{"id":125701,"date":"2021-07-31T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-plant-that-cannot-die-reveals-its-genetic-secrets"},"modified":"2021-07-31T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:22:37","slug":"a-plant-that-cannot-die-reveals-its-genetic-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-plant-that-cannot-die-reveals-its-genetic-secrets","title":{"rendered":"A Plant That \u2018Cannot Die\u2019 Reveals Its Genetic Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-plant-that-cannot-die-reveals-its-genetic-secrets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The longest-lived leaves in the plant kingdom can be found only in the harsh, hyperarid desert that crosses the boundary between southern Angola and northern Namibia. A desert is not, of course, the most hospitable place for living things to grow, let alone leafy greens, but the Namib Desert \u2014 the world\u2019s oldest, with parts receiving less than 2 inches of precipitation a year \u2014 is where Welwitschia calls home. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times In Afrikaans, the plant is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest-lived leaves in the plant kingdom can be found only in the harsh, hyperarid desert that crosses the boundary between southern Angola and northern Namibia. A desert is not, of course, the most hospitable place for living things to grow, let alone leafy greens, but the Namib Desert \u2014 the world\u2019s oldest, with parts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}