Unique Plants That Exist On Earth , You Never Know About

These plants take the meaning of the idiom –eyes out on stalk to a literal meaning. If you feel as If you are being watched while taking a stroll in the woods, it’s probably the Doll’s eyes creeping you out. Native to the hills of South America, the berries of these plants closely resemble a human eye which gives it its name. Thankfully, this plant’s looks aren’t that enticing to eat as it has  cardiogenic  toxins that sedate your cardiac muscle tissue which leads to death.

This exotic and beautiful plant is one of the largest and rarest flowering structures blooming only a few times in its entire life span. It is indeed a rare occurrence to see it in person. During its blooming season, it emits a pungent odour similar to rotten egg or, aptly, a decaying corpse. The reason for the plant’s strong odour is to attract pollinators which include dung beetles and insects that get attracted to its smell.

 

This South Asian flowering plant has the largest known individual flower in the world. This plant looks like its straight out of a sci-fi movie set. What makes this plant other worldly is that it has no stem, no roots or no leaves and emits a stench like rotting meat.  This magnificent parasitic plant is vulnerable to extinction due to habitat destruction.

These plants thrive in poor acidic soil lacking nutrition. Hence it eats things other than sunlight. It has prison like bars that traps insects and ,at times, small frogs. It grasps even tighter if the prey struggles. It has trigger hair, which traps the insect and restrains it. The rest of the job is done by digestive juices.

This plant is also called Dancing grass, Telegraph plant and Semaphore plant- named after this plants movements that resemble Semaphore movements. This is possibly a way to maximize absorption of light by tracking the Sun. However it is one plant that is easy to grow and maintain, and dances gracefully on your window sill.

This is a big ass water lily which has leaves about three meters in diameter.  Its leaves are very large and can hold up to 10 kilograms and apparently even a baby. It has long stalks that are submerged in water. These stalks are about eight meters long. The underside of its leaf is coppery and sharp so as to ward off predators.

Its diet consists of well, mostly anything which fits into its pitcher like shaped leaf. It varies from large insects to small birds. The pitcher in the plant is its leaves modified to that shape. It is a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The insects are attracted to this pitcher and once they sit on it,they are dragged into the pitcher where they are digested by the plant.

 

The Mimosa Pudica also known generally as the “touch me not” is a plant that comes with a complex. The compound leaves fold inward and become lifeless when they are touched. They are mostly grown for their curiosity inducing nature.

Also called Bottle tree, these trees are native to Africa and can store up to three hundred litres of water. These trees are called magic trees as after they grow old and massive, they die and when they die, it leaves behind a heap of fibres that makes it look as if it has disappeared suddenly.

This plant is like that friend in our lives whom we don’t want but sticks on with us and sucks the life out you. These plants grow on the crevices of big trees and envelops the host tree completely. It does not allow sunlight to pass through as it covers the upper canopy.