Every day we are used to seeing flowers that have become banal for us, but despite it is insanely beautiful: daisies, tulips, roses, dandelions, violets, etc. Meanwhile, in different parts of our planet, they grow so unusual in nature, appearance and fitness of flowers, which simply do not cease to be surprised in the vegetable and animal world!

10. Rafflesia (Rafflesia Arnoldii)

Photo 10. Rafflezia

9. Amorphofallaus Titanic (Amorphophallus)

Photo 9. Amorphofalus Titanic

Amorphofalus Titanic is the largest tropical flower, and very bad smelling. His name "Amorphofallaus" in translation from Greek means "shapeless phallus". This flower has one of the largest inflorescences in the world - can reach a height of 2.5 m and in a width of 1.5 m. Flowering lasts only 2 days. Initially, Amorfophallus grown in Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra. Subsequently, this flower was exterminated by ingeneses. Currently, this flower is very rare, it can be seen mainly in the botanical gardens of the world.

8. Wolffia Angusta)

Photo 8. Wolfia

Wolfia on the contrary, the smallest flower plant on the ground. Their size ranges from 0.5 to 0.8 mm. These little flowers live on the surface of the waters. It was named after the German nerd and the Entomologist Yohan F. Wolf.

7. Psychotion Elevated (Psychotria Elata)

Pepping Psychotria (Lat. Psychotria PoEppigiana)

Photo 7. Psychotion elevated

This flower right is the status of the spicy flower itself in the world. He is called "hot sponges" for his bright red inflorescences. Psychotion - Tropical flower, loving moisture and warmth. Therefore, his homeland is the tropical forests of Central and South America.

6. Orchid Kalania (Caleana Major)

Photo 6. Orchid Kalania

This amazing orchid looks outwardly reminds flying opener. Therefore, it is called "flying duck". Nature endowed them with such an appearance in order to attract insects called sawers. The top of the flower resembles the female. Thus, flying to the flower they carry pollen to themselves and pollinate flower. Orchid Kalania is very small and reaches just 50 cm, and the flower itself is 2 cm. On the stem 2-4 flower. It grows in Eastern and South Australia, mainly under the eucalyptus trees.

5. Sexy Orchid (Drakaea Glyptodon)

Photo 5. Sexy orchid

Another orchid, which deserves the title of "unusual" is the "sexy" orchid. Her flower reminds the abdomen of a certain type of wasps. Moreover, it highlights the Pheromones as in the female wasp. Flowering begins in the marriage period. The males flow on such flowers and try to mate with him. Thus, they carry the pollen from the plants on them. Sexy orchids grow in Australia.

3. PassiFlora (Passíflora Alata)

Photo 5. Passiflora

Passiflora, or passionwood - the family of passion college. There are about 500 species. The flower in diameter reaches 10 cm. Grows mainly in Latin America.

2. Rosyanka (Drósera)

Photo 2. Rosyanka

Rosyanka is a carnivorous plant. Thanks to the distinguished mucus droplets, they catch insects that feed on. Grow out on the swamps, sandstones and in the mountains.

1. NEPENTHES Attenborough (Nepenthes Attenborough)

Photo 1. NEntentain attenboro

The first place is occupied by the Nepentus Flower attenboro. Unusual flower was discovered in 2000, on about. Palavan Three scientists Stewart MacPherson, Botany Elister Robinson and the Philippine scientist Folker Heinrich, who sent here to the expedition for this flower. For the first time they heard about him from missionaries who were on the island earlier. On Mount Victoria, scientists discovered huge "jugs" of these colors. It turned out to be predators flowers that "feed on" rodents. How could these colors be preserved to our time - unknown. Now there is a study of them in MacPherson's laboratory.

Velvichia (Welwítschia Mirábilis). Without a doubt, Velvichia can be called one of the most strange plants of our planet. The thing is that on the surface this plant is presented with only two leaves. At the same time, it lives from 400 to one and a half thousand years. Two leaflets of Velvichia grow on themselves and grow, until the whole lot becomes similar to it is incomprehensible to what. The length of each sheet is approximately 2-4 meters) sometimes up to eight meters.

