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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 05-15-2024
  • Restrictions:
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Fouquieriaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

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):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.
  2. Fouquieria columnaris at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.
  3. R. R. Humphrey, A study of Idria columnaris and Fouquieria splendens
    American Journal of Botany Vol. 22, No. 2 (Feb., 1935), pp. 184-207
  4. 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.
  5. Ocean Oasis Field Guide at San Diego Natural History Museum. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 03, 2017.

data regenerated on Wed, 15 May 2024 15:24:02 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Fouquieria columnaris

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Current Accessions in the Fouquieriaceae

  • Fouquieria columnaris
  • Fouquieria diguetii
  • Fouquieria splendens
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