Why are cactuses prickly?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Lots of plants are smooth to the touch, and some are even soft and feathery like flowers! So why are cactuses prickly and sometimes even painful? We asked botanist Rachel Jabaily from Colorado College to answer this spine-tingling question. Got a question that’s prickling at your brain? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help sharpen you up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Um.
0:04.8	Answering those questions, then make you go,
0:07.8	Hmm.
0:26.4	Moment of Um-um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Sandin Totten.
0:27.9	Um.
0:32.2	Okay, Squiggles, don't do anything bad while we're gone tonight, okay?
0:34.3	I would never.
0:39.3	I put a bunch of food in your kitty dish, and I filled the other bowl with water, so you should be okay.
0:40.3	Go have fun, human.
0:41.3	Don't even think about me.
0:43.3	Bye, Squiggles!
0:45.3	I love you!
0:46.3	Finally, the apartment is all mine.
0:50.3	I could jump from the couch to the chair and back again.
0:58.0	I could knock this cup off the table.
1:01.0	I could kick the remote under the couch.
1:04.0	I could lick this plant, or this plant, or this one.
1:08.0	Wow, human has too many plants.
1:14.6	Oh, I haven't tried this one yet.
1:18.1	Come here, you interesting looking.
1:25.5	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my tongue.
1:28.3	Why is that plant different than the rest? Owie, owie, owie.
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