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	BOOJUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The boojum tree is one of the strangest plants imaginable.
		Boojum trunk with thin-walled leaves and an epiphytic lichen
		Boojums produce clusters of creamy white flowers at the tips of the trunks in July-August.
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/desertecology/boojum.htm (387 words)

	SDNHM - Fouquieria columnaris (Boojum Tree, Cirio)
		The common name of Boojum Tree was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Botanical Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona.
		The Boojum Tree grows on rocky hillsides and alluvial plains from the southern Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, to the Volcán Las Tres Virgenes, and on Angel de la Guarda Island.
		The Boojum forms forests in the Vizcaíno region and often occurs with yuccas, Ocotillo, and Cardón.
	www.oceanoasis.org /fieldguide/fouq-col.html (327 words)

	Plants: Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The boojums of Baja aren't so sinister, but these rare plants do look as mythical and bizarre as their name suggests.
		Outside of Lewis Carroll's imagination, the boojum Foquieria columnaris is a tree-like succulent with a water-storing trunk and an array of spiny branches with tiny leaves.
		Boojums can reach heights of 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) and live to about 250 years old.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /cf/plants/species_detail.cfm?ID=55 (158 words)

	Boojum Tree - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Boojum Tree, also called cirio, common name for a deciduous tree native to the Puerto Libertad area and the Baja California Peninsula of...
		Tree, woody plant with a distinct main stem, or trunk.
		At maturity, trees are usually the tallest of plants, and their height and single main stem...
	encarta.msn.com /Boojum_Tree.html (113 words)

	Rare boojum tree at UA is dying, will be cut down \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		A rare giant boojum tree in the center of the UA campus is dying and will be removed next week, but scientists will attempt to replant cuttings from the century-old plant in the process.
		The 37-foot boojum is the largest one in Arizona and the oldest one in the United States, said Libby Davison, director of the Campus Arboretum.
		The tree was brought to the University of Arizona from Mexico more than 70 years ago and planted in the cactus garden at the center of the UA Mall.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/64960 (519 words)

	The Boojum Tree
		The Boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris) is one of the most bizarre-appearing plants in the world.
		Boojums are native to the Sonoran Desert on the west coast of Baja California, and one small area on the Sonora mainland near Puerto Libertad.
		By 1929, several boojums in sizes ranging from 1 to 8 feet or taller were installed into the middle component of the UA cactus collection.
	arboretum.arizona.edu /boojum.html (742 words)

	BOOJUM UNLIMITED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Boojum Unlimited (boojumunltd@aol.com) has been in business since 1976. The nursery encompasses 2 acres of Sonoran Desert west of Tucson, AZ. We grow and sell only boojum trees and are open by appointment. Due to the size and nature of these plants, we do not ship, but have been known to deliver with the proper incentive.
		Our nursery plants are grown from seed collected and planted by the owner. These 18 to 29 year old boojum trees have not been 'pushed', therefore, they have larger diameter trunks than most nursery grown plants. Our boojum trees are growing in the ground and many have natural multiple stems, including two, five headed plants.
		It is now illegal to collect boojum tree seeds or plants from Mexico without permits from the Mexican government, which are all but impossible to obtain.
	www.cactus-mall.com /boojum/index.html (205 words)

	Arizona Wedding Venue, Arizona Reception, Arizona Special Event Venue : BoojumTree Hidden Gardens
		Boojum Tree’s creator has designed some of the most beautiful indoor garden settings in the country.
		Boojum Tree’s Hidden Gardens began as a personal endeavor and was never intended for public use.
		The Boojum Tree, a native of Baja California and related to our own ocotillo, was given it’s popular name from an imaginary creature, the boojum, created by Lewis Carol in his 1876 poem The Hunting of the Snark’;.
	www.boojumtree.com /ownersPage.html (245 words)

	Vegetative Terminology (Part 2)
		Crucifixion thorn (Castela emoryi), a rare tree in the quassia family (Simaroubaceae) native to the Colorado Desert of Imperial County, California and adjacent Arizona.
		In its native habitat, colonies of stinging ants (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) occupy the hollowed-out thorns and fiercely defend the tree against ravaging insects, browsing mammals and epiphytic vines.
		A primary leaf arising from the stem of cirio or boojum tree (Fouquieria (Idria) columnaris), a xerophytic shrub native to the Baja California peninsula.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ecoph30a.htm (1107 words)

	Ocotillo and the Boojum Tree
		This bizarre but picturesque tree has a thickened, central trunk that grows up to 16 meters tall with no major branches, and looks like an upside down, light gray-yellow carrot.
		Boojum, the most highly derived succulent of the family, has a pith that may be several centimeters in diameter and also forms patches of soft, water-storing cells within the wood and bark.
		The trunk surface of boojum has a rock-like texture that appears to deter rodents from eating the juicy inner tissues.
	www.botgard.ucla.edu /html/MEMBGNewsletter/Volume3number1/Ocotillo.html (1372 words)

