Fouquieria


Fouquieria splendens, Ocotillo

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Fouquieria macdougalii, "Mexican Ocotillo"

This species is named after D.T. MacDougal, director of the Desert Laboratory, Tucson Arizona (U.S.)


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Fouquieria diguetii, "Palo Adan," "Adam's Tree"

Pronounced di gay´ eye, after Leon Diguet, a French explorer who was investigating pearl fisheries on Santa Catalina Island in the Gulf of California


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Fouquieria fasciculata
fasciculata=fascicle -- a cluster


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Fouquieria leoniliae, Species named for Dra. Leonila Vazquez,
entomologist at the Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad Nacionale de Mexico.


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