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A cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae.

Cactus may also refer to:

Music

• Cactus (American band), a rock band
  • Cactus (Cactus album), their eponymous first album
• Cactus (Indian band), a Bangla band
• Cactus, an extension of the Bengali band Mohiner Ghoraguli
• Cactus (Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp album), 2016
• Cactus (record label), a UK record label
• "Cactus" (Pixies song), 1988
• "Cactus" (A.C.E song), 2017
• "Cactus" (Belinda song), 2024
• "Cactus", a 2021 song by Twice from Formula of Love: O+T=<3

Film and television

• Cactus (1986 film), directed by Paul Cox
• Cactus (2008 film), an Australian mystery-thriller
• Cactus (TV series), a 1998 Iranian satirical TV series

Technology

• Cactus Framework, a software framework
• Jakarta Cactus, a software testing framework
• CACTUS, an Air Cherenkov Telescope
• Citroën C4 Cactus, a small family car
• Cactus (camera equipment brand)

Military

• USS Cactus (1863), a Union Navy steamer in the American Civil War
• Operation Cactus, the Indian Army intervention in the 1988 Maldives coup d'état
• Cactus, the South African designation for the Crotale missile system
• Cactus, a nuclear test conducted by the US in 1958 as part of Operation Hardtack I
• Kaktus, an improvement of Soviet Kontakt-5 armour
• Cactus, US military codename for Guadalcanal Island during World War II, giving rise to the name Cactus Air Force for the USAAF, USMC, and USN air units in and around the island.

Places

United States

• Cactus, Kansas, a former settlement
• Cactus, Texas, a city
• Cactus Plain, Arizona
• Cactus Range, a small mountain range in Nevada

Elsewhere

• Cactus Beach, a surfing beach in South Australia
• Cactus Ridge, Okinawa, site of fighting in World War II

Business

• Cactus (supermarket), in Luxembourg
• Cactus Theater, a theater in Lubbock, Texas
• Cactus Motor Lodge, a motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Cactus (interbank network), an ATM network in Nevada

People

• Cactus Pete Piersanti (1916–1994), American hotel and casino promoter
• Françoise Cactus (1964–2021), French musician and author
• Richard Cactus Pryor (1923–2011), American broadcaster and humorist
• Jonatan Söderström, Swedish independent game developer known as "Cactus"
• John Nance Garner (1868–1967), American politician and lawyer, 32nd Vice President of the United States and 39th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, known as "Cactus Jack"

Other uses

• Cactus (crustacean), the crustacean genus
• Cactus graph or cactus, a type of connected graph
• USCGC Cactus (WLB-270), a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender
• "The Cactus", a short story by O. Henry from the collection Waifs and Strays
• Cactus, callsign for US Airways
  • Cactus, callsign for the former America West Airlines, which merged into US Airways
• Cactus Plant Flea Market, American clothing brand established in 2015
• Cacti (software), an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool
• Cactus Yearbook, the yearbook of the University of Texas since 1894, published by Texas Student Media