Amazing Plants

Meet the world's most extraordinary plants.

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This is called the monkey orchid, because it... never mind.

(Dracula radiosa)

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@DomenicoSimon17 Interesting! Bombay is certainly more widespread, but the buds look really different, and those fused stamens…

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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

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@AmazingPlants do you know what plant species is this?

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@Urraca67668337 Oh wow, not sure I’ve ever seen anything capture the essence of the titan arum quite so well!

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@DomenicoSimon17 Ours hasn’t bloomed either yet… but I’m wondering if that’s a good thing 😂

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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.

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@Huw_Merlin More a mushroom-y sort of smell, I’d say. It’s a bit musty but not too bad.

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Follow @AmazingPlants to meet the world's most extraordinary plants.

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@_chukwuemek_a Promise!

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This is called the monkey orchid, because it... never mind.

(Dracula radiosa)

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@_chukwuemek_a Depending on its size and how far it fell 😉 But they do often grow larger than a soccer ball so…

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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.

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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)

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@EdithG93423537 Yes! It’s a true apple variety, and perfectly edible (and tasty!)

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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.

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Glow-in-the-dark ghost mushrooms.

(Omphalotus nidiformis)

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@cfe_mycolab @jack, ball's in your court. 🍄 need you

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The all-blue werewere-kokako mushroom from New Zealand.

(Entoloma hochstetteri)

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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.

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@delmaclifton Possibly! But the leaflets are quite small so the rain will drip off nearby anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The rain tree (Albizia saman) folds its leaves when it rains. No one really knows why.

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@cfe_mycolab Twitter handles can’t be longer than 15 characters 😬

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The skeleton flower's petals turn transparent when it rains.

(Diphylleia grayi)

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@txtdariwamus Interesting, thanks!

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This is where nutmeg comes from. (Myristica fragrans)

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@cfe_mycolab We’re a broad church
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A berry from central Africa is the world's shiniest living thing.

(Pollia condensata)

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These are the pollen grains of the venus flytrap.

(Dionaea muscipula)
Photo: Kevin Mackenzie