Stones and wood
Cholla wood
The hollow skeleton of a cactus, riddled with holes.
What the simulation uses
- Holds water
- 20 % by volume
- Water it keeps after draining; the rest runs down to the drainage.
- Pore space
- 45 % by volume
- Room for air and water between grains; low means roots suffocate when wet.
- Weight
- 700 g/L
- How heavy a litre is.
- pH
- 5.5 to 7 pH
- How acid it keeps the soil.
Description
The hollow skeleton of a cactus, riddled with holes. Springtails and isopods like to shelter inside it.
Also called cholla skeleton.
Estimated, where sources were thin: look authored for the app; physical values estimated.