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 ketogah rated 4 months ago - I love saguaro fruit, but you have to get it before the birds do. This is from a great blog. From the page:
"The sweet, red, edible fruit of Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) cacti ripen in the middle of June to early July. The Tohono O'odham people call this time Ha:sań Bak Masad, the month...
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- ketogah rated 4 months ago
- I love saguaro fruit, but you have to get it before the birds do. This is from a great blog. From the page:
"The sweet, red, edible fruit of Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) cacti ripen in the middle of June to early July. The Tohono O'odham people call this time Ha:sań Bak Masad, the month to gather Saguaro fruit (Ha:sań is pronounced "Hawshawn" and means Saguaro). However, most of these luscious red fruits with their abundant black seeds are not gathered by humans, most Saguaro fruits are instead eagerly consumed by a wide variety of wildlife.
Saguaro fruits split open into flowerlike shapes when ripe, and I observed this little Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) busily eating the freshly exposed red flesh on the Saguaro fruit "petals"."
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