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From quiver trees in the isolated deserts of Namibia to baobabs in the dry landscapes of Botswana, each portrait is a study against a night sky. Their solitary feeling reflects both their ...
He’s also a photographer, and created this spectacular panorama of the Quiver Tree Forest near Keetmanshoop ... the Milky Way is easily visible on a dark night from a dark site.
There’s a very long and delicious word that best describes a quiver tree forest: phantasmagorical. These giant succulent tree aloes look like the backdrop for a dark and stormy Tim Burton movie ...
The quiver tree, an iconic aloe plant noteworthy for its height and ability to live hundreds of years in the heat of the African desert, brought her to Namibia. Silhouetted against the night ...
The species name dichotoma describes the way in which each branch divides into two. Quiver trees are found from the Orange River up to the Brandberg. In the arid south-western parts of Namibia ...
There are two quiver tree forests in the Northern Cape: one is south of Loeriesfontein and the other west of Kenhardt. On the ridge lines they stand with arms wildly splayed, frozen in place ...
That’s exactly what a team of ecologists at Stellenbosch University did to try to understand and predict the response of the quiver tree to ongoing and future climate change. The researchers ...