Down South where there is plenty of water, it often grows forty feet high, but up here it squats close to th' ground so it can save th' moisture.

In th' night th' temperature sometimes falls thirty degrees, an' that helps it, too." "How can it live without water ?" She asked.
"It gets all th' water it wants," he replied, smiling.

"Th' tap roots go straight down 'til they find it, sometimes fifty feet.

That's why it don't shrivel up in th' sun.

Then there are a lot of little roots right under it an' they protects th' tap roots.