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Product details:
- Publisher The University of Arizona Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780816540044
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 213x139x12 mm
- Weight 352 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 colour illustrations, 24 black & white illustrations, 2 maps 40
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Short description:
The saguarois the largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity. This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant.
MoreLong description:
The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape - its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human - has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity.
This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro's role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings.
The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant's unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro's
- history of discovery,
- place in the cactus family,
- ecology,
- anatomy and physiology,
- genetics, and
- ethnobotany.
The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus's prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology. More
