Cactus (plural: cacti) is any member of the plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, and some are also crop plants for fodder, forage, fruits, cochineal, and other uses. Numerous species have been used since ancient times by indigenous peoples for their psychedelic effects. Cactuses are part of the plant order Caryophyllales, which also includes members like beets, gypsophila, spinach, amaranth, tumbleweeds, carnations, rhubarb, buckwheat, plumbago, bougainvillea, chickweed and knotgrass.

Cacti, cultivated by people worldwide, are a familiar sight as potted plants, houseplants or in ornamental gardens in warmer climates. As well as garden plants, many cactus species have important commercial uses, some cacti bear edible fruit, such as the prickly pear and Hylocereus, which produces Dragon fruit or Pitaya. According to Reuters, the edible cactus, or nopal, industry in Mexico is worth $150 million each year and approximately 10,000 farmers cultivate the plant.

Grow your own for pleasure or profit - start your own profitable business with this collection of nine {9} vintage books.

Titles in the library include:

:: A treatise on the culture of the dahlia and cactus (1839)

:: Cacti - biology and uses (2002)

:: Cactus and blossoms (1917)

:: Cactus culture for amateurs a concise and practical guide to the management of a little understood family of plants (1920)

:: Luther Burbank's spineless cactus (1912)

:: Luther Burbank's spineless cactus (1914)

:: Luther Burbank's spineless cactus (c1913)

:: Sand and cactus (1899)

:: The Cactaceae, descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family (1919)

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