{"id":5059,"date":"2026-03-04T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/succulents-need-watering-too\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:47:36","slug":"succulents-need-watering-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/succulents-need-watering-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Succulents also need to be watered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Succulents belong to numerous species and their origins come from arid, semi-desert, or desert areas of all continents. These plants have the characteristic of storing large amounts of water inside them during particularly rainy periods, water that becomes useful as a reserve during long droughts.<\/p>\n<p>The characteristic of these plants is to have an <em>succulent tissue<\/em> inside them, that is, a soft and spongy flesh saturated with water, a real reservoir capable of retaining or releasing liquid based on the plants&#8217; needs.<\/p>\n<p>To survive in harsh environments, succulents have undergone particular morphological modifications, turning their leaves into spines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-323 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rid_cactus-1524276_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They cannot tolerate cold, and the minimum tolerated temperature is 7\u00b0C:<\/p>\n<p>They are easy plants to grow but contrary to what you might think, <strong>succulents also need to be watered periodically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their flowers are short-lived and often bloom only at night, precisely to reduce water transpiration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-324 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rid_fat-plants-3006843_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>6 forms of succulents:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>majestic like trees<\/li>\n<li>tiny like stones<\/li>\n<li>flat<\/li>\n<li>wide and low<\/li>\n<li>narrow and tall like columns<\/li>\n<li>covered with large spines, downy, or completely smooth and velvety<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Succulents represent a world apart: because of their characteristics, resistance, vegetative behavior, blooming, and many other peculiarities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Succulents belong to numerous species and their origins come from arid, semi-desert, or desert areas of all continents. These plants have the characteristic of storing large amounts of water inside them during particularly rainy periods, water that becomes useful as a reserve during long droughts. The characteristic of these plants is to have an succulent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immobiliaresanfelice.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}