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Dr seuss characters3/15/2023 If cut or bitten it heals itself with a flow of sap. The distinctive curling tissue paper bark reveals a yellowish fresh Is known for it resinous sap and there are nine different elephant tree species. But on one trip, I drove throughĪfter a rain and the mountains were lush with a forest of green elephant trees. Times and seeing only what looked like barren hills in the distance. I remember being startled having driven a stretch of road to Guerrero Negro a number of Reddish peeling bark and thick trunk that looks like an elephant's leg. The shy elephant tree stays hidden unless it has rained. White bark there are many pencil like branches and within 72 hours of a substantial rain, the boojumįluffs out in deep green leaves covering the whole trunk, making it look fat and furry. Is also one of the tallest plants, gaining a few inches per year to attain its 60 plus feet. The boojum is the elder of Baja California with a recorded 360 years. The twisting arms will have clusters of yellowīlossom July into September. Leaning into its neighbors with friendly body language. However, it is frequently bent as if bowing, or The Spaniards thought it looked like a tapered candle. The plant is most creature like, each has a character all of its own. The boojum also fits in this category with it white smooth skin that appears naked unless Have gigantic fleshy trunks and stems like the elephant tree and the elephant cactus, also known as The Central Gulf Coast region runs from Bahía de Los Angeles to the Bahía La Paz. Since that first trip with her and to this very day, I amĪmazed by this extraordinary world of Baja California. ![]() Me to this country over twenty years ago. The desert in this area with the shy elephant tree and the ten-ton cardón cactus. With odd poses and a small pointy head sometimes sporting a yellow flowered hat. Their appearance was much like the Sneetches found in the fable, heavy in the bottom, very tall, arms Gaining the summit of one hill and sliding down The Cirios a protected wild land of fanciful plant life. Gear to take the series of mountains heading towards Cataviña and into the magical Valley of Leaving the fertile valley, I down-shifted Past El Rosario! This is where the real magic of Baja begins!” To see something that you have never seen, no one has seen these creatures unless they have driven ![]() “You are not going to believe this!” my sister hollered over the roar of the VW engine.
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