is cactus a dicot or monocot?

Question

Is a cactus plant a dicot or monocot

Answer 1

Cacti are dicots. They contain tap roots which are indicitive of dicots. Monocots contain fibrous roots like grasses and palm trees. Their flower parts are in multiples of 4 or 5 as well. Monocots have their flower parts in multiples of 3.

Answer 2

Cactus Monocot Or Dicot

Answer 3

Cactus are dicots. The way you can usually tell is through leaf veins (parallel or net), but that's understandably hard in cactus. The other easy way is through flowers: generally, monocots have flower parts in 3's and dicots in 4's or 5's. But cactus have more petals than you'd want to count. If you ever saw a seedling cactus, it would have 2 cotyledons ("seed wings"), but how many cactus seedlings have you seen?
If you want to do more than take my word for it, take the word of the USDA--see link.

Answer 4

I think cacti are monocots.

Monocots come from a singular seed hence moncot (mono 1, cot cotaledon - seed), they also have simple leaf venation rather than branched in dicots. Eg, most grasses are monocots.

Dicots have a double seed hence dicot (di 2, cot cotaledons seeds) and are generally more complex than monocots.