I wonder if plant enthusiasts ever think: “There’s not enough drama in this green garden! I need to add a little pep to make it edgier.” The world of plants can be surprisingly colorful and exciting. At least that’s what I found out after scrolling through this list of unique and interesting-looking plants. Yes, some exotic plants might try (although very unsuccessfully) to eat you, others can smell like straight-up death.
There are also some plants you would never want to grow at home. Still, there’s so much interesting flora to be discovered even if you’re not a garden enthusiast. For this post, Bored Panda asked botany expert Douglas Justice and plant vlogger Ashley Anita to share some fascinating plant facts. Check out the unique plants below and let us know which ones look the most impressive to you!
#1 This Was Supposed To Be A Plant Progress Post Showing Off My Oxalis But Henk Stole The Show
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#2 Lithops Genus Of Succulent Plants Whose Rocklike Appearance Serves As Camouflage From Herbivores
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#3 This Is A Flame Lily, The National Flower Of Zimbabwe
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#4 The Plant Crotalaria Cunninghamii Mimicks Birds
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#5 My Echeveria Showing Me Some Love With Its Blooms
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#6 Incredibly Unexpected Outcome From A $2 Succulent From The Local Grocery Store
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#7 The Black Velvet, The World Blackest Black Flower. It Was Developed In 2010 Using Natural Breeding
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#8 Buds Of A Hoya Wax Flower
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#9 My Peperomia Letting Me Know She Appreciated The Love I Gave Her
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#10 This Strange Plant We Found
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#11 Burro’s Tail Balcony
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#12 My Cactus Has Grown A Strange-Looking Flower
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#13 This Extremely Long Plant In My Flat. It’s 4 Floors Long
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#14 My House Plant Looks Like It Came Straight From The Alien Franchise
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#15 I Found A Baby Albino Oak In My Garden Some Years Ago, And Realized That Plants Can Be Albinos Too, But They Do Not Live Long Since They Cannot Photosynthesize
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#16 Finally Got To Taste A Monstera Fruit! If You’re Wondering, To Me It Tastes Like Banana, Pineapple And Strawberry Combined
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#17 Super Cool Flower In Mom’s Garden. Lost The Tag. Any Thoughts On What This Is?
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#18 Venus Fly Traps Have To Put Their Flowers Really Far Away From Their Traps So They Don’t Accidentally Kill Their Pollinators
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#19 Lapidaria Margaretae Looks Like Stones
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#20 My White Princess Philodendron Finally Threw Out A Pink Leaf
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#21 Flirty Fritillaries And Those Cheeky Checkered Petals. These Amazing Flowers Are Actually A Close Relation To Lilies That Are Growing Wild
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#22 Once A Year, For One Night Only… The Flowers Bloom
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#23 Trachyandra Tortilis
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#24 The Way This Plant Flowers
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#25 These Flowers That Are Almost Too Vibrant To Be Real
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#26 Leaf Appreciation Post
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#27 The Rare Purple Cauliflower. Its Signature Color Comes From The Same Antioxidant Found In Red Cabbage And Red Wine: Anthocyanin
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#28 Zingiber Spectabile (Beehive Ginger) Is A Species Of True Ginger, Native To Maritime Southeast Asia
While it has been used as a medicinal herb in Southeast Asia, it is mainly grown as an ornamental plant in the West.
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#29 The Inside Of This Tropical Pitcher Plant Looks Like A QR Code
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#30 This Variegated Rubber Plant Looks Like It’s Straight From The Eighties
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#31 My Cactus Just Bloomed, And Its Flower Looks Like A Demogorgon
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#32 I Have No Idea, But The Leaves Are Looking Awesome
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#33 This Is What A Witch Hazel Flower Looks Like
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#34 Happy Earth Day. The Craziest Flower I’ve Ever Seen. This Comes Out Of The Dirt. Let’s Protect This Crazy Alien Flower
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#35 Super Gorgeous Isn’t It?
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#36 This Plant That Has Exactly Two Branches At Each Node
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#37 Strange Round “Fruit” With Stringy Latexy Insides
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#38 Apparently, A Species Of Guarana Plant Looks Like A Large Cluster Of Eyeballs
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#39 Dracula Simia. The Flowers Of This Andean Orchid Look Like Monkey Faces
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#40 Same, Honestly
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#41 Desert Devil (Welwitschia Mirabilis)
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#42 Another Big Agave And My Doggo For Scale
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#43 A Flower I Once Found In A Garden Shop In Eastern Washington. Alas, I Have No Better Leaf Pictures
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#44 A Snake Plant With 0% Chlorophyll
I moved my plastic barrel to tip the water off the top so that mosquitoes couldn’t breed in it and I discovered a snake plant had been growing under it in complete darkness for all of its life.
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#45 Plant In Our Office Is 4 Stories Tall
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#46 Down By The Lake, There’re These Weird Flowers Made Up Of Hundreds Of Tinier Flowers
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#47 The Rings Of This Ponga Plant
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#48 Strange Plant With Very Cool Berries And Seeds
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#49 Kyoto Botanical Garden. The Flower Of Psychotria Pepiguiana. This Flower Looks Like A Lip
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#50 Brassia Rex Is A Brassia Hybrid With Massive Flower Spikes Full Of Big Size Blooms That For Many People Look Like Spiders
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#51 The Inside Of This Tropical Pitcher Plant Looks Like A Qr Code
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