{"id":399,"date":"2012-12-15T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/?p=399"},"modified":"2015-06-15T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T08:53:07","slug":"welwitschia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/welwitschia\/","title":{"rendered":"Welwitschia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welwitschia<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1341\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Welwitschia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"   wp-image-1341\" src=\"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Welwitschia1.jpg\" alt=\"Welwitschia\" width=\"437\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Welwitschia1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Welwitschia1-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welwitschia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Welwitschia mirabilis<\/em> is a perennial plant that grows up to 2 metres high. It has a taproot that is elongated, usually branching near the apex. <em>Welwitschia<\/em> is named after the Austrian botanist Friedrich Welwitsch who discovered it in 1859.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The woody, unbranched stem often splits into 2 lobes with an obconical shape &#8211; a conical shape but with a downwards-pointing apex. The apex growth of the stem stops at an early stage giving this peculiar and unique habit.<\/p>\n<p>It is a dioecious plant, so male and female cones are produced on separate plants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salmon-coloured male strobili are oblong, cone-like structures that are 1\u20134cm long, 5\u20137mm wide, and on a pedicel 2\u20135 mm long, with bracteoles1\u20133mm long.<\/li>\n<li>Female strobili are larger than male strobili &#8211; 3.5\u20138cm long, 2\u20133cm wide, with outer bracteoles 5mm long and inner bracteoles 8mm long. The age of the plants is difficult to assess, but they are very long-lived, living 1000 years or more. Some individuals may be more than 2000 years old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welwitschia Welwitschia mirabilis is a perennial plant that grows up to 2 metres high. It has a taproot that is elongated, usually branching near&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[189,188,187],"yst_prominent_words":[1707,1865,1871,1626,1604,1863,1706,1869,1868,1867,1866,1864,1870],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gymnosperms","category-plants","tag-friedrich-welwitsch","tag-welwitschia","tag-welwitschia-mirabilis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}