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South Africa’s endemic cycads — which look like a cross between a palm and a pineapple tree — rank among the most endangered plants in the world.

Of thynges ioyned to: as whẽ Maro sayeth to Poliphemus: He had the bodye of a pineapple tree for a staffe in hys hande.

The pineapple tree there grows so very tall that it is impossible from the ground to reach the fruit.