Stapelia Lepida
Looking to add something unusual to your plant collection? Take a look at these exotic specimens and carnivorous plants. These incredible living decorations are more than your typical houseplants. They are a wonder of nature because of their unusual foliage and flowers, their survival techniques and how they capture their prey. So, whether you’re looking for a plant with unique scientific traits, or want to go a little dark and goth with your plant decor, check out these 26 beauties.
This sinister succulent lives low to the ground where it bides its time until flowering when the real action starts. Stapelia lepida's starfish-shaped flowers emit the smell of rotting flesh, enticing flies (which pollinate the flower), to lay their larva on its stinky blooms. But it's all a scam: the flies have been lured to the plant mistaking it for rotting meat and their larva will inevitably die without a food source.
