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Iris Cohen schreef
How about Trees of Southern Africa by Palgrave? *** Touché! Point to you. Not that you would recognise a tree from reading their description of Welwitschia mirabilis. Maybe they just wanted an excuse to include this oddity. ***** And another book of the same name by Palmer & Pitman. The reason you don't often see it descibed in serious botanical books is that once the botanist starts writing about it, he can't stop laughing. *** Actually Welwitschia is in lots of botany books, but never* described as a tree. Reading a description of Welwitschia by a German botanist I don't sense any laughter (with the author), but only a yawn (rising within myself). PvR * Excepting the mentioned books |
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