Fouquieria columnaris, known as the boojum tree or cirio, is a tree in the ocotillo family, whose other members include the ocotillos. Some taxonomists place it in the separate genus Idria. It grows almost exclusively on the Baja California Peninsula, with a small additional population in Sonora, Mexico. Its common name, boojum, comes from Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, who took the name from a creature in a poem by Lewis Carroll. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Conservation Status Classification
Living or Extinct Sources
1. Fouquieria columnaris (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q143016 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): vulnerable.
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