Common name: Ocotillo, Coach-whip, Vine Cactus
Family: Fouquieriaceae
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Country of Origin: Mexico, Baja California
Description: A succulent plant from Mexico with numerous grooved, narrow, spiny stems and eventually bearing numerous, very attractive red flowers.
See A study of Idria columnaris and Fouquieria splendens by R. R. Humphrey, American Journal of Botany © 1935 Botanical Society of America {access limited to JSTOR subscribing institutions}
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- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: asterids
- Order: Ericales
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- Family: Fouquieriaceae
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