Talk:Succulent plant

message: What do you mean by: "allowing the succulents to respire." ?
--Jclerman 03:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See definition of respiration and of CAM metabolism.--Jclerman 03:24, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  allowing the succulents to respire 

message: removed the section below (re: growth forms) from the article. I think it needs re-writing as prose and incorporation into the introduction. MidgleyDJ 20:23, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  growth forms 

message: I don't think xerophilic is a word, and if it was, I think it would describe an organism rather than a climate (also, the word would be xerophilous). I think xeric is the correct word. Are there any objections to this? --TedPavlic 16:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xerophilic? 

message: "fat plant" is not a synonym for succulent; it's a subgroup or, some would say, an overlapping category taking in some non-succulents (according to some definitions) like Adansonia and Hydnophytum. Succulents like sempervivum are not fat plants. See http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/fat-plants  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikilowy (talk • contribs) 03:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fat Plants 

message: The following pair of sentences in the lead is rather awkward: “They [geophytes] can be regarded as succulents. Some plants are succulent geophytes.” If geophytes are regarded as succulents, then all geophytes are succulent geophytes! This should be rephrased... David Olivier (talk) 09:49, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geophytes and succulents 

message: Someone put on wikipedia that Opuntia cacti managed to establish themselves supposedly naturally without the help of man, simply by floating between the Americas and Africa, because -supposedly- some "ancient botanical sources" mentioned them. First of all these "botanical sources" do not exist, secondly all opuntia were introduced after Columbus' trip when spaniards brought prickly pears and entire plants back to Europe, from which they spread to Northern Africa. In this study http://planet.uwc.ac.za/nisl/Invasives/Refs/DeanandMilton.pdf , it clearly dates the introduction of Opuntia to early 17th century, while in this document http://etd.uovs.ac.za/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-10092009-162148/unrestricted/McitekaH.pdf, Opuntia is said to have taken roughly a century more to spread to South Africa by animals from where it was already introduced by man up north, in the 18th century, being observed for the first time then. All these studies are official and peer-reviewed, so I simply deleted the whole paragraph about opuntia introducing itself since "very early times" and being present in "ancient texts", because urban legends do not belong here and this is pure speculation based on nothing. 82.240.163.245 (talk) 18:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Opuntia in Africa

message: I removed the evolution section because it had little to do with the main subject or evolution. It was mostly disambiguation, which repeated what was previously stated in the article and was otherwise trivial. If somebody would take the liberty to write a new evolution section, I would have no objections.
on a similar note, i feel the italicized statement at the beginning of the article could be clarified, shortened, or perhaps removed entirely; however i will not attend to that as to not overextend my judgement.
Oliveoctet (talk) 22:52, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the Evolution Section 

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