• Question: What is the most interesting plant you’ve seen?

    Asked by anon-357663 to Alison on 15 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Alison Tidy

      Alison Tidy answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      It is like you were just looking over my shoulder, my daughter is off school because of the strikes so we have been looking up interesting plants. Some to google are;

      Stone plants – Lithrops
      Stinky flowers – Rafflesia arnoldii
      Leaf mimicry – Boquila trifoliolata
      Exploding seeds – Sandbox Tree

      Ones I have seen and grown myself is without doubt the venus fly trap, I love how it shows the diversity of plants, and also that it shows the ability to ‘think’, as it is able to count – if triggered twice in a short period it closes, but if triggered twice but longer time period it stays open. I used to have these as part of my outreach events, as well as Pitcher plants.

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