Most people classify all sorts of desert plants under the category of "cactus." There is a tendency to equate spines and stickers with cactus. But many of the common desert plants like this agave or Century Plant, are not cactus at all. The cacti are a mostly easily identifiable plant, the spines on cactus are surrounded by areoles, usually light to dark colored bumps out of which grow the spines. No other plants have these structures. This is not a cactus.
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