Carnegiea Gigantea is the botanical (or Latin) name for the Saguaro, pronounced "sah-wah-roh", cactus. This is the tall cactus with upraise arms that is embelatic of the southwestern US desert lands. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California, and an extremely small area of California.
Carnegiea gigantea is the latin name for the saguaro cactus.
The taxonomy for a saguaro cactus is: Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Cactaceae Genus: Carnegiea Species: Carnegiea gigantea
A saguaro is a large cactus, Latin name Carnegiea gigantea, native to the Sonoran desert.
A saguaro is a large cactus, Latin name Carnegiea gigantea, native to the Sonoran desert.
Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea).
The saguaro blossom [Carnegiea gigantea] is the state flower of Arizona. In 1901, it became Arizona's territorial flower. In 1931, it was confirmed again, but as the state flower.
Scolopendra Gigantea
Dale S. Turner has written: 'Ten-year resurvey of epidermal browning and population structure of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) in Saguaro National Park' -- subject(s): Saguaro
Tracheophyta is the phylum in which the saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea] is found. It's the phylum of the tracheophytes, which also are called higher or vascular plants. These plants have specialized tissues for moving around water, minerals and dissolved nutrients, and energizing products from the photosynthetic interaction with sunlight.
The desert is the ecological niche of the saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea]. Within that niche, the saguaro is a resident of lower elevations. Specifically, it prefers an elevation range of 600-3,600 feet/180-1,080 meters.
The Saguaro which may reach as high as 50 feet and live as long as 150 years.
Spenceriella gigantea was created in 1906.