Succulent Habitat (IMAGE)

Brown University

Succulent Habitat

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Researchers Monica Arakaki, Erika Edwards and Matt Obgurn were hunting for succulent plants in Argentina last February. Finding Halophytum amenghinoi, foreground, an extremely rare succulent relative of cacti, was a major goal of that field trip.

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