Looking for a female partner for the world’s “loneliest” plant

Enlarge / Map of the drone search for Encephalartos Woodii in the Ngoye Forest in South Africa. “This is certainly the loneliest organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his book on the evolution of life. He was talking about it Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a plant from South Africa. E. woodii is … Read more