The saguaro cactus is a distinctive icon of the American Southwest ... and spread out as wide as the cactus is tall to maximize the plants’ ability to collect water during the winter and summer rains.

(The world’s tallest cactus, which was felled by a windstorm in 1986, was a 78-foot-tall saguaro in Cave Creek, Arizona, that was estimated to be 150 years old. It was also armless.) Water plays a ...

On my recent trip to Arizona I fell in love with the Saguaro cactus. The giant Saguaro (the ... As expected they’re mostly made up of water (between 75% – 90%!). There is also a sponge-like ...

It can weigh up to six tonnes, which is mainly the weight of the stored water. Some of these cacti are 250 years old. The Gila woodpecker nests inside the stem of the saguaro cactus where the ...

This 92,867-acre park is dedicated to the largest cactus in the U.S., the saguaro (pronounced sa-WAH-ro), a universal symbol of the American West. The park is divided into two districts ...