Here are a few more weird plants that will amaze you.
From plants that feed on small insects to a plant that looks like a baseball, the natural world is full of strange species of plants that will both shock and surprise us.
Generally known as euphorbia obesa this plant originated first in South Africa, especially in the Cape Province. The plant looks exactly like a baseball and that is why it got the name, Baseball Plant. Apart from its look, what makes this plant weird and unique is that it has no branches at all. Its average height is about 20 cm. It’s a very rare plant and is protected by national nature conservation. It’s a parasitical plant and both the male and female flowers of this plant grow on different plants. This plant is toxic and it may create many skin problems if you touch it with bare hands.
Hydnellum Peckii is fungi that produce blood-like fluid. Also known as ‘bleeding tooth fungus’ it has got Scarlet pigment that makes the blood like fluid. Hydnellum Peckii is mostly found in North America and Europe. It is edible, but the blood-like fluid is extremely bitter and it needs to be removed before cooking it. It produces an unpleasant odor. It’s not always necessary that the fluid it produces is only blood-like as it produces orange or pink color fluids also.
Lithop, a species of succulents native to southern Africa can be called living stones, as it exactly looks like small stones or pebbles. This unique shape is caused because of the merger of two separate leaves at the outer parts of the plant. They mostly grow during the rainy season. These exceptionally strange plants are found mainly in South Africa. The thick pebble-like leaves are the visible parts of the plant and it is found in various colors like white, gray, pink, and purple. One more specialty of these plants is that their life span is more than 50 years.
