File: Sguaro1. jpg | Close-up of Organ Pipe Cactus ( S. thurberi ) spines

Cactus stems also store water, and are often ribbed or fluted, which allows them to expand and contract easily.

Some points of interest are the Tropical House, the Cactus House, the Canary House and the Orchid House, which hosts one of the world's biggest collection of orchids, and free-flying birds and butterflies.

Fish are caught by employing fish poisons such as the juice of the pus-vel ( Entada scandens ) and daluk-kiri ( Cactus milk ).

Examples of CD copy protection schemes are Cactus Data Shield, Copy Control, and Data Position Measurement.

Yucca and Opuntia species are abundant in the central third, while Arizona Rainbow Cactus ( Echinocereus polyacanthus ) and Mexican Fire-barrel Cactus ( Ferocactus pilosus ) inhabit the southernmost portion.

Notable events are the Buskerfest in early June, and the Dundas Cactus Festival in August.

Delaware Valley Good Government Association ( Philadelphia ), San Franciscans for Good Government ( California ), Beaver PAC ( Wisconsin ), Cactus PAC ( Arizona ), and Icepac ( New York ) are examples of former AIPAC front groups.

Bands like Mohiner Ghoraguli, Bhoomi, Chandrabindoo, Porosh Pathor, Fossils, Cactus, Lakkihichara, Krosswindz and Insomnia of Kolkata, India are also notable.

" Similar " Cactus " themed prank calls are often made by PLA members.

Barrel Cactus plants are one of the more dangerous Cacti in the desert.

The first species was described by Carolus Linnaeus as Cactus mammillaris in 1753, deriving its name from Latin mammilla, " nipple ", referring to the tubercles that are one of the distinctive features of the genus.

Cactus fanciers can assist conservation of these rare plants by choosing nursery-bred specimens ( wild-collected ones are illegal to possess for the rarest species ).

S. griseus ( Dagger Cactus ) fruits, locally known as iguaraya, are relished by the Wayuu from the La Guajira Peninsula of Colombia and Venezuela.

This genus contains the popular house plants known by a variety of names including Christmas Cactus, Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus and Holiday Cactus, which are Schlumbergera cultivars, and flower in white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple.

They generally flower earlier than members of the Buckleyi Group and although common names are not applied consistently may be distinguished as Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus or Claw Cactus.

They generally flower later than members of the Truncata Group and are more likely to be called Christmas Cactus.

In the United States, where plants are produced for the Thanksgiving holiday in November, the name " Thanksgiving Cactus " is used ; " Christmas Cactus " may then be restricted to cultivars of the Buckleyi Group, particularly the very old cultivars such as ' Buckleyi '.

Originally a member of Stetsasonic, he produced tracks on hip-hop albums such as 3rd Bass ' 1989 debut album The Cactus Album and De La Soul's first three albums.

In 1980, he released the Chips Moman produced Cactus and a Rose which featured Southern rockers Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Mike Lawler, and Bonnie Bramlett.

The show was produced by Cactus TV, run by Jonathan Ross ' brother Simon and his wife Amanda.

" Cactus Curtain " is a term describing the line separating the naval base from Cuban controlled territory.

* March 5 – In Camden, Tennessee, country music superstar Patsy Cline ( Virginia Patterson Hensley ) is killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes, while returning from a benefit performance in Kansas City, Kansas for country radio disc jockey " Cactus " Jack Call.

"), from L ' intégrale les Cactus ( 2004 ); Loïc Lantoine: " Pierrot ", from Tout est calme ( 2006 ); Maxime Le Forestier: " Le Fantôme de Pierrot " (" Pierrot's Ghost "), from Hymne à sept temps ( 1976 ); Michèle Torr: “ Dis Pierrot ” (“ Say Pierrot ”), from film Une fille nommée amour ( 1969 ); Mireille Mathieu: " Mon copain Pierrot " (" My Friend Pierrot " ); Pascal Danel: " Pierrot le sait " (" Pierrot Knows " ); Pierre Perret: Le Monde de Pierrot ( The World of Pierrot ; double album ); Renaud: " Chanson pour Pierrot ", from Ma Gonzesse ( 1979 ).

Of other notable examples, Cactus Attack hailing from Massachusetts blends punk rock attitudes, bluegrass and folk with tough melodies and lyrics reminiscent of lyrics of old.

The 1996 Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Angle, The Rock ( renamed from Rocky Maivia ), and Mick Foley ( as Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love ) were successfully re-invented to compete at the main event level.

The Cleveland Indians of baseball's American League moved their spring training facility to Goodyear from Winter Haven, Florida and rejoined the Cactus League in February 2009, after a 15-year absence.

Aircraft operating from Henderson Field during the campaign were a hodgepodge of Marine, Army, Navy and allied aircraft that became known as the Cactus Air Force.

For " Down in the Valley ", Burke borrowed from a traditional folk song Down in the Valley, that was written as ealy as 1800, and sung by The Andrews Sisters in the 1944 film Moonlight and Cactus, and by Patti Page in 1951.

Cactus provides food and homes to many desert mammals and birds, with showy flowers in reds, pinks, yellows, and whites — blooming most commonly from late March through June, depending on the species and seasonal temperatures.

They played their first game together against the Kansas City Royals on August 31. Griffey's younger son Craig played in the Mariners minor league system and appeared with his brother in the outfield during some Cactus League games, Craig Griffey retired from baseball after failing to make it past Triple-A where he appeared in a handful of games with the Tacoma Rainiers.

After Idaho outlawed all forms of casino gaming in 1954, " Cactus Pete " Piersanti and Don French moved their slot machine operations from Idaho to the Jackpot townsite.

On March 14, 1989, the day Abbey died from esophageal bleeding at 62, Peacock, along with his friend Jack Loeffler, his father-in-law Tom Cartwright, and his brother-in-law Steve Prescott, wrapped Abbey's body in his blue sleeping bag, packed it with dry ice, and loaded Cactus Ed into Loeffler's Chevy pickup.

* Cactus: Two songs from their set were featured on the LP The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies.

One example of a name being transferred from an epithet to a genus name is as follows: the basionym Cactus opuntia ( L .) 1754 was renamed by Miller Opuntia ficus-indica ( L .) Mill.

The Cactus to Clouds trail involves an arduous climb of over from the Palm Springs Art Museum to the summit at.

Archaeologists Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley suggest that the Clovis point derived from the points of the Solutrean culture of southern France ( 19, 000 BP ) through the Cactus Hill points of Virginia ( 16, 000 BP ) to the Clovis point.

The city name derives from the native Mayo language meaning " Cactus House " (" Navo "= Cactus, " Jova "= House ).

The next night on Raw, the New Age Outlaws won the Tag Team Championship for a second time by defeating Chainsaw and Cactus in a Steel cage match, but only after interference from Triple H, Chyna, and X-Pac.

The highway heads north from the border as a two-lane road, passing through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Neilsen's construction company had built many of the structures at Cactus Pete's.