Plants that shed their leaves during periods of drought or generally in a dry season
Geoffroea decorticans is both cold and drought deciduous: it loses its leaves in winter as well as during particularly dry summers
Drought deciduous, or drought semi-deciduous plants refers to plants that shed their leaves during periods of drought or in the dry season. This phenomenon is a natural process of plants and is caused due to the limitation of water around the environment where the plant is situated.[1] In the spectrum of botany, deciduous is defined as a certain plant species that carry out abscission, the shedding of leaves of a plant or tree either due to age or other factors that causes the plant to regard these leaves as useless or not worth keeping over the course of a year. Deciduous plants can also be categorised differently than their adaptation to drought or dry seasons, which can be temperate deciduous during cold seasons, and in contrast to evergreen plants which do not shed leaves annually, possessing green leaves throughout the year.
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Droughtdeciduous, or drought semi-deciduous plants refers to plants that shed their leaves during periods of drought or in the dry season. This phenomenon...
Deciduous forest In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒu.əs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off"...
evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found often on drier, southern...
(abscission) will be activated in more severe stress conditions. Droughtdeciduous plants may drop their leaves in times of dryness. The wilting of leaves...
Temperate deciduous or temperate broad-leaf forests are a variety of temperate forest 'dominated' by deciduous trees that lose their leaves each winter...
Coastal sage scrub is characterized by low-growing aromatic, and drought-deciduous shrubs adapted to the semi-arid Mediterranean climate of the coastal...
a drain on the resources of the tree. Drought response is similar to the leaf-fall response of drought-deciduous trees; however, leafy shoots are shed...
houseplant and bonsai in temperate regions. It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can also lose its leaves during cold spells...
forests to deserts. Some species are evergreen, others are winter or droughtdeciduous. Species adapted to dry climates are smaller and have oleifera cells...
leaves are gray-green in color, hence the common name. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall...
seasonal droughts have great impact on all living things in the forest. Deciduous trees predominate in most of these forests, and during the drought a leafless...
elevation and is harder to walk through. Soft chaparral tends to be droughtdeciduous, live at lower elevations and tends to be easier to walk through.[citation...
The Cape Town water crisis occurred at the same time as the Eastern Cape drought, located in a separate region nearby. The City of Cape Town implemented...
the year round. Photosynthetic rate and canopy development in the drought-deciduous shrub Anthyllis cytisoides L. Picture Spatial Pattern in Anthyllis...
that ripen from November to May. No subspecies are recognised. As a droughtdeciduous succulent tree, much like the baobab (Adansonia) of Madagascar, B...
(montes or espinales) of southern South America. The chañar is cold and droughtdeciduous; it loses its leaves in winter, and possibly in summer if conditions...
forests of Bihar and West Bengal. These are monsoon forests, with drought-deciduous trees that lose their leaves during the dry season. The moister Brahmaputra...
caused by a terrestrial alga. The wiliwili is summer (dry season) droughtdeciduous. The dry season usually begins in late April or in May, and trees...
and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is California's most drought-tolerant deciduous oak, and is a dominant species in the blue oak woodland ecosystem...
Yemen. The principal plant communities include drought-deciduous open thorn woodlands, drought-deciduous woodlands, evergreen woodlands, shrublands, and...
establish deep enough roots to survive the dry season. Catclaw is fully droughtdeciduous and will usually lack leaves for most of the year. S. greggii has...
year. Most species are droughtdeciduous, but B. microphylla keeps its leaves year-round, except under conditions of drought and cold weather. Most of...
consists of low-growing, aromatic and more herbaceous plants with soft, drought-deciduous leaves as opposed to those of the succulent scrub. The dominant plants...
(1⁄8–1⁄4 in) and no pappus is visible. During dry seasons the plant goes droughtdeciduous, shedding all of its foliage, relying on the water stored in its thick...
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