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Desert Plant Guide currently contains detailed information for 55 desert plants, 28 gardening definitions, 10,663 Latin desert plant names, 18 desert garden articles, 45 desert garden blog entries and 170 desert plant images.
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Succulents
Succulents are found everywhere in the desert. Plants such as cacti, agaves and yuccas can be quite stunning when planted all together.
Technically 'succulence' is a plant's ability to store water in specialized cells in roots, a leaf, or a stem.
- Agaves and aloes collect water in their leaves. These are usually shaped into some sort of rosette.
- Cacti are stem succulents. These Euphorbia usually have very little in the way of leaves and result in just a spine. There are so many different types of cactus we've given them their own section. See Cactus.
- Root succulents are more rare. They result in a huge swollen mass in the root. Baobab trees are a good example of this.
It doesn't take much to turn a bland, gravel-filled garden into an extraordinary artistic marvel by adding an interesting mix of low water use, sun-loving succulents!