The Boojum Trees of Mexico’s Baja California
Strange Endemic Plants Cover 250 Miles of Mexico's Baja Peninsula
Boojum trees are one of many reasons for tourists to visit the eight-hundred mile long peninsula below California, site of Mexico’s two most western states. The Boojum (Fouquieria columnaris) was named in 1922 by a botanical explorer from Tucson, Godfrey Sykes, who adopted the name from a Lewis Carroll’s fictional character in The Hunting of...
