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Photographer's choice (America project).; Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; The saguaro, is a large, tree-sized cactus species native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Arizona.;
The saguaro is a columnar cactus that grows notable branches, usually referred to as arms.Over 50 arms may grow on one plant, with one specimen having 78 arms. [6] Saguaros grow from 3–16 m (10–52 ft) tall, and up to 75 cm (30 in) in diameter.
Ferocactus wislizeni, the fishhook barrel cactus, also called Arizona barrel cactus, candy barrel cactus, and Southwestern barrel cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to northern Mexico and the southern United States. It is a ball-shaped cactus eventually growing to a cylindrical shape, with spiny ribs ...
Peniocereus greggii with fruit in Sahuarita, Arizona. This cactus has stems about 1/2-1 inch wide with 6–9 edges. Its flowers are white, up to 30 centimetres in diameter with a scent redolent of vanilla. The flowers open after sundown, closing and wasting after a few hours. By 9 am the next day they are gone.
The first 30-foot (9.1 m) panels of a new Arizona, US-Mexico border wall were installed in August 2019 on a two-mile (3.2 km) stretch of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. It is the first of three projects that will add bollard walls along Southern Arizona's wildlife refuges.
The Saguaro cactus is still present, but less frequently than in the Arizona uplands, and is smaller in this ecotone. [2]: 7 It is almost entirely absent on the California side of the Colorado River. [2]: 7 Desert Holly (Atriplex hymenelytra) can tolerate even the hottest and driest sites. [9]: 271