An Unusual Cactus (to me anyhow)

[Digger2]

This was taken around Coolidge AZ, where I was working.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Very neat old Saguaro cactus!

 

[Digger2]

Thanks, It was on a campground that I was living in while on assignment in the Coolidge area. Awesome country!!!

I read somewhere that these cacti have to be 100 years old to grow "arms", I don't know if that's a fact, but that would mean that that old fella would have been around when the horses were the primary means of transportation.

 

[vpnavy]

Hey, that is exactly how I feel some mornings Digger2!

Thanks for sharing...

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

that one is ancient...broken off at one time at the location of the "arms"...then grew from that point...{perhaps stalled growth, not broken...}

don't see many of the women picking fruit off them anymore...I think the emissions from oil/gas have had a negative effect on the saguaro, and other cacti...

if I still had a memory I could post the address of that cactus...lol

World's Biggest Saguaro Cactus


and why would anyone ever go to Coolidge?

 

[Digger2]

and why would anyone ever go to Coolidge?

To see the Ho Ho KaM

just a couple of cacti past Coolidge!

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

 

[Produce Guy]

I remember hearing a story where 2 drunk guys stand at the base of one of these giant cactus with a shotgun and shoot it about 6 times,and then when they shoot it on the 7th. time the cactus falls on both of them.It killed one of them,and the other one was in a body cast for about a year.The one survior said he didn't know that the weighed so much.

 

[oldnlazy]

Some of the best prospectin in az is at mineral mtn north of coolidge N/E of florence. Luv that place...

 

[austin]

Great pic. Thanks for sharing. Seen a bunch, but never one like that...

 

[Mekong Mike]

beautiful cactus.