What are the uses/advantage of a Cactus plant?
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Question by Joeanna: What are the uses/advantage of a Cactus plant?
I chose the topic Cactus for my presentation and I thought of zooming in to the point of “what Cactus can do for you”.
Anyone knows what are the uses of a cactus plant?
Thank you very much!
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5 Responses to What are the uses/advantage of a Cactus plant?
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It’s just ornamental but greatly conserves water because you don’t need to water it regularly. It has stocked water inside it.
Geerod Xavier
January 6, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Ornamental, health, medicinal.
Please read.
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CGIV76
January 6, 2013 at 9:03 pm
I have raised cacti with my family for many years. A cactus plant produces fruit and flowers in it’s mature stages. The flowers attract many butterflies and bees while the fruit attracts small birds. The shelter of large cactus plants attract owls that naturally hunt rodents, snakes, and other vermin. If in a garden, they can keep away pests while bringing beauty and pollination to your garden. The cactus leaves are used in many different ways in cooking in the Mexican culture. You can even argue that it’s more useful than the Yucca plant, a fellow desert inhabitant.
Destiny
January 6, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Ornamental, attracts butterfly’s in later stages. Breathes at night is a C4 plant, cannot survive in cold conditions. Carbon fixation occurs at night. Painful to touch can be a problem to people with asthma.
Akuma_demon_man
January 6, 2013 at 9:50 pm
Hi fellow plant lover,
Succulents, the Cacti family contains approx 2000 species, many of which are cultivated for their grotesque form, their often showy flowers, their sometimes edible fruit, & often good, if not odd looking, house plants.
In habit the cacti are often fantastic, sometimes erect, & tree-like, sometimes climbing vines, others small & globular growths in the ground. Some, as in Opuntia, bear edible fruit, others yield beautiful night-blooming flowers (Hylocereus & Selenicereus & Nyctocereus). Except for the forage value of a few species of Opuntia, the cacti have little economic importance, the notable exception being Nopalea, which was commercially cult. for the red dye derived from the cochineal insect in Mex. & Guatemala.
Regards,
Froggy
Guess
January 6, 2013 at 10:04 pm