Fouquieria
Plant
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 and the Boojum tree or cirio. They have semi succulent stems with thinner... Wikipedia
Family: Fouquieriaceae; DC.
Scientific name: Fouquieria
Genus: Fouquieria; Kunth
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Ericales
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The ocotillo family is a small one of only 11 species restricted to the warm-arid section of North America. Members of this family are odd-looking plants, some ...
Fouquieria is a genus of 11 species of desert plants, the sole genus in the family Fouquieriaceae. The genus includes the ocotillo (F. splendens) and the ...
While semi-succulent and a desert plant, Ocotillo is more closely related to the tea plant and blueberries than to cactuses. For much of the year, the plant ...
Fouquieria splendens (Ocotillo) | Native Plants of North America
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May 14, 2009 · Ocotillo is a spiny shrub to 20 ft. with many long, whip-like, unbranched green stems growing from the base. Stems are leafless most of the year ...
Ocotillo can reach heights of up to 20 feet. The Ocotillo is called many different names including Candlewood, Slimwood, Coachwhip, Vine Cactus, Flaming Sword ...
Ocotillos are common and adaptable desert plants. They grow throughout the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts from southeastern California to western Texas and ...
Apr 15, 2018 · I love the ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) for many reasons. It is an impossible plant to miss with its spindly, spine-covered stems.
Ocotillos are desert plants. Most are endemic to Mexico, but one, F. splendens, occurs into the southwestern US, and another, F. formosa, reaches into ...
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.
Ocotillo is a dominant member of mixed woody, succulent scrub, creosotebush (Larrea tridentata) scrub, and shrub-grassland associations.