Velvichia is growing in Namibia, and the main source of moisture is fog - and only where there are fogs, Velvichia is found. By the way, without rains, it can live up to five years, only at the expense of atmospheric moisture. It is said that the shoots (sporangies) of Velvichia are pretty tasty if they are baked in the fire.

In general, Velvichia is a very strange plant that does not look like any other.

2. Venus flytrap

This plant has long been the main character of different cartoons about insects. The fact is that this is an insectivorous plant that extracts food with special traps. It is only a fly or another insect to sit on an attractive smelling and brilliant trapping, as he slammed less than a second (!). Where else have such plants?

3. Rafflesia Arnold

This plant consists of a single part - a flower. Without a doubt, Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, which sometimes reaches 2 meters in diameter. But admire this flower will not be able - not only that it is not very beautiful, it also publishes nasty smell Rotting meat.

What for? Of course, to attract more flies and other lovers fell. The fly arrives, falls out in pollen, and flies the ravis, until it comes to another such flower. So the cross pollination occurs. Spread rafflese, oddly enough, elephants. Rafflesia fruits with large balls with seeds, and elephants passing by, pressing these balls, spreading rafflese on the legs. As a result, this flower spreads along the elephant trail.

4. DESMODIUM GYRANS: DANCE ALL!

DESMODIUM GYRANS BL is still described by Darwin. Modern botany call him either desmodium gyrans, or that is more correct -Codariocalyx Motorius. This plant surprises all the movement of its leaves - the plant is dancing, especially if a lot of sun.

5. Euphorbia Obesa: Baseball Plant Plant

This plant grows in South Africa and has become known due to its original form. Euphorbia Obesa is very similar to the ball (not necessarily baseball, of course). This plant is known for its rarity - the fact is that Euphorbia Obesa is an endemic, that is, it grows strictly in a certain region, without meeting anywhere else.

Now many private collectors are florists, as well as botanical gardens, began to cultivate this species, so that the threat of extinction is at least partially liquidated.

6. Amorphophallus Titanum: Flower-Corpse

Giant plant whose flowers are in second place in the magnitude of the world (after Rafflesia). The smell of this plant is simply disgusting - it is compared with the smell of rotten eggs, spoiled fish or meat. It is clear that it is not just so, but to attract insects, which attract the corpses, but in this case the insects serve as pollinators.

Surprisingly, the plant lives up to 40 years, and it blooms just a couple of times. So we can assume that you are lucky if you see an amorfofallaus giant blooming.

7. Baobab

Well, we all know about this tree, but still let's admire them again. In total, there are about eight species of baobabs, and they are found in Madagascar (yes, remember this cartoon? There were baobabs), Africa and Australia. Adult tree Capably stock up to 300 liters of water, they live up to 500 years, which is a lot for wood.

8. Dragonovo tree

This plant is found at the Socotra archipelago (the territory of Yemen). It looks rather strange, and the juice of the tree is red, which causes such a type of type. Medieval scientists, who first discovered the dragon, the tree, counted it with a semi-animal semi-plant, and the red juice - real blood. This juice was used for a long time as a drug from many diseases (probably used now).

9. Mimosa Púdica: Plant that is shy

Mimosa Púdica is a very sensitive plant. The fact is that if you touch mimos, or she hooked her with a busting of the wind, Mimosa immediately "pretends" dead, all leaflets fall on the ground, and the plant seems to be fed. After a few minutes, Mimosa comes to himself to "plant" again, as soon as someone or something touch him. Meets in South and Central America.

As inquisitive, a person has always been interested in a variety of records in the world of plants. It is important for him to know which flower and what plant is the biggest, which is poisonous, and what is the most unusual.

The biggest flower

Among the colors there are record holders in growth. The biggest among single colors is the Rafflesia Arnold. It is capable of growing more than ninety centimeters. Its weight is about eleven kilograms. Rafflesia grows in the rainforest Sumatra, Indonesia, Borneo, Philippines and Malaysia.

The Naid Sushi Plant is a Lianovic Rattan Palm. Its length varies from three hundred to three hundred fifty meters.

In America, in the Park "Sequoia" grows in huge sequoia sizes, which is the name "General Sherman". The height of the tree is more than eighty-three meters with a trunk diameter of a thirty-one meter. Victoria Amazonian - one more huge tropical herbate plant Locking squad. Leaves of this giant pitcher reaches two meters in diameter.

