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Carnegiea gigantea (saguaro)

Synonyms: Carnegia gigantea; Carnegiea gigantea f. aberrans; Carnegiea gigantea f. cristata; Cereus giganteus (homotypic); Pilocereus giganteus (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The saguaro (/səˈwɑːroʊ/, Spanish pronunciation: [saˈɣwaɾo]) (Carnegiea gigantea) is an arborescent (tree-like) cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea, which can grow to be over 70 feet (21 m) tall. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican State of Sonora, and the Whipple Mountains and Imperial County areas of California. The saguaro blossom is the state wildflower of Arizona. Its scientific name is given in honor of Andrew Carnegie. In 1994 the Saguaro National Park, Arizona, was designated to help protect this species and its habitat. It is the only US national park devoted to a particular plant species.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tonto National Monument V 1123 Arizona, United States

Emblem of

Arizona

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Leptonycteris curasoae (southern long-nosed bat)[9]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[10]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5How Important are Columnar Cacti as Sources of Water and Nutrients for Desert Consumers? A Review, B. O. Wolf and C. Martínez del Rio, Isotopes Environ. Health Stud., 2003, Vol. 39(1), pp. 53-67
♦ 6Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, F. Russell Cole and Don E. Wilson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 797, pp. 1-7 (2006)
♦ 7Lepus alleni, Troy L. Best and Travis Hill Henry, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 424, pp. 1-8 (1993)
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9COMPARATIVE POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF VENEZUELAN COLUMNAR CACTI AND THE ROLE OF NECTAR-FEEDING BATS IN THEIR SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, Jafet M. Nassar, Nelson Ramirez and Omar Linares, American Journal of Botany 84(8): 918–927. 1997.
♦ 10The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0