Weird Plants
This is the largest flower on Earth. It grows in the rainforest of Southeast Asia. It can be 3 feet across and weigh 24 pounds! You wouldn’t want to smell this flower. It smells like dead fish!
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The venus flytrap is another strange plant. It grows in North and South Carolina. Can you tell what is trapped between its leaves? That is a fly! Ants, spiders, and even tiny frogs can be trapped.
Photo Credit: Steven P. Lynch
Did you know this a flower? What does it look like? Some call it the crane flower. It looks like the head of a type of bird called a crane. This plant can grow to be 5 feet tall!
What Do You Think? Look around. Do you see any “weird” plants?
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Photo Credit: Traci Tatman