Dont gift any of these to your Valentine :)
These are the top 4 of the most Unusual plants & flowers, enjoy!
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.
4. Amorphophallus: means, literally, "shapeless penis." The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.
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If you're talking about weirdest plants around, you forgot to mention a plant that even botanics books mentions as the weirdest plant around: Welwitschia mirabilis.
Some pics: http://made-in-afrika.com/aloes/welwitschia.jpg
http://www.esu.edu/~milewski/intro_biol_two/lab_3_seed_plts/images/welwitschia.jpg
http://www.gymnosperms.org/users/dws/Welwitschis/WelwitschiaMale3.jpg
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