What are cacti and succulents?
Cacti and succulents are some of the most popular and charismatic plants appearing in private collections the world over-perhaps even as part of your own. Their unexpectedly beautiful blooms and unusual, characterful shapes and textures have made them a firm horticultural favourite.
What exactly are succulents and cacti?
Succulents are found across the globe in nearly all types of habitat, but most often in arid or semi-arid parts of the world. They’re specially adapted to deal with dry, desert-like conditions, and able to store water in one or more of their organs; their leaves, stems, or roots are often filled with water-storing tissue, and are thus unusually fleshy and enlarged. Succulent families include aloe, agave, and, most famously, cacti (the Cactaceae family). While most all cacti are succulents, not all succulents are cacti; cacti are distinct because of the small round nodules seen speckled across the plant (known as areoles) from which they grow and produce flowers and spines.
What makes them vulnerable?
Our love for cacti has its downsides. These plants are suffering because of their horticultural desirability, which has led to them being illegally collected and traded internationally. Aesthetic appeal aside, many cultures enjoy these spiky species for their economic, societal, and ecological significance worldwide; they are used as sources of food for humans and animals, for shelter and construction materials, and in the production of traditional medicines, drugs, oils, and cosmetics.
Additionally, the parts of the world that host succulents are also facing a high risk of destruction-these areas are some of the first to feel the effects of urban expansion, land-use change for agriculture, building of new infrastructure, mining, grassing, and many other human-induced changes. This destroys the natural habitat for succulent species, many of which live in very small and specialised regions and are thus particularly vulnerable.
A cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek word κάκτος, a name originally used by Theophrastus for a spiny plant whose identity is now not certain.
Scientific name: Cactaceae
Family: Cactaceae; Juss.
Order: Caryophyllales
Kingdom: Plantae
පතොක් යනු Cactaceae නම් ශාක පවුලේ සාමාජිකයෙකි, Caryophyllales අනුපිළිවෙලෙහි දන්නා විශේෂ 1750ක් පමණ ඇති කුල 127කින් පමණ සමන්විත පවුලකි. පතොක් යන වචනය ලතින් භාෂාවෙන් ව්යුත්පන්න වී ඇත්තේ පුරාණ ග්රීක වචනය වන κάκτος වෙතින් වන අතර, එය මුලින් තියෝෆ්රැස්ටස් විසින් භාවිතා කරන ලද නමක් වන කටුක ශාකයක් සඳහා එහි අනන්යතාවය තහවුරු කර නොමැත.
විද්යාත්මක නාමය: Cactaceae
පවුල: පතොක්; ජූස්
අනුපිළිවෙල: Caryophyllales
රාජධානිය: ප්ලාන්ටේ
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