Organ Pipe Cactus
A very large and old organ pipe cactus grows in the Alamo Canyon in Southern Arizona's Ajo Mountains, miles from the Mexican border. This small, remote region of the Sonoran Desert is the only place in the United States to find these incredibly large cacti in the wild.
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Ajo, Ajo Range, Alamo Canyon, America, American Southwest, Angiosperms, Arizona, Cactaceae, Cactoideae, Caryophyllales, Cereus, Cereus thurberi, Core eudicots, Eudicots, National Monument, OPCNM, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pachycereeae, Pima County, Plantae, S. thurberi, Sonoran Desert, Stenocereus, Stenocereus thurberi, USA, United States, arid, botany, cacti, cactus, desert, dicot, green, heat, hurt, nature, organ pipe cactus, pain, painful, perennial, pitaya dulce, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, sharp, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, sweet cactus fruit, sweet pitaya, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Pachycereeae, Cactaceae (Cactus Family)