Freaky Dragon Blood Tree
The Dragon Tree (Dracaena Cinnabari) is a strange-looking, umbrella-shaped tree native to the Socotra archipelago. It is also referred to as the Dragon Blood Tree and Socotra Dragon Tree. Its red sap was the dragon's blood of the ancients, sought after as a medicine and a dye. It was first formally described by Isaac Bayley Balfour in 1882.
Most Resistant Plant in the World
Namibia's plant, Welwitschia Mirabilis can truly claim to be one of its kind. It can survive up to five years with no rain and consists of only two leaves and a hard stem with roots. These plants can grow to be almost 2 meters high and 8 meters wide and their estimated lifespan is 400 to 1500 years. The plant is said to be very tasty either raw or baked in hot ashes, and this is how it got its other name, Onyanga, which means onion of the desert.
Freaky Bottle Tree
Baobab is the common name of a genus (Adansonia) containing eight species of trees, which is native to Madagascar and also known as the Bottle Tree. Not only do they look like bottles, but these trees typically store around 300 liters of water! It is no wonder why they often live for over 500 years!
Largest Flower in the World
There is one exotic and rare plant you wouldn't likely want to grow anywhere near your garden no matter how cool it is. That would be growing the largest flower in the world. This exotic, very rare, though may not be pretty, rust colored flower is called Rafflesia Arnoldii.
Rafflesia Arnoldii, is the biggest individually produced flower in the world. It gets to be 3 feet across and weighing a whopping 15- 24 pounds. That's pretty darn big but still you would not like this flower in your perennial bed. Why not? If you could mimic a rainforest type environment for this plant, it gives off a most offensive odor when in bloom. This scent is somewhat like rotting meat. This is why it is often called the Corpse Plant by some natives of Indonesia where it originates.
Freaky Shy Plant
Mimosa Pudica (pudica = shy), or the Sensitive Plant, is literally shy: the leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken and reopens within minutes. The species is native to South America, Central America and Southeast Asia countries.
