Bearing the state flower of Arizona, the saguaro cactus remains an essential part of the Sonoran Desert’s identity. The 40-60 foot-tall saguaro and its fruit are great natural resources for both ...

You might have been driving around Tucson these last few weeks and noticed our beloved saguaros have been sporting new hairdos. No, they're not growing baby avocados at the crown of their heads. These ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Phenology is the study of biological life cycle events, such as flowering and migration. Climate patterns can alter these ...

An unusual number of the iconic cacti produced flowers and fruit in the fall this year, and scientists are trying to figure out why. It wasn’t every saguaro. It wasn’t even most of them. But it was ...

For around 200 years, a special saguaro cactus stood tall in the Arizona desert. Its longest arms stretched almost 30 feet into the air. And now that desert giant has fallen. Its trunks have ...

The saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) is the world’s largest cactus: An adult can weigh up to 8 tons. It has shallow roots that grow 4 to 6 inches deep, but one root, like a taproot, reaches more than 2 ...

In Phoenix, the summer of 2020 was so hot even the cactuses couldn’t stand it — literally. In the weeks after August, the hottest month in the hottest summer on record in a place already famous for ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...

A child belonging to the Hohokam culture who died in southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert 500 to 1,000 years ago appears to have been fed a special diet in the final weeks of life that included hundreds ...

"Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere." Mae West's words came to mind while reading an academic paper on cactus flowers which described them as "promiscuous" blooms. Perhaps cactus flowers ...