This 2,000-Year-Old Plant Has Only Ever Grown Two Leaves
I’m crouched in the gravel outside Swakopmund, camera hanging forgotten around my neck, trying to figure out why my guide is grinning at what looks like a pile of leather scraps someone ran over with a truck. That’s the honest first impression of welwitschia mirabilis, the oldest plant species still clinging to life in the … Read more