Welwitschia
Of gymnosperm and genus Welwitschia. May also be referred to as Welwitschia mirabilis.
Curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old.
This concept's ID is @1~58339