Namib Desert’s northwest (#14 in series: very hairy)

 

 

Some Namib-dwellers – plants and animals – look extremely tough, “hard-shelled”, “brutal”.

Others, however, have a surprisingly “delicate” appearance.

I have no idea of even the common name of the pictured example.

I am, however, quite sure that its prodigiously “hairy” surfaces enable it to thrive in a place where rain hardly ever falls, but where fogs are commonplace.

A lot of moisture could be “harvested” from the water that would condense on those “hairs”.. and then be gravity-channelled to the right places by the plant’s convoluted, carefully-positioned surfaces.