Cacti have a variety of uses: many species are used as ornamental plants, others are grown for fodder or forage, others for food ( particularly their fruit ).

Cacti show a wide variety of growth habits, which are difficult to divide into clear, simple categories.

Cacti whose stems are even smaller may be described as globular ( or globose ).

Cacti and the remnants of a pool are visible.

Barrel Cactus plants are one of the more dangerous Cacti in the desert.

The glass-houses are utilized for growing Begonias, Ferns, Cacti, Succulents, Orchids and Bulbous plants for providing a continuous supply of potted plants to be grouped periodically in the conservatories.

Cacti are good crops for dry areas because they efficiently convert water into biomass.

Cacti belonging to the tribe Rhipsalideae are quite distinct in appearance and habit from other cacti, as they grow on trees or rocks as epiphytes or lithophytes.

Cacti may also be described as shrubby, with several stems coming from the ground or from branches very low down, such as in Stenocereus thurberi.

Marram Grass has a rolled leaf, which differs from many Cacti that have spines instead.

* Singing Cacti ( voiced by Sharon Lee Williams ) — The Singing Cacti have a song that mesmerizes all those who hear it.

Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool.

Cacti can use one of two back ends: " cmd. php ," a PHP script suitable for smaller installations, or " Spine " ( formerly Cactid ), a C-based poller which can scale to thousands of hosts.

* iPhone / iPad client for Cacti

Cacti use these as a reserve for photosynthesis during the day when they close their pores to avoid water loss ; baobabs use this property to make their trunks more flame-resistant.

* RRDtool, the underlying software upon which Cacti is built

Cacti show many adaptations to conserve water.

Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes.

Cacti can be treelike ( arborescent ), meaning that they typically have a single more-or-less woody trunk topped by several to many branches.

Edema in plants is the extended swelling in plant organs caused primarily by an excessive accumulation of water, a condition most damaging in Cacti, Fuchsias, Pelargonium and Succulents.

Cacti allows a user to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data.

Cacti can be extended to monitor any source via shell scripts and executables.

The Cacti project was first started by Ian Berry on September 2, 2001.

His central aim in creating Cacti " was to offer more ease of use than RRDtool and more flexibility than MRTG.

CAM was first suspected by De Saussure in 1804 in his Recherches Chimiques sur la Vegetation, confirmed and refined by Aubert, E. in 1892 in his Recherches physiologiques sur les plantes grasses and expounded upon by Richards, H. M. 1915 in Acidity and Gas Interchange in Cacti, Carnegie Institution.

Predominant indigenous vegetation is White Bursage and Creosote Bush, with some Joshua Trees and Cacti at higher elevations.

File: Cacti barrel. JPG | Barrel cactus at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

But a great many of the dancers are more or less native.

A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

Along with the other genus in the Boryaceae family, Alania, these xerophytic plants are native to Australia.

There are between 500-600 native Irish speakers in Achill parish.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

Most of the plants here are native to the region, and many are in danger of extinction, such as the Peltogyne mexicana or purple stick tree.

* Wonton soup – In most American Chinese restaurants, only wonton dumplings in broth are served, while native Chinese versions may come with noodles.

Ailanthus are capable of forming thick blankets of roots and heavy shade to the extent that native species are prevented from being able to reclaim an area that has been logged or deforested, as well as areas that have been heavily developed.

Native Hindi speakers pronounce / व / as in vrat (' व ् रत ', fast ) but in pakwan (' पकव ा न ', food dish ), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophone distinctions they are subconsciously making, though these are apparent to native English speakers.

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

This region is regarded as perhaps the one most influenced by native Indians, and its foods are closely linked to the Andean-Incan tradition.

The fourth article of the Constitution of Afghanistan states that citizens of Afghanistan include Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, Aymaq, Arab, Baluch, Pashayi, Nuristani, Qezelbash, Gujjars and Brahui, who are native inhabitants of the country, and that all citizens of Afghanistan be called Afghans.

Anoa, also known as midget buffalo and sapiutan, are a subgenus of Bubalus comprising two species native to Indonesia: the mountain anoa ( Bubalus quarlesi ) and the lowland anoa ( Bubalus depressicornis ).

English voiceless stops are aspirated for most native speakers when they are word-initial or begin a stressed syllable, as in pen, ten, Ken.