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Did You Know? Welwitschia Apr 30 2008

The Welwitschia mirabilis is a strange-looking plant found in the fog belt of Namibia and southern Angola.

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Tags: angola, atlantic, cone, desert, fog, germinate, leaf, namib, namibia, plant, reproduce, root, seed

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Cycad’s scent secret revealed Oct 5 2007

Cycads reproduce when pollen from male cones is transported to female cones. But an Australian species, Macrozamia lucida, has cone scales too close together to allow wind pollination. It relies instead on an insect called thrips eating the male pollen and carrying some of it inadvertently to female cones.

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Tags: australasia, australia, cone, cycad, lucida, plant, pollen, scale, thrip

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