The King Flower, also called Raffles Flower, was named after the English explorer and naturalist Thomas Stanford Raffles, who discovered it in 18 18. These giant safflower can be as long as 1 m in diameter and weigh 1 1 kg. Bloom will smell like rotting corpses. What's even more amazing is that this flower will emit a certain amount of heat, pretending to be an animal corpse with residual temperature, attracting flies and a few scavengers to spread pollen for it. Because of this, this flower is also called corpse-smelling lily.

The king flower is the largest single flower in the world. These spotted blood-red flowers mainly grow in Sumatra and Borneo, Indonesia. As a plant, Dawanghua can't carry out photosynthesis, but can only be parasitic on tropical vines. What's more strange is that Dawanghua has no roots, no stems and no leaves, and the big flower is its only structure. Due to the destruction of the ecological environment, wild Dawanghua is very rare, so we can only enjoy this magical plant in the local botanical garden, which takes 9 months from germination to flowering.

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If you explore the coniferous forest on the northeast coast of the Pacific Ocean, you will be lucky enough to meet this fungus that looks like goose bumps. The smooth tremella cover oozes bright blood-like juice, like bleeding skin or accidentally spilled animal blood. Because of its peculiar appearance, this fungus is named Dentistra sanguineus, which is usually nicknamed "blood hydrangea" or "buttercup strawberry".

Although dental fungus looks strange, it is not toxic. However, due to its extremely bitter taste, it is recognized as an inedible fungus, thus avoiding the fate of becoming a dish. In fact, dental tide has a boosting effect on the development of medicine. Scientists have found a component from the red juice oozing from tooth tide, which has antibacterial and anticoagulant properties, and has provided help for the research of anticoagulant.

Titan konjac

The more popular name of konjac is corpse flower. Like Dawanghua, Amorphophallus konjac will smell rotten when it is in full bloom. These unpleasant smells make scavengers mistake them for animal carcasses, thus attracting insects to spread branches and leaves for them and sow them everywhere. The stem of the giant konjac is thick and tall, and the highest can reach nearly 3 meters. However, some scientists believe that the earliest size of giant konjac is similar to that of normal parasitic plants. After thousands of years of evolution, the external size of konjac has increased by 79 times.

Giant Amorphophallus is an endemic plant in the rain forest in western Sumatra, Indonesia, but its survival is increasingly threatened by the deterioration of ecological environment. In order to protect this species, several famous large botanical gardens in the world have introduced and planted this plant. Giant Amorphophallus konjac blooms every 5 to 10 years, but the flowering time is completely unpredictable, and the flowering time is only a few days. So every time the giant konjac blooms, it will attract a large number of plant lovers. Even if its stench makes people feel like they are standing in the middle of a garbage dump, people will still stop to watch.

African egret flower

African egret flower, which lives in the arid desert areas of South Africa and Namibia, is a parasitic plant and lives in the soil. African egrets have no leaves, and the whole plant has no chlorophyll. All the nutrients come from the roots of another plant. Its flowers will be exposed on the ground after heavy rain or strong wind, but these pink or big red fleshy flowers are often ignored because they are often hidden in the trees that act as hosts.

The taste of African egret flower is very different from its name. These flowers will smell like feces, thus attracting waves of scavengers to pollinate them. African egret flower is not only a "master of disguise", but also a "killer without blinking an eye". African egret flowers will bind small insects that can't get rid of pollination with small tentacles in petals, and then use the bodies of these small insects as their own nourishment. The fruit of African egret flower grows in soil and often takes two years to mature. According to some wild adventurers, the fruit of African egret flower tastes like sweet potato.

Shitouhua

Stone flower has a quite literary scientific name, Selaginella squamosa, which is famous for its super viability in the plant world. It can survive in extremely dry climate for several years. When the moisture in the ground surface and air is extremely low, the leaves of the stone flower will wither and the whole plant will curl into a ball. Even if 95% water is lost, as long as the root system is not damaged, the stone flower can continue to survive in a dormant way, and its endurance is necessary.

