The 10 flowers below are not only beautiful but they are also extremely rare flowers. You will be surprised to know that some flowers only have a few individuals in the world. If you have the opportunity to admire these beautiful flowers, you are indeed a lucky person.
1. Flower Jade Vine - Tiger's nail flower
Jade Vine flowers originate from the Philippines, the scientific name is Strongylodon macrobotrys, belonging to the legume family.
In Vietnam, they are often called tiger nails or marble flowers. Belonging to the legume family, the Jade Vine trunk can be more than 18m long, the blue flowers have beautiful long claws.
In the natural environment, Jade Vine is only pollinated by bats and very few plants can flower normally.
2. Flower Champion
Champion flowers are only found in Gibraltar. In 1992, scientists assumed that the Champion flower was extinct until a climber discovered a single flower on the cliffs around Gibraltar in 1994.
3. Chocolate marigold - Cosmos atrosanguineus
Can only be found in Mexico, this flower has been thought to be extinct in nature for over 100 years. But luckily, these rare flowers are found again.
This marigold has a chocolate-like color and aroma, 3-4cm in diameter.
4. Flower parrot - Lotus berthelotii
In 1884, parrot flowers were classified into the extremely rare flower group of the world. This flower was once considered extinct, but fortunately some specimens were discovered in their homeland, the Canary Islands. Currently, parrots are grown and bred in laboratories only.
5. Kokai cookei
This extremely rare flower only lives in Hawaii. In 1860, the Kokai cookei flower was discovered, when it had only three individuals still in the world. This flower was proved to be too difficult to preserve, the last Kokai tree of the three plants found died in 1950, when the flower was considered extinct.
After that, the miraculous thing happened, a branch of Kokai flower was saved and propagated into 23 individuals to this day.
6. Ghost orchid - Epipogium aphyllum
This flower is very special, it must take nutrition from a fungal transplant on the body but cannot photosynthesize itself without leaves.
Ghost orchid name comes from characteristics that can live underground for many years. Biologists once believed that they had become extinct for 20 years but it reappeared. The orchid plants only flower when all conditions are met, so it is very difficult to have a chance to admire this rare flower.
7. Yellow purple orchid - Cypripedium calceolus
This wild flower is only available in the UK and is considered a national treasure, so it is strictly protected. If you want to own a branch of this flower, people need to spend up to 5000USD, that is enough to see how rare it is.
8. Kadupul flower
Kadupul is very easy to grow but rarely flowers, so it is still classified as the rarest flower.
Kadupul flower with scientific name is the scientific name Epiphyllum oxypetalum, a kind of flower in quỳnh. This flower is found in Sri Lanka, worshiped by Buddhism for spiritual reasons.
9. Flower Udumbara - Youtan Poluo
Youtan Poluo was first discovered by a Chinese farmer in his steel pipe. The flowers are made up of 29 tiny pieces, pure white and quite fragrant. According to botanists, this flower only blooms once every 3000 years.
10. Scavengers - Corpse
Corpse is a very special flower, which can only be found in Sumatra. It has an impressive height of up to 6 feet, without stems, leaves and roots. This giant flower, when blooming, will produce a very unpleasant rotten flesh smell to attract flies and beetles to pollinate it. Corpse flowers are arguably the world's most rare, largest and most extinct flower.
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