Accession Data
Fouquieria columnaris
Common Name: Boojum Tree
Family: Fouquieriaceae
Country of Origin: Baja California
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
Accession Date: 1999-08-28
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2214
Quantity: 1
Source: Bartlett Arboretum {BA90-22}
Provenance: 27MAY2008 - Genus name changed to Fouquieria from Idria to correct synonomy. CMORSE
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Fouquieriaceae
References
- 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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