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The boojum or (Spanish) cirio (Fouquieria columnaris, syn. Idria columnaris) is a weird looking tree
TREE

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 in the family Fouquieria
Fouquieria

Fouquieria is a genus of 11 species of desert plants, the sole genus in the Family Fouquieriaceae. The genus includes the Ocotillo and the Boojum tree or Cirio ....
ceae, whose other members include the ocotillo
Ocotillo

The ocotillo is a curious and unique desert plant of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. For much of the year, the plant appears to be an arrangement of large spiny dead sticks, although closer examination reveals that the Plant stem are partly green....
s. It is nearly endemic
Endemic (ecology)

Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a particular geographic location, such as a specific island, Habitat type, nation, or other defined zone....
 to the Baja California Peninsula
Baja California Peninsula

The Baja California peninsula, in English the Lower California peninsula is a peninsula in western Mexico. It extends some 1250 km from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California ....
, with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha of Sonora
Sonora

Sonora is one of the 31 States of Mexico and is located in the northwest of the country....
. The plant's English name was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Botanical Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, Arizona, United States, located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix, Arizona and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border....
 and is taken from Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an England author, mathematics, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer....
's poem "The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark

The Hunting of the Snark is a Literary nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature"....
".

The peculiar distribution pattern of the mainland boojums has led Mexican botanists to conclude that they were probably transplanted to the mainland by the indigenous Seri people, who lived in this area and still live on communal property south of this location.






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The boojum or (Spanish) cirio (Fouquieria columnaris, syn. Idria columnaris) is a weird looking tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
 in the family Fouquieria
Fouquieria

Fouquieria is a genus of 11 species of desert plants, the sole genus in the Family Fouquieriaceae. The genus includes the Ocotillo and the Boojum tree or Cirio ....
ceae, whose other members include the ocotillo
Ocotillo

The ocotillo is a curious and unique desert plant of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. For much of the year, the plant appears to be an arrangement of large spiny dead sticks, although closer examination reveals that the Plant stem are partly green....
s. It is nearly endemic
Endemic (ecology)

Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a particular geographic location, such as a specific island, Habitat type, nation, or other defined zone....
 to the Baja California Peninsula
Baja California Peninsula

The Baja California peninsula, in English the Lower California peninsula is a peninsula in western Mexico. It extends some 1250 km from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California ....
, with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha of Sonora
Sonora

Sonora is one of the 31 States of Mexico and is located in the northwest of the country....
. The plant's English name was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Botanical Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, Arizona, United States, located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix, Arizona and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border....
 and is taken from Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an England author, mathematics, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer....
's poem "The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark

The Hunting of the Snark is a Literary nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature"....
".

The peculiar distribution pattern of the mainland boojums has led Mexican botanists to conclude that they were probably transplanted to the mainland by the indigenous Seri people, who lived in this area and still live on communal property south of this location. The Seri
Seri language

Seri is a language isolate spoken by the Seri in two villages on the coast of Sonora, Mexico....
 name for this plant is cototaj . In Seri belief, touching this plant will cause strong winds to blow (an undesirable state). Given this belief, the hypothesis that the Seri people transplanted it is doubtful.

The trunk is up to 24 cm thick, with branches sticking out at right angles, all covered with small leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
 1.5-4 cm long. They can grow to a height of 20 m. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s bloom in summer and autumn; they occur in short raceme
Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate growth and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called Pedicel s — along the axis....
s, and are creamy yellow with a honey scent.

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