Cacti are perhaps the best-known desert plants. They have thick stems that store water, and sparse leaves that minimize evaporation. Some cacti, such as the saguaro, can grow to be over 20 feet tall.

Plants adapt in many ways so that they survive in ... Adaptations include the ability to survive in dry conditions, fast flowing water and even salt water. Just like you probably have a winter ...

Some plants use aerenchyma, a tissue, which acts like a snorkel, transporting gases between submerged and exposed parts of the plant ...

Aquatic plants are often grown commercially outside water due to ease. When you first plant them in a fish tank, they need to adapt to underwater life. The plant’s leaves will die off (melt!) ...

Some plant species have evolved a water-saving trait called Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM). CAM plants like most Tillandsia species -- the most species-rich genus in the pineapple family ...

Amphibious plants—those adapted to the edges of rivers and lakes where water levels can change easily—like Rorippa aquatica, adapt to life underwater by not producing these pores, called stomata.

Plants adapt genetically over time to the special conditions of organic ... developed gene variants that were less sensitive to a nutrient deficit or lack of water – i.e., alleles that influenced the ...

Urban habitats are very different from natural habitats and pose new challenges for animals and plants. Until now ... exposed animals from both water bodies to a range of stressors under ...

Smaller carnivorous plants specialise in single-celled organisms (such as bacteria and protozoa) and aquatic examples also eat crustaceans, mosquito larvae and small fish. Carnivory is such an ...