THE LONELIEST TREE (SAHARA CYPRESS)

Written By Alex Crowson
 

One of the world’s loneliest and most critically endangered trees, the Sahara cypress (Cupressus dupreziana) stands nearly alone in the dead center of the mindblowingly vast Sahara desert in northern Africa. With only a handful of these trees left, we ask the question… what in the world is going on with these curious reproducers.

Sahara cypress
(Cupressus dupreziana)

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by David Goodfellow

Additional Reading:

Tarout (The Sahara Cypress, Cupressus dupreziana)
A Cypress in the Sahara
Fact sheet of the Tarout
Surrogate mother for endangered Cupressus
Cypress Surrogate Mother Produces Haploid Progeny From Alien Pollen
Alternation of Generation Review

 
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