Saguaro Cactus

Once Upon a time there was a very handsome prince and a very gorgeous princess. There names were Fair Maiden Dahlila and Prince Gloriosa Daisy. They had grown in a wild field together and had secretly loved each other since they were just wee sprouts. They have never argued and they secretly loved each other but neither of them wanted to admit it. They also had an amazing friend and her name was Callie. She was a beautiful Saguaro Cactus. They were also friends with a very small micro organism. Nobody really knew what he was but they did know that his name was spencer and that he had no place to sleep. He usually slept in Dahlia's leaves or Daisy’s petals. He was the sweetest and he always helped Dahlia and Daisy. Do you remember when I was …show more content…
Until one day Daisy had to go to the Nursery. The florist told him that he needed to have petal surgery. On of his petals was beginning to die and they were going to perform surgery to remove the cell because it could potentially result in Daisy dying. This was kindof like humans having cancer. The reason his leaf started to die was because the cell in that particular leaf were starting to become lazy and the Mitochondria was not producing enough energy to supply the leaf with enough energy to function as a perfect leaf with no problems. Everything else in his leaf cells were fine: the chloroplast was amazing, glycolysis was working just fine, cytoplasm was just as well, his electron transport chain was all intact and working great, his ATP levels were not so good. Just along with his mitochondria levels his ATP levels were slowly sinking and he needed emergency surgery. After an agonizingly long surgery of 12 hours… he had his leaf removed and Dr. Daffodil successfully attached a new leaf to Daisy. The extraction of the leaf from his body was the easiest part. After that they ran tests while he was still asleep and they made sure that there were no more “lazy”