Cacti show many adaptations to conserve water.

Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes.

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 are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north — except for Rhipsalis baccifera, which also grows in Africa and Sri Lanka.

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.

* RRDtool, the underlying software upon which Cacti is built

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

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

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.

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.

* 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 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

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There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.

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Early studies of genomic DNA sequences from a wide range of organisms show that the intron-exon structure of homologous genes in different organisms can vary widely.

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The show inspired a few fanzines such as Protoculture Addicts and Animag both of which in turn promoted interest in the wide world of anime in general.

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Lengths with order of magnitude 1e17m: yellow Vernal Point arrow traces hundred light year radius circle with smaller ten light year circle at right ; globular cluster Messier 5 in background ; 12 light year radius Orion Nebula middle right ; 50 light year wide view of the Carina Nebula bottom left ; Pleiades cluster and Bubble nebula with similar diameters each around 10 light years bottom right ; grey arrows show distances from Sun to stars Aldebaran ( 65 light years ) and Vega ( 25 light years ).

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