A century or so ago, railroad boosters and marketers discovered Arizona’s signature cactus, the saguaro, as the perfect symbol of the Southwest. The Sonoran Desert’s Carnegiea gigantea is native to Arizona, northern Sonora, Mexico, and a very small area of desert on the west bank of the Colorado River in California. Today, the iconic succulent appears on dozens of retail products, from salsa to tortillas, from banks to motels, as an internationally recognized symbol of Arizona, the American
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