The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Fouquieria burragei
Pichilingue (gulf ocotillo) is a spiny, fan-shaped desert shrub to small tree from the Gulf coast of Baja California Sur, the only ocotillo endemic to that peninsula. It is a drought-tolerant plant that needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Fouquieria burragei, known commonly as the gulf ocotillo or pichilingue, is a species of perennial plant in the genus Fouquieria (referred to as ocotillos), native to the gulf coast of Baja California Sur. It is a shrub to small tree distinguished by its white to rose-red flowers, which are unique among the ocotillo species on the peninsula. It is the only ocotillo endemic to the peninsula, and is threatened by invasive species (particularly feral goats), tourism, coastal development and other human activities.
This species is distributed from Bahía Concepción south to the vicinity of La Paz and on Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California Sur. The populations of this plant are widely scattered, and gene flow between isolated populations is likely non-existent. It is found on rocky slopes with shallow sandy to volcanic clay soils, up to 200 meters in elevation.
Boojum tree · Adam's tree · Fouquieria fasciculata · Fouquieria formosa · Fouquieria shrevei · Ocotillo · Ocotillo
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fouquieria burragei 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.
