If I'm not mistaken, one of the world's most amazing plants! The cannonball tree (Couroupita guianensis) -- one of the ripe fruits falling on your head is likely to kill you. The foul smell of the exploded fruit attracts animals which disperse the seeds. https://t.co/95Dsm1seg3
Perhaps the world's smelliest flower, this orchid (Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis) from Papua New Guinea has been described as having the aroma of an entire herd of dead elephants.
Did you know that flowers native to North Africa still grow in the ruins of the Colosseum, their seed thought to have been brought to Italy in the fur of exotic animals displayed by the Romans. A 19th century survey found 420 species of plant and 56 types of grass growing inside.
Male tropical bees use perfume collected from bucket orchids in their courtship dances. The orchids trap the bees, glue pollen to their bodies, and eventually release them so they can find another orchid, delivering the pollen and collecting more perfume.
(Coryanthes macrantha)
The black diamond apple from Tibet. Its skin color is partly the result of its genetics, and partly due to the cold nights in the mountains where it's grown.
Meet the cobweb houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum) - the plant that can manufacture its own spiders' webs. In nature the cobweb hairs protect the plant from the elements in its exposed habitat.