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What are the Xerophytes growing naturally in Arabian desert?

How these xerophetes are able to withstand harsh environmental conditions ? like Heat and scarcity of water .

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Question added by Tariq Nutkani , Associate Professor , Governament Emerson College Multan,Pakistan
Date Posted: 2014/03/28
kashif ali
by kashif ali , sst bio and ISA coordinator , Govt. model high school no.1

because it is natural environment to grow for xerophytes its conditions are suitable for spreading of xerophytes there

 

DAN OTIENO
by DAN OTIENO , MICROBIOLOGIST , CONCEPTS

plants in areas of little or low water

Arpitha G G
by Arpitha G G , Research assistant , Zayed University

xerophtes are adapted to grow in less water areas like deserts or the area covered with snows like arctic or antarctic regions. these plants has less overall surface area than other plants . so evaporation of water content is less

ex : cactus

Muhammad Naqqash
by Muhammad Naqqash , Research associate , Bio-Ecology Laboratory BZU Multan

Xerophytes adapt themselves according to desertic conditions. They thickened their stem and leave sheath and making themselves thorny thus in this way they conserve water loss and withstand harsh environemental conditions

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