Naughty Plants! Creepy, Stinky, Deadly Killer-Plants

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.

Also known as the dead horse arum lily, the equine stench of this flower attracts pollinator flies.

This predatory Venus flytrap has massive, bright red traps rimmed with unusually long teeth. When triggered, tiny hairs inside the trap will close in a fraction of a second, capturing its prey and slowly digesting it.

Also known as dragon arum, black arum and voodoo lily, Dracunculus vulgaris features a ruby flower known for emitting a short-lived but pungent scent of rotten meat.

The splattered blood appearance of the Drosera spatulata var. lovellae is enough to make you cringe. Its leaves and tentacles turn a striking scarlet color under bright sunlight to attract and catch flies and other insects. Critters make contact, triggering a curling reaction allowing the plant to wrap around its prey to digest and absorb the victim’s nutrients.

Also known as Chinese lantern, this striking plant — a member of the nightshade family — is part of a unique ritual in Japan where its seeds are used as offerings to guide the souls of the deceased. We love the spooky look of the dried flower which has the appearance of a beating heart trapped within a shell of veins.

The delicate, pink-rimmed leaves of the Pinguicula Pirouette butterwort are a fungus gnat’s worst nightmare. The plant's leaves — shaped like pointy vampire ears — are sticky, so when an insect lands on them, they get stuck and can’t fly away.

Flies and mosquitoes are among the preferred meals for the Drosera venusta sundew. Its vivid red-orange and bright red tendrils — that look like blood splatters — attract its prey and curl up to begin its process of digesting and absorbing the insect.

Say her name three times in a row, and you may just summon Bloody Mary through the Nepenthes Lovely Mirror. Its enticing reddish color attracts its bait and closes the lid over the top of the pitcher plant — trapping its victim and ensuring that it doesn’t escape.