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Vegetative

 14-Stem succulent

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A succulent plant has fleshy thick, usually soft, watery stems and / or leaves. Cacti, like this Opuntia macrorhiza, are stem-succulent plants. Note the enlarged and flattened stems; the leaves are reduced to spines.
Photo taken by K. R. Robertson in Calhoun County, Illinois.
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