Yet, people around the globe are familiar with the visual representation of the saguaro, known to most as the "giant cactus." And this icon's connection ... by the mere shape of its outline.

And it's only fitting — the saguaro cactus is an Arizona icon. The towering cactuses only ... The cactuses' iconic shape is also plastered over everything from kitschy gifts, advertisements ...

Their image and distinctive shape ... saguaro’s ascension from biological oddity to global icon in the well-researched, richly detailed “In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant ...

For around 200 years, a special saguaro cactus stood tall in the Arizona desert ... MARTÍNEZ: In spite of the recent loss of these two beloved desert icons, Haas notes that many others are ...