10 most unusual plants that are able to surprise with their appearance and properties

Not all plants make us be touched and admire their beauty. Nature has endowed some of them with several other qualities, amazing and even exclusive. Some are dangerous to humans or other living things, others have an unusually strange and unique appearance. In any case, getting to know them and learning more about them is always very interesting.

Flower of laughter

This Asian flower, spread over the territory from the Caspian to China, got its name due to the fact that the use of its seeds causes an attack of unreasonable laughter in a person, which lasts about 30 minutes. After this time, people who are under the influence of a flower, are immersed in a calm sleep.

Doll eyes

The scientific name of this plant is White Voronet, but the people nicknamed it "doll eyes" for its extremely unusual appearance. It looks like eyes set on a blood-red branch.

Devil's claw

The Garpagophytum plant, which is more popularly called the Devil's Claw, is mainly found in South and South-West Africa. Its thorns, like burdocks, cling to the clothes of people and animals passing by.

Jericho rose

This stunning plant is common in the Chihuahua desert (North America) and it is surprising in that it can be without water in a dried form, in other words, in a kind of "sleep mode" for several years. When moisture appears, the plant comes to life as if by magic.

Fraxinella

Dictamnus or, as it is also called, Ash-tree - a beautiful-looking plant, which in no case can be touched or even sniffed. Literally a day later, a person in contact with him has serious burns and blisters. The burns are so severe that they leave scars and dark spots.

Hydnor African

In the deserts of Africa, a parasite plant lives, which sticks to the roots of other plants and feeds on them. This flower spends almost all the time underground, appearing on the surface only at the time of heavy rainfall.

Sundew

This carnivorous plant releases droplets of viscous mucus and with their help catches insects for lunch.

Nepentes Attenborough

Another unusual carnivorous plant that was discovered on the slopes of Mount Victoria (New Guinea) most recently - in 2000. It has a trap in the form of a water lily, the volume of which can reach 1.5 liters. The plant eats insects and small rodents.

Bloody tooth

Mushroom Gidnellum Peka is popularly called a bloody tooth. Despite the fact that it smells like strawberries, you can’t eat it, because it is one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world.