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“Some specimens are selling for hundreds of thousands to millions of pounds each. That’s why the most valuable cycad—the E. woodii—in South Africa’s Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden is secured inside a cage.”
– British bio artist and C-LAB co-director Laura Cinti, on the rarest—and loneliest—plant on Earth. In her project The Living Dead: On the Trail of a Female (2022–), Cinti searches the South African Ngoye Forest for a mate for the remaining male Encephalartos woodii, all clones from a single specimen found in 1895.
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