Photos: Saguaro flowers
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Saguaro blooms have a purpose beyond posing for photos. They attract flying animals - from white-winged doves and long-nosed bats to honeybees and moths. As these airborne visitors chow down on the sweet nectar inside saguaro flowers, they become powdered with pollen.
A lone saguaro blossom has opened up among all of the buds Monday, May 7th, 2001 at the end of a saguaros arm. All of the Sonoran desert has been nourished by the winter and spring rains this year. Photo by Jim Davis. Photo taken on 5/7/2001.
- JIM DAVIS
A lone blossom blooms at the tip of a saguaro near the Hohokam Road at the Tucson Mountain District in Saguaro National Park, which is part of the National Park Service on Thursday, August 5, 2010, outside Tucson, Ariz. Photo by A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
- A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
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