The Tule Mountains is a mountain range in
Yuma County, Arizona
Yuma County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 203,881. The county seat is Yuma.
Yuma County includes the Yuma, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county bo ...
. There is a diverse flora and fauna population within the Tule Mountains; one of the notable trees found in this mountain range is the elephant tree (''
Bursera microphylla
''Bursera microphylla'', known by the common name elephant tree in English or 'torote' in Spanish, is a tree in genus '' Bursera''. It grows into a distinctive sculptural form, with a thickened, water-storing or caudiciform trunk. It is found in ...
'').
[C. Michael Hogan. 2009]
See also
*
Gila Mountains
References
* Will Croft Barnes and Byrd H. Granger. 1960. ''Arizona place names'', p. 511
* C. Michael Hogan. 2009
''Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
Notes
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Mountain ranges of Arizona
Mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona