A welwitschia plant does not get to where it is, of course, by dropping out of the sky fully grown. It just looks that way. And its conical trunk, wrinkled and brown, is not perched on the soil, but ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Welwitschia (well-WIT-shia) may well be the oddest tree in the world ...

Welwitschia is considered one of the oldest living plants in the world, with some specimens estimated to be over a thousand years old. Found in one of the driest regions on Earth, it survives where ...

Deep in the Namib Desert, Africa's wildest wilderness, among the many interesting discoveries of the desert lives a remarkable survivor. Known in Afrikaans as "tweeblaarkanniedood" meaning, "two ...

Conveying the essence of a plant or fungus or portraying its importance or role in its environment or its means of survival. Jen had trekked all day across the Namib Desert looking for the perfect ...