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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 (superfluidity), a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3; Boojum tree or cirio of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico; SSM-A-5 Boojum, a planned, but never completed, supersonic version of the SM-62 Snark, an intercontinental cruise missile; Boojum (restaurant), a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ireland
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 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.
Boojum is a British-owned chain of Mexican fast-food [4] restaurants, founded in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2007 by John and Karen Blisard, they operate 17 outlets throughout the island of Ireland, [5] as well as a "Turbo Boojum" outlet in Dublin. [6] On 10 April 2024, Boojum opened their first store outside of the island of Ireland, in ...
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.
Various cultures across Europe have their own unique concept of the "wild man", with distinct names and folklore. The Basajaun is the corresponding one among the Basque people, as well as those with historical Basque heritage in Tena, Anso, and Broto in Aragon, to which this creature is known as the Basajarau, Bonjarau, or Bosnerau.
The XSSM-A-5 Boojum, also known by the project number MX-775B, was a supersonic cruise missile developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s. Intended to deliver a nuclear warhead over intercontinental range, the project was determined to be too ambitious given technical difficulties with the SM-62 ...