March 10, 2008
" Say it 'sah-WAH-row' "
One of my stops last week was Tucson, Arizona, where the weather was heavenly. I found myself with about half a day free for touristy activities. I thought of visiting the old Biosphere II, but I did that years ago. So this time, I checked out Saguaro National Park, an interesting park with two separate districts on either side of the city.
Americansouthwest.net has several QTVRs of the park and GORP has an interesting article on the cactus the park is named after:
One saguaro produces tens of thousands of seeds in a year, and as many as 40 million in a lifetime of 176 to 200 years. From the start, the odds against survival are great. Out of all the seeds that a saguaro produces in its life, probably only one will survive to adulthood.