The world's loneliest cycad
The good looking WOOD’S CYCAD will never find a mate.
The loneliest plant in the world lives in the botanical gardens of Durban.
Originally found in a Zululand forest in 1895, it is the only cycad of its kind, and a male. Without a female it will never reproduce sexually, though offshoots have been used to make clones of it.
The sense of its isolation is magnified by the security cameras trained on the plant to thwart thieves in fear of being sold on the black market.
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