Weird Cards Art from Weird Plants by Chris Thorogood

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Rafflesia Hydnora Low’s Pitcher Plant Trumpet Pitcher Venus Flytrap Rafflesia arnoldii Hydnora africana Nepenthes lowii Sarracenia flava Dionaea muscipula

Category: Vampire Plant Category: Vampire Plant Category: Killer Plant Category: Killer Plant Category: Killer Plant Location: N. Borneo Location: Semi-deserts in S. Africa Location: N. Borneo mountainside Location: Swamps of S.E. US Location: Wetlands of the Carolinas Features: Lacks , roots and Features: No chlorophyll and takes Features: Tree shrew excretes in Features: Stuns insects to fall into Features: Trap closes if hairs are stems, and lives in tissue of a host nutrients from other plants’ roots. pitcher giving plant nutrients. pool of digestive juices. touched more than once, or if multiple plant. World’s largest . “World’s weirdest plant.” hairs are touched. Pollinator: Tree shrews attracted by Pollinator: Insects attracted by sweet Pollinator: Flies, attracted by stinky Pollinator: Dung beetles attracted by nectar. nectar & colors. Pollinator: Insects, small amphibians odor. feces-like odor. & reptiles attracted by sweet nectar.

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Rothschild’s Flying Duck Orchid Monkey-Face Dutchman’s Pipe Titan Arum Slipper Orchid major Orchid Aristolochia spp. Amorphophallus titanum Paphiopedilum rothschildianum Category: Fraudster Plant Category: Jailer Plant Category: Jailer Plant Location: S. and E. Category: Fraudster Plant Category: Fraudster Plant Location: Most continents Location: Forests of Sumatra Features: Flower looks like flying Location: Mt. Kinabalu in N. Borneo Location: Central and South America Features: Hairs trap insects and then Features: Inflorescence is a bunch duck & fling into pollen- wither to release them – also known of tiny and takes 7–10 years Features: covered with spots covered reproductive structures. Features: Flower resembles a monkey as birthworts. to bloom attracting wasps wanting to lay eggs. and lower lip looks like a mushroom Pollinator: Male sawflies attracted Extremely rare. Pollinator: Insects attracted by color Pollinator: Insects attracted by female -shaped flowers. Pollinator: Fungus gnats attracted by & smell of flower. by corpse-like smell. Pollinator: Parasitic wasps attracted mushroom scent. by small green aphid-looking dots.

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Bird Of Paradise Bat Pitcher Plant Half-Mens Coco De Mer Strelitzia reginae Nepenthes hemsleyana Pachypodium namaquanum Lodoicea maldivica Durian Durio zibethinus Category: Accomplice Plant Category: Accomplice Plant Category: Survivor Plant Category: Survivor Plant Category: Hitch-hiker Plant Location: Cape Provinces of S. Africa Location: Borneo Location: S. Africa’s northern Location: Seychelles Islands cape and S. Namibia Location: S.E. Asia Features: Sunbird perches on Features: Provides roosting site for Features: Largest seed in plant king- which spring open revealing pollen. bats as they nourish plant with their Features: Silhouette looks like a person. dom-only 3 populations left in world Features: Strong, foul odor Perennial plant. guano. Stores large amounts of water and lives from limited seed dispersal. and sweet fruit. several hundred years. Succulent plant. Pollinator: Sunbird attracted by beak- Pollinator: Woolly bats attracted by Pollinator: Unknown, suspected to Pollinator: Mammals like orangutans like shape and colorful flower. reflection of bat calls. Pollinator: Ants & bees attracted by sap. be by bees & lizards, wind and water. spread seeds after eating fruit. Bats pollinate flowers.

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Traveller’s Palm Ravenala madagascariensis

Category: Hitch-hiker Plant Location: Madagascar Features: related to Bird of Paradise. Not a true palm. Pollinator: Lemurs attracted by blue seed pods. CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD

My stinky odor My sepals are I live underground I trick my pollinator I can be found in attracts flies. covered with in the desert until I into thinking I’m a North Borneo. spots that look like bloom. female sawfly. I live off a host plant I am known as a toilet aphids to attract my and don’t have a Dung beetles like me. I can be found in for the tree shrew. pollinator. stem, leaves or Australia. roots. I am extremely rare.

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I can be found in My bright colors and I can be known as a I can be found in I smell like a corpse. Central and South sweet nectar attract birthwort. North or South It takes me 7-10 years America. insects. I produce a Carolina. I’m found on most to bloom. paralyzing narcotic to I smell like a continents. I can catch small stun insects. mushroom. amphibians, reptiles or insects. CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD

I am like a diving I can be found in I can be found in I can live several I have the largest board for a sunbird. Madagascar. Borneo. hundred years by seed in the plant I am a perennial. Lemurs like my large, I am nourished by bat storing water in my kingdom. trunk. blue seed pods. guano. No one knows I am a succulent. exactly how I am pollinated.

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Forest mammals spread my seeds after eating my sweet fruit. My fruit emits a foul odor.