How To Use Saguaro In A Sentence
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Amidst cholla and saguaro and sun-blistered projections of rock so bleak they might have confounded the Buddha himself.
The Silence
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In the middle of the day, in the middle of the peninsula, we rolled through a long valley landscaped with millions of huge wind-carved boulders, some as big as houses, giant cardon cacti (the saguaro's larger cousins), and tall skinny boojum plants with orange blooms on top - described as upside-down carrots.
The Baja Highway from top to bottom
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He lay in the shade of a giant saguaro while the mare stood nearby.
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Less than an hour west of Tucson, coasting down State Highway 86 before reaching Kitt Peak and the Baboquivari Mountains, a small hill rises from the cholla, saguaro, and mesquite dotting the landscape.
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During this period, the species feeds on the nectar and pollen of flowering saguaros and organ pipe cactus, contributing to the successful pollination of these succulents.
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This picture may be able to present a better idea that it is literally impossible to hug a saguaro .
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The bark on saguaros and many other species of columnar cacti is usually a dark brown to black color.
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The concrete piers were sandblasted to create a rough, weathered texture, and native trees and saguaros run along the wash, helping the structure blend with the desert.
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To me, a forest of giant saguaro cacti is more familiar and comprehensible than a grove of river birches.
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All three kept a half-dozen other Saguaro balls in the air while we concentrated on finishing this book.
American Grace
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Scaling and barking injuries occur on stem surfaces of saguaro cacti.
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While most saguaro cacti grow in a typical fashion, a few individuals will grow in an atypical form known as a cristate or crested saguaro.
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The saguaro is a monstrosity in fact as well as in appearance, -- a product of miscegenation between plant and animal, probably depending for its form of life history, if not for its very existence, on its commensals." [
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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The Indian blankets, the saguaro skeleton, the painted steer skulls...?
SURE OF YOU
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In addition, few cacti should show extensive surface injuries if saguaros live for long time periods.
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Residential development on bajadas is eliminating the habitat of bajadas-dependent species such as cholla cacti (Opuntia) and columnar cacti such as saguaro.
Sonoran desert
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The smell of creosote bush after rain, the columnar saguaro, the lime green palo verde tree - this is my landscape.
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Strolling through the mostly outdoor museum is like taking a desert hike among the saguaro cacti - with drinking fountains everywhere.
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In addition to those mentioned above, these include such well-known trees as quaking aspen, boxelder, northern catalpa, American holly, chestnut oak, and saguaro.
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David Hallstrom performed the ceremony at Saguaro Buttes Community Church, where he is the pastor.
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The phrase ‘lush desert’ may reek of oxymoron, but in springtime the Sonoran - with its massive saguaros and organ-pipe cacti, as well as Mexican gold poppies, magenta owl clover, and indigo desert lupine - is just that.
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I shrink into the shade of a skinny saguaro -- the best available option -- to wait.
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A third saguaro lies full-length in the dirt, one end squashed flat and stamped with the imprint of tire treads.
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A forest of giant saguaro rising from a painted desert far above the tangle of creosote-bush, mesquite, cholla, bisnaga, and scores of other strange growths of a land of strange attractions is a spectacle to stir the blood and to remember for a lifetime.
The Book of the National Parks
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
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The Indian blankets, the saguaro skeleton, the painted steer skulls...?
SURE OF YOU
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
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Though traditional ramadas were made with mesquite poles, ocotillo canes, and saguaro, these materials are not readily available in nurseries, and laws prevent harvesting from public land.
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Rising above them, mountains climbed past saguaro and organ pipe cactus to fields of snow so peaceful that he kept riding only to reach them as the trail ascended toward the distant passes.
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The mushroom cloud diminished until it was no bigger than a man-sized saguaro, a desert cactus.
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It is situated high up in the crotch of open-crowned trees, on top of treelike saguaro cactuses, on cliff ledges, poles, or buildings.
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The sagebrush and imposing mesas and buttes of the Great Basin and the giant saguaro cacti of the Sonoran Desert define the West of countless Hollywood films and the novels of Zane Grey, Louis L' Amour, and others.
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To give some perspective on the desert's time frame, it takes a saguaro 10 years to grow its first 1 1/2 inches.
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The cardon is a close relative of the saguaro cactus of Arizona.
Did You Know? Mexico in the Guinness world records: part two
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They include the endangered Mexican Wolf and giant Saguaro cactus.
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A third saguaro lies full-length in the dirt, one end squashed flat and stamped with the imprint of tire treads.
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But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote.
The Right Thing
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The mushroom cloud diminished until it was no bigger than a man-sized saguaro, a desert cactus.
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Matthew Rounis, a fifth-grader who also served on the commission, said the combo design "represents the entire state, not just one section, and it also serves as a map of Arizona, since in the northern part you have the Grand Canyon and in the southern part you have the saguaro which is indigenous to those areas.
And the winner is...
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We photograph cholla and saguaro and ocotillo.
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The North American Gila Woodpecker excavates a living space within saguaro cacti.
Photo-Op: Nest Fest
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At the base of the mountains, on the gentle rocky slopes called bajadas, the vegetation is dominated by paloverde, ocotillo, and saguaro, but bitterbrush is also a common shrub.
American Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)
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Like a man, the saguaro has an internal skeleton covered with pulpy flesh.
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In the middle of the day, in the middle of the peninsula, we rolled through a long valley landscaped with millions of huge wind-carved boulders, some as big as houses, giant cardon cacti (the saguaro's larger cousins), and tall skinny boojum plants with orange blooms on top - described as upside-down carrots.
The Baja Highway from top to bottom
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I shrink into the shade of a skinny saguaro -- the best available option -- to wait.
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The saguaro is a signature plant of the Sonoran Desert.
Proclamation On Sonoran Desert Nationalmonument
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The wind rustles the brittle-bush and whispers its way though the clustered needles of saguaros, the hallmark cactus of the Sonoran Desert.
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The landscape is totally different from that of the area surrounding the resorts, with a wide variety of spectacular plant life, including the saguaro cacti and century plants.
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Losses such as these severely affect populations of long-lived species like saguaros and desert tortoises, Schwalbe said.
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‘It's during the hottest and driest time of the year that the saguaro actually start producing fruit,’ he says.
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The giant saguaro cactus is evoked by five tall figures.
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Land plants include many cacti, the most spectacular of which are the saguaro, with its thick, armlike branches, and a number of large chollas, such as the tree cholla, the jumping cholla, and the cane cholla.
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The first time I drove out of phoenix I was stunned by two things: the oppressive heat, and how quickly the city ended and the desert, with its saguaro cacti and brambly creosote, began.
Mexican Standoff
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Though traditional ramadas were made with mesquite poles, ocotillo canes, and saguaro, these materials are not readily available in nurseries.
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I grew up in Arizona and learned to love saguaros, palo verdes and desert vistas.
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Being in the desert was a new experience for me, a native Westerner who had never seen birds nesting in a saguaro nor tasted a prickly pear margarita.
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Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat.
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There was neither road nor house, only a saguaro here, a barrel cactus there, a lot of sand underfoot, and even more sun overhead.
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Paloverde-cactus shrub vegetation includes various types of cacti, such as saguaro, cholla and agave.
North American Deserts ecoregion (CEC)
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and paloverde, and mesquite trees.
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… if you didn't know, and i didn't, a saguaro is a type of cactus …
MetsBlog.com
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Scattered among the huge club-shaped columns of the saguaro is the cholla, the next largest of the cactuses.
The Western United States A Geographical Reader