These 20 Plants Will Scare The Heck Out Of You. #13? Nope, Nope, Nope.

[Catty1]

13.) Black bat flower. Nope. Just nope.

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14.) Doll's Eye. Alright now that's just downright scary.

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15.) Burdett’s Banksia. Haunting.

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16.) Chinese Lantern. I'm getting chills just looking at this one.

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17.) Spider-orchid. Now they're bringing spiders into this?!

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18.) Coral Fungi. Looks like plastic.

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19.) Amorphophallus titanum AKA the corpse flower.

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20.) Laughing face orchid. Whew alright this one actually looks cute.

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Well, that settles it. I'm never going outside again. Nature, you win this round. I'll just stay inside thank you very much.

[Vette]

So both of the biggest flowers in the world smell like something dead?
seeing the Hydnora Africana made me want to dig out my old Nintendo an play Mario Brothers though LOL

[Karen]

Most of these are not frightening at all! Some are fascinating, but not one is scary!

[cassiesmom]

I heard this story on the news about the corpse flower at the Michigan State Botanic Garden being in bloom earlier this summer and attracting lots of visitors...

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/co...ch-graces-msu/

But 3, 4, and 7 .... ick, ick, ick!

[momcat]

Thanks Candace - this is a fascinating thread. I love the ones that look like little monkeys. I'd love to see many of them live and in person but I think I'll pass on the corpse flower. That one was featured on an episode of "CSI". Nature is full of awesome wonders like these plants. Kind of makes me wonder what else is out there that nobody has found yet.