The rarest flowers in the world - the description and photo (Top 15)

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On Earth, there are many plants, however, deserve special attention the rarest flowers in the world.All of them are listed in the Red Book and are endangered.Some grow in the wild, but some specimens can be observed only in botanical gardens, where they learn and they create special conditions for life.

Campion (Gibraltar Campion) Silene Tomentosa

habitat of this rare species is a rock.The most suitable climate for it - in the area of ​​the Strait of Gibraltar.For a long time, scientists believed that the rare flowers disappeared forever, while in the 90-ies of XX century, they have not been re-discovered by a group of climbers.Today, the plant is grown under special conditions.

With rare instances can be found in London's Royal Botanic Gardens, or at home in Gibraltar, where it is also cultivated.Its seeds are carefully protected in a special bank account.

Jade Brush

This unique plant genus of woody vines are extremely rare in the Philippine jungle.This incredible beauty of the plant, bunches of which grow to three meters.Hue flower varies from turquoise to mint.

As tropical trees are actively cut down, many rare flowers are on the verge of extinction.The thing is that pollination is due to bats, which are also uncomfortable in the new environmental conditions.At night, the flower of the light, and this attracts pollinators.Grow plants in artificial conditions is not obtained.

Venus Slipper (yellow and purple)

extremely rare populations of these colors can be found in different parts of Europe.The difficulty lies in cultivating that create artificial growing conditions almost impossible.Eating seeds obtained not from the parent plant, and from a specific microorganism fungus.

After a while the leaves appear independent and blooming yellow "shoes" with purple mustache.Purchase process can only wealthy people or those who are truly in love with a unique flower.

Ghost Orchid

plant long believed to be extinct, but recently scientists have found it again.This type of orchid is almost no leaves, and power is due to symbiosis with fungal microorganisms living in its roots.The plant itself can be about 3 years under ground, continuing to exist, and only then presents the world the wonderful flowers.

cadaveric Giant Titan Arum lily of Sumatra

incredible beauty and size of the flower grows up to 2 meters.

sometimes to consider it, we have to climb the stairs.The rarest flowers of this plant appear 1 every 25-40 years.A feature of the plant is its unpleasant smell, which manifests itself exclusively in the bloom.Pollinators are beetles and flies, attracted by the smell of spoiled (corrupting) meat.Power gets from a rare flower vines.

Camellia red

rarest flowers in the world - the group to which it belongs, and the plant that exists in two copies in the botanical gardens of London, and New Zealand.China is considered the homeland.The flowers are very similar to scarlet roses.There is speculation that the plant can be grown in private gardens.

Kadupullus

special feature is that the flowering occurs very rarely.Not everyone who has visited Sri Lanka (homeland kadupullusa) falls fortune to admire them, because the flower blooms only at midnight, and quickly dies.

Buddhists have believed that kadupullus is a gift of the Buddha from the mythical creatures.

Parrots Beak (Lotus Bertelotii)

studying photos of the most rare flowers, involuntarily pay attention to a bright flower in the form of the bird's beak.Homeland plants are the Canary Islands, but in the wild it is not found.Flower cultivated on private farms, it can also be purchased as a house plant.

Kokai Cookei, or flower Kokio

beautiful and rare flowers of the world need special care and attention.Huge efforts have been made scientists to save the tree with unique flowers.Its seedlings do not survive, and after the fire, survived only one branch, which instilled and other trees.

best conditions for growing Kokio established in Hawaii, where it is now possible to enjoy the unique plant.At the height of the trees often exceed 10 meters.

Predator Drosera Capensis (Cape sundew)

liquid droplets are both adhesive which sticks firmly insect, and digestive enzymes.

Cape sundew can grow in the home, but it requires a high amount of moisture, little light and a certain temperature is not above 12 ° C.Create an environment and on your windowsill will be a real "fighter" mosquitoes, midges, ants.

Flower Franklin

in a certain period of the plant produces a flower that resembles a tea rose, but painted white.The first trees found in Georgia, in the valley where the river Alatamaha.It is believed that the plant has survived thanks to avid gardeners, who for many years worked cultivated and planted it.

Cosmos chocolate

The group of rare flowers includes this kind that was grown artificially.In the wild, this flower is not found.It grows from the seeds, which are very expensive.

The plant will be a real decoration of your home or office because it comes from the amazing chocolate-vanilla flavor.The flowers are painted in different colors - from red to burgundy and brown.

Utan Peninsula neighborhood

Not all rare flowers need to create certain conditions.Some quite unpretentious, but you can find them in the most unexpected places.For example, plant Utan Peninsula neighborhood was first found in the steel pipe during cleaning.

At the same time a flower can be seen on statues of Buddha covered in gold.Plants and feels comfortable here.

Nepenthes or flower pitcher

capricious plant, which belongs to the genus of shrub and subshrub vines.It grows in areas of Sumatra to Borneo.Many sub-species included in the Red Book, as the plant demanded to environmental conditions.

flower belongs to the predators that feed on insects.Interestingly, many of the developing both type 2 "pots": the top catches the flying mosquitoes, crawling bugs feed on the bottom.Inside the tank filled with liquid in which the insects drown and are digested.

Sunflower Schweinitzii

rare plant that is found in limited quantities in the US.After careful study populations were about 85, each grows no more than 45 units.

Save this plant - a difficult task to be solved by scientists and botanists around the world!