Kaktusy

28/01/2023

The species Opuntia humifusa is distributed throughout the Mediterranean and is found on the coast of Crimea, the Black Sea coast of Russia, near the cities of Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk, as well as in Tbilisi, near the botanical garden.

28/01/2023

There is a population of Opuntia phaeacantha in the Kordon tract of the Astrakhan region, the northernmost in Russia; wild prickly pear in the Sevastopol region and on the Southern coast of Crimea live about 3° south.

27/01/2023

The thorns play two main roles: they prevent water loss through transpiration, and they keep the plant safe from animals.

26/01/2023

The species Rhipsalis baccifera is found, in addition to the Americas, also in Africa, Madagascar and Sri Lanka, where it is believed[who?] it was introduced, possibly by humans.

26/01/2023

Cacti are plants of the New World, their natural range is South America and North America, as well as the islands of the West Indies.

25/01/2023

The largest cacti in the world are giant California cereus, whose age can reach one and a half hundred years, and a height of 20 meters

24/01/2023

In the late XVI — early XVII century, Tabernemontanus called this plant Melocarduus.

23/01/2023

23/01/2023

Under this name, M. Lobel and P. Penya (1570-1571) gave an illustration of a plant that is today referred to as melocactus.

23/01/2023

Before C. Linnaeus, the name "cactus" was not used in relation to cacti, it was used only as part of the name Echinomelocactus.

22/01/2023

Cacti are a kind of thorny plants that have adapted to life in arid deserts, on the infertile plateaus of southern countries, belonging to the vast cactus family.

22/01/2023

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