This is a continuation of my previous post collections for your extra details concerning the unusual flowers. You can get plenty of wisdom from this second article to your advice what unconventional flowers you want to plant in your backyard.
Philippine Wax Flower
Belongs to the family Zingerberaceae using its binomial name as Etlingera elatior. This herbaceous perennial plant is also known as Torch Ginger, Ginger Flower, Red Ginger Lily, Torch Lily, Wild Ginger, Combrang, Bunga Siantan, Xiang Bao Jiaing, Indonesian Tall Ginger, Boca de Dragon, Rose de Porcelaine or Porcelain Rose, and Philippine Wax Flower.
Its blossoms are used in ornamental flower arrangements. Some sections of its blossom, such as the flower buds are used as a ingredient in the Nonya dish and laksa. Additionally, it is used for a dish called arsik ikan mas or Andaliman/Szechuan pepper spiced carp in North Sumatra.
Laksa is a favorite spicy noodle soup in the Peranakan culture, a mix of Chinese and Malay that’s widespread in Malaysia, Singapore and prolonged up to Indonesia.
The Nonyan Dish or Nonya cuisine is a mixture of the Chinese and Malay culture dishes that formed a unique mix of dishes.
Night-blooming Cereus
Cereus greggii, is a grey cactus that sprawl throughout the sand. It sprouts a couple of ribbed, twiggy stems with delicate spines throughout its whole plant and looks dead once you see it. It blooms a blossom and perfumes that the dry air throughout the night, thus the title Queen of the Night. This special plant is located in the Sonora and Chihuahua deserts of Arizona, Texas, and northern part of Mexico.
As the sun goes down, this plant opens its blossom with a size of 8 inches long and 4 inches wide. Its odor spreads up to 30 meters radius. Some nocturnal insect pollinators, like hawk moths and others feed on the nectar and in the exact same pollinates the flower. After being pollinated, the flower close up and do not open anymore.
Pollinated blossom developed an oblong, spiny, red-orange fruit and once from the ground grows and develop from a tuberous taproot that’s edible for consumption.
American Pitcher Plant
This special plant is a native of North America. It’s a five-petal led blossoms that emerges from the floor using a colors of yellow from light pink to red and nod downward from a 1-3 feet stalk. The flowers are scented that lasts 1-2 months to attract bees to pollinate the blossoms.
The attractive colors of its blossoms lures insects into its sweet nectar which comprises a narcotic, coniine which leads to paralysis of the insects and after end their lives.
The insects afterwards becomes liquefied and the plant reabsorb the soup part where the plant gets its nutrients necessary like nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and other elements derived from the insects trapped.
Rainbow Plant
This plant is related to butterworts, but they trap insects such as the sundews. Insects are attracted to the radiation in all directions of the wispy stems using the fringy leaves. The insects flock into the dew (which are tacky glue) that covers the entire plant which makes it simmer with rainbow colours.
While the plant is showing its radiance to attract insects, it provokes a mysterious receptor and bacteria-free digestive juice which breaks down the insects soft tissue and finally soften to readily being absorbed into the plant’s body cells.
Sea Holly
Additionally it is referred to as Rattlesnake-Master, Sea Holm, Spiny Cilantro, and Miss Wilmott’s Ghost, it’s a hardy perennial that blooms in the latter half of summer. It develops from 18-36 inches tall with a one-foot spread.
A native of Iran and the Caucasus, it is associated with Queen Anne’s Lace, parsley, fennel, and anise. It’s blossoms has no odor, but are best for dried flower arrangements.
Sea holly tolerates in full sun with great drainage moist soil. It develops from a deep taproot and it is easily grown from seeds. Germination usually takes around ten weeks, a very long wait. So, you’ve to advance your planting to grab the time for the ideal climate to grow this plant.
