Saguaros across the Tucson area are erupting with flowers in an unusual display not seen since 2021. Experts don't really ...

Keep an eye out for Arizona's iconic saguaro cactus flower as its blooming season is here for the early months of the summer.

Saguaro blooms have a purpose beyond posing for photos ... Contact reporter Doug Kreutz at [email protected] or at 573-4192. On Twitter: @DouglasKreutz. Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson.

PHOENIX - A normal saguaro normally blooms from the top ... said last year was the driest on record in Tucson and he suspects this year’s strange bloom is a response to that.

The saguaro blooms in late April ... Over the years, additional land has been added, and the Tucson Mountain District (west side) was integrated into the national monument in 1961.

The saguaro’s white, fragrant flowers bloom for less than 24 hours ... of the saguaro,” said Bill Peachey a longtime Tucson-area geologist and independent scientist who studies saguaros.

“And there are examples all over the Tucson valley,” he said ... “That’s the key to the whole thing.” The side blooms are the saguaro’s “hokey workaround” to not having enough ...

He added that lesser long-nosed bats have adapted to retrieve nectar from saguaro flowers in the spring ... Just south of Marana, in Tucson, city landscapers take special care regarding saguaros ...

In fact, a few renegade blooms were already open in ... In the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro National Park east of downtown Tucson, I combined three trails — Loma Verde, Pink Hill and ...