It’s not just people at risk from the heat. Even tough desert plants can have trouble when heat’s this extreme and this prolonged.
Saguaros live an average of 150 to 175 years so they’re going to go through a lot of heat waves and cold snaps but sometimes the weather will catch up with these plants.
He says the young ones may have trouble growing up to become one of the desert giants because conditions are hurting the other plants, the nurse plants that help small Saguaros survive. There are reports from the Phoenix area that heat that doesn’t even let up at night may affect large Saguaros long term. Rakestraw thinks that’s less likely to affect Saguaros in natural areas and more likely to hurt Saguaros transplanted into very urbanized settings where crowds, cars and concrete amplify the heat.
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