The Saguaro Cactus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Saguaro Cactus write by David Yetman. This book was released on 2020-02-25. The Saguaro Cactus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Desert Giant (pb)
Desert Giant (pb) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Giant (pb) write by Barbara Bash. This book was released on 2002-09-06. Desert Giant (pb) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A venerable saguaro cactus stands like a statue in the hot desert landscape, its armlike branches reaching fifty feet into the air. From a distance it appears to be completely still and solitary--but appearances can be deceptive. In fact, this giant tree of the desert is alive with activity. Its spiny trunk and branches are home to a surprising number of animals, and its flowers and fruit feed many desert dwellers. Gila woodpeckers and miniature elf owls make their homes inside the saguaro's trunk. Long-nosed bats and fluttering white doves drink the nectar from its showy white flowers. People also play a role in the saguaro's story: each year the Tohono O'odham Indians gather its sweet fruit in a centuries-old harvest ritual. In this first volume of Sierra Club Books' Tree Tales series, a simple, easy-to-read text and appealing drawings document the life cycle of this amazing cactus tree and the creatures it helps to support. Readers will come away with a better understanding of and a lasting respect for this accomodating giant of the desert.
The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus
The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus write by Lara Hawthorne. This book was released on 2024-01-09. The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hawthorne delivers an exquisitely illustrated picture book about the Saguaro cactus which grows in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and its flower, which blooms only one night a year. Full color.
Cactus Hotel
Cactus Hotel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cactus Hotel write by Brenda Z. Guiberson. This book was released on 1993-10-15. Cactus Hotel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.
Saguaros
Saguaros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saguaros write by Mark Klett. This book was released on 2007. Saguaros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of the American West, in particular the beauties of the Sonoran landscape--a desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Along with coyotes and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of this region. Klett's portraits of these giant desert plants are straightforward and frontal. Klett is known for teasing out the implications of man's presence in the environment: here, vital young saguaros, middle-aged contenders with gunshot wounds and wizened elders are treated as worthy inhabitants. This beautifully produced volume, featuring 40 deluxe tritone images, presents a selection of Klett's most evocative portraits with an essay by acclaimed writer Gregory McNamee.
