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The Saguaro Cactus lives to be 200-300 years old. In the beginning it grows in a single stalk and doesnot grow any arms until it is about 50 years old. In mid-late April they begin to bloom. They have large white flowers. They store enough water to survive drought for up to seven years. When there is an abundance of water, they don't know when to stop drinking and get to weigh several tons.
Etymology: Mexican Spanish. An arborescent cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico that has a tall columnar simple or sparsely branched trunk of up to 60 feet (18 meters) and bears white flowers and edible fruit
The Palo Verde Tree-looks like our forsythia in Spring
Etymology: Mexican Spanish, literally, green stick.
Any of several small spiny leguminous trees or shrubs (genus Cercidium) that have greenish branches and are found chiefly in dry regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico
A half-hour's scenic drive northeast on The Apache Trail, State Highway 88, out of Apache Junction will bring you to beautiful Canyon Lake. A few more miles to Tortilla Flats, where the pavement ends, and another few miles and you reach Apache Lake, then Roosevelt Dam and Roosevelt Lake. All this water within a shortdistance from the desert. A closer lake attached to all of these lakes is Saguaro Lake which is a popular recreational lake.
Canyon Lake in Background
