Make notes on 5 unusual plants. Provide their common names and briefly describe their unusual characteristics.

Make notes on 5 unusual plants?

• provide their common names and briefly describe their characteristics

• Answer:

  Pregnant onion (Ornithogalum longebracteatum) a poisonous, semi translucient succulent plant that has long strappy leaves, grows as big as a softball, and produces babies in the outer skin of the bulb that appear as pregnancies, hence the name. Rosary plant, String of hearts, Hearts entangled (ceropegia woodii) a long lived succulent that has small heartshaped leaves, long wiry stems with tuberous swellings along the stems that look like beads and can be used to start new plants Arum Italicum, a semi evergreen aroid that has arrow shaped leaves, produces a large spath flower and has pretty red berries in the fall Crown of thorns (euphorbia millii) a poisonous succulent that can grow up to 25' tall, has thick white sap that produces numbness at contact with the skin, will flower everyday for years if properly cared for Monkey cup (Nepenthes sp.) carnivorous pitcher plants that have their cups hanging from the ends of their leaves, a large family with over 100 named species endemic to the tropics.