Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Cacti - Advanced/2/en
2. Identify from plants or photos five succulents that are not cacti. How are they different from cacti?
Agave
Agave is the name of a succulent plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae. Chiefly Mexican, they occur also in the southern and western United States and in central and tropical South America. The plants have a large rosette of thick fleshy leaves generally ending in a sharp point and with a spiny margin; the stout stem is usually short, the leaves apparently springing from the root. Along with plants from the related genus Yucca, various Agave species are popular ornamental plants. Each rosette is monocarpic and grows slowly to flower only once. During flowering a tall stem or "mast" grows from the center of the leaf rosette and bears a large number of shortly tubular flowers. After development of fruit the original plant dies, but suckers are frequently produced from the base of the stem which become new plants.
Aloe
Aloe, also written Aloë, is a genus containing about four hundred species of flowering succulent plants, the most well known of which is Aloe vera.
