25 plants that seem to have been brought to us from another planet (26 photos)
The plant world can be amazingly colorful and exciting. Some exotic species may try (albeit unsuccessfully) to eat, and others may smell so bad that you yourself don’t want to live. But also There are also such interesting specimens that even those who who has never been drawn to the earth!
1. Lithops, a genus of succulent plants. Their resemblance to stones serves as camouflage from herbivores
2. Flame lily, the national flower of Zimbabwe.
3. Echeveria shows love with all its appearance
4. Crotalaria Cunninghamii (Green Hummingbird Flower) Plant Imitates Birds
5. Hoya (wax ivy) buds
6. Peperomia makes it clear that she is absolutely happy with her life.
7. This house plant looks like it came straight out of the movie Alien.
8. Strongylodon macrocarpal
9. Black velvet, the blackest black flower in the world. It was released in 2010
10. Flirty fritillaries with checkered petals. These amazing flowers are close relatives of wild lilies
11. Lapidaria Margareta - a charming “living stone”
12. Sedum Morgana (Donkey's Tail)
13. Purple passionflower (passion flower)
14. Huernia zebrina cactus
15. Avonia papyracea succulent, similar to sandworms from Dune
16. This is Demogorgon! Stapelia grandiflora
17. Venus flytraps have to place flowers as far away from their traps as possible to avoid accidentally killing pollinators.
18. Dracula Simia. This Andean orchid has flowers that look like monkey faces.
19. Euphorbia “Blackbird”, family Euphorbiaceae
20. Trachyander twisted
21. Western flowerhead
22. Velvichia is amazing. Relic and endemic of the Namib Desert
23. Wonderful ginger Zingiber Spectabile (“ginger beehive”) - a type of real ginger native to Southeast Asia
24. Brassia Rex Orchid - a hybrid of Brassia with massive flower spikes full of large inflorescences that resemble spiders
25. Kyoto Botanical Garden. Flower of Psychotria pepiguiensis. Looks like parted lips