The majestic Earth planet has countless adorable flowers. Every day, new flower species are discovered by researchers. Here are some of the most unusual and adorable flowers that you may haven’t seen before.
Flame Lily
This rare flowering plant is native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia, is naturalized in Australia and the Pacific, is widely cultivated, and belongs to the Colchicaceae family. Flame lily normally grows as a tuberous climbing plant and produces strange red or yellow flowers with wavy edges. It is the national flower of Zimbabwe. The most common English names are flame lily, gloriosa lily, glory lily fire lily, superb lily, climbing lily, and creeping lily
Bee Orchid
The bee orchid comes from the Mediterranean region and belongs to the orchid family. This perennial plant produces between one and ten flowers on each spike every summer. Ophrys apifera, recognized in Europe as the bee orchid, is a permanent herbaceous plant belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The flowers emit allomones that entice the bee species Tetralonia cressa and Eucera pulveraceae.
Corpse Lily Flower
This is an amazing flower and the largest flower in the world. It is unique and hard to find in it’s habitat, which is the rainforests of Bengkulu, Sumatra Island, and Indonesia. Flowers emit a bad smell, can be as wide as one meter, and weigh up to 11 kilograms.
Bird of Paradise Flower, “Strelitzia”
Bird of Paradise, also identified as Crane Flower, is another uncommon flower from South Africa. The plant belongs to the Strelitziaceae family and produces strangely colorful and beautiful flowers that resemble a bird of paradise. The beautiful flowers are formed in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe and are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers.
Huernia Oculata
Huernia oculata, with its exclusive-looking flowers, is one of the most beautiful of all. The corolla is blackish-purple velvety with a pure white center, which has given rise to the saying that the flowers are like an eye. It is narrowly related to Huernia hislopii. This flowering plant actually belongs to the family of Apocynaceae. The plant produces slightly succulent stems that can be used to propagate the plant. The plant is impartially easy to grow in well-drained soil and a dry climate.
Bleeding Heart
A species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae, is native to Siberia, northern China, Korea, and Japan. It is valued in gardens and in floristry for its heart-shaped pink and white flowers (that are poisonous). It is also known as “lady-in-a-bath”.
Snake’s Head
A species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. It’s other common names include chess flower, frogcup, guinea-hen flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, checkered lily, or, in northern Europe, simply fritillary.
Maypop Passion Flower
A fast-growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems and large, intricate flowers with prominent styles and stamens It is a member of the passionflower genus Passiflora, and it is a common wildflower in the southern United States. Also famous are purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot, and wild passion vine.
Torch Ginger.
It is a species of herbaceous perennial plant, and it is an exceptionally red, waxy flower found throughout gardens in Costa Rica. The eye-catching flowers are used in decorative arrangements, while the flower buds are a vital ingredient in the Nonya dish laksa. In North Sumatra, the flower buds are used for a dish called arsik ikan mas.
Sea Poison Tree Flower
A species of Barringtonia commonly originates along the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. They have a sickly sweet smell that entices bats and moths at night. It is grown along streets for decorative and shade purposes in some parts of India. It is also identified as box fruit due to the distinct box-shaped fruit it produces. The local name Futu is the source of the name for the Polynesian island Futuna. All parts of the tree are poisonous; the active poisons include saponins.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum also known as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The titan arum’s inflorescence is not as large as that of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, but the inflorescence of the talipot palm is branched rather than unbranched.
Due to it’s odor, which is evocative of the smell of a decomposing mammal, the titan arum is considered a carrion flower and is also recognized as the corpse flower or corpse plant. For the same reason, the title corpse flower is also attributed to the genus Rafflesia which, like the titan arum, grows in the rainforests of Sumatra.
Laelia, Flower
It is abbreviated L. in the horticultural trade and is a small genus of 25 species from the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This is one of the most important and popular orchid genera because of the beautiful flowers, their genetic properties, and because they are fairly easy to culture.
The flower is found in the subtropical or temperate climate of Central America, but mostly in Mexico. Laelia speciosa prefers sunny, dry, and cool conditions and grows in the rainforest with a warm, humid summer and a dry, cool winter.
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