Close up of a flower of a flowering Halfmens succulent plant. Halfmens or elephant's trunk plants (Pachypodium namaquanum) can reach a height of 3 met

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Close up of a flower of a flowering Halfmens succulent plant. Halfmens or elephant's trunk plants (Pachypodium namaquanum) can reach a height of 3 metres. Halfmens are found in the deserts of southern Africa, where local beliefs held that the plants were inhabited by ancestral spirits. Photographed in Hoanib riverbed, Namibia

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Location: Namibia
Photo credit: © Amos Gal / Alamy / Afripics
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