Boojum forest


The Boojum forest is an area in central Baja California, Mexico, near Cataviña known for endemic flora so bizarre and grotesque in appearance that the area was named after mathematician/logician Lewis Carroll's imaginary landscape poem The Hunting of the Snark.
The area is characterized by almost no rainfall, as opposed to the two coasts of the Baja Peninsula, and exotic plants such as the Boojum tree, which can grow up to 50 feet tall with an 18-inch diameter trunk. Large, rounded granitic boulders dot the landscape, as do cacti such as Ferocactus gracilis, huge fleshy "red blooded" elephant trees, huge endemic ocotillo with flaming-red-flowered tipped ends, and the world's largest cactus, the Mexican giant cardón.

Location

The forest is about south of Tijuana along Highway 1 in Baja California, Mexico.