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The Enduring Sahara Desert Plants
The Sahara Desert is often considered bereft of life. But enough Sahara desert plants exist to make this thought untrue. Conditions such as little water or hot temperatures aren't as important as the way that plants adapt to survive in this harsh environment.
Some aquatic plants persist in the same way as do annual plants, with dormant stages in their life history that are stimulated to develop by occasional sufficient rainfall. Although being a desert area, one can notice annual rainfall in many regions of this vast land area.
Shortly after the last Ice Age is a Sahara Desert wasn't the same as it is now. Sahara desert plants at that time could expect more moisture and thus were more abundant. Now not only are the plants there able to survive with little water, they can thrive with little water. It's like people who live in cold climates. The cold may look difficult, but they would die in a warmer environment.
Typical Sahara Desert plants include shrubs and grasses. Since grass grows over such a large area and has an easier time of finding water. The grasses in the desert won't become sick and green like they would in a suburban yard, but they do okay. The same can be said of the trees that don't grow wide leaves.
Leafs have far too much surface area to be practical for Sahara desert plants. Hot, dry conditions of a desert cause rapid evaporation. Plants can't afford to lose too much moisture. Evaporation goals wild over the wide expanse of a leaf. Needles and spines, however, don't have as much surface area and thus evaporation is less rapid. For a similar reason cactus have thick trunks, so the water within is further from the surface where evaporation takes place. Water conservation is the key.
It's not just dry heat Sahara Desert plants must withstand, it's also a soil rich in salts. Many of these plans are a type that does well with salty soil – haphytes.
The Sahara Desert, as do hot deserts in general, presents a number of challenges for plants that grow there. But Sahara Desert plants grow and thrive because life always finds a way.
John Cage playing amplified cacti and plant materials with a feather
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