🌱🏜️ Most plants die in a few years, but Welwitschia mirabilis can live for two millennia in the world's harshest #desert.
It only ever grows two leaves, which slowly shred into a "nest of noodles" over centuries while it survives by literally breathing in the morning fog.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/flowers/welwitschia-mirabilis?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=news_links&utm_content=welwitschia-mirabilis
#botany #nature #namibdesert #science #biology #evolution #plants
It’s longer than a blue whale, is thousands of years old and drinks fog – meet this weird ‘living fossil’ | Discover Wildlife
This living fossil (having unchanged for more than 200 million years) can survive some of the harshest conditions on Earth
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