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"Saguaro".

Native to the Sonoran desert of southwestern USA and Sonora state in Mexico

It is difficult to talk about Arizona and not about Saguaro. It is the cactus of movie Westerns. The Saguaro grows very slowly. In the wild, it can take over 100 years to be tall enough for an arm to develop. In cultivation, with proper care, when planted outside in the proper climate, it can grow 8 inches a year (20 cm) or more.

The Saguaro blooms in May to June. The flower bearing areoles are closer together and have denser yellowish acicular spines. The flowers open in the evening and stay open until mid day the following day, 4 to 4.8 inches long (10-12 cm), 3.6 to 4.8 inches in diameter (9-12 cm). Bats and doves are the main pollinators. The greenish to reddish edible fruit ripens a month later and can be eaten raw or made into jam and pastries. It has a red pulp and black seeds and when the fruit is half-eaten by the wild life, with the distance, it looks like a red flower.
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Source Carnegia gigantea (Cereus giganteus)
Author Leonora Enking from West Sussex, England
Camera location50° 49′ 41.04″ N, 0° 28′ 25.22″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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