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Would you put these 10 creepy plants in your garden?

9. Living Dead Plant (Hydnora Africana)

Photo credit: lazypenguins.com
Photo credit: lazypenguins.com

Native to Southern Africa, this plant looks like the ultimate plant with teeth. The plant grows underground, except for a fleshy flower that emerges above ground and emits an odor like feces to attract its natural pollinators such as dung beetles. The flowers act as temporary traps, retaining the beetles that enter long enough for them to pick up pollen. Scary as they look, though, they’re not carnivorous plants. The pollinators inside the flower only find quite some difficulty getting out, but eventually do so.

Written by KM Viray

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