By morning, the flowers are alive with their activity. Bees are careful, precise pollinators, ensuring the saguaro’s genetic diversity is preserved. Some bees even specialize in cactus flowers ...

While these iconic Arizona cactuses are special for many reasons — their beautiful flowers, their lifespan ... usually grow and other records the saguaro cactus holds. According to Guinness ...

This time, he contemplated the cactus’ varying shapes ... Saguaros produce flowers almost exclusively on their extremities, so on a pillar-shaped saguaro, flowers will appear at the top. Once that ...

The Gila woodpecker nests inside the stem of the saguaro cactus where the temperature inside ... plant which can germinate, grow, produce flowers and ripen seeds in the space of ten days after ...

Saguaro cactuses tower over Arizona's desert landscape, each year inching higher and higher for hundreds of years as they watch time pass. While they can grow to unique heights, one cactus holds ...