<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/74a229a9-fdda-4362-9754-4d3f3576807b/0752E83A-74D9-4848-928C-77D4B22E0503/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703" href="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scienceray.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><H2 class="articleSubtitle">The Namib Desert is home to some of the world’s rarest and most interesting flora and fauna. 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Both leaves that grow from opposite sides of the stem will continue to grow and never drops and instead gets brown by the sun and torn by the wind which will eventually look like lots of individual leaves. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><H3>Halfmens</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.scienceray.com/img/69ED02CD-B19F-475A-9F5A-CEA5E325B234" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703">more commonly known as elephant’s trunk, clubfoot, halfman or halfmens is a succulent plant that can sometimes look like a tree when fully grown. The name halfmens</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703">is an Afrikaan word meaning semi-human which came from the fact that from a distance the plants look like people walking up a slope.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><STRONG>Baobab Tree </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.scienceray.com/img/60E71901-D39B-40DF-A956-8C811D631CC1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><H3>Quiver Tree</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Botany/A-Tree-That-Cuts-Its-Own-Branches-and-Other-Amazingly-Bizarre-Namib-Desert-Plants.529703"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.scienceray.com/img/DA8A791E-1E5D-46DA-BDD3-219F9D0B35FD" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0752E83A-74D9-4848-928C-77D4B22E0503/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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