Once the stone flower gets moisture again, the balls that were originally compressed into a ball will open one by one in a few hours, and the dry leaves will become bright and moist again, as if they were coming back to life, so the stone flower is also called resurrection moss. In some parts of Mexico, stone flowers are regarded as a symbol of luck and rebirth, and locals also wear them on their bodies, which means absorbing negative energy and getting lucky care.

Dipflagellates

Dipflagellate is a unicellular aquatic plankton. Because it contains fluorescein and luciferase, it will produce a chemical reaction and emit blue light when stimulated by the external environment. Dinoflagellate is rarely distributed in the world, mainly concentrated in two Caribbean islands: Mosquito Bay on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, and luminous lagoon near falmouth, Jamaica.

Shuang Bian hair only glows when stimulated by the outside world, and its brightness is weak. Therefore, only at night, when you stir the lake with your hands or paddles, these creatures will present you with the beautiful scenery of "Yingying Lake with stars".

Sugar coated mushrooms

When you go hiking in the oak forest in the northwest of the United States, you will smell the sweet smell floating in the air from time to time, like candy and ice cream, and you will find that this sweet fragrance comes from an inconspicuous orange mushroom. From the appearance alone, the sugar-covered mushroom is no different from other mushrooms growing in the grass, but when you smell it up close, the sweet taste will make you recognize it.

When cooked, mushrooms wrapped in sugar will give off a fragrance similar to maple syrup. Therefore, many bakeries and ice cream shops will use sugar-coated mushrooms to decorate desserts such as flavored biscuits and ice cream. Some chefs also found that dried mushrooms wrapped in sugar are more fragrant, so they dried mushrooms and ground them into powder, and added them to dishes or drinks to become a unique delicacy.

Peach airfoil

Just as there are herbivores in the animal kingdom, there are "carnivores" in the plant kingdom, and bottle grass is one of the best. Unlike most plants, which absorb energy through photosynthesis, rosewood needs to gain energy by preying on insects such as ants, wasps or flies. Bottle grass can be found everywhere in tropical wetland ecosystems around the world.

Every spring, a flower with a diameter of 4-7 cm grows on the top of the airfoil of Saxifraga, just like a pair of wings, which is the origin of its name. The length of the bottle will vary according to different types, generally about 20 to 60 cm. In order to attract insects, Sargassum fusiforme will emit a kind of honey juice, and bugs will follow these sweet temptations and step by step into fatal traps.

White berries

White raspberry is a plant native to eastern North America, with a height of about 50 to 60 cm. Besides bright red stems and branches, the most attractive thing about white berries is their fruits. The fruit of white berries is milky white and has a black pedicle, which looks like an eyeball, so white berries are also called doll eyes.

The fruit of white raspberry contains cardiogenic toxin, which is the strongest part of the whole plant and will have a direct sedative effect on human myocardial tissue. If you eat it by mistake, it will lead to cardiac arrest and even death. But interestingly, white berries are not toxic to birds, even their favorite food.

Sheep chrysanthemum

Vegetable sheep is a grass mat plant growing in New Zealand, which is mostly distributed in arid and rocky mountainous areas. Rabbits that once flooded New Zealand seriously damaged the local vegetation, and vegetable sheep were not spared. Although the number of rabbits was later controlled and the vegetation slowly recovered, vegetable sheep were still rare. The leaves of vegetable sheep are like fluff. From a distance, it looks like a sheep stuck to the ground, hence its name.

The "wool-like" leaves of vegetable sheep can prevent the loss of water when the climate in mountainous areas is dry, and the growth structure close to the ground also allows them to avoid the cold mountain wind. Under the clouds of leaves, there are all kinds of humus, which can provide nutrients for vegetable sheep and keep water like a sponge.