12 Most Unusual Beautiful Flowers

Flame Lily

This rare flowering plant is native of tropical regions of Africa & Asia and is naturalized in Australia and the Pacific as well as being widely cultivated and belongs to Colchicaceae family. Flame Lily normally grows as tuberous climbing plant and produces strange red or yellow flowers with wavy edges. It is the national flower of Zimbabwe. The most common English names are flame lily, gloriosa lily, glory lily fire lily, superb lily, climbing lily, and creeping lily.

Bee Orchid

Bee Orchid comes from the Mediterranean regions and belongs to the orchid family. This perennial plant produces between one and ten flowers on each spike every summer. Ophrys apifera, recognized in Europe as the bee orchid, is a permanent herbaceous plant belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The flowers emit allomones that entice the bee species Tetralonia cressa and Eucera pulveraceae. 

Corpse Lily 

This is amazing flower and is the largest flower in the world. It is unique and hard to find in its habitat which is the rainforests of Bengkulu, Sumatra Island and Indonesia. Flowers emit bad smell and can be as wide as one meter wide and weigh up to 11 kilogram.

Bird of Paradise Flower “Strelitzia”

Bird of Paradise also identified as Crane Flower is another uncommon flower from South Africa. The plant belongs to the Strelitziaceae family and produced strangely colorful and beautiful flowers that resemble a bird of paradise. The beautiful flowers are formed in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe, and are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers.

Huernia Oculata  

Huernia oculata, with its exclusive looking flowers, is one of the most gems like of all. The corolla is blackish purple velvety with a pure white center which has given upsurge to the saying that the flowers are like an eye. It is narrowly related to Huernia hislopii. This flowering plant actually belongs to the family of Apocynaceae. The plant produces slight succulent stems that can be used to propagate the plant. The plant is impartially easy to grow in well-drained soil and dry climate.

Bleeding Heart

A species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, native to Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan.  It is valued in gardens and in floristry for its heart-shaped pink and white flowers (that are poisonous). It is also known as “lady-in-a-bath”.

Snake’s Head

A species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. Its other common names include chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, checkered lily or, in northern Europe, simply fritillary.

Maypop Passionflower

A fast growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems with large, intricate flowers with prominent styles and stamens. A member of the passionflower genus Passiflora, and it is a common wildflower in the southern United States. Also famous as purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot, and wild passion vine.

Torch Ginger.

It is a species of herbaceous perennial plant, and it is an exceptionally red, waxy flower found throughout gardens in Costa Rica. The eye-catching flowers are used in decorative arrangements while the flower buds are a vital ingredient in the Nonya dish laksa. In North Sumatra, the flower buds are used for a dish called arsik ikan mas

Sea Poison Tree Flower

A species of Barringtonia commonly originate along the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. They have a sickly sweet smell that entices bats and moths at night. It is grown along streets for decorative and shade purposes in some parts of India. It is also identified as Box Fruit due the distinct box-shaped fruit it produces. The local name futu is the source of the name for the Polynesian island Futuna. All parts of the tree are poisonous, the active poisons including saponins.

Amorphophallus titanum

 Amorphophallus titanum is famous as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The titan arum's inflorescence is not as large as that of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, but the inflorescence of the talipot palm is branched rather than unbranched. Due to its odor, which is evocative of the smell of a decomposing mammal, the titan arum is considered as a carrion flower, and is also recognized as the corpse flower, or corpse plant. For the same reason, the title corpse flower is also attributed to the genus Rafflesia which, like the titan arum, grows in the rainforests of Sumatra.

Laelia, Flower

It is abbreviated L. in the horticultural trade, is a small genus of 25 species from the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This is one of the most important and popular orchid genera, because of the beautiful flowers, their genetic properties and because they are fairly easy in culture. Laelia flowers are found in the subtropical or temperate climate of Central America, but mostly in Mexico. Laelia speciosa preferring sunny, dry and cool conditions, and grow in the rainforest with a warm, humid summer and a dry cool winter.