An ocotillo plant (Fouquieria splendens), Borrego Palm Canyon Trail, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA

An ocotillo plant along Borrego Palm Canyon Trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA. The ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens; also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, or candlewood) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), and northern Mexico (as far south as Hidalgo and Guerrero). While semi-succulent and a desert plant, Ocotillo is more closely related to the tea plant and blueberries than to cacti species. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park takes its name from the 1700s Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and borrego, a Spanish word for sheep. With acreage including one-fifth of San Diego County, it is the largest state park in California and the third largest state park nationally. The Cahuilla Indians formerly lived in a village in the sheltered Palm Canyon.

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An ocotillo plant along Borrego Palm Canyon Trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA. The ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens; also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, or candlewood) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), and northern Mexico (as far south as Hidalgo and Guerrero). While semi-succulent and a desert plant, Ocotillo is more closely related to the tea plant and blueberries than to cacti species. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park takes its name from the 1700s Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and borrego, a Spanish word for sheep. With acreage including one-fifth of San Diego County, it is the largest state park in California and the third largest state park nationally. The Cahuilla Indians formerly lived in a village in the sheltered Palm Canyon.