About Bursera filicifolia Brandegee
Bursera filicifolia is an uncommon tree species belonging to the Frankincense Family (Burseraceae) of the soapwood order Sapindales, native to North America. It has only ever been recorded growing in the states of Sonora and Baja California Sur in northwestern Mexico. This species grows as a shrub or small tree, with characteristic gray bark, which distinguishes it from its close relative B. laxiflora that has red bark. Its leaves are pinnately compound, bearing between 9 and 19 leaflets, with hairs covering both sides of the leaf tissue. The fruits it produces are hairless, egg-shaped drupes.
