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How are plants benefited by diversity in parenchyma
The main functions of Parenchyma are:

  1.  Least specialized plant cells
  2. Thin and somewhat flexible cell walls.
  3. Living at maturity.
  4.  Carry on most of the plant's metabolic functions
  5.  Generally have a large central vacuole
   6. Most parenchyma cells have the ability to differentiate into other cell types under special conditions
    7.   During repair and replacement of organs after injury.
The plant-filling tissue is generically called parenchyma. The plant parenchyma can be divided into photosynthetic parenchyma, a tissue that has cells with many chloroplasts and a high photosynthesis rate found mainly in leaves, and storage parenchyma, specialized in the storage of water (e.g., in cactus), starch or air (e.g., in aquatic plants).


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