In order for the cactus to reproduce, its pollen must fertilize an egg cell in the female part of the plant. ... Cactus seeds are scattered by birds, wind, and rain. A cactus plant may produce about million seeds during its life, but only one or two seeds live long enough to produce a new cactus.

How do cactus reproduce sexually?

Sexual Reproduction

Cacti are flowering plants, which means that they rely heavily on pollination of their blooms to reproduce. Like other plants, they reproduce sexually, depending on the pollen or sperm from their flowers to reach the stigma or female sex organs, whereupon the flower will produce seeds.

How do cactuses make babies?

Propagating cactus by pups is a vegetative form of plant propagation because it doesn't involve transfer of seeds. The parent plant produces an offset asexually, and this is what you use to get a new plant. The pup occurs as a small clump that you can easily separate from the parent plant and grow a new cactus from it.