Accession Data:
Fouquieria columnaris Kellogg
- Common Name: Boojum Tree
- Family: Fouquieriaceae DC.
- Country of Origin: Baja California
- Habitat: spiny caudiciform to 15m
- Description: The Boojum Tree is named after a "mythical thing called a boojum found in desolate far-off regions", coined in the book The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carrol.
It is nearly endemic to the Baja California Peninsula with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha, south of Puerto Libertad, Sonora, Mexico.
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199900125
- Source: Bartlett Arboretum {BA90-22}
- Provenance: 27MAY2008 - Genus name changed to Fouquieria from Idria to correct synonomy. CMORSE
- Accession Date: 08-28-1999
- Bench: 2214 - XER:Sonoran-Baja Deserts
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 05-21-2025
- Restrictions:
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: asterids
- Order: Ericales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Fouquieriaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe:
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References (internal):
- Caudiciform
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
- Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Northwest
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.
- Fouquieria columnaris at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.
- R. R. Humphrey, A study of Idria columnaris and Fouquieria splendens
American Journal of Botany Vol. 22, No. 2 (Feb., 1935), pp. 184-207 - Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Tomas Castelazo (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.
- Ocean Oasis Field Guide at San Diego Natural History Museum. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.
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