Its fuchsia flowers inspired the common name desert rose, though it’s no more a rose than I am a porpoise. “This is a famous example of a strategy that Socotra plants have evolved to withstand ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...