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Word: welwitschia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant is the amazing welwitschia (Welwitschia mirabilis). The only member of its genus, it lives to be 100, grows a radish-like root four feet in diameter, puts out two trailing ten-foot leaves. It is found only in two remote little districts in Britain's Southwest Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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