I've got no roots on the ground
It seems nearly impossible, that an apparently harmless small sapling is growing in a dry desert ecosystem. But that the roots are perforating through an intrusive granite body which lasts for more than 125 million years tends to be a miracle. This picture shot at the area of the Spitzkoppe in Namibia shows the impressive power of life in such a deadly habitat and the power of a small sapling growing through a hard rock with even no roots on the ground.
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- Africa (332)
- Southern Africa (45)
- Namibia (21)
- Exact location (15.1949 E, -21.8238 S)
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2662 × 3288 px;
image/tiff; 50.1 MB
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Nikon D3100
Software: Adobe Lightroom v6.8
Taken on 27
March
2016
Submitted on 14 February 2019
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Credit
Florian Heine (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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