The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

SUCCULENT

In botany, succulent refers to a leaf, shoot or fruit which is swollen owing to storing a large quantity of water. Succulent plants refers to those whose plants whose leaves and shoots, sometimes the entire plant, are swollen owing to their tissues storing up a great quantity of fluid. A good example of a succulent plant is a Cactus, which stores fluid to enable it to survive long periods of drought in its natural, desert, habitat.
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