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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.

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