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Bursera filicifolia is an uncommon shrub or small tree from the Burseraceae family, native only to Sonora and Baja California Sur in northwestern Mexico. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice comes mainly from general knowledge of desert Bursera species.
Bursera filicifolia is an uncommon North American species of trees in the Frankincense Family in the soapwood order. It has been found only in the States of Sonora and Baja California Sur in northwestern Mexico.
Bursera filicifolia is a shrub or small tree with gray bark unlike the red bark of the closely related B. laxiflora. Leaves are pinnately compound with 9-19 leaflets, hairy on both sides. Drupes are hairless and egg-shaped.
Bursera aromatica · Bursera bipinnata · Cherry Leaf Elephant Tree · Bursera excelsa · Fragrant bursera · Bursera glabrifolia · Bursera grandifolia · Palo santo · Red Elephant Tree · Bursera hollickii · Bursera lancifolia · Bursera laxiflora
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bursera filicifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
