17 Flowers That Look Like Something Awesome

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Posted : August 2014
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#1 Monkey Orchid (Dracula Simia)

This epiphytic orchid has an arrangement of column petals and a lip that make it look just like a monkey’s face. It blooms at any season and the flowers smell like a ripe orange.

The Language And Meaning Of Rose Colours

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Posted : July 2007

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Expressing feelings of love, affection, friendship, thankfulness, joy and several other feelings that makes our life beautiful and rewarding is not always easy. Some people use poetry, roses and many other things to express their feelings. However sending the appropriate rose color bouquet convey messages in a very special and beautiful way.

The Dangerous and Dreadful Smells of the Cannonball Tree

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Posted : October 2010

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One of the wonders of nature, the cannonball tree is an unusual and definitely strange member of the Brazil nut family that is sacred in some religions.

Top 10 Devil’s Plants

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Posted : January 2010

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What looks red all over and has a long tongue and tail, a pair of horns on his head and holds a huge fork? This creature is very bad that’s why he was banished to a very hot place called hell. The Devil has always been depicted as a creature looking like this. Any of the description above was probably how these plants get their names.

The 10 Most Beautiful Flowers In The World

Flowers are reproductive portion of any flowering plant (i.e angiosperm family). Flowers present a multitude of combinations of colour, size, form, and anatomical arrangement. These days flowers play a very important role in our daily life to balance our social behaviour. Flowers are commercially available in the markets all around the year as these are used to enhance your love expression and happiness. Flowers are used as gifts, gratitude, celebrations and for congratulation. Not only this flowers are also used in sad moments of life i.e mourning, apology or in funerals. In many cultures flowers are an integral parts of wedding ceremonies. Let us look a collection of 10 most beautiful flowers in the world. These may trigger a feeling of happiness and help you to change your mode as flowers help us to stay calm and relaxed.

10 Highly Unusual Plants

The sweet smell of hyacinth or lilac, tailored gardens - normally we associate these sensations with plants and flowers, not rotting flesh, attacks on insects or massive upside down tree trunks. There may not be real man-eating Venus fly traps, but there are certainly some wonders on earth that are rare and highly unusual. From the ranges of the rain forest to the Islands that dot the oceans, these are some of most amazing plants that Mother Nature has for us.

Beautiful Cacti From Around The World

The cactus is a rare and stunning creation of nature. Some, like the Dragon Fruit Cactus, produces fruits that are a delicacy to man. Others simply produces colorful flowers when they bloom in the desert...

1. Cereus Repandus (Dragon Fruit Cactus)

Found in South America as well as the nearby ABC Islands of the Dutch Caribbean.

Beautiful! when electricity passes through flowers

It produces a wonderful effect when electric current passes through the plant. It’s the response to the passage of electric current through the plant's body.

Rarest Orchid

Flowers are beautiful. They come in a huge array of colors and are known to brighten anyone’s day. Every girls loves receiving flowers on special occasions. You may want to consider this one to tell her I love you.

Orchids are not cheap, depending on which one you get the price range is huge, however, I never though I would find one that is at a price tag of $200,000. In 2005 a group of Chinese scientists did agricultural research to grow a very rare unique species of this beautiful flower. Not only is this flower expensive because it was man made, but also because it takes about four or five years to bloom.

p/s : Do any readers out there knew the species of orchid shown in the picture above?

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The Hanging Flower Baskets Park in UAE

The first park in Guinness World Record having largest number of hanging flower baskets is found in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Beautiful But Dangerous

The 7 Most Beautiful But Deadly Flowers in the World
Beautiful as it may be, some flowers are much more than it appears to be. Believe it or not, these seemingly harmless plants can really ruin your vacation. To help you know what flowers to stay away from on your trips, study the list of the world's most attractive but dangerous flowers:
1. Autumn CrocusOne of the most endangered plants in the world, Autumn crocus is also probably the most poisonous. It contains colchicines, a deadly drug used effectively in the treatment for gout. Unlike other toxins found in the flowers above, colchicines, an arsenic-like poison has NO antidote. Autumn crocus poisoning leads to reduced blood pressure and cardiac arrest.