Bugs are wiping their asses on them
NO! at the roots of the plant.
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Black tips on foliage may suggest the plant is suffering from soluable salt build up in the soil. Each time you water, make sure you water enough, so you can actually see water draining from the holes in the bottom of the pot. This is referred to as "leaching".
Guttation is sap that a plant releases on the tips of its leaves and stem. Guttation occurs at night, when excess water enters the plant.
waxy leaves with drip tips
the drip tips its the pointy end of the plant so when it rains the water that is caught on the leaves drips down to the point into the soil so it can use it. if it didn't have the drip tips the giant leaves would act like giant umbrellas and it wouldn't get any water to the roots.
They eat black-finned food that you can find in a petstore.
The dark green plant parts that grow on the lower and middle parts of the plant stems, that have dentate(toothed) edges, and that do not change color are the leaves of poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima).Specifically, the leaves do not grow near the stem tips where the plant's dainty, inconspicuous yellow flower emerges in December. Between the leaves and the flowers are modified leaves called bracts. True bracts immediately surround the flowers and are always red. Transitional bracts grow between the true bracts and the plant's regular, green leaves. They change color from green to red, in sync with the initiation, development and culmination of the plant's flowering process.
Plant's roots and tips.
so that the water will just slide off,and it wont kill the plant.
they are there to stop rain damaging leaves
The youngest part of a tree would be the growth tips of the roots, and of the tips of the leaves.