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sheshe2

(83,746 posts) Thu Aug 1, 2013, 08:05 PM Aug 2013

Nature~ It's amazing!

More flowers that look like something else!

Lamprocapnos spectabilis - the bleeding heart flower.
Psychotria elata - hooker's lips.
Orchis italica - naked man orchid.
Habenaria radiata - the white egret flower

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Nature~ It's amazing! (Original Post) sheshe2 Aug 2013 OP

This one is my favorite, the giant montane pitcher plant of Borneo, The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2013 #1

I could use one of those shrews at my house pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #3

Thanks, I love it! sheshe2 Aug 2013 #4

Sweet, thanks sheshe2. Scuba Aug 2013 #2

Yeah, but can it sing "Sympathy for the Devil"? pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #5

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. This one is my favorite, the giant montane pitcher plant of Borneo,

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Thu Aug 1, 2013, 08:15 PM

Aug 2013

Nepenthes rajah, also known as the toilet plant. It attracts a kind of tree shrew, who licks the nectar off the "lid" and poops into the "toilet." The plant lives on tree shrew poop.