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Yetman, David A, Alberto Burquez, Kevin Hultine and Michael Sanderson

The Saguaro Cactus. A Natural History. 2020. 208 p. Paper bd.

The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape - its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human - has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity.

This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro’s role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings.

The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant’s unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro’s: history of discovery, place in the cactus family, ecology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and ethnobotany. The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus’s prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.
Author Yetman, David A, Alberto Burquez, Kevin Hultine and Michael Sanderson
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Author Yetman, David A, Alberto Burquez, Kevin Hultine and Michael Sanderson
Manufacturer University of Arizona Press Main Library Bldg., 5th Floor P.o.Box 210055
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EAN 9780816540044
ISBN 9780816540044
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