Date: 18/03/2024 12:36:02
From: dv
ID: 2136395
Subject: re: today I learned
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVLACJsoGjkWelwitschia of the Namib desert is truly a bizarre plant, a living fossil
Interesting.
I don’t much like the term “living fossil” but it is certainly noteworthy to have a family with only one surviving species such that its most recent common ancestor with any other plant lived more than 100 million years ago.
It is the tuatara of plants.