Cactus tree

No plant could live in a true desert, where it never rains. But the places where cacti and other desert plants grow do get rain only every couple of years or so. When it rains, desert plants quickly take up the water through their roots, storing it in fleshy leaves and stems. That stored water allows them to survive until the next rain comes. The roots of desert plants are very deep, drawing from hidden underground water, or widespread and shallow to best gather the water that hits the…

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This farmer is storing his crop in the cactus.

World's tallest species of cactus (Cardon)

I love these spiny not-a-cactus, green and leafy (but only when it rains) not-a-tree, gorgeously flowering Sonora Desert plants. Their sprays of orange-to-scarlet (each 1/2-1" long) flowers can be 10-12 inches long. It's sort of like Christmas in the desert when they start blooming! Ocotillo are also known by names such as flaming sword, jacobs staff, and vine cactus. They are the northernmost species of a group of similar plants which grown in Mexico…

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Echinocactus platyacanthus. Outside of Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico.