Articles for tag: botany, Giant Groundsels, Kilimanjaro, Mountain, Rare plants

Kilimanjaro's giant groundsel

What on Earth? Meet the Alien-Looking Plants That Only Grow on Kilimanjaro

Jan Otte

The highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, is a land of extremes where equatorial heat gives way to Arctic ice in barely a few thousand meters. But tucked among its dramatic slopes is one of the most unusual botanical beauties in nature: the giant groundsel (Dendrosenecio kilimanjari). Rising nowhere else on Earth, these towering plants ...