WINDHOEK An old man gently touches the trunk of the huge quiver tree with a worried look on his wrinkled face, as he points at several dead branches lying on Namibia's rugged terrain. “When I was a ...

Florian Breuer is a mathematician who teaches in South Africa. He’s also a photographer, and created this spectacular panorama of the Quiver Tree Forest near Keetmanshoop, Namibia. [Click to embiggen ...

This shot of quiver trees in drought-stricken hills in Namibia won the Individuals and Populations (Plants and Fungi) category. “Although this landscape seems dominated by singular quiver trees, the ...

Our vast planet never ceases to amaze us, and this time it is the truly bizarre trees that are here to show us just that. The world of trees is packed with some extraordinary specimens that are not ...