally not succulent, and some of the stems are slightly lignified. The degree of succulence of leaves differs depending on the degree of habitat drought. The leaves of the species that are not too dry are larger and thinner. For example, the origin of the flower vine grass of the apricot family is in Natal, South Africa. Because it is moister than other parts of South Africa, the shape of the flower vine has a larger and thinner leaf, and the plant shape is vine. The shape is not much different from the general grass flower. . As the environment tends to be arid, the succulents of local succulents are getting shorter and shorter, and the leaf quality is getting thicker. Some of them are distributed in the extremely dry areas of the apricot family. The whole plant consists of only one or two pairs of leaves, and the stems are all Disappeared, the leaves are highly succulent.

Are succulents promising?

Office and young people have a preference for succulents and represent the direction of consumption. In fact, succulents have no age preference. Those who are not good at saving prefer the succulent pleasure that succulents bring to them because succulents can live independently for some time. The little hamster often stores the owner's food so that he can eat it when he is short of food. From a certain level and in an isolated environment, seek independent animal and plant nature.

Although the succulent market is saturated, future succulents will have a stable market prospect.