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|familia=Welwitschiaceae
|genus=Welwitschia
|species=mirabilis
|common_name=Tree tumbo
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|origin=Namibia, Angola
|lifespan=perennial
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Ancient plant that can live over 1,000 years. Only grows two leaves, which may split as it grows.
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Welwitschia mirabilis, Hook. f. Lvs. 6 ft. or more long, the split ends reclining on the ground, flat and long-narrow, attached at the base to the crown of the wrinkled brown and hard trunk: plant said to persist a century. G.C. III.47:56. J.H. III.46:38. G.W. 9, pp. 294-5.
Welwitschia mirabilis, Hook. f. Lvs. 6 ft. or more long, the split ends reclining on the ground, flat and long-narrow, attached at the base to the crown of the wrinkled brown and hard trunk: plant said to persist a century. G.C. III.47:56. J.H. III.46:38. G.W. 9, pp. 294-5.
In respect to the cultivation of Welwitschia, W. Watson, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, writes in 1916: "We have a plant here which was raised from a seed in 1880. It lives, but growth is very slow, so slow that a full-sized plant, such as we have in our Museum, might at this rate be reckoned a thousand years old. We grow it in a tropical house devoted to succulents, where it gets all the sunlight, the usual amount of water, except for about three months in winter, when it gets very little, and it is potted in sandy loam. There may be a set of conditions that would suit the plant better, though experiments with other plants raised here since did not reveal anything better.
In respect to the cultivation of Welwitschia, W. Watson, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, writes in 1916: "We have a plant here which was raised from a seed in 1880. It lives, but growth is very slow, so slow that a full-sized plant, such as we have in our Museum, might at this rate be reckoned a thousand years old. We grow it in a tropical house devoted to succulents, where it gets all the sunlight, the usual amount of water, except for about three months in winter, when it gets very little, and it is potted in sandy loam. There may be a set of conditions that would suit the plant better, though experiments with other plants raised here since did not reveal anything better.
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==References==
==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
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