Difference Between Succulents And Cactus And How Identify Which Are Succlents And Cactus

Hey guys we are back with an new fresh article and in this article we are gonna talk about what is the difference between cactus and succulent? and how to identify which are succelnts and cactus.

So lets begin ,

Succulents are any plants that store water in their fleshy leaves, stems, roots that they will use in order to survive drought.

 There are more than 50 plant family that are included in the succulent category contrary to most people think that succulent belong to only one plant family.

 While cactus is a sub category of succulents. That means, all cactus are succulent. Succulents include many plant families such as cactusCactus, lithops, sempervivum, aloe, agave, haworthia, gasteria, sansevieria, most of euphorbia and more.

 Now a days, horticulturist separate cactus from succulent. This is the reason why there are confusion between succulent and cactus. Cactus is a specific succulent family.

 How to identify cactus from the rest? before we continue, please share this article to your family memeber and groups in your social media.

 Let's continue, How to identify cactus from other succulents?

 Cactus mostly have spines, glochids(this is a bristle like thorns) they have flowers or sometimes leaves which grow from areole.Like This

 This is the main difference that sets cactus apart from other succulent plant family.

The areole, This is the areole,

without this - a succulent can not be called cactus even if they have thorns and fleshy stems and trunks.

 Let's have an actual excercise in determining a cactus I will show you 5 plants and tell me if this is a cactus or not Example 1: cactus or not?

 Example 2: cactus or not?

 Example 3: cactus or not?

Example 4: cactus or not?



 Example 5: cactus or not?



Comment Down your answer fast
and the correct answer is.... number 1: this is a cactus because thorns grow from the areole.

 number 2: this is again a cactus because spines grow from the areole.

 number 3: this is also a cactus, glochids grow from the areole.

 number 4: we can not see any areole with spines growing in it, so this is not a cactus.

 number 5: again, there is no areole, this is not a cactus so, the first 3 are cacti and the last 2 are not. did you get a perfect score? way to go! now you know how to distinguish a cactus. please post your scores in the comments below .

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