saguaro

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A saguaro cactus stands tall amid a frenzy of lightning bolts in Arizona.
亞利桑那州，一株巨人柱仙人掌矗立在一團狂暴的閃電中。
Some cacti, like the saguaro, grow to tree size, but true trees need more moisture than most desert environments can supply, so they are scarce on deserts.
一些仙人掌，如撒瓜羅，能長到象樹那么高。但真正的樹卻需要比大多數(shù)沙漠所能提供的更多的水份，所以樹在沙漠里是鮮見的。
"We risk losing iconic charismatic megaflora such as saguaro cactus and joshua trees," co-author Steven Archer of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said at a press conference.
“我們將要冒失去有特征生物的險，如Saguaro和Joshua Tree,”來自亞利桑那大學的斯蒂文(Steven Archer)是作者之一，他在一媒體發(fā)言會上如此說。

Newcomers need to learn to love the saguaro cactus, he says, rather than planting eucalyptus, olive and mulberry trees.
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a giant cactus, Carnegiea gigantea, of desert regions of Arizona, S California, and Mexico, having white nocturnal flowers and edible red pulpy fruits