Taxon: Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• giant cactus   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• sage-of-the-desert   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• Riesenkaktus   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Saguaro   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• saguaro   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – Spanish
  
• saguarokaktus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Social: religious/secular   (fide Cact Fam)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.e.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sonora [n.w.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• Backeberg, C. 1978. Das Kakteen Lexikon. 609.
• Benson, L. 1982. The cacti of the United States and Canada. 934. [= Cereus giganteus Engelm.].
• Bravo-Hollis, H. & H. Sánchez-Mejorada. Las Cactáceas de México, vol. 1 - 1978, vols. 2,3 - 1991
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hunt, D. et al., eds. 2006. The new cactus lexicon.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora. [= Cereus giganteus Engelm.].
• Pinkava, D. J. 1995. Cactaceae, part 1. Cactus Family: the cereoid cactus. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. 29:8.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carnegiea gigantea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carnegiea gigantea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carnegiea gigantea.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cereus giganteus Engelm. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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