What is inside a cactus?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Many cactuses are covered in spikes - making them terrible to hug. But what about inside a cactus? Is it also spiky? Or is it soft and cuddly? And is it true you can find water hidden in these desert-dwellers? We asked science communicator and plant expert Brandi Cannon-Force to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on this is moment of arm
0:10.0	moment of arm
0:07.8	moment of arm comes to you from a p.
0:11.9	studio's studios I'm Braxton Bramblebush, the third.
0:16.0	Hello, have my card.
0:20.0	It says Braxton Bramblebush the third, professional cover judger.
0:25.0	Yes, I am one of those talented individuals who can simply look at a book and accurately judge it by its cover.
0:32.0	Take this book, for instance, it's called its cover. Take this book for instance,
0:34.0	it's called Don Quixote,
0:35.0	and the cover has a man on a horse
0:38.0	near a windmill.
0:39.0	Clearly, it's about a man who rides
0:41.0	from town to town
0:42.0	repairing windmills.
0:43.7	Boring. Pass.
0:46.1	Or this book, The Color Purple,
0:49.1	looks like an awful lot of pages for just one color.
0:53.2	Probably a lot of filler.
0:56.1	Also pass.
0:58.0	Now this is intriguing.
1:00.6	It says phonebook, and it looks quite old. I'm guessing it's a book about the most
1:06.0	fascinating people to ever use a phone which is almost every fascinating person
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