I spoke to a biologist at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Capetown to ask him where he thought this remarkable plant came from, and his thought was that if you travel around Namibia, you see that there are a number of petrified forests, and the logs are all -- the logs are all giant coniferous trees, and yet there's no sign of where they might have come from.
ケープタウンの カーステンボッシュ植物園で ウェルウィッチアの由来を 生物学者に尋ねると 答えはこうでした ナミビアに行けば 化石化した森がいくつもあり そこにある丸太はすべて 巨大な針葉樹のものだが どこから来たのかを示すものは何もない