Noun
The word is derived from cactus
of Cactus
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn the great desert of northern Arizona the traveller, threading his way across a sage-brush and cacti plain shut in by abrupt-sided shelves of land rising here and there some hundreds of feet higher, suddenly comes upon a petrified forest. Percival Lowell
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. Takashi Murakami
Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist! Russell T Davies
All or some stems in a cluster may share a common root.sfn Other cacti have a quite different appearance. Source: Internet
By the early 1800s, enthusiasts in Europe had large collections (often including other succulents alongside cacti). Source: Internet
A more recent 2011 study using fewer genes but more species also found that Pereskia was divided into these two clades, but was unable to resolve the members of the "core cacti" clade. Source: Internet