Tucker, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, carries on the ancient custom of plucking the fruit from the giant saguaro cactus, but she must work quickly. Once the rains soak the land ...

Tucson is launching its courtship of online retail giant Amazon by sending a plant — a really big plant. On Wednesday, Sun Corridor Inc. loaded a 21-foot saguaro cactus on a flat-bed truck to ...

See the full report in the video player above. The saguaro cactus is native to the Sonoran Desert and is considered a giant among cactus species. The area's Tohono O’odham nation considers the ...

Cactus Wren, a new spot that the two opened in February, on Ludlow and Rivington Streets, is similarly sui generis, in that ...

The giant groundsel, a plant that looks like a pineapple crossed with a saguaro cactus, colonized the flanks of Africa's tallest mountain up to 1 million years ago and has not budged since.

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...

It’s the iconic image of the American Southwest: The giant saguaro cactus, standing tall amid the arid desert, arms perpetually raised to the sky. At Saguaro National Park, you can see more than 1.6 ...

These unusual plants grow on the mountain’s middle slopes, between 9,200 and 13,100 feet (2,800 to 4,000 meters), adapting ...

One-armed or multi-armed, these giant cacti appear to be in a perpetual ... It’s not the prettiest, greenest or healthiest-looking cactus around. But of all the cacti I admired in Saguaro National ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It’s that time of year when saguaros are blooming, so if you’re driving or walking in your neighborhood and come across a saguaro cactus flower, you might want to stop ...

“We’ve received reports of saguaro losing their arms, so the internal structure can’t hold the arms anymore.” Sometimes, it takes a deadly turn for the beloved cactus. Their research also ...