Photo de stock - 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 - Weighs about 80 pounds per foot - Grows their first arms at around 12 feet in height or forty to eighty years of age but some never grows 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 - Produces a cristate form which may be a genetic variant and occurs in about one in two hundred thousand individual

Photo de stock: Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) - Sonoran Desert - Arizona - Record height:  78 feet - Average mature height:  18 to 30 feet.

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