Ocotillo
Common Names: Candlewood, Slimwood, Coachwhip, Vine Cactus, Flaming Sword, Jacob's Staff
Genus: Fonquieria
Species: splendens ...
Ocotillo shrubs from southern N America to Mexico, with caudex trunks (succulent, swollen stems), short-lived, large, bluish-green, waxy leaves on spiny, light-brown to gray branches and bright flowers in scarlet shades.
Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
Candlewood
Coach Whip
Vine Cactus
Fouquieria splendens is native to Colorado and Sonoran deserts east to Texas and south into Mexico.
African Ocotillo, Alluaudia, Arbre Pieuvre, Madagascan Ocotillo, Madagascar Ocotillo
Common Names in French:
Arbre Pieuvre ...
Coach Whip, Ocotillo, Jacob's Staff
Fantastic thorny denizens of the southwest American deserts, some dozen species include branching shrubs, trees with trunks, and the unique Ocotillo, a towering spray of branchless, wandlike stems.
"Maltese Cross" Kangaroo Apple Kangaroo Fern Karee or African Sumac Kris Plant Lady Fern Lady of the Night Lady's Slipper Laurel Sumac Lavender Starflower Lemongrass Lemon-Scented Gum Lipstick Plant Madagascar Dragon Tree Madagascar Ocotillo ...
When dry conditions return, ocotillo drops its leaves again. This cycle can replay several times a season. Great as a surprising specimen or forbidding hedge.
Care: Situate ocotillo in full sun and well-drained soil, preferravly in an arid region.
ocotillo Fouquieriaceae Fouquieria splendens Engelm. symbol: FOSP2
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Ocotillo
Fragaria nubicola
Potentilla nubicola, Fragaria vesca var. nubicola ...
Alluaudia procera (Madagascar Ocotillo, Madagascan Ocotillo, African Ocotillo, Family: Didiereaceae)
Alocasia Black Velvet (Dwarf Alocasia, Family: Araceae)
Alocasia cuculata (Lucky Leaf, Heart Shaped Elephant Ear, Family: Araceae) ...
Ocotillo
Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens
Oleaster (Elaeagnus)
Olive
Autumn Elaeagnus umbellata
Delavay Tea, Delavay Osmanthus Osmanthus delavayi
Holly Tea, Holly Osmanthus Osmanthus heterophyllus
Russian Elaeagnus angustifolia
Orange ...
Fouquieria splendens
Ocotillo
Fouquieriaceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
Fouquieria columnaris (Idria columnaris). BOOJUM TREE. Baja California
FOUQUIERIACEAE (Ocotillo family) ...
Alluaudias are very common in Madagascar where most of them become trees. Although most of the ones sold in nurseries here in the states look like the north-american ocotillo, they are not at all related to it, but instead are related to cacti.
Spiny forest at Ifaty, Madagascar, featuring various Adansonia (baobab) species, Alluaudia procera (Madagascar ocotillo) and other vegetation ...
 See also: Green, Evergreen, Pink, Holly, Orange
  
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