The most poisonous plants

Not all the plants are harmless. There are among them poisonous, which can harm human health. For example, poisonous ivy, a poisonous oak and a varnish tree isolated a volatile toxin that can cause severe allergies.

Dikamnus or Yasenet - dangerous plants for man. The essential oils contained in them can cause a long-suffering chemical burn. Photochemical burns can cause such a plant as Borshevik. If it is hit by the juice on the skin of a person, nothing happens, but it is worth getting this place sunlightHow the skin will be amazed by a chemical burn.

Berries and rhizomes Voroniene Eyes are very poisonous. The plant contains a substance that causes convulsions, vomiting, sometimes leading to the paralysis of respiratory systems. Sugges, the comatose state and the baton of the respiratory tract can end poisoning with such plants like Duman and Belen.

The most poisonous in the world refers to the plant of the Cirut. His aroma is similar to carrot, and taste resembles radish. One hundred grams of his rhizomes can kill a cow. It contains Cycutoxin, leading to a stopping of breathing and to cramps. This is not the entire list poisonous plants Planets.

Unusual grass

Unusual called medicinal herbs. One of these grasses is an etaragon. His second name is "the queen of herbs." This is a very useful culture used as a medicine, as a spice and how decorative plant. Another unusual grass is wormwood, which is also widely used in medicine. It is impossible not to call St. John's wort, Elewerococcus, sorry, Melisu, Oshinitsa, Sage, and others.

Unusual herbs are the alpine types of mothers of living carpets. They grow, forming a turin. The most popular carpet plant - Alpine Gusimets. Another very unusual grass, growing carpet, was discovered on the coast of Lake Chane. It is unusual not only in red, and also by what the worms resemble something like something.

Amazing home plants

Pseudolithos looks especially extreme among home plants. It will surprise anyone. His homeland is Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The name of the name is "false stone". The plant looks like a thick egg-shaped buggy barrel without leaves. Color and shape resemble a stone. Flowers pseudolithos located groups of bright colors.

A surprisingly indoor plant growing without soil is a tillandia. To grow it in room conditions, you need to get a drink or bark softwoodwhere auxiliary roots will be recorded.

One of the interesting things indoor plants - Litops. With their form, the plant resembles a hoof a height of no more than seven centimeters. Interestingly, most of this plant is underground. Every spring it bloom in large bright colors.

The bonsai look originally. His second name is "Tree in a pot." In essence, Bonsai is a dwarf tree grown at home. This is only a small list of amazing home plants.

The most unusual plant in the world

What a plant is most unusual to solve it difficult, as on the planet too many amazing vegetation representatives. It is possible that the most unusual plant - Velvichia is amazing. It is able to do without water for about five years, satisfied with moisture from the atmosphere.

Velvichia lives from four hundred to two thousand years. Externally, the plant looks like two huge sheets, length from two to eight meters. These leaves continue to grow throughout life, gradually longitudinally breaking on the ribbons, while the tips dry out. The plant grows in those areas of Namibia, where the air humidity is increased due to frequent fogs.
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Birch, spruce, garden and wildflowers ... These representatives of the flora are familiar to us from childhood. Our life is inextricably linked. About 26 thousand plant species grows in Russia, and in the world, botany have more than 500 thousand. Among this manifold there are completely exceptional samples, notable for their own species or rare features. The topic of our today's article - unusual plantsEach of which in its own way is unique and invariably attracts surprised looks. How can I know, can the famous scarlet flower attached among them?

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Grows rare plant Only in Indonesia. Local residents attribute to him amazing qualities. They believe that Rafflese is able to help improve sexual function and speed up the restoration of women after childbirth. Flowers "Scarlet flower" for several days. But it is for the better. After all, blossoming, he spreads around himself a disgusting smell of rotting meat.

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The main part of the hydrode is under the ground, the plant is shown to the surface when its stem reaches 10 cm long. Flower, in its shape, resembling the revealed mouth of the snake, grows up to 15 cm. It exudes the rented smell that attracts insect pollinators. The latter can become a good snack for the hydride, as it belongs to insectivorous plants. Despite the disgusting SMR, african flower It serves as food in the inhabitants of the desert: the dickerages, jackals and foxes. The aborigines also use the pulp of the hydroda in food and use it to prepare therapeutic drugs.

