scientific name of cactus?

Answer 1

Cacti have the family name cactaceae, although this describes any true cactus so you might want to be a bit more specific? Other plants that look a bit like cacti are euphorbs, aloes and agaves, if that helps you out at all?

Answer 2

Scientific Name For Cactus

Answer 3

Cactus Scientific Name

Answer 4

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Cactaceae
Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. The tallest is Pachycereus pringlei, with a maximum recorded height of 19.2 m,[1] and the smallest is Blossfeldia liliputiana, only about 1 cm diameter at maturity.[2] Cactus flowers are large, and like the spines and branches arise from areoles. Many cactus species are night blooming, as they are pollinated by nocturnal insects or small animals, principally moths, bats, and sheep. Cacti's sizes range from small and round to pole-like and tall.

Answer 5

Cactus (pl. Cacti) belong to the family Cactaceae, and are generally xerophytic (meaning they are adopted to dry, desert like) conditions. However there are many plants occurring in other families which show the same xerophytic adaptations. The Cactaceae alone has the following subfamilies (4) and tribes: Subfamily Cactoideae 1.1 Tribe Browningieae 1.2 Tribe Cacteae 1.3 Tribe Calymmantheae 1.4 Tribe Cereeae 1.5 Tribe Hylocereeae 1.6 Tribe Notocacteae 1.7 Tribe Pachycereeae 1.8 Tribe Rhipsalideae 1.9 Tribe Trichocereeae 2 Subfamily Maihuenioideae 3 Subfamily Opuntioideae 3.1 Tribe Austrocylindropuntieae 3.2 Tribe Cylindropuntieae 3.3 Tribe Opuntieae 3.4 Tribe Pterocacteae 3.5 Tribe Tephrocacteae 4 Subfamily Pereskioideae

Answer 6

Cactus (disambiguation).
This article is about the plant family. For the genus Cactus, see Mammillaria, Melocactus, and Opuntia.
A cactus (plural cactus, cacti, or cactuses) is any member of the succulent plant family Cactaceae. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also crop plants.

Cacti are distinctive and unusual plants, which have adapted to extremely arid and hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cacti are so well known.

Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. The tallest is Pachycereus pringlei, with a maximum recorded height of 19.2 m,[1] and the smallest is Blossfeldia liliputiana, only about 1 cm diameter at maturity.[2] Cactus flowers are large, and like the spines and branches arise from areoles. Many cactus species are night blooming, as they are pollinated by nocturnal insects or small animals, principally moths, bats, and sheep. Cacti's sizes range from small and round to pole-like and tall.
The cacti are succulent plants that grow either as trees, shrubs or in the form of ground cover. Most species grow on the ground, but there is also a whole range of epiphytic species. In most species, except for the sub-family of the Pereskioideae (see image), the leaves are greatly or entirely reduced. The flowers, mostly radially symmetrical and hermaphrodite, bloom either by day or by night, depending on species. Their shape varies from tube-like through bell-like to wheel-shaped, and their size from 0.2 to 15-30 metres. Most of them have numerous sepals (from 5 to 50 or more), and change form from outside to inside, from bracts to petals. They have stamens in great numbers (from 50 to 1,500, rarely fewer). The berry-like fruits may contain few, but mostly many (3,000), seeds, which can be between 0.4 and 12 mm long.[3]

The life of a cactus is seldom longer than 300 years, and there are cacti which live only 25 years (although these flower as early as their second year). The Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) grows to a height of up to 15 metres (the record is 17 metres 67cm), but in its first ten years it grows only 10 centimetres. The "mother-in-law's cushion" (Echinocactus grusonii) reaches a height of 2.5 meters and a diameter of 1 meter and - at least on the Canaries - is already capable of flowering after 6 years. The diameter of cactus flowers ranges from 5 to 30 cm; the colours are often conspicuous and spectacular.

Answer 7

"The family of the cactaceae, with an age of a few million years, is counted as a relatively young plant family, of which no fossil finds are known. Within this short time span (short at any rate from a geological point of view) the cactuses have undergone a rapid development into extremely specialised plants."
There are approximately 2000-3000 species in this family

Answer 8

Acanthocereus spp. (Engelm. ex Berger) Britt. & Rose Caryophyllales Cactaceae
cactus Adromischus spp. Lem. Rosales Crassulaceae
spinystar cactus Escobaria vivipara vivipara (Nutt.) Buxbaum Caryophyllales Cactaceae
California barrel cactus Ferocactus cylindraceus cylindraceus (Engelm.) Orcutt Caryophyllales Cactaceae
peyote Lophophora williamsii (Lem. ex Salm-Dyck) Coult. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
cacti Caryophyllales Cactaceae
jointed prickly pear Opuntia aurantiaca Lindley Caryophyllales Cactaceae
brittle pricklypear Opuntia fragilis (Nutt.) Haw. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
spreading pricklypear Opuntia humifusa (Raf.) Raf. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
tree cholla Opuntia imbricata (Haw.) DC. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
pricklypear cactus Opuntia macrorhiza Engelm. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
plains pricklypear Opuntia polyacantha Haw. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
pricklypear/cholla Opuntia spp. P. Mill. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
Cardón cactus Pachycereus pringlei (Cardon) Caryophyllales Cactaceae
Simpson hedgehog cactus Pediocactus simpsonii (Engelm.) Britt. & Rose Caryophyllales Cactaceae
holiday cactus Schlumbergera spp. Lem. Caryophyllales Cactaceae
organ pipe cactus Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxbaum Caryophyllales Cactaceae

Answer 9

Alright, so I researched this some more, and I found that there are many different cacti, which results in different names for each of them. A specific catus is named in this order:

Species
Genus
Family (which many people have mentioned in their answers)
Order
Class
Phylumk
Kingdom
Domain

This is staright from my first yeat bio U book.

The site below shos the many different names for different cactii. If you click on their names they will give you a better description.

Answer 10

Ferocactus Pilosus