Plants adapt to desert conditions by being able to store water. Plants store water in their roots, stems and leaves. Desert plants have developed three main adaptive strategies: succulence, drought enduring plants and drought evading plants. Each of these is a different effective collection of adaptations for growing under conditions that would kill plants from other areas. Succulent plants store water in fleshy leaves, stems or roots, an example of a succulent plant is a cactus. Cacti can live in the desert because; inside of the cactus there is a water system which stores 8000 litres of water after rain. The roots are very long so they go deep into the ground to get water. Also, the drought enduring plants mostly grow outwards slowly from the original bush and an example of one is a desert holly and the drought evading plants mostly germinate quickly after heavy rain like the desert flowers. The desert flowers bloom and