The first weird plant is the White Baneberry.
Actaea pachypoda or baneberry is a small ball type plant native to North American forests. It is also called as doll’s eye because of its special shaped fruits. This plant stands 60 cm tall and only has very few leaves. It’s red thick stems also look very attractive.
- The fruits of white baneberry are toxic
- The flowers of white baneberry are very small, only have the size of 6mm
The second weird plant is the Hydnellum Peckii
Hydnellum peckii is a special type of fungi that produce blood or juice like fluid on its surface. This plant is also known as ‘bleeding tooth fungus’. It is the Scarlet pigment causes blood like the color on the fluid of this plant. This strange plant mainly found across North America and Europe. It is edible, but the blood like fluid is extremely bitter in taste.
- Hydnellum peckii has an unpleasant odor
- The color of fluids on Hydnellum peckii can be varied as orange or pink
the three similarities for two these plants is
they both have two names, the look weird and yucky
Hi Lydia
ReplyDeleteThe hydnellum peckii freaks me out! It looks like it is oozing blood. I can't believe that it is edible. I looks VERY poisonous. I find it funny that you can eat it and you can't eat the white baneberry.
If you had to keep one as a house plant, what would it be and why?
Blog you later,
Izzy