Cactus Plants---------------Wong Man Sing
Cactus plants and Multi-meat plant are a class of thick, fleshy leaves, very drought-tolerant plants. All sorts of strange and unusual quantity are many. Belonging to Cactaceae , Agavaceae , Crassulaceae , Aizoaceae , Asclepiadaceae , Compositae , Euphorbiaceae and Liliaceae , etc. . Produces originally in the arid prairie, desert, half desert region, bears the arid, adaptation bad natural environment. The leaves gradually degraded or hypertrophy juicy state. The varieties varied form of succulence. Such as cactus with succulent spiny columnar fleshy stems. The Agavaceae having fleshy leaves more for ribbon. The Crassulaceae leaves showed a rosette -like arrangement. The Asclepiadaceae leopard skins flowers also succulent. .On the stem still had already the leaf, flowers’ shape also enormous difference which degenerates. Stems occurred “flat”, was duck coronavirus or mountain -like, termed “suffix.” Petrochemical. Green stems, leaves more colorful strains rods. Irregular red, yellow, white stripes, spots boundless in whole or in part, known as “Jin “. Most succulents slow growth, peculiar shape, of flowers delicately, conservation of simple, easy propagation. Can be said that a class of “lazy Flower”.