Delosperma leendertziae rock escalator

Modernity in the making? This Delosperma leendertziae plant seems to be using the slit in the rock like an escalator to go places. Or doing so in cahoots with a foreigner? Microhistories abound with nature's uniqueness.

Innovative behaviour in plant species and animals are very likely if circumstances change or brand-new challenges face them. Apart from the offspring-based changes associated with evolution, living specimens develop in ways not seen before, whenever confronted with new physical world opportunities, triggers and challenges (Smith, et al, 1998; Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; iNaturalist).