This video blends artistic storytelling with metalworking as the creator fabricates cactus-shaped lamps using plasma cutting ...

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 ...

"Saguaro" is the most common version, followed by "sahuaro." Rarer versions include the perhaps unintentionally amusing "suhara cactus” found on some vintage postcards.

Arizona's saguaro cactus has evolved to thrive in the extreme climate of the Sonoran Desert, but after decades of rising heat, even these towering icons are showing signs of stress.

The saguaro and another cactus species (the cardón, native to northwest Mexico) both claimed the world record, as they can live for more than 200 years and even perhaps up to 300 years old, the ...

A saguaro doesn’t start flowering—providing a vital food source and reproducing—until it’s more than 35 years old. Around age 50, the cactus starts growing arms, which also flower.

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 beloved cactus, nearly 100 years older than Arizona itself, weathered generations of storms and droughts, until it toppled to the ground after August rains.

The saguaro cactus, the universal symbol of the American West and the largest cacti in the U.S., is alive and well and protected within Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona, which became a ...

So, we strongly discourage it.” Because the saguaro cactus is a national resource, the chief ranger feels strongly about the mission given from a federal level to protect the land he oversees.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Wildflowers sprung up all over the place at the start of spring and the month of May has seen an explosion of cactus flowers and saguaro blooms. A Saguaro National Park ...

The saguaro and another cactus species (the cardón, native to northwest Mexico) both claimed the world record, as they can live for more than 200 years and even perhaps up to 300 years old, the ...