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Documentation Of Cactii From Agriculture Farm Of Dehgam Area, Gujarat

2019; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.32622/ijrat.74201921

ISSN

2321-9637

Autores

Harshida Chavda, Shirin Qureshi, Archana Mankad, Hitesh Solanki,

Tópico(s)

Psidium guajava Extracts and Applications

Resumo

Cactii are a unique group of plants that are found in its natural environment, in North and South America and South America, maximum seen in Mexico.The major characters in stem are fewer leaves, spines and fleshy wall.The areoles are special characters in the cactus which are protected by spines.Only Pereksiagenus have leaf and in other species leaves are modified into spines.The spines vary in size and colour.It is very important in identification of cactus.We visited Poonam Agriculture Farm, Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India in the year 2018-2019 for 3 months.We saw 300 species of cactus in the field and out of them, we studied 14 genus having above characters which are: Astrophytum, Copiapoa, Claistocactus, Espostoa, Echinocactus, Echinocereus,

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