Xerophytic Shrubs

Some can survive through both very wet and very dry periods. The prefix xero means dry indicating that most xerophytic shrubs live in arid areas.

Characterization Of The Transcriptome Of The Xerophyte

Xerophytic shrubs!!!

Succulents plants that store water such as cacti and agaves have thick fleshy stems or leaves. Other types of xerophytic plants include succulents like aloe euphorbia some grasses and even some perennial bulbs. About xerophyte desert plants. These plants have become accustomed to dry conditions by either storing water in their foliage or preventing water loss in some way.

Xerophytes live in areas with very little water in the soil. The plant s root systems may be extremely deep to tap deep water reserves. This means that while they are commonly found in deserts xerophytic plants may also grow in salt marshes frozen land masses like the arctic and antarctic or tropical forests. Cacti are great models of the xerophytic class.

In fact in northwest china the seeds of three shrub species namely caragana korshinskii artemisia sphaerocephala and hedysarum scoparium are dispersed across the region. Xerophytic plants have developed several water conserving adaptations like forming thick stems and trunks to store water having waxy leaves to control evaporation or having hairy leaves and stems to better catch and keep water. These plants have the ability to store water close the stoma in the leaves to conserve moisture reduce transpiration and wide root bases or deep taproots. Xerophytic plants are used widely to prevent desertification and for fixation of sand dunes.

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