Articles of category "Saguaro"

In Saguaro National Park lies the giant Saguaro cactus. This unique plant also known as the "monarch of the Sonoran Desert" can appear to take the form of human begins. It only grows in the Sonoran Desert and provides shelter for many bird species. These slow growing plants can live between 175 - 200 years and can grow as tall as 50 feet. Yet, they begin life as black, tiny seeds no bigger than pinheads.

Saguaro National Park is known as the Monarch of the Sonoran Desert, and with good reason. It exhibits some of the most diverse and unique display of desert life to be seen anywhere in the United States. Chief among the spectacular diversity of the desert you can see here in Saguaro NP is the saguaro cactus, unique to the Sonoran desert.