Gallery
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The largest known Welwitschia, nicknamed "The Big Welwitschia", stands 1.4 m tall and is over 4 m in diameter
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Female plant
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Female Welwitschia beginning to shed seeds
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Detail photograph of ripe female cones after seed dispersal
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Detail photograph of male plant and cones
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Proportions
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Welwitschia in the petrified forest of Khorixas (Namibia)
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Welwitschia bug (Odontopus sexpunctatus)
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