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| image_caption = Fouquieria splendens (Ocotillo)
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Fouquieriaceae (from the genus Fouquieria, named in honor of Pierre E. Fouquier, professor of medicine at Paris). Candlewood Family. Similar to the Tamaricaceae and formerly united with that family, but differing in the gamopetalous corolla, the ligule-bearing, hairy stamens, partially united styles, median ovules instead of basal, and leaves without crystal glands or epidermal glands.
 
Fouquieriaceae (from the genus Fouquieria, named in honor of Pierre E. Fouquier, professor of medicine at Paris). Candlewood Family. Similar to the Tamaricaceae and formerly united with that family, but differing in the gamopetalous corolla, the ligule-bearing, hairy stamens, partially united styles, median ovules instead of basal, and leaves without crystal glands or epidermal glands.
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The single genus and about 4 species are natives of Mexico and the southwestern United States.
 
The single genus and about 4 species are natives of Mexico and the southwestern United States.
  
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F. splendens is the ocotilla, coach-whip cactus, vine cactus, or Jacob's staff of the Southwest, a spiny cactus-like shrub used by the Mexicans to make impenetrable hedges. A useful wax is obtained from the cortex of this species. The cortex is also used medicinally. This species is in cultivation in the larger rockeries of California.
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F. splendens is the ocotilla, coach-whip cactus, vine cactus, or Jacob's staff of the Southwest, a spiny cactus-like shrub used by the Mexicans to make impenetrable hedges. A useful wax is obtained from the cortex of this species. The cortex is also used medicinally. This species is in cultivation in the larger rockeries of California.{{SCH}}
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| name = ''Fouquieria''
 
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| image_caption = ''Fouquieria splendens'' (Ocotillo)
 
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
 
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
 
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| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
 
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| ordo = [[Ericales]]
 
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| familia = '''Fouquieriaceae'''
 
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| familia_authority = [[A. P. de Candolle|DC.]]
 
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| genus = '''''Fouquieria'''''
 
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| genus_authority = [[Carl Sigismund Kunth|Kunth]]
 
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'''''Fouquieria''''' is a [[genus]] of 11 [[species]] of [[desert]] [[plant]]s, the sole genus in the [[Family (biology) |family]] '''Fouquieriaceae'''.  The genus includes the [[Ocotillo]] (''F. splendens'') and the [[Boojum tree]] or Cirio (''F. columnaris''). They have [[succulent]] stems with thinner spikes projecting from them, with [[leaf|leaves]] on the spikes. They are unrelated to [[cactus|cacti]] and do not look much like them; their stems are proportionately thinner than cactus stems and their leaves are larger.
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==Genera==
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These plants are native to northern [[Mexico]] and the bordering [[United States|US]] states of [[Arizona]], southern [[California]], [[New Mexico]], and parts of southwestern [[Texas]], favoring low, arid hillsides.
 
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The [[Seri]] people identify three species of ''Fouquieria'' in their area of Mexico:  ''jomjéeziz'' or ''xomjéeziz'' (''F. splendens''), ''jomjéeziz caacöl'' (''F. diguetii'', Baja California tree ocotillo), and ''cototaj'' (''F. columnaris'', boojum).
 
  
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The genus is named after French physician [[Pierre Fouquier]] (1776-1850).
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===Species===
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== Species of ''Fouquieria'' ==
 
 
*''[[Fouquieria burragei]]'' Rose
 
*''[[Fouquieria burragei]]'' Rose
 
*''[[Fouquieria columnaris]]'' (Kellog) Kellog ex Curran
 
*''[[Fouquieria columnaris]]'' (Kellog) Kellog ex Curran
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*''[[Fouquieria splendens]]'' Engelm.
 
*''[[Fouquieria splendens]]'' Engelm.
  
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They do not have a particularly close resemblance to any other sort of plants; genetic evidence has shown that they belong in the [[Ericales]]. Prior to this, they had been variously placed in the [[Violales]] or their own order Fouquieriales.
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They do not have a particularly close resemblance to any other sort of plants; genetic evidence has shown that they belong in the [[Ericales]]. Prior to this, they had been variously placed in the [[Violales]] or their own order Fouquieriales.{{wp}}
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===Ecology===
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''Fouquieria diguetii'' is host to the [[Peacock mite]] ''Tuckerella eloisae''.
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==References==
 
==References==
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*{{cite book |last=Felger |first=Richard |coauthors=Mary B. Moser. |title=People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians |location=Tucson |year=1985 |publisher=University of Arizona Press}}
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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*{{cite book |last=Moser |first=Mary B. |coauthors=Stephen A. Marlett |title=Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés |url=http://lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/DiccionarioSeri2005.pdf |year=2005 |publisher=Universidad de Sonora and Plaza y Valdés Editores |location=Hermosillo, Sonora |language=Spanish and English}}
 
  
 
==External links==
 
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*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4742 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Fouquieria'']
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*[http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/fouquier.htm  Fouquieriaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.]
 
  
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[[Category:Ericales]]
 
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Revision as of 22:17, 13 May 2009


Fouquieria splendens (Ocotillo)


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

Fouquieriaceae >



Read about Fouquieria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Fouquieriaceae (from the genus Fouquieria, named in honor of Pierre E. Fouquier, professor of medicine at Paris). Candlewood Family. Similar to the Tamaricaceae and formerly united with that family, but differing in the gamopetalous corolla, the ligule-bearing, hairy stamens, partially united styles, median ovules instead of basal, and leaves without crystal glands or epidermal glands.

The single genus and about 4 species are natives of Mexico and the southwestern United States.

F. splendens is the ocotilla, coach-whip cactus, vine cactus, or Jacob's staff of the Southwest, a spiny cactus-like shrub used by the Mexicans to make impenetrable hedges. A useful wax is obtained from the cortex of this species. The cortex is also used medicinally. This species is in cultivation in the larger rockeries of California.CH


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Genera

Species

They do not have a particularly close resemblance to any other sort of plants; genetic evidence has shown that they belong in the Ericales. Prior to this, they had been variously placed in the Violales or their own order Fouquieriales.wp

Gallery

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References

External links

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