by Kaister0000

4 Comments

  1. tortured-mycoligist

    I wonder how much areole tissue is needed for it to pup, but that’s cool either way!

  2. Careless_Order7052

    It happens. These guys are so resilient!

  3. This post had me scratch my head and wonder just how deep does axillary meristem tissue sit in a cactus. Came across this lit review that is full of papers concerning cactus morphology, and figured I’d share it for other curious folks.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2803597/#:~:text=Trichomes%20(yellow)%20are%20abundant%20in,Scale%20bar%20=%20300%20μm.

    All I’ve read so far is that axillary meristem is typically at least 3mm deep. Might be neat to get some longitudinal sections of trich areoles stained and measured sometime 🙂

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