10 kinds of strange plants, how many do you know?

Among all living things, the plant kingdom is a mysterious kingdom

Hundreds of thousands of plant species

Countless exotic flowers and plants are like shining stars

Light up the ordinary night sky,

The plant kingdom that has evolved over billions of years

There are countless more magical lights.

Here are 10 unique plants:

It represents the mysterious and beautiful gift of nature.

How many do you know?

01

Cimicifuga foetida

White Baneberry

White Cimicifuga is a plant of the genus Cimicifuga, native to the forests of North America. Because of its peculiar shape, the fruit resembles a doll's eye, so it is called "Doll's Eye". The plant has more fruit than leaves, and the flowers are small, only about 6mm. Its branches are brightly colored and quite eye-catching. Its cute fruit is beautiful and lovely, but it is highly poisonous.

02

Fabric Ball

Baseball Plant

Euphorbia obesa, also known as Huangyu and Obesa, is a succulent plant of the Euphorbiaceae family, native to South Africa. It is shaped like a baseball wrapped in cloth, with reddish-brown crisscrossing stripes all over its surface. The plant is spherical when young, and slowly turns into an oval as it grows older. Euphorbia obesa is a dioecious plant, very toxic, and contact with it can easily cause serious skin problems.

03

Blood Tooth Fungus

Hydnellum Peckii

Bloodtooth fungus, also known as "devil's tooth", is mainly distributed in North America and Europe. This is a smelly mycorrhizal fungus that forms a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with a variety of conifers: it extracts minerals and amino acids from the soil for the host, and the host supplies it with fixed carbon. Its name comes from the scarlet sap on the surface that looks like blood (it can also be pink or orange). Although it is non-toxic and edible, the bitter taste of its blood-colored sap will leave you unforgettable.

04

Welwitschia

Welwitschia Mirabilis

Welwitschia, also known as 100-year-old leaf, 1,000-year-old orchid, and two-leaf tree, originated from the dinosaur era. It is an extremely precious relict plant, the only species of the Welwitschia genus in the monospecific family Welwitschiaceae, and the only grass-like woody plant among gymnosperms. It is mainly distributed in Angola and the Namib Desert. It is a typical dioecious long-lived plant that only grows two leaves in its lifetime, which never wither and can survive for 500 to 1,500 years and can survive in extreme weather conditions.

05

Lithops

Lithop

Lithops belongs to the genus Lithops of the Aizoaceae family. It is native to rock crevices and semi-desert areas in South Africa and Namibia. Its shape, size and color are very similar to the stones around it, which makes it camouflaged. Because of its shape like colored stones and rich colors, it is known as the "living stone". Lithops grows new fleshy leaves from the gaps in the middle every spring, which expand and burst the old leaves, and the old leaves then wither and die. Lithops grows very fast in the rainy season and can survive for more than 50 years.

06

Amorphophallus giganteus

Corpse Flower

The giant arum is known for its smell similar to rotting meat. It is also called the "corpse flower" and is unique to Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a parasitic plant that steals nutrients from other plants during its growth period and deceives insects to pollinate it. Because it is extremely difficult to grow, it is described as the "rock star of the plant world." The plant blooms about once every 30 to 40 years, and the flowering period is only about 48 hours. It is considered the world's stinkiest flower.

07

Rafflesia

Rafflesia arnoldii

Rafflesia is a fleshy parasitic herb, mainly distributed in the forests of Sumatra. It is famous for its huge flowers and foul smell. It is the largest individual flower in the world. Its main axis is very short, without leaves and underground stems. The organs for absorbing nutrients have degenerated into mycelium. The whole flower is all it has. It only blooms one flower in its lifetime, and the flowering period is only 4 to 5 days, during which time it will emit an unpleasant odor.

08

Venus Flytrap

Venus Flytrap

The Venus flytrap is a perennial herbaceous insectivorous plant with complete roots, stems, leaves, flowers and seeds. It is native to North America. Most of them grow in nutrient-poor wetlands, so they use a "shell-like" insect trap on the top of their leaves to lure flying insects into the trap with nectar, and then digest and absorb their nutrients within 10 days. Because the edges of its leaves have regular thorns, like Venus's eyelashes, the English name is "Venus' fly trap".

09

Nepenthes

Pitcher Plant

Nepenthes is a tropical carnivorous plant native to Southeast Asia. The Nepenthes has a racemose inflorescence with green or purple flowers. The plant has the most mysterious leaf structure. The insect-catching pitcher is cylindrical, slightly swollen in the lower half, and has a lid on the mouth of the pitcher. It is named because of its shape like a pig's cage. The pitcher on the top of the leaf is a tool for catching insects. The cap of the pitcher can secrete fragrance to lure insects; the mouth of the pitcher is smooth, so once insects get close, they will easily slide into the pitcher and be drowned by the liquid secreted from the bottom of the pitcher, and then be decomposed, digested and absorbed.

10

Selaginella

Selaginella Herba

Selaginella is a native or rock-dwelling resurrection plant that is cushion-shaped and reproduces by spores. It is distributed in China, Siberia in Russia, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, India and the Philippines. Selaginella, also known as the grass of the dead, has the survival skill of living when it encounters water and "dying" when it is without water. When the water supply is sufficient, the branches and leaves of Selaginella stretch out after absorbing water, and they are green and pleasant; in extreme environments, its roots separate from the soil by themselves, curl up into a fist shape, move with the wind, and stretch out again when they encounter water, and the roots drill back into the soil to find water, "dying" and resurrecting. Its traces can often be found in dry rock crevices or on barren rock slopes.

(Source of this article: Common Plant Knowledge)