Amazon Donates Giant Cactus Sent From Arizona In Bid For HQ2

SEATTLE, WA - An Arizona economic development group sent Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a giant 21-foot Saguaro cactus last week, which was meant to sway Amazon toward locating its new HQ2 campus in Southern Arizona. And although Amazon says it was a "really cool" gift, the company has decided to donate it to a museum.

"Unfortunately we can’t accept gifts (even really cool ones) so we donated it," Amazon said on Twitter Tuesday.

The cactus will go to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Sun Corridor Inc. sent the cactus to Bezos last Wednesday "in a bid to bring Amazon's highly-coveted second headquarters to Tucson and Southern Arizona - home to a million saguaros."

Amazon announced two weeks ago that it would begin accepting proposals for HQ2, which will be a campus the size of the company's Seattle headquarters in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Scores of cities are trying to woo Amazon, including Seattle - on Friday, former mayor Bruce Harrell signed an executive order directing the city's economic development department to put together a proposal for HQ2.

Image via Sun Corridor Inc.