Unique plants on earth

There are plants that grow only exactly two leaves throughout life and only need 8ml of water each year.

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Unique, exotic plants in the world

Known for his beautiful name is the Venus Guards, Dionaea muscipula is one of 670 species of carnivorous plants discovered. This plant attracts spiders and insects. Once they have entered the "mouth" of the tree and come into contact with the tiny filaments inside, "mouth" immediately closes. If the prey is lucky to escape, the tree opens "mouth" again after about 12 hours. When the prey is locked in, the more they struggle to escape, the more "close" the "mouth" is, until the prey is digested.

Wolffia angusta , also known as rootweed , is one of the smallest plants on Earth. A total of 38 Wolffia species, of which 9 are the smallest in the plant kingdom. It is so small, 0.25mm in size, that a dozen Wolffia angusta trees can be folded on top of a needle. If you find two plants in bloom, you can put them neatly in the "o". This plant lives on the water and does not have roots. So, at a glance, you might mistake them for a cornstarch. They live together and even combine with other similar plants that live on the water. Duckweed lives in Asia, where many people use them as food. 40% of its nutritional value is soy-like plant protein.

Lithops Julii (Lithops Julii) is an exotic plant growing much in South Africa. They thrive in hot dry environments. In Greek, lithops means like stone. Therefore, this tree is also called Live Stone or Gravel.
This plant has a very stone-like appearance. While other plants are green or yellow, Lithops is creamy, gray, brown with some red spots. These colors help them camouflage and blend in the color of the rock around where it grows. The flowers of this plant look like daisies with long white wings, yellow flowers and only bloom in autumn.

To survive, every species needs water and food. However, with Welwitschia mirabilis - a living fossil tree , only about 8ml of water is needed for the whole year. Part of this water comes from rain, the other part is from the dew. The state of lack of water explains why this shape of tree looks dry, rough, gray like earth. This plant only grows exactly two leaves throughout life. The leaves up to 4m in length often split themselves when they grow out, making many people think that the tree has many leaves. With a life span of 1,000-2,000 years, this plant is known as a living fossil. The plant was discovered by botanist Friedrich Welwitsch in 1859, so his name was given to this plant. They grow in Angola and Namibia. The largest Welwitschia tree currently has a height of 1.4m and leaves nearly 4m long.

The nia gun or the king lotus (Victoria amazonica) is the largest of the Gun family. Its leaves can withstand the weight of a person weighing 100kg. Its roots are up to 8m long. Leaf and flower diameters can be up to 3 m.
This strange tree not only has a huge size but its flowers also change color. On the first night the flowers bloom, it is pure white. The next day, the flowers turn pink. Although beautiful, this plant has sharp spines covering all but the flowers, roots and leaves. The plant grows in the Amazon River lowlands, and was brought to Europe in 1837. This giant water lily has a scientific name named after Queen Victoria. In Vietnam, you can also watch and even sit on this lotus leaf.

Living in southern Africa, Hydnora africana , a species of parasitic plant, flowers with a fecal-like odor but helps itself to survive. This smell attracts beetles and bugs that eat corpses. They will trap and can only escape if the tree opens "mouth". The tree grows underground, only the flesh-colored flowers rise.

Nepenthes, warm-capped plants or monkey mugs living in Indochina, Australia and the Malay Peninsula. Many people see monkeys drinking water from this tree. They thrive in high humidity areas with moderate rainfall and plenty of light.
This plant was first described in 1658, about a meter tall, 18cm long, embracing an empty flower inside. This flower is filled with liquid produced by the tree itself. Plants use water to lure mammals to drink and submerge their prey. Each flower has a lid. There is cotton on high, there are flowers growing close to the ground. For insects, this plant is even more terrifying than Venus, because in addition to spiders, insects, scorpions, centipedes, this plant also captures lizards, frogs, mice and snails.

The dragon flower consists of a long mo (like a cau mo) , in which there is a delicate black or purple color, like a dragon hidden in a mo. Plants live in the Balkans, Crete, Greece and the Aegean Islands. The dragon flower is also called rotten lily because it smells unpleasant like the smell of rotten meat, used to attract insects. This is a healthy, fast growing plant. Each tree can produce up to 40 flowers at a time.

This flower is not famous for its beauty or aroma but by its size. It is really rare because it cannot be grown artificially. Dragon flower, this species also has the smell of rotting meat and attracts insects to pollinate. The giant flower weighs 10kg and is 1 meter wide, has 5 thick orange or red wings. The tree is named after Sir Stamford Raffles , who has great merit in building Singapore. This species grows in the Borneo tropical rain forest, Sumatra in Indonesia. The tree takes a long time to grow and flower, and the flower only blooms for a few days.

In Latin, amorphos means distortion, phallus means penis, and titanium means big. Grafting these words will get the name of the flower that tops the list of the world's most exotic plants, Amorphophallus Titanum .
It also has another name as scavenger flower. Because it gives off an odor similar to a decomposing corpse. This tree originated in the Sumatra rainforest, now it has been bred and grown all over the world. The tree is usually about three meters tall, looks like a water lily (calla lily) with a flower that grows in the middle of the flower. Like other rotten flower relatives, this species attracts beetles and beetles to eat corpses.