Some shrubs it was found eating of off was the cholla, creosote bush, and ocotillo. Other common plants are the ocotillo, sotol, khella water or barrel cactus, and peyote. Other common plants include sotol, ocotillo and mesquite. It also serves as nurse plant for yellow paloverde, ocotillo, and some prickly pear species. Alluaudia procera, or Madagascar ocotillo, is a deciduous succulent plant species of the family Didiereaceae. The genus includes the ocotillo ("F. splendens") and the boojum tree or cirio ("F. columnaris"). There were samples of buckthorn, acorns, ocotillo, nightshade and wild tobacco. Ocotillo Wells is an unincorporated community in San Diego County, California. Ocotillo Wells County Airport offers two dirt runways. The better-known ocotillo (F. splendens) is in the California bed. The corner of Arizona Avenue/SR 87 and Ocotillo Boulevard was coined "Hamilton's Corner". For example, floods from Hurricane Kathleen devastated Ocotillo, California and killed several people. There are no schools in Ocotillo Wells. A segment remains today in Imperial County which connects Interstate 8 near Ocotillo, California. SR 98 begins at an interchange with I-8 southwest of the community of Ocotillo.