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If you want to see the Dragon tree in a natural habitat, then you need to go to the islands of Southeast Asia or Africa. It is there that this representative of the Drazen family is growing. The unusual name is quite harmless wood gave an ancient Indian legend. It tells about the bloodthirsty Dragon, whom the mighty elephant crushed. The blood of the monsters spilled on the ground, and the unprecedented plants rose on it. Dragono Tree has a barrel with a diameter of up to 4 m, reaching in a height of 20 m. The oldest plant is in Tenerife, its age is 500 years.

These drasa have one amazing feature. They are able to distinguish the resin, in color resembling blood. It consists of Procyanidine, Betain and Taspin. The presence of these active substances makes the resin of the Dragon tree healing. It is successfully used to treat skin damage, tract disorders and prevention of blood clots.

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Hydnelum of the pitch, or as it is more often called, a bloody tooth belongs to the mushrooms. However, absolute uniqueness has become a reason to include it in our rating. He refers to the order of agricultural mushrooms, which also includes champignons. But in contrast to its edible fellow, the hydnelulum is better not to put in the basket. Mushroom is poisonous.

Russian lovers of quiet hunting can breathe calmly - bloody tooth is found only in coniferous forests of Europe, Iran, North America and Korea. Bordeau-red drops, very similar to blood, mushroom distinguishes at the very beginning of growth. This juice kills all the living, solved to try it taste. There is a theory that the viscous liquid is a trap for small insects, which serve as a hydnelulum of food. In the 20th century, the micrologists (scholars studying mushrooms) found out that the mushroom juice includes a substance with an antibacterial effect and able to ignite blood.

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Another participant applying for the title of rare scarlet flower. Fruiting, red chirantodron flowers take an unusual form - they become similar to the open human palm with bony fingers. Europeans call this tree-hand plant, the inhabitants of Mexico, where the amazing creature of nature grows, they ordered his "devil's hand". The ancient Aztecs belonged to Hiranitodendron respectfully using it in religious rituals.

This fauna representative refers to the Malvic family. The tree grows up to 30 m in height and up to two meters in grip. Unique flowers please the eye for two weeks. Then they dry, leaving juice juice, whose taste is comparable to rye bread.

Due to amazing colors, HirantoDendron is increasingly growing as a houseplant. Of course, at home, the tree will not reach those sizes that inherent in the natural habitat. However, with proper care, it will delight the owners for many years.

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When this plant blooms in the botanical gardens, a crowd of lovers of botany is invariably going around it. And believe me, there is something to see. At this time, the amorphofallus patch grows by two or more meters in height, which makes it one of the largest colors in the world. However, do not wait for him a paradise fragrance. The inflorescence exudes a very unpleasant smell. No not like this. It is terribly smelly! No wonder the residents of Sumatra, where a disgustingly smelling exotic plant was found for the first time, called it a "pipe flower".

Unfortunately, even unbearable ambre could not save amorphofallus from almost a complete disappearance. Botanists of the whole world are trying to protect the extinction plant, which can be found today only in botanical gardens and private greenhouses.

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On Earth lives a huge number of amazing beings: from funny to horrific. Many amazing plants of the world have long been known. But there are completely unusual representatives of Flora, which few people know about. Meanwhile, they truly amaze on their appearance. Here is some of them.

Amorphophallaus Titanum (Amorphophallus Titanum)

The second name is Corpse Lily. The most unusual plant in the world is made not only the gigantic dimensions of the flower, but also the terrible smell that it exudes. It is good that the aroma of rotten meat and fish falls only two days - such is the flowering period of this amazing plant. Another one of his feature is rare flowering. Live "Podpnaya Lilia" for a long time, up to 40 years, and during this time the flowers appear on it only 3-4 times. To achieve a height of the plant can up to 3 meters, and weight large flower It is about 75 kilograms. The Motherland of Amorphofalus Titanic - Sumatra Forest, where he is almost extermined now. Plant can be seen in many botanical gardens of the world.

