Boojum


What is a Boojum, you ask? It’s a local cryptid; also, in Lewis Carrol’s The Hunting of the Snark, an especially dangerous sort of Snark. 

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  1. I think there is also a boojum tree, named from the poem. Ah, here it is:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouquieria_columnaris

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  2. Ah, interesting! I hadn't heard of those. Plants are my wife's department.

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