Plants are amazing living organisms. They are able to create their own food through photosynthesis, and provide food for millions of other living organisms. Plants may seem quite usual to some, but here are a few that I think are interesting and unusual. Here are the top 8 of the most Unusual plants & flowers, enjoy! Take a look……:):)
1. Rafflesia arnoldii:
It is a member of the genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on earth, and a strong odor of decaying flesh – the latter point earning it the nickname of “corpse flower”. It is an endemic plant that occurs only in the rainforest of Bengkulu and Sumatra Island Indonesia. Although there are some plants with larger flowering organs like the Titan Arum and Talipot palm, those are technically clusters of many flowers. Rafflesia arnoldii is one of the three national flowers in Indonesia, the other two being the white jasmine and moon orchid.
2. Hydnora africana:
It is an achlorophyllous plantnative to southern Africathat is parasitic on the roots of members of the Euphorbiaceae family.The plant grows underground, except for a fleshy flower that emerges above ground and emits an odor of feces to attract its natural pollinators, dung beetles, and carrion beetles.The flowers act as traps for a brief period retaining the beetles that enter, then releasing them when the flower is fully opened.
3. Dracunculus vulgaris
It is a species of aroid in the genus Dracunculus and is known variously as the Dragon Arum, the Black Arum, the Voodoo Lily, the Snake Lily, the Stink Lily, the Black Dragon, the Black Lily, Dragonwort, and Ragons. In Greece, part of its native range, the plant is called Drakondia, the long spadex being viewed as a small dragon hiding in the spathe.
It is native to the Balkans, extending as far as Greece, Crete and the Aegean Islands, and also to the south-western parts of Anatolia.It has been introduced to the United States and is currently present in the states of Oregon, California, Camano Island, Washington and Tennessee as well as the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
4. Amorphophallus
It is a large genus of some 170 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family. A few species are edible as “famine foods” after careful preparation to remove irritating chemicals.
5. Wollemia Nobilis
It is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. Wollemia was only known through fossil records until the Australian species Wollemia nobilis was discovered in 1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges near Lithgow, 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney.
In both botanical and popular literature the tree has been almost universally dubbed the Wollemi Pine, although it is not a true pine, but rather is related to Agathis and Araucaria in the family Araucariaceae. The oldest fossil of the Wollemi tree has been dated to 200 million years ago.
6. Welwitschia Mirabilis
7. Drakaea Glyptodon
8. Wolffia Angusta
