cactus
Noun
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Any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines (synset 111862673)
is a type of: succulent - a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirssubtypes:
- acanthocereus pentagonus, acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya, pitahaya cactus - cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit
- aporocactus flagelliformis, rat's-tail cactus, rattail cactus - commonly cultivated tropical American cactus having slender creeping stems and very large showy crimson flowers that bloom for several days
- ariocarpus fissuratus, living rock - usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
- carnegiea gigantea, saguaro, sahuaro - extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit
- night-blooming cereus - any of several cacti of the genus Cereus
- coryphantha - a cactus of the genus Coryphantha
- barrel cactus, echinocactus - any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil
- hedgehog cereus - cactus of the genus Echinocereus
- rainbow cactus - a stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico
- epiphyllum, orchid cactus - any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers
- barrel cactus - a cactus of the genus Ferocactus: unbranched barrel-shaped cactus having deep ribs with numerous spines and usually large funnel-shaped flowers followed by dry fruits
- easter cactus, hatiora gaertneri, schlumbergera gaertneri - spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera
- night-blooming cereus - any of several cacti of the genus Hylocereus
- chichipe, lemaireocereus chichipe - tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit
- lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal, peyote - a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons
- mammillaria - any cactus of the genus Mammillaria
- feather ball, mammillaria plumosa - a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico
- garambulla, garambulla cactus, myrtillocactus geometrizans - arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit
- knowlton's cactus, pediocactus knowltonii - small clustering cactus of southwestern United States; a threatened species
- nopal - any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears
- prickly pear, prickly pear cactus - cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
- cholla, opuntia cholla - arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico
- mistletoe cactus - a plant of the genus Rhipsalis
- christmas cactus, schlumbergera baridgesii, schlumbergera buckleyi - epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter
- night-blooming cereus - any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus
- crab cactus, schlumbergera truncatus, thanksgiving cactus, zygocactus truncatus - South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera
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