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* Saguaro Fruit * |
At the very tops of the Saguaro cactus grows some attractive flowers that bear an interesting fruit. The Tohono O'odham (Papago) Indians of the area used to camp out in the desert and harvest the fruit from these enormous cacti with very long poles made from the ribs of the Saguaro skeletons themselves.. Although I have not yet experienced these fruit myself, I understand that they have a red interior pulp with thousands of tiny black seeds and they taste something like that of a fig with a hint of strawberry.
