One small tree or bush, not unlike a barrel cactus, grew on the edge of the rocky wilderness.

Tradition says that the barrel cactus is a source of water for people lost without water in the desert.

Here and there, a large barrel cactus stuck up from the floor like a bristling green thumb.

Actually, barrel cacti fall over because they grow based on the sun, just like any other plant.

One look at a barrel cactus and you know to keep your distance.

There, at the base of a barrel cactus, lay the battered body of a child.

He holstered his sinister.45s and stepped out from behind the barrel cactus.

There wasn't even a barrel cactus within sight, although this was the country in which they grew.

This species may grow to be the most massive of all barrel cacti.

She plucked a red blossom from a barrel cactus and fixed it in her hair.