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3. The Saguaro flowers in May. Here a green bee is visiting the blossom. Later in the year, all the flowers will have gone to fruit like the the spineless fruits seen here. The spined structures are flowers yet to open.
The flowers have all sorts of pollinators: bees, moths, bats. The fruits are still harvested by the Tohono O'odlam -- the Desert People. This was a low-flowering Saguaro. I managed to stand on the hood of the rental car to get the picture. |