Thanks for thinking of me Mary - that bookstore sounds neat and a place I would have to stay away from :-)
Pistil said:
There is an essay about your Welwitschia! He calls it a tree, trunk growing 1 foot tall, four feet wide, taproot 15 feet deep.
That is in the wild.
Fascinating that it would happen to be in a book that you happened to find at a used bookstore that you happened to stop at. Being such an esoteric plant.
People have grown it in fairly small pots for years. And it actually likes somewhat moist media. I was in contact with a chap from Dernmark.
http://www.bihrmann.com/caudic...
He had them for years and gave to Botanical Garden when he had to go do research for a long time. Most of his plants - these included - died.
Hopefully I will have a couple plants. Fingers crossed. One I will keep in full sun in summer and grow it directly under my 800 Watts of Metal Halide lights in Winter.
