| Boojum tree | |
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| Boojum tree in Baja California desert, Cataviña region. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Fouquieriaceae |
| Genus: | Fouquieria |
| Species: | F. columnaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Fouquieria columnaris | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Fouquieria columnaris, the Boojum tree or cirio (Latin American Spanish: [ˈsiɾjo]) is a tree in the ocotillo family, whose other members include the ocotillos. Some taxonomists place it in the separate genus Idria. It is nearly endemic to the Baja California Peninsula (both the northern and southern states), with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha of Sonora, Mexico. The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".[2][3][4]
- ^ "The Plant List, Fouquieria columnaris (C.Kellogg) Kellogg ex Curran".
- ^ Robert R. Humphrey. The Boojum and its Home
- ^ Felger, Richard; Mary B. Moser. (1985). People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816508181.
- ^ Carroll, Lewis, 1876. The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits complete text of poem