An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano in Tanzania and Africa's tallest mountain.

and towering saguaro cacti—some reaching 60 feet and living two centuries—stand tall as living icons of the Southwest. The land was purchased with help from the Land and Water Conservation ...

An Oro Valley family is hoping people check their Saguaros after their neighbor's cactus fell ... had planted the Saguaro about 30 years ago, and thinks it was about 15 feet tall.

While they can grow to unique heights, one cactus holds the world record for being the tallest ever recorded. Here's what to know about the tallest saguaro on record, how tall they usually grow ...

the trunk of a tall saguaro in Sabino Canyon. The somewhat quirky cactus collaboration is playing out in the Desert Garden, a site along the canyon’s Bajada Loop Nature Trail. Botanists and some ...

We now will have the state’s tallest mural. Joe Pagac‘s imposing saguaro cactus climbs 153 feet on the north side of the 11-story Transamerica Building at 177 N. Church Ave., towering over the ...

Exclusively found in the Sonoran desert, these cactuses grow the state flower of Arizona — the saguaro cactus flower. They are the tallest cactuses in America and can live up to 200 years. The ...

By then, we could see his cactus skeleton, the structural support that allows saguaros to grow as tall as he had ... The “Grandpa” saguaro at Catalina State Park in Tucson, Arizona, in ...

Scientists are discovering that saguaro cactus spines contain information on ... They can branch out as massive trees, rise as 60-foot-tall columns, grow as thick balloons, or fit on a one-cent ...