Cactus 🌵

The Chalwanti region is characterized by extreme dryness, water scarcity and sandy soil. Now how can life flourish where these three things come together? But nature is a great magician. Even the desert region has such a special life; There are plants and there are animals that live on these plants. It is true that plants and animals cannot survive without water, but Balvati regions get little water and the bravery of nature is such that on this little water it makes plants flourish and animals live there. Life in the desert is truly one of the wonders of the earth.Desert regions receive only one rainfall per year. Sometimes there is no place of rain for two-two, three-three years. During this long period of drought, the region looks very desolate and barren. Whatever trees and bushes there are, there is not a single leaf on them during this period. Life feels dry and lifeless...Then one day it rains and, as if by magic, the bushes sprout and sprout from seeds that have long lain dormant in the ground. Abundant flowers bloom on these plants. The land, which has been barren for so long, looks like a picturesque garden with green, yellow and red colors of leaves and flowers. The desert is a paradise, as poets say, but this glory is as short-lived as a dream at dawn. Soon the sun again starts shooting fire from the sky, the air heats up like a heated floor and the leaves, flowers and grass are cut and fall to the ground. The barren, squalid life of Balvanta begins again. But there was one thing,
The seeds of the plants fall into the soil, where they remain alive until the next year's rains.
The type of plant described above that grows when the rains come and remains in the soil in the form of seeds when the rains are over is a 'dehydration avoider'. Another type of vegetation that grows in desert regions is the drought tolerant one These plants store whatever water they can get when it rains and grow very slowly during the dry season. One of the most important drought tolerant plants, the cactus, needs no introduction. The cactus has now arrived in your living room. Cactus is not only planted in the garden, but ornamental pots of cactus like money plates can be seen in many homes.
It is as if nature has bred a cactus to demonstrate how to grow with very little water. The cactus is a very special representative of the desert region. There are many varieties of cactus. Satwaro cactus is the king of cactus. It climbs to a height of 50 feet. That is the cactus monster! Its growth is so slow that It grows only 3 feet a year and lives for 200 years. So some of the Sambaro cactus standing today are from the time of Bajirao Peshwa II. Also, calculating that a samvaro grows three feet in fifty years, a man will see a samovar cactus grow to a height, if not a little above his waist, in his entire life. Sambaro cactus is such a giant, while some cactus are as small as your thumb.Cactus plants have been bred to resist drought. It can be said that its entire structure is for storing water. Some cactus are ball shaped and some are pillar shaped. A cactus strives to expose at least part of its body to the dry air. Most cacti are clocked. These clocks accomplish two things. One is that the inside of the watch is protected from dry hot air. Another is that these clocks are used like a compass. Whenever it rains, the rainwater flows down through this column and reaches the roots directly. Plants lose most of their water to their leaves through evaporation, so the cactus leaves are a thing of the past. When the cactus plant is young, it only has two to four small leaves. Then the cactus tree remains leafless. A cactus plant has a juicy sap, which is a great risk for animals to pounce on it; But the cactus tree has taken care of that too. Many cactus plants have sharp barbed spines. What is the difference then that the animal faces him?All this struggle of the cactus is to store as much water as possible. Of course, they get this water from their roots. These roots have a special structure that can absorb a lot of water in a short time. Even when it rains, the scorched desert soil can absorb very little water. This problem has also been overcome by the cactus tree. A cactus spreads its roots far and wide and absorbs water from as much of the surrounding area as possible. This is why the roots of the sauro cactus are up to 50 feet long.It is a continental tree. Cactus completely lacks the ideas we have of trees. A tree means a trunk, the trunk of a tree is in front of our vision, with split branches and no leaves above the trunk. Cactus has nothing like that. A cactus is an upright column tapering at the top, a factus has branches; But even this upright pillar-like sambari cactus looks like a giant doll standing with arms raised. There are about 1000 varieties of Cantus. "Many of them are grotesque in shape. One cactus is called the 'Syal Cactus,' because it looks like a squirrel living under a fence. Another cactus looks like a bear, so it's called the 'Bear Cactus.' . A cactus that looks like a sambar's horn is called 'Sambarshing Cactus'. Although cactuses generally do not have leaves, some cacti have beautiful flowers and juicy fruits. The flowers on Samyaro clada are many-flowered. These flowers blossomed, that for a little while the poor barren desert felt a touch of warmth.
The Red Indians of America used to use Sawari facts in many ways in the past. Samvaro cactus bears fruits by plucking the factus during the dry season and extracting its water and drinking this water to quench thirst. The gar in it is like the gar of Kalingada. Red Indians used to eat these fruits with relish. Sugar can be added to the pulp of the fruit to preserve it as a moravali. It is also a food of the Red Indians. The 'pimp' cactus, mentioned above, was used by desert travelers to quench their thirst. But its water extraction is a very demanding job. These are very prickly to me, they have to be broken off first. Then he would peel off the hard substance of the cactus and take out its heat and extract the water from it. The water would be half or a pint of water, and he would do this only if the traveler, who was very thirsty, became useless.