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welwitschia

wel·witsc·hia

UK/wɛlˈwɪt͡ʃɪə/ uncommon

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curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old

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From the genus name Welwitschia, after Austrian explorer and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch.

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