Friday, April 23, 2010

Name 5 Unusual plants. Provide their common names and briefly describe their unusual characteristics.?

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Name 5 Unusual plants. Provide their common names and briefly describe their unusual characteristics.?
Rafflesia - Rafflesia arnoldii: this parasitic plant develops the world's largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager's acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems, or roots.





Jackal food - Hydnora africana, an unusual flesh-colored, parasitic flower that attacks the nearby roots of shrubby in arid deserts of South Africa. The putrid-smelling blossom attracts herds of carrion beetles.





Voodoo Lily - Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.





Titan arum - Amorphophallus: means, literally, "shapeless male genetalia." The name comes from the shape of the protruding black spadix.





Coniferous tree - Wollemia nobilis: This bizarre-looking tree was known only from 120 million-year-old fossil leaves before 1994; fewer than one hundred exist in the wild. They have strange bark that looks like bubbles of chocolate, multiple trunks, and ferny-looking leaves growing in spirals. They can grow up to 125 feet tall.
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