Goethe's Urpflanze FOUNDING and The Genus Conophytum: A

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Goethe's Urpflanze FOUNDING and The Genus Conophytum: AGerman romantic poet Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe coined the term urpflanze" (tr. original plant). He believed that every plant on Earth could trace its origins back to a single template specimen, an urpflanze, sort of like the botanical equivalent of an Adam & Eve. This ur plant was a self repeating sequence of metamorphosesfrom seed to cotyledon, from cotyledon to leaf, from leaf to sepal, from sepal to petal, stamen, pistil, fruit, and seed . And