Thursday 19 March 2009

The World’s Most Unusual Plants

These are the top 4 of the most Unusual plants & flowers




Rafflesia arnoldii: This parasitic plant develops the world's largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager's acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems or roots.



Hydnora africana, an unusual flesh-colored, parasitic flower that attacks the nearby roots of shrubby in arid deserts of South Africa. The putrid-smelling blossom attracts herds of carrion beetles.




Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.




Amorphophallus: means, literally, "shapeless penis." The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.


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