Crested Saguaros

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White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Phoenix, Arizona

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Last visited: March 2018.
Last visited: May 2011.

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Last visited: May 2011.
Ring Crest.
Last visited: March 2014.

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Last visited: March 2014.
Last visited: March 2014.
Last visited: June 2018.

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Last visited: February 2023.
Last visited: February 2023.

Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek, Arizona

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Last visited: June 2009.
Last visited: February 2012.

Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, Cave Creek, Arizona

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Last visited: April 2018.

Cave Creek, Arizona

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Last visited: January 2010.
Last visited: May 2013.

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Last visited: April 2018.
Last visited: June 2013.

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Last visited: April 2018.
Last visited: December 2022.
Last visited: December 2022.

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Last visited: December 2022.
Last visited: December 2022.
Last visited: December 2022.

Carefree, Arizona

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Transplanted from Sun City November 2011.
Last visited: December 2011.
Gone June 2012.
Transplanted from Sun City January 2013.
Last visited: June 2015.
Gone 2016.

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Last visited: June 2013.
Crested arm broken off when revisited August 2025.
Last visited:
December 2011.
Last visited: June 2015.
Skeleton when revisited August 2025.

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Transplanted from Scottsdale September 2017.
Last visited: August 2025.
Last visited: August 2025.

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Last visited: August 2025.

Desert Foothills Gardens Nursery, Cave Creek, Arizona

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Last visited: December 2022.

Cactus Ranch Nursery, Morristown, Arizona

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Last visited: February 2020.
Gone when revisited May 2025
(moved to Mohave County).

Saguaro Country Nursery, Surprise, Arizona

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Last visited: March 2011 (now gone).

Sun City, Arizona

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Last visited: March 2011.
Now gone (transplanted to
Carefree January 2013).
Last visited: June 2019.
Reported gone November 2024.
Last visited: January 2019.
Reported gone January 2025.

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Last visited: September 2014.
Reported gone November 2017.
Last visited: June 2019.
Reported gone November 2024.
Last visited: June 2019.
Reported gone November 2024.

McDowell Mountain Regional Park, Arizona

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Last visited: September 2013.
Last visited: December 2011.

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Last visited: October 2015.
Last visited: October 2015.

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Last visited: October 2015.

McDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale, Arizona

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Last visited: September 2010 (dead and collapsed when revisited in June 2013 -- right photo).
This cristate saguaro was illegally removed from its original location, confiscated from a nursery by the Department of Agriculture, and replanted here in the Preserve.

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Last visited: April 2019.
Last visited: December 2011.

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Last visited: October 2018.
Last visited: October 2018.
Last visited: October 2018.

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Last visited: May 2012.
Last visited: November 2015. Reported down May 2023.

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Last visited: September 2015.
Last visited: November 2012.
Last visited: November 2012.

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Last visited: October 2020.
Last visited: April 2019.
Last visited: December 2014.

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Last visited: December 2014.
Last visited: May 2021.
Last visited: November 2015.

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Last visited: September 2015.
Last visited: September 2016.
Last visited: September 2016.

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Ring crest.
Last visited: October 2018.
Last visited: October 2018.
Ring crest.
Last visited: April 2019.

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Last visited: May 2021.
Last visited: May 2020.
Two arm crests.
Last visited: October 2020.

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Last visited: October 2020.
Last visited: October 2020.
Last visited: May 2021.

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Last visited: May 2021.
Last visited: May 2021.
Last visited: May 2021.

Scottsdale, Arizona

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Last visited: December 2024.
Last visited: April 2019.
Last visited: July 2009 (now gone).

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Last visited: April 2017.
Gone when revisited December 2024.
Last visited: January 2011.
Gone when revisited February 2024.
Last visited: December 2011.

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Last visited: December 2024.
Last visited: August 2013.

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Last visited: December 2013.
Reported gone September 2022.
Last visited: June 2015.
Last visited: October 2017.

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Last visited: July 2018.
Last visited: June 2018.
Last visited: October 2019.

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Ring Crest.
Last visited: October 2019.
Last visited: February 2024.
Last visited: February 2024.

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Last visited: February 2024.
Last visited: February 2024.
Last visited: February 2024.

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Last visited: February 2024.

Wallace Desert Gardens, Scottsdale, Arizona

Now closed; crested saguaros moved to Boyce Thompson Arboretum.

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Last visited: April 2013.
Transplanted to Boyce Thompson Arboretum
circa 2017; reported dead April 2018.
Last visited: April 2013.

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Last visited: April 2013.
Last visited: April 2013.
Last visited: April 2013.
Transplanted to Boyce Thompson
Arboretum circa 2017.

Fountain Hills, Arizona

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Last visited: May 2015.
Reported cut down May 2021.
First visited: April 2010 (left 2 photos).
Last visited: May 2015 (right photo).
Gone when revisited August 2020.

Paradise Valley, Arizona

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Last visited: February 2024.
Last visited: August 2025.
Last visited: December 2017.
Gone when revisited February 2024.

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Last visited: December 2017.
Gone when revisited February 2024.

Tonto National Monument, Arizona

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Last visited: November 2013.

Mesa, Arizona

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Last visited: June 2018.
Reported gone December 2024.
Last visited: August 2016.
Last visited: March 2025.

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Last visited: November 2024.

Phoenix, Arizona

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Last visited: June 2009.
Gone March 2021.
Last visited: April 2015.
Reported gone October 2021.
Last visited: September 2014.

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Last visited: September 2014.
Last visited: August 2014.
Reported gone August 2022.
Last visited: August 2014.

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Last visited: August 2014.
Last visited: June 2011.
Reported down October 2025.
Last visited: August 2014.

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Last visited: June 2013.
Last visited: June 2013.
Reported gone March 2019.
Last visited: August 2014.

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Last visited: September 2014.
Reported gone February 2025.
Last visited: September 2014.
Reported gone February 2025.
Last visited: September 2014.

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Last visited: October 2014.
Gone when revisited August 2025.
Last visited: October 2018.

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona

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Last visited: March 2009 (now gone).
Last visited: February 2008 (now gone).
This cactus died in December 2009, reportedly from excess rain.
This cactus is also gone, reportedly blown
down by high winds. Last photo shows skeleton
on display in August 2013.

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Last visited: October 2011 (now gone).

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Planted April 2014.
Last visited: August 2014 (gone when revisited May 2015).
Planted May 2015.
Last visited: December 2025.

Estrella Mountain Regional Park, Arizona

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Last visited: July 2011.

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Visited: July 2011 (left photo pair), July 2013 (middle photo pair), June 2018 (right photo pair).

Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona

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Last visited: May 2011.
Last visited: May 2015.
This saguaro has the most "Y" splits (at least 20!) of any I've seen, but the highest tip also exhibits a small crest so I am classifying it as cristate.
Later I found this specimen, which has even more "Y" splits!

Gilbert, Arizona

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Last visited: November 2018.

Apache Junction, Arizona

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Last visited: November 2013.
Last visited: December 2014.
Last visited: December 2014.

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First Visited: March 2019 (left two photos). Last Visited: December 2023 (right two photos).

Superstition Mountain Museum, Apache Junction, Arizona

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Last visited: March 2008 (now gone).
Collapsed in storm October 2010.

Queen Valley, Arizona

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Last visited: September 2016.

San Tan Mountain Regional Park, Arizona

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Last visited: August 2008.
Last visited: December 2011.
Last visited: December 2011.

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Last visited: December 2011.

Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, Arizona

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Transplanted from Wallace Desert Gardens in Scottsdale circa 2017.
Last visited: December 2024.


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