This plant is called llareta, and it’s a member of the Apiaceae family, which makes it a cousin to parsley, carrots and fennel. But being a desert plant, high up in Chile’s extraordinarily dry Atacama, it grows very, very slowly; a little over a centimeter a year. It may look like a glob of goo, but it’s not at all gooey. It’s solid to the touch; so solid that a man can lie on top of it and not sink in, not even a little. (Source)