This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Welwitschia (well-WIT-shia) may well be the oddest tree in the world ...

Judy Jernstedt admits that the plant she went almost halfway around the world to see looks “like a pile of trash.” That’s part of its charm. And to be fair about it, that’s not the only way that ...

A welwitschia plant does not get to where it is, of course, by dropping out of the sky fully grown. It just looks that way. And its conical trunk, wrinkled and brown, is not perched on the soil, but ...

Beneath the stony ground, a vast root system sucks up every last drop of water, keeping the Welwitschia alive. Above ground, the plant has just two large leaves but, over decades, perhaps even ...

In his 1947 book, "The World Grows Round My Door,'' Dr. David Fairchild, a renowned plant hunter, confessed that he envied Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch, the Austrian physician who discovered an amazing ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. Beneath the stony ground, a vast root system sucks up every last drop of water, keeping the Welwitschia ...