What is 'saguaro' in English?

Answer 1

It is the biggest cactus on earth. It, habitat is theSonoran Desert of extreme southeastern California, southern Arizona and adjoining northwestern Mexico.

The magnificent Saguaro Cactus, the state flower of Arizona, is composed of a tall, thick, fluted, columnar stem, 18 to 24 inches in diameter, often with several large branches (arms) curving upward in the most distinctive conformation of all Southwestern cacti.

Answer 2

Saguaro [Carnegiea gigantea] isn't a Spanish word. The 16th century explorers of the New World adapted the native Tohono O'odham term for the cactus, to the sounds and writing of the Spanish language.

The word refers to a longlived, slow-growing, slow-reproducing cactus plant. The saguaro can take 75 years to develop sidearms; reach 60' in height; produce an edible, ruby-red, sweet fruit; and live as long as 150 years. Its night-blooming white blossom, which requires pollination by the Lesser Long-nosed Bat [Leptonycteris yerbabuenae], has been honored as the state flower of Arizona.

In fact, the plant's native to the Sonoran desert of Arizona, California [just a bit], and the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora. And it's important to the ecology of the region. For it's a popular nesting site for Gila woodpeckers [Melanerpes uropygialis], gilded flickers [Colaptes chrysoides], house finches [Carpodacus mexicanus], and purple martins [Progne subis]. Unfortunately, no good deed may go unpunished. For the holes that these nesters dig into the stems may be enough to send the saguaro spiraling into steady decline, or even quick death.