EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialA cactus, washed in light from a stained-glass panel, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla. on April 6, 2023. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
EditorialCantina Loca, which offers shareable plates, like tempura-fried cactus, spicy pollo adobado and silky vanilla flan, in the LoHi neighborhood of Denver, July 14, 2022. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times)
EditorialIce covers a cactus in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, following a snowstorm that has left many without power for days. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim play the Cleveland Indians during a Cactus League spring training game at Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., March 11, 2012. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
EditorialA truck carrying cattle from Jim Friemel’s F-Troop Feeders, about to head to a slaughterhouse, in Cactus, Texas on Sept. 2, 2020. (George Steinmetz/The New York Times)
EditorialPieces of an organ pipe cactus and splintered tree branches in a pile at the construction site of a recently built section of wall along the border with Mexico, at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, Feb. 19, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialArmaje Wyche celebrates her 21st birthday with her boyfriend, Darlingston Korfeh, at the Iron Cactus Mexican Restaurant, Grill and Margarita Bar in downtown Austin, Tex., on Friday, June 26, 2020. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialThe new border wall under construction at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument along the Arizona-Mexico border, Feb. 19, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialThosh Collins removes thorns from buckthorn cactus buds while his wife, Chelsey Luger, plays with their daughter Alo, 2, on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, a few miles from their home outside Scottsdale, Ariz., on April 5, 2020. (Caitlin O'Hara/The New York Times)
EditorialConstruction workers build the border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, near Ajo, Ariz., March 25, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, owners Mike Pottorff and Gary Manley, along with general manager Paris Alcantara, board up the windows at the Iron Cactus in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, March 19, 2020, after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order stopping dine-in service at restaurants and bars. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialCut down Saguaro cactuses in Organ Pipe Cactus Monument, where a wall is being built along the Arizona-Mexico border, near Lukeville, Ariz., on Feb 19, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)