Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) - Sonoran Desert
Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) - Sonoran Desert Arizona - Record height: 78 feet - Average mature height: 18 to 30 feet, but often reach heights of 50 to 60 feet - Weigh about 80 pounds per foot - grow their first arms at around 12 feet in height or forty to eighty years of age but some never grow arms - Maximum age around 200 years - Provides homes for many desert birds including Harris Hawk, Gila Woodpecker, Red-tailed Hawk, Protected from illegal collecting - Can produce around forty million seeds in a lifetime of which one may mature - Produce a cristate form which may be a genetic variant and occurs in about one in two hundred thousand individuals -
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030220 Arizona Arms Cactus Carnegiea Collecting Cristate Eighty Feet Foot Form Forty Genetic Gigantea Gila Grow Harris Hawk Height Heights Homes Hundred Illegal Including Million Occurs Produce Reach Record Saguaro Seeds Sonoran Thousand Variant Weigh Woodpecker Years
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