I realized that I’m always talking about animals, which is because that’s an area of interest for me. Yet, nature also has plenty of flowers. I’m going to try to do a few scattered about if I can think of fun topics with them. Today, I got curious and looked up some of the rarest flowers of the world. Stopped myself after nine, so enjoy:
Black Bat Flower- Self-pollination and very delicate
Chocolate Cosmos- Believed to be extinct, but then rediscovered
Corpse Flower- smells like rotting flesh and blooms randomly every 3-8 years
Fire Lily- rare due to modern agricultural practices
Franklin Tree Flower- Extinct in the wild, but cultivated for lawn ornamentation
Ghost Orchid- Critically endangered due to poaching, climate change, and habitat destruction
Middlemist’s Red Camellia- WORLD’S RAREST FLOWER WITH ONLY TWO DOCUMENTED EXAMPLES
Night-Blooming Cereus- Hard to find and slow growth
Youtan Poluo- Said to bloom only once every 3,000 years
Legends of Windemere 
They are all very lovely, Charles, except for maybe the corpse flower. They have one in the arboretum here. It bloomed last year.
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The corpse flower looks cool. I’ve never seen one in person though, so I can’t speak on the smell.
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It’s awful!
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A super assortment. The red camellia is a shocker in that only two plants exist.
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That was surprising.
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I hope I never have to smell a corpse flower. The ghost orchid is very cool.
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Honestly, part of me wants to smell a corpse flower just to see if it’s as bad as people say.
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Haha!
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We need mini corpse flowers to give to people who have offended us. P.u.
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That would definitely send a message.
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I love them all, even a corpse flower. But that ghost orchid is just begging to be made into a creature, like a jungle sprite or something.
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I can see that. Maybe even home to a ghost fae.
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Lovely flowers, Charles. The last one is amazing. How do they estimate that?
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Buddhist scripture says so. Funny thing is that they might not even be plants.
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Interesting. What are they, then? But I suppose sea anemones aren’t plants, and fungi and bacteria aren’t classed as plants, either.
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They might be fungi or bug eggs. Nobody really knows from what I can tell, so the legend stays.
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