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Fouquieria (Pierre Ed. Fouquier, professor of medicine at Paris in the first part of the nineteenth century). Fouquieriaceae. Candlewood. Four species from the deserts of Mexico and one extending into the United States and sometimes cultivated in the larger rockeries of California. These plants are interesting as being an example of an order far removed from the Cactaceae in flowers and fruit but reduced to something of their habit by the desert conditions.
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Small trees or shrubs, becoming leafless in dry weather, with showy tubular fls. in terminal racemes or panicles: lvs. fleshy, obovate, fascicled in the axils of thorns: sepals 5; corolla with a spreading 5-lobed limb; stamens 10-?; styles 3, separate or united: seeds with a membranous wing or fringed with long hairs. Fouquieria is by some authors retained in the Tamaricaceae.
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