The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Date
01/01/2019
Location
arizona
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Library of Congress
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