Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti

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Two grandchildren quarrel, spill their grandmother's water and run away over the mountains. The older boy becomes a saguaro that will bear fruit every summer, and the younger a palo verde to make the bare mountains green. That is how these two plants came to the desert.
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