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Fouquieria
Fouquieria is a genus of 11 species of desert flowering plants, the sole genus in the family Fouquieriaceae. The genus is native to North America and includes the ocotillo (F. splendens) and the Boojum tree or cirio (F. columnaris). They have semi succulent stems with thinner spikes projecting from them, with leaves on the bases of the spikes. They are unrelated to cacti and do not look much like them; their stems are proportionately thinner than cactus stems and their leaves are larger.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
ocotillo
speciesFouquieria splendens
Adam's tree
speciesFouquieria diguetii
Boojum tree
speciesFouquieria columnaris
Mexican tree ocotillo
speciesFouquieria macdougalii
Fouquieria formosa
speciesFouquieria formosa
Pichilingue
speciesFouquieria burragei
Fouquieria fasciculata
speciesFouquieria fasciculata
Fouquieria purpusii
speciesFouquieria purpusii
Fouquieria ochoterenae
speciesFouquieria ochoterenae
Fouquieria shrevei
speciesFouquieria shrevei
Fouquieria leonilae
speciesFouquieria leonilae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49327.