The welwitschia might be the strangest-looking plant on the whole planet! It lives in the Namib Desert in Africa, and here is the wild part: it only ever grows two leaves in its entire life. A big welwitschia can look like a giant green octopus sitting in the sand!
Those two leaves just keep growing longer and longer, and over hundreds of years, the hot desert wind and sand shred them into messy, curly ribbons. The welwitschia collects tiny water droplets from the fog that rolls in from the ocean every morning. Its leaves are covered in special pores that soak up the fog like a sponge.
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