Cactuses are an integral part of the Arizona landscape — especially the tall saguaros that tower over swaths of the desert. Each year in the late spring, white blossoms emerge in the desert ...

This time, he contemplated the cactus’ varying shapes ... Saguaros produce flowers almost exclusively on their extremities, so on a pillar-shaped saguaro, flowers will appear at the top. Once that ...

The Gila woodpecker nests inside the stem of the saguaro cactus where the temperature inside ... plant which can germinate, grow, produce flowers and ripen seeds in the space of ten days after ...

And it's only fitting — the saguaro cactus is an Arizona icon ... The white blossom is the state flower. It's illegal to cut saguaro cactuses down and could result in felony charges.

The saguaro cactus is a distinctive icon of the American Southwest, found only in the Sonoran Desert. This towering plant, which can grow up to 60 feet tall and live for more than 200 years, is the ...