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Fouquieria columnaris (‘Boojum Tree’): It’s like a tree and a cactus got together with some ocotillo and made this thing

Check out this wild thing I came across yesterday!

They’re native to Baja. But here’s a young one planted up in Tempe:

If they can grow in Tempe, they’ll probably grow in Tucson. (It gets a little colder in Tucson because the elevation is higher here than in Phoenix.)

From the top you can see how it grows like any other cactus.

_{[Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons]}

Here’s a close-up of a mature branch. It looks exactly like a stalk of ocotillo, because in fact this monster is a kind of ocotillo.

_{Fouquieria columnaris at the Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden, Las Vegas, Nevada [Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons]}

Basically I love these. I want to plant them all over the place!!!

Lucca Daniel Green