Welwitschia mirabilis
இரண்டு இலை உள்ள மரம்വെല്വിറ്റ്ഷിയ മിരാബിലിസ്
Welwitschia mirabilis Hook.f.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 99 cm
Welwitschiaceae
Formerly Welwitschia namibiana
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Angola to NW. & WC. NamibiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Welwitschie
- Slovenian
- velbičevka
- Afrikaans
- Tweeblad-kan nie dood
- Bulgarian
- Велвичия
- Catalan
- Welwítsquia
- Czech
- welwitschie podivná
- Finnish
- Ikilehti
- Hebrew
- ולויטשיה
- Upper Sorbian
- Prawa welwićija
- Hungarian
- Velvícsia
- Japanese
- ウェルウィッチア
- Georgian
- ველვიჩია
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3D model: Welwitschia mirabilis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.