hmm interesting, cause Palo Verde also has spikes on the tips of the branches. either that or in BCC we have some of the largest Crucifixion Thorns around. Anyways in AZ what are the largest trees? hahaha think that my Saguaro is taller then any of the Palo Verdes that I have seen....who knows to be...

hello all. Thanks for the advice about joining the CSS. I have been thinking about doing that since I got all my cacti. Daiv, I enjoy the forum very much. It's been a good start for me to get acquainted with what I might need to know. Peterb, well someday maybe I will see you at one of the events. A...

Hello all. I have been here a few days learning the mysteries of the world of cacti. I live in central AZ and am lucky to have many cacti growing in the wild (and my yard) around me. I am inventorying all the pictures that I have and will post some of them soon. At the moment I am un-employed (like ...

the 2nd one looks like some of the smaller C. gigantea to me. I have several of the smaller ones that are around 4 inches by 2 inches wide and they look similar. To me the dead giveaway is the areoles or whatever they are called. They look closely to what the ones on all the C. gigantea look like ar...

hmm whats the difference between Palo Verde and crucifixion thorn? Once again I am new to the desert and call all of those green palo verde (or Foothills Palo Verde) and have actually yet to see a crucifixion thorn owning to the fact that I though that they were much smaller then a Palo Verde tree.

cool. I live a few miles from the Agua Fria National Monument and go hiking there all the time, usually on the lower end Near BCC. I can get onto there from a road by the steak house. Next time ya come up this way ya should let me know. btw on the south part we have lots of saguaros and many cholla....

I have wanted to get up there to look around since I drove past the painted desert when I moved to AZ. I drove the whole way..from PA to AZ in 3 days and had all of my stuff and didnt get a chance to look around at all.

Near Black Canyon City, I have found several mine shafts or caves, I havent gotten a chance to go inside them because of the flooding river. On the other side of the river is the famous Kay Mine.

I havent been to the Ajo mine really the furthest south I have been is Laveen, AZ.

Once again I suppose I am lucky since I got the heck outta the mid-atlantic area. I am glad I am not stuck shoveling cactus killing snow right now and can relax and watch it rain again. I will have to upload some of my own pics to show what the area that I live in looks like. (Pretty much the same a...

hmm, I may not know what any of those cacti are but I love them. I have been fascinated with what I call prickly pear since I was a little kid and had the misfortune of getting the bigger spines in my leg while I was running down a hill in SE Pennsylvania. Of course I am slowly learning the names of...

It makes me feel kind of guilty for living in Arizona and usually not having time/money to go to all the nice places there are here. Most of the terrain looks similar to where I live. I need to get some of my pics together. I have found a crowning saguaro near where I live.

Hi. I am sorta new to the world of cacti, having been a transplant to the arid lands in Arizona from SouthEastern Pa. In fact when I was little I had a small cactus, I think it was called a fishhook cactus or something like that(I know its in the mammillaria family but have no idea what it was) whic...