It's hot in Texas, but at least we're not in Arizona right now.
They're experiencing a heat wave so severe, cacti are actually melting and collapsing across the state!
Arizona usually experiences summer monsoon rains every year, which help the cacti through the brutal heat. However, this year those rains have yet to come.
Tania Hernandez, a succulents cactus scientist at Phoenix's Desert Botanical Garden, told Reuters cacti are "plants are adapted to this heat, but at some point, the heat needs to cool down and the water needs to come"
The most-effected species of cacti saguaros take up a lot of water, and if they don't receive enough of it results in their skin starting to drain. Eventually these plants lose their structure and shrivel.
Kevin Hultine, Director of Research at Phoenix's Desert Botanical Garden, told USA TODAY, "What's happening is that the really large old, majestic plants are the ones that are being impacted the most by intense heat waves and droughts.
"A lot of these are aged plants, probably between 40 and 80 years old, are just collapsing because of the combination of drought and heat."
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