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- Some xerophytes, such as cacti and other desert plants, have mucilage in their tissues.en.wikipedia.org
- For xerophytes the major constraint is not light flux or intensity, but drought.en.wikipedia.org
- Other xerophytes may have their leaves compacted at the base, as in a basal rosette, which may be smaller than the plant's flower.en.wikipedia.org
- The leaves are oval shaped and due to its xerophyte adaptations it is leathery on the underparts.en.wikipedia.org
- It occurs in rocky xerophyte communities in the middle montane zone.en.wikipedia.org
- Later, various other communities started inhabiting the area which was once a sparsely-populated sandy barren land full of xerophyte vegetation.en.wikipedia.org
- In the lower areas of the northern side, the vegetation is mainly xerophytes, represented by a variety of cacti, shrubs and spiny species.en.wikipedia.org
- The morphology and physiology of xerophytes are variously adapted to conserve water, and commonly also to store large quantities of water, during dry periods.en.wikipedia.org
- Most of the species are xerophytes (found in dry habitats); several are also halophytes, tolerating high levels of soil salinity.en.wikipedia.org
- The beachgrass species are also very good examples of xerophytes, being able to thrive on arid to semi-arid beach dunes.en.wikipedia.org
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