Your African plant seems to be a vegetable Ornithorhynchus, and indeed much more than that.

This unknown form is probably more closely related to Ornithorhynchus than to any other known form.

Ducksbill, or Ornithorhynchus, bottom of mammalian scale, 43.

But this combination was nuts for the Ornithorhynchus, if I may use a term like that without offense.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus, one of the animals that led Darwin to coin the term living fossils.