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David K
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Pics of Arched Boojums... send them in!
Sent in from Neal Johns, off the main road to San Borja...
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David K
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Andee and Sarah, near Santa Ana, southwest of San Borja.
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David K
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Although not arched, rumor has it this boojum fell over backwards following the kiss by David K!
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jrbaja
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Glad to hear
your love life is picking up some dude:
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BajaCactus
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Great photos David....!!!
By the way, I have a very tall Cardon Cactus friend if you are interested....
[Edited on 9-9-2004 by BajaCactus]
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synch
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Is a Boojum a cactus?
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jrbaja
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Cirio Cactus (Boojum)
Arched
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jrbaja
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Unarched
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Dr, Seussville
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by synch
Is a Boojum a cactus? |
Hi Synch, we have a few plant experts on Nomad to give you the technical answer (pappy jon, steve in oro valley, jack swords incl.)... But, I would
say yes.. It is a succulent, with thorns. As you can see, they are one of the strangest 'trees' in the world!!! I have a boojum link in my miscl.
links section at VivaBaja.com with more photos.
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jeans
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Ciriosly speaking....
| Quote: | Originally posted by synch
Is a Boojum a cactus? |
They are in the Ocotillo Family. Now the question is: Is an Ocotillo a cactus?
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Mexitron
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Technically speaking, cactii belong to the Cactaceae, and possibly the Euphorbiaceae families. Ocotillos and Boojums belong to their own family
called the Fouqueriaceae(and actually their own Order--Fouquieriales--making them a very disjunct and genetically isolated species), therefore not
being true cactus, but being classified as xeriphyitic ephemeral flora with the Boojum also classified as a caudiform(along with Elephant Trees)
owing to its succulent trunk. However botanists use the term "cactoid" in their descriptions of them as well....so they're cactoid but not
cactii
[Edited on 9-21-2004 by Mexitron]
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jrbaja
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Oh look at these beautiful Fouqueriaceae and Caudiform fields. Aren't they simply beautiful?
Don't think it's gonna fly !
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Bob H
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Question/Question
How do boojum propagate? You never see baby ones, anywhere. I tried to root a small twig from one once, but it didn't make it.
Come to think of it, i've never seen a baby pigeon either, so where are all of those baby birds?
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Freudian slip, or I need to clean my glasses. I read Bob H's question as How do bosooms propogate?  Sometimes we only see what we want to see.
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DD
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Bob H.,
The source I found said propagation by seed only, but might try air rooting with one.
Thought this was interesting :
Boojum (Fouquieria columnaris)
"This member of the Fouquieriaceae family was described by Kellogg in 1885. Can only be reproduced by seeds. The name comes from: P.E. Fouquier,
Parisian medical professor.
The English vernacular name comes from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, a fictitious account of exploration of far-away places. The book
contains a mythical creature called the ?boojum? which inhabited distant shores. When explorer Godfrey Sykes encountered the plants growing on the
desolate Sonoran coast in 1922, he was reminded of Carroll's story and dubbed them boojums."
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Mexitron
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Boojums propagate by seed.....never tried cuttings but its always possible with the right treatment.
Robert Humphrey in his book"The Boojum and its Home" claims that while Boojums set seed almost every year, the conditions for seedling survival
(sufficient rain over a long period)only happens every 30 to 40 years in Baja. So we don't see the little Boojums except for a 3 to 5 year period
every 30 to 40 years. Also, the little buggers blend in so well with the landscape that we don't see them, and last but not least baby Boojums are
usually growing under another plant for protection from the elements(the protecting angel is thereby known as a "nurse plant"). Many other
plants/cactus use this technique for an added survival aid.
1997-8 were good Boojum growing years--I've seen a few that look like they got their start then. Keep hunting BobH!!
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Ken Bondy
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My contribution...
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Debra
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I know a gal up here in my little town
that insists that the "cirros" AKA "boojums" are the state flower of AZ. she knows this because she went to school there.
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David K
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Boojum Cutting Report 1984-2003
My 'baby boojum' was a cutting that rooted! A local cactus expert said that was rare!
A) Found a boojum (in 1984) that at near 6 feet abover ground had the rest broken off (wind?), diameter was about 10" at the point of the break. Four
'new' limbs grew from that break-off wound and they were each about 12" tall.
B) Two of the four limbs were 'liberated' using a folding army shovel, like an axe.
C) Both were obviously soil free (6 ' anove the dirt), so no nemetodes, or other insects present. Very clean pieces of 'wood'.
D) Cuttings placed in 8" pots filled with potting pummice to insure good drainage. Rooting hormone was liberally applied to the cut wound, which had
lighly callused.
E) Irrigation was frequent, because the pummice retains almost no water (so as to not rot the unrooted cuttings).
F) After a year, one had rooted and survived... Every year, it became covered with leaves, then dropped them. Eventually it grew twigs with thorns and
leaves... just like a mature boojum does. They dropped off each season. Finally, it would produce flowers on soft twigs out of the top!
When I moved to Fresno for 2.5 years, it was with me and did fine outside (hot in summer and cold in winter, just like it's home in Baja). When we
moved out of Fresno, back to Vista... I forgot to pack it! A phone call to a neighbor was made to rescue it, and it aventually made it back to daddy!
I brought it to my first Viva Baja parties for show and tell... so some of you have seen it.
After 16 years, it had grown 4 inches!!!!
I had moved it into a larger pot and changed the soil as well as fertilizer. Then while it was happy on a shelf outside the kitchen window, it was
knocked down... and the 16 years of growth was snapped off!!! (No I didn't kill my kids).
Actually, I half hopped that (like it's mother) it would grow four baby sized limbs from the cut!
Last year, 19 years in my care, it shriveled up... I discoverd termites had entered the potting soil and ate the inside of my beloved boojum!
I have returned to visit the mother boojum, and the two sibblings still attached have grown about 18-24"... I think I recall, last year.
So, there is my baby boojum cutting story. Perhaps it is of horticultural interest?
[Edited on 9-22-2004 by David K]
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