Rare Flowers

Flowers don’t worry about how they are going to bloom. They just open up and turn towards the light and that makes them beautiful-Jim Carrey So very true for these vulnerable, beautiful colorful flowers that bloom in spring. Yes the world is complete with its flora. But just imagine what the world would be without them. It would have been really very lifeless as flowers brighten up the entire universe with its different colors, shapes and fragrances. Flowers are used for every occasion and are needed when in happiness, in sadness, in enjoyment, in love and in almost every function. Flowers are vibrant and have inspired many a poet in describing beauty. Though short lived, flowers mean a lot and say a lot of unspoken words. Some flowers are very rare to find and are termed as rare flowers. It is not easy to come to a conclusion of which flower is the rarest of them.

Jade Vine

This claw shaped Blue green flowers especially get its name because of the color itself. It hangs down in beauty and is a spectacular sight. Another rare fact of the jade vine is that they are pollinated by bats which turn upside down and drink their nectar. These rare flowers are seen only in the Philippines and sadly the deforestation has destroyed the natural habitat it enjoyed and now it’s no more.

Corpse Flower

The native flower of Sumatra the Corpse flower is also seen in the low lying rainforests of Indonesia. Its stinking odour like the remains of decomposing flesh gives it this name Corpse flower. It grows to be very tall almost 3 meter high. It is among the rarest, largest, endangered species of flowers.

Parrot’s Beak

A dramatic and spectacular looking unique claw like flower that makes it a rare beauty and an almost extinct one from the native Canary Islands. It was believed to be pollinated by the sunbirds which themselves have been extinct as of now. This plant has been experimented for pollination by other birds but nothing turned out to be fruitful which again puts this in the rare categories of flowers.

Franklin Altamaha

It is known as the Franklin tree. This delicate rare and beautiful flower with a wonderful fragrance is extinct but all efforts are made to revive these flowers and a nursery in the UK has been successful in doing so. Discovered by the Philadelphia botanists John and William Bartram way back in 1765 on the banks of the Altamaha River in Georgia, USA they named it after their dear friend Benjamin Franklin.

Gibraltar Campion

A rare flowering plant of the genus Silene found only on the rock tops of the Gibraltar gives it that unique name. Almost extinct this pale pink or violet bilobed flower has been re-discovered and now is protected by the law of Gibraltar under the Nature Protection Act.

Chocolate Cosmos

These absolutely adorable chocolate brown ornamental flowers are truly beautiful flowers of native Mexico and have already been extinct over a hundred years back but one has been cloned but it is non fertile. Its vanilla essence fragrance and the deep brown color give it the name.

Yellow and Purple Lady Slippers

Nothing can match the similarity of cute ladies slippers than this. Categorised in the extremely rarest exotic beauty which is over 100 years, this plant is seen in Europe. Britain’s golf club boasts of having them in the Golf course but because of its precious status and just a single plant it is very expensive and so to save to from man and the golf ball it has special orders for their protection from the queen towards its safety.

Middle mist Red

It is among the rarest of flowers originally from China named after the gardener Mr John Middlemist who brought it almost 200 years ago to a greenhouse in the UK, and also seen in a garden in New Zealand. Though rare its survival is a great effort made by the conservative officials to let the plant still be there in full bloom.

Parrot Flower

Nature is the greatest artist we can agree with these lines if we see this exotic spectacular flower in the shape of a bird, a parrot to be more precise with its protruding beak. Found only in Thailand and eastern parts of Asia this rare beautiful plant grows to almost 6 feet tall like a weed with beautiful parrot shaped flowers dangling on them.

Ghost Orchid

The rare flowers named as ghost orchid is a very delicate flower. Its ghostly figure with the two long tendrils looks like they are floating in the air which gives it the name. Sadly the plant is extinct almost 20 years back. The peculiarity of this plant is that does not have leaves infact the leaves are reduced to scales. It is an endangered Orchid of the Wild. Can we save these rare creations of the Universe from being EXTINCT?