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How to Reduce Light and Heat in Desert Plants
The desert is an impossibly hot place. The Glendula cactus has so many spines, they shade their epidermal tissue from the sun. When it's so warm, your metabolism isn't running as fast as it should be. I'd love to do pollination studies on some of these things that we haven't figured out yet.
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