	Boojum tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The boojum or (Spanish) cirio (Fouquieria columnaris, syn.
		Boojum tree at Baja California desert, Cataviña region.
		The peculiar distribution pattern of the mainland boojums has led Mexican botanists to conclude that they were probably transplanted to the mainland by the indigenous Seri people, who lived in this area and still live on communal property south of this location.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boojum_tree (267 words)

	Tree Trends : A forest biology weblog by Tom Kimmerer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Boojum is a strange stem-succulent tree of the Baja California desert.
		The common name, given by its discoverer Godfrey Sikes, is a joking reference to the boojum of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
		Boojum is a bizarre plant, which barely meets the definition of a tree.
	www.kimmerer.org /treetrends/2005/03/13.html (191 words)

	Boojum \| About Boojum
		In 1997 Boojum was accredited by the Association for Experiential Education, an international professional association of over 2000 members in 20 countries.
		Boojum was one of the first twelve organizations in the world to achieve this distinction.
		The Institute has taken an image of the Boojum tree, a large cactus that grows in central Baja, California, as its symbol.
	www.boojum.org /about_boojum (478 words)

	Boojum plant, native to Baja California
		The Boojum has to be one of the weirdest looking plants on earth.
		The Boojum’s yellow white flowers form on the tips of the trunks between July and August.
		You may also encounter Boojums on Isla Angel Guardia and an area south of Puerto Libertad on the mainland in the Sonoran desert.
	www.bajainsider.com /baja-life/plants-animals-baja/insider_boojum.htm (589 words)

	Baja California, Mexico
		In contrast to the leaves of higher latitude deciduous trees, the leaves of the elephant tree turn yellow in the spring, then drop, baring branches during the blistering hot summer.
		The boojum tree is not a cacti, but a relative of the ocotillo.
		The elephant trees of Baja have pinnate leaves that typically turn yellow and are shed in drought conditions, but the plants can still photosynthesize through the stems of the trunk and major branches, which have a white, papery bark overlying the green photosynthetic tissues.
	www.photoseek.com /MexicoBaja.html (1637 words)

	Plant Walk Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Boojum forests exist in Baja California, and one area in Sonora, Mexico.
		Boojum grows so slowly that a plant 50 ft tall may be between 500 to 600 years old.
		On first seeing these trees in 1923, he was reminded of the storybook Boojum, a creature from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Charles Dodgson (who wrote under the pen-name Lewis Carroll).
	arboretum.arizona.edu /pwalk/phot09.htm (408 words)

	Welcome to the Tucson Citizen
		The historic boojum tree, native to the west coast of Baja California, was among the original plants that Shantz, the UA's 10th president and a renowned plant physiologist, made part of the newly expanded cactus garden in 1929, said Elizabeth Davison, director of the campus arboretum.
		Boojums can live several hundred years, but local grower Robert Perrill noticed last week that the soft wood at the base of the plant had been damaged by disease that "compromises the structural integrity...
		While the boojum, generally regarded as one of the most bizarre-looking plants in the world, will fail to reach its life expectancy, it may live on if a local nurseryman is able to successfully clone uppermost branches, a news release said.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /news/local/030905a4_uaboojum (376 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Boojum trees will grow very well in the Phoenix area despite the fact that they are cold tender.
		Leaves which turn yellow or brown and drop in late spring are a signal of the onset of dormancy, and cannot be encouraged to resprout with watering.
		Boojum trees are not particular about the type of soil in which they are planted as long as it has very good drainage.
	www.desertbotanical.org /index.aspx?pageID=595 (633 words)

	The Huntington Botanical Gardens - The Jumping Cholla Newsletter
		John C. Fremont, during his 1844 journey to California was not pleased with Mohave Desert tree yuccas: “…their stiff and ungraceful form makes them to the traveler the most repulsive tree in the vegetable kingdom.” I certainly take that as a declaration of war between Fremont and myself.
		The Boojum at the very bottom of the Baja Bed is an unusal form collected years ago its trunk densely covered with whorls of large leaves, much larger than those on the twiggy side branches (see photo).
		Boojum relatives, ocotillos (Fouquieria splendens) are found in California’s Joshua Tree National Park and in Anza Borrego Desert State Park as well as the Sonoran Desert.
	www.huntingtonbotanical.org /Desert/Cholla/june05/June05.htm (3236 words)

	Panorama (Spring 2003) - Cal Poly Pomona
		It developed from his connection with a century-old boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris, a non-cactus species related to the ocotillo found almost exclusively in the Cataviña Desert of central Baja California) that was moved from the Missouri Botanical Garden in downtown St. Louis to the Claremont facility.
		A regular garden visitor (he began walking there in 1975 for health reasons), he and his wife, Rabyn Judith, were on an evening tour in the summer of 1995, not long after the boojum tree first arrived.
		His wife, an intuitive, looked at the tree and insisted he start talking to it during his walks.
	www.csupomona.edu /~panorama/spring_03/achievers.html (665 words)

