Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3
Cardon Gigante #3

Cardon Gigante #3

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Photographer: Giovanni Simeone
Code: PBC490295

The Giant Cardoons are masters in the art of adapting to desert life. With their massive structure and deep roots, they play a crucial role in the balance of the desert ecosystem, providing shade and shelter for many other species. Growing at a slow pace, giant cardoons can take decades to reach their maximum height. Every wrinkle on their trunk is a testament to the time they have spent under the scorching sun.

These plants have developed unique evolutionary strategies to adapt to harsh environmental conditions. Chlorophyll photosynthesis involves even trunks and stems, while many plants are covered with a thick impermeable film or a waxy layer that reduces transpiration and water evaporation. The roots extend just below the surface and can absorb up to 95% of available water. The life cycle is limited to the wet season, with plants in vegetative dormancy for the rest of the year.


Cardon Gigante #3

About the author: Giovanni Simeone

Born in 1968, Giovanni Simeone studied photography in Milan. In the early 1990s, he worked in Germany for a photographic agency and traveled for almost three years around the world before moving to Paris as the exclusive photographer for Le Figaro Magazine. After this experience, he started his photographic agency, Simephoto.