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A shrub (Fouquieria splendens) of Mexico and the southwest United States, having long spiny stems and clusters of scarlet tubular flowers.

In the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and Lower California, a name applied to several species of Fouquieria, especially to F. splendens, a shrub which grows in arid, stony soil, and which has many spiny stems terminating in slender panicles of red flowers.

Any of various succulent plants unrelated to the cactus, in the genus Fouquieria, living in Central America or the southwest United States.

desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers