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Fouquieria columnaris, the Boojum tree or cirio (Latin American Spanish:) is a tree in the ocotillo family, whose other members include the ocotillos. Some taxonomists place it in the separate genus Idria .
Boojum tree in hot June summers Cirio columnaris with human for scale. The Boojum forest is an area in central Baja California, Mexico, near Cataviña known for endemic flora so bizarre and grotesque in appearance that the area was named after mathematician/logician Lewis Carroll's imaginary landscape poem The Hunting of the Snark.
This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. [1] [need quotation to verify]
Fouquieria diguetii, known by the common names Adam's tree,palo Adán, and Baja [California] Tree Ocotillo, is a plant in the family Fouquieriaceae native to the southern half of the Baja California Peninsula, and the coasts of Sonora and Sinaloa. It is a semi-succulent and deciduous plant related to the ocotillo and the Boojum tree. It is ...
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 (F. splendens) and the Boojum tree or cirio (F. columnaris).
Boojum may refer to: A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark; a particularly dangerous kind of snark; Jud Wilson (Jud "Boojum" Wilson), American baseball player; Boojum (superfluidity), a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3; Boojum tree or cirio of the Baja California peninsula ...
A mangrove tree surrounded by its pneumatophores, in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia Australia and Papua New Guinea both rank in the top five mangrove holding nations globally. [ 83 ] More than five species of Rhizophoraceae grow in Australasia , [ 84 ] with particularly high biodiversity on the island of New Guinea and northern Australia.
Bogd Khan has a total area of 67,300 hectares (260 sq mi) and is located between 47°43' to 47°54'N and 106°46' to 107°10'E. Its altitudinal range is between 1,310 and 2,270 m (4,300 and 7,450 ft) above sea level. It consists of a core area of about 41,651 hectares (160.82 sq mi) surrounded by a buffer zone and certain transition areas.