Posts tagged "lithops"

The discovery of these amazing plants belongs to William Burchell, an English botanist and naturalist who traveled in September 1811 in the desert in the South African region of Prisca. In a book published later, the scientist ...

Where a scorching and waterless desert burns out all living things on the surface, for millennia evolution has created plants adapted to the absence of moisture and searing heat. Long known as a species ...