	University of Arizona Plant Walk Chart
		This is a much-admired cone-bearing tree found in the transitional area between the desert and high country; sometimes used for wind breaks.
		These trees are representative of a pine that is abundant from the Mediterranean area to the almost desert regions of North Africa.
		This evergreen tree with beautiful feather-like leaves is found in wash areas in the Southern end of the Sonoran desert.
	cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu /arboretum/plantwalk/chart.cfm (2549 words)

	Steve Eckert - CNIT132 Homework #3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Boojum tree grows to about 50 feet tall with a gently tapering trunk similar to a tall candle.
		Many of the trees have branches that have grown into whimsical shapes sometimes growing in circles.
		The Boojum tree grows only in an area about 100 miles long and 50 miles wide in the middle of the northern Baja peninsula surrounding the village of Catavina.
	hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us /~secker01/hw3.html (628 words)

	Baja Highway : The Catavina Desert
		Unless you happen to be a cactus, a lizard, a rattlesnake, or perhaps a boojum or an elephant tree, that's a most inhospitable hundred miles.
		The desert is also home to many endemic non-cactus species, including two almost identical looking but unrelated versions of the elephant tree, and the cirio, or boojum, Baja's signature contribution to the world of unusual flora.
		The boojum is abundant in this two hundred mile strip of desert, but the only other place it grows is a small patch at the same latitude across the Sea of Cortez, in the State of Sonora.
	www.baja.org /cabobob/03Ctvna/00Ctvna.htm (1890 words)

	Boojum Expeditions South America Travel Services
		In his epic poem, "The Hunting of the Snark", Lewis Carroll (of Alice in Wonderland fame) describes an eclectic band of travelers in search of the elusive Snark.
		The Boojum, a spectral, mystical Snark alter-ego figures prominently in the poem, but is only vaguely described or illustrated.
		Half a century later, an English botanist and aficionado of Carroll saw the strange Idria Columnaris tree, unique to Baja California and dubbed it a "Boojum".
	www.boojum.com /whowhat.html (450 words)

	Nourishment and Nurture of the Tree of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Once the Fruit of the Tree is in your blood, then shall your own flesh be linked, and your flesh be protected by the health of the Tree.
		The Protection of the Fruit of the Tree may be extended to other Children, most powerfully by sharing of the Fruit, but in the dire of times, by sharing of the Blood of he who has grown the Tree.
		Better protection is obtained by growing a Tree with multiple casters, but the protection for any one of them is less than the sole grower of a Tree.
	web.mit.edu /boojum/www/Cthulhu/tree.html (331 words)

	The crew of the B-24H Heavy Bomber "Boojum" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edward C. Bonham was from eastern Pennsylvania and was the Bombardier on the aircraft Boojum.
		The crewmen lived in tents pitched in between the trees in olive groves adjacent to the airstrip.
		The crew named the aircraft Boojum at Milton Halbetstadt's suggestion, from the Lewis Carrol story Hunting of the Snark, and painted a Dragon on the nose.
	hometown.aol.com /abnerd/boojum.html (9661 words)

	Fouquieria columnaris fact sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Flower: Tubular, creamy yellow (maybe reddish), 1 inch long, occur in a spike-like clusters (15 to 20 inches long) near the tops of the tree.
		Fruit: Light brown, 3 valved elongated (1 inch long) capsule, when split open they curve back resembling a 3 petaled dry flower.
		VERY UNUSUAL, considered by many to be the strangest looking tree on earth.
	www.cnr.vt.edu /dendro/dendrology/Syllabus2/fcolumnaris.htm (151 words)

	Travel to Mongolia with Boojum Expeditions: Mongolia's Travel Soruce Since 1984 Cultural Travel, Adventure, Horseback ...
		These are wilderness trips, camping out at night in tents, sleeping on the ground, cooking over propane or wood fires.
		The stream is the bathhouse and the toilets are often a discrete rock or tree.
		While we make every effort to keep you safe, warm, well fed and comfortable (we have over 20 years of experience outfitting remote adventures like these) there is no escaping the fact that at times you may find yourself cold, hungry and uncomfortable.
	www.boojum.com /faq.html (2717 words)

	need ocotillo help - Southwestern Gardening Forum - GardenWeb
		The most common one (and probably the most cold hardy) is Fouquieria splendens, which is the only one found in the U.S. The others are found in Mexico: Fouquieria macdougalii, F. diguettii, and a very strange one from Baja called F. columnaris (aka Idria columnaris).
		This one is known as the Boojum Tree.
		Boojums are fascinating looking; I don't have one and don't see them too much here in the upper Baja, but they're very common further south.
	forums.gardenweb.com /forums/load/swest/msg020653584170.html (1087 words)

	Album: Whomping Willow
		This tree is about a block away as the crow flies, longer to walk because the bike path is in the way.
		I can't quite believe that it exists in this particular nigh-urban area - this isn't an urban tree.
		This is a tree that belongs in the Shire, or the center of an enchanted clearing, or possibly trying to kill people at Hogwarts.
	web.mit.edu /boojum/Pix/Neighborhood/Tree (81 words)

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