Question

The cactus has a specialized fleshy stem, and its leaves function only for protection. Which plant tissue most likely makes up the stem

Answer 1

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●Vascular tissue makes up cactus plant stem fleshy.

● The stem is most likely made up of vascular tissues. The main vessels present on vascular tissue are the xylem and phloem. These two tissues work as pipes for the transport of water and nutrients inside the stem. Xylem transports water and some nutrients from the roots. The Phloem transports the soluble organic compounds that were produced during photosynthesis from the leaves, and in the case of the cactus photosynthesis happens on the actual stem, to the rest of the plant.

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Answer 2

Epidermis is an ephemeral tissue that functions for only a few months. This is obviously true of epidermis on leaves that live only from spring until autumn; it is true as well as the stem epidermis of annual plants: no epidermis cell of Arabidopsis thaliana, for example, lives longer than a month and a half or so. And even the stems of perennial plants typically replace their epidermis with bark in either the first or second year of life. But in cacti the epidermis is a long-lived persistent tissue: as long as a cactus stem is green, it still has its epidermis. All cactus bark is tan-color or dark, so it is easy to tell when the shoot loses its epidermis. Fleshy tissue most likely makes up the stem.