sahuaro

The deceptive green of occasional palo-verde bushes now gave place to the columns of the giant sahuaro.

Bloom of Cactus Robert Ames Bennet 1912

What he saw was only the green of mesquite and palo verde, the fluted columns of the giant sahuaro, and the gray of sagebrush.

Bloom of Cactus Robert Ames Bennet 1912

The children saw the plains of Texas stretching under the heat haze, stark sand in wind-blown dunes, tall stakes of _sahuaro_ marching wide apart, hot, trackless sand in which a horse's foot sinks to the fetlock, and here and there raw gashes in the earth for rivers that did not run, except now and then in fierce and ungovernable floods.

The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Little frisk-tailed things ran up and down the spiney shrubs, and a woodpecker, who had made his nest in its pithy stalk, peered at them from a tall _sahuaro_.

The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

I could only climb the sahuaro, "he thought," and fly my red shirt as a flag, to let the Rurales know I've flanked the enemy, it might hurry them along in time to put a crimp in these devils before they get me.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

As McKee bent over his captive's feet, piling against them the burning ends of the sticks, the rattlesnake on the sahuaro, incited by the fire above, struggled free from the impaling thorns by a desperate effort, and dropped on the back of the half-breed.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

In the meantime the sahuaro had caught fire at the top, and was burning down through the interior.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

But from the clump of cactus growth along the parapet arose a sahuaro, with branching arms, and against this the snake was flung.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

A half-hour later the Mexican guards appeared upon the scene, and unbound Lane's unconscious form from the sahuaro, which the fire had consumed to a foot of his bowed head.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

With his mind occupied by these horrible apprehensions, Lane looked at the rattlesnake upon the sahuaro whose struggles by this time had diminished to a movement of the tail.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894