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Weird Plants Cards Art from Weird Plants by Chris Thorogood Weird Plants Cards Art from Weird Plants by Chris Thorogood WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT 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 leaves, 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 flower. “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. WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT Rothschild’s Flying Duck Orchid Monkey-Face Dutchman’s Pipe Titan Arum Slipper Orchid Caleana major Orchid Aristolochia spp. Amorphophallus titanum Paphiopedilum rothschildianum Category: Fraudster Plant Dracula simia Category: Jailer Plant Category: Jailer Plant Location: S. and E. Australia 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 sawflies into pollen- wither to release them – also known of tiny flowers and takes 7–10 years Features: Sepals 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 sawfly-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. WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT WEIRD PLANT 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 petals 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. WEIRD PLANT Traveller’s Palm Ravenala madagascariensis Category: Hitch-hiker Plant Location: Madagascar Features: Flowering plant 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. CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD CLUE CARD 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. CLUE CARD Forest mammals spread my seeds after eating my sweet fruit. My fruit emits a foul odor. .
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