Monday, June 02, 2008
The World’s Most Unusual Plants & flowers
These are the top 4 of the most Unusual plants & flowers, enjoy!
1. 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.
2. 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.
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3. Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.
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4. Amorphophallus: means, literally, "shapeless penis." The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.
Those are totally awesome. And not so toxic you couldn't touch them. Beautiful.
OH MY. How did you control the rotting meat smell of the raffelsia?
As a Master Gardener this is very interesting to me. Not something anyone would want in their home garden but lovely and interesting just the same.
Wow these ARE interesting!! Not so sure I'd to view them in the up close & personal(stanky!)but appreciate the extreme oddity of them.
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1. 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.
2. 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.
The image “http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/30641/2001348574948645778_rs.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
3. Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.
The image “http://aycu14.webshots.com/image/30653/2000186714960914519_rs.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
4. Amorphophallus: means, literally, "shapeless penis." The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.
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Those are totally awesome. And not so toxic you couldn't touch them. Beautiful.
OH MY. How did you control the rotting meat smell of the raffelsia?
As a Master Gardener this is very interesting to me. Not something anyone would want in their home garden but lovely and interesting just the same.
Wow these ARE interesting!! Not so sure I'd to view them in the up close & personal(stanky!)but appreciate the extreme oddity of them.
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