A Plant's Story: Welwitschia mirabilis 

What magnificent specimens. I love that you have potted them in those tall pipes to allow the root to travel down. It shows off the leaves so well too.

What an excellent description of this highly unusual plant. Clear and concise - as an academic I applaud you and as a person trying to find out about this plant I thank you.

4 years later and this is still the best video on them. Awsome plants

Welvitchia Merabilis our national plant🇳🇦

Ever since I've heard about it on my plant physiology course I can't stop thinking about it. Very intrigued to make her the queen of my collection

Wow love it!

Great specimen. I experimented with growing these way back in 1989 -90. With seed from two sources, one lot from plants in the Huntington Botanical Gardens (The curator at the time sent me some free seeds) and the second lot from the curator at the Windhoek Botanic Garden in Namibia, sourced directly from the desert plants. She sent me quite a few seeds fresh from the Namibian 'field'. (again, free, so really kind of her to send them over to me here in the UK) At the time these were hard to get, of course, and there was so much concern around the difficulty growing this plant that perhaps I ended up killing many of them as a result of being overprotective. (You know, delicate tap root, fungal problems with young seedling etc.) Nowadays I'm seeing them being grown in composts I would not have imagined using back then (I spent ages sieving out granite chippings and pumice to try and make free draining mediums etc ). With all those efforts, I managed to get one to around 8 - 9 years old before slipping up and killing it as a result of not protecting it soon enough when colder weather hit and the greenhouse temps dropped too low. Sad day that was and shortly thereafter I moved home and to a place where I could no longer have a greenhouse. So I could no longer experiment with growing this wonderfully odd plant. Growing it as a 'houseplant', without even a conservatory, is a challenge too far, much as I would have loved to try (ok, I did try, briefly, with the few seeds I had left, in my new home, without a garden or greenhouse, but Welwitschias find it really tough going on a windowsill:) )

Just now learned about this plant on a plant planet video. This is the first informant video, and wow that incredible! I couldnt imagine the heart drop to learn someone cut the entire leaf off. Most of those people will be long dead before it grew back to the size before someone cut it. 😲 Thank You For Your Knowledge Ma'am 🤗

Thank you very much for this very informative video. Can you please give us some hints and tips how to propagate the plant from seeds with a few more details? Germination time? Humidity? The best temperature? Thank you very much in advance.

Great video! It's an amazing specimen of a truly ancient and one of a kind lineage of plants, right up there with cycads.

Yeah teach me Marlene!

not Namibia desert but Namibe desrt , because this plant , just existe in my country Angóla

If you’ve never been called a milf before, you get the esteemed title today 😊

Omg nooooo @ the person who cut the plant

no way! im in davis i wish i could see it

"some university in California which will go unnamed--UC Berklee" you are iconic lmao

What is the reason not to prune the brown parts off the leaves tho? Does it do something for the plant or just a way to see how old it is for someone who doesn't know?

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Just seen the ones in Africa. Check out the latest from Crime pays but botany doesn't. 👍

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Where can i buy one of these plants

If the roots got deep, what kind of pot do you have it in?

Are these hard plants to grow?

Which will go unnamed ... LOL😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

i live in namibia

where can i buy that plant or seed?

Leaves, not leafs