I visited the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden in South Africa recently. What a privilege to see the world’s oldest cultivated Welwitschia mirabilis. This female specimen was planted in 1926 by the garden’s first curator, Hans Herre, making it 100 years old this year.
Third photo is female cones, last photo is a cone of second specimen which is male.
by LivingDesertPlants
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Cool plant!
You’ve got to love the Afrikaans name for these things “tweeblaarkannidood”, literal translation”two leaves, cannot die”.