Veinea Mukholovka (Dionaea Muscipula)

Just lazy did not write about it amazing predator plant. But no matter how much it was mentioned, Venus of Mukholovka is striking with its absolute alien. It can be easily present in the inhabitant of some distant and dangerous planet, inhabited predatory plants. Veinelese leaves Mukholovka - an ideal trap for small insects. As soon as the unlucky victim concerns the sheet, he slams. And the more actively the insect resists, the stronger stimulates the growth of the cells of the plant. The edges of the leaf traps are growing and turning into a "stomach", where the digestion process occurs within 10 days. After that, the trap is again ready for capturing the next victim. This unusual predator can be "tamed" - Venus Mukholovka is successfully grown at home. It is important to comply with the rules of care, and then for an amazing carnivorous plant it will be possible to observe himself.

Wolffia Angusta

It belongs to the most unusual plants of the world due to its tiny size. it water plant The subfamily of the row. The size of Walfia is negligible - about a millimeter. It blooms very rarely. Meanwhile, by the number of protein, the plant is not inferior to bean and can be used in food.

Passionflora (Passíflora)

it beautiful plant It also seems to be a leaving from other worlds. An unusual flower brought the missionaries who saw him in South Africa, on the allegory about the terns of the Savior. From here there was a second name of one of the most unusual plants of the world - passionwood (passion of Christ). Passiflora is a weathered liabli liana, numbering more than 500 species.

Victoria Amazonica (Victoria Amozonica)

This is the most amazing and unusual waterwear in the world. The diameter of the plant leaves reaches two meters. They are so big that they can withstand weight up to 80 kg. Flowers of this pitcher are very beautiful, and Victoria Amazonian is the most popular and unusual plant of greenhouses and botanical gardens.

NEPENTHES

Another predator plant that surprises an unusual appearance, grows mainly in Asia. Climbing high to neighboring trees, this bush liana along with ordinary leaves has special curbs that take the shape of a jug to half a meter. They are painted in bright colors to attract insect attention. The top edge of the pitcher contains fragrant nectar. The insect attracted by the smell and coloring of the plant crashes inside the jug and rolls down his smooth surface down. At the bottom there is a fluid consisting of digestive enzymes and acids - real gastric juice. The inner surface of the leaf is lined with wax scales, which do not allow the victim to get out of the trap. Like Venereine Mukholovka, non-tapenes digest insect for several days. This is one of the most unusual and impressive plants in the world.

Hydnelulum pitch, or bloody tooth

Inedible mushroom growing in Europe, North America and Australia looks like a small piece of cake covered with strawberry syrup. It is not used in food because of a very bitter taste. In addition to amazing external view, mushroom has and beneficial features - His flesh has an antibacterial effect and contains substances that dilute blood. Only a young plant looks unusually, whose snow-white flesh exudes a reddish liquid drops.

White Voronets, or Puppet Eyes

White Voronets, or puppet eyes - an unusual plant is not for the faint of heart. Fruits appearing on it in the second half of summer, really most resemble puppet eyes planned onto the branch. The homeland of White Voronets is the mountainous areas of North America. The plant is poisonous, but does not represent mortal danger.

Porcupine Tomato

Porcupine Tomato is one of the most unusual plants in the world with huge spikes. This is a Madagascar one-meter meter, decorated with beautiful purple flowers. But it is very difficult to disrupt them, because the leaves of the plant are protected by long poisonous spikes of orange. Tomato called him for the fruits, which are similar to small tomatoes. Many unusual plants of the world during evolution learned to take the form of other living beings. Flowers with waterproof orchids, for example, are very similar to tiny two-chamber ducks. In this way, the plant loves to pollinate insects - males of peelers.

Lithopsy, or live stones (Lithops)

Among the indoor plants you can find the most amazing and unusual instances. Confirmation of this - live stones that will decorate and diversify the room. They refer to succulents and therefore rather unpretentious. The main thing is to observe correct care Behind them, and one day you can admire as lithopsy, which look like small stones, bloom. This is usually happening on the third year of the plant's life.

Flower Parachute Ceropegia Woodii

If in the XVIII century, when this unusual plant was first described, they knew about the aircraft, it would be called that that way. It refers to succulents and forms a thick weave of the filamentous shoots. The plant feels perfectly at home and is used for decorative decoration premises.