<p>The !Nara <i>Acanthosicyos horridos</i> is a rather well known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbitaceae" class="extiw" title="en:Cucurbitaceae">Cucurbitaceae</a> plant in the Namib.
</p><p>The most significant part of the plant is this large fruit that virtually everything in the desert eats.
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This is just part of the dried outside of an old !Nara Fruit.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/12234865@N04">Vernon Swanepoel</a>
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