Heyyy plant scientist in training here: yes plants can see!! not traditionally like us with our fancy eyes, but plants are able to detect different colours of light in any part of the plant through lightreceptors called "ocilli". This is for example how every plants detects whether they are in sunlight or shade and then adjusts their stem and growth in order to grow towards their favoured conditions. I can imagine that first plant has adapted itself to see the shape of leaves around them and then mimic, no clue why tho!! Very cool, thanks for showing 🪴💚

I adore these ‘unique’ and ‘weird’ plant videos, especially because you’re very honest about how you feel about them AND because you provide so much care and background information!! So thorough and so fun!! Please keep making them! Thanks so much, Claire!! 🌻

You, fern, and Harli are my favorite plant moms to watch, but I know you and I would be friends IRL. I wish you lived closer! Thank you for all of your hard work and always being your authentic , genuine self 🫶

@rutak2634

2 ай бұрын

Same trio are my faves 🥰

Proposed experiment / project for you to film, Claire: Take cuttings from the same Hoya and try wrapping one clockwise vs another anti clockwise to see differences in growth rates and what it does!

Coming here from watching part 3 first. Now watching them in reverse lol but I love this series and enjoyed it so much. Thank you for such interesting plant content 😊

If one is into the Goth look or wants a spooky Halloween look in their house these weird plants are perfect!!!!

Microsorum thailandicum is well worth the cost, is relatively slow to grow, but very rewarding. If you have some kind of enclosure or consistent temperature and humidity in your home, then you can keep this plant. I keep mine in a concrete-like bowl with a barky mix; with a consistent wicking system for water. They do not like temperatures below 65F. Mine almost died over the Winter because it was drafty.

Hi Claire, loved seeing these plants! A note on the Monanthese, many people grow these more as succulents but if it's grown in finer substrate (I grow mine in coir), keep it moist and fertilise weekly, weakly it will grow very fast. I had about 10 small pieces which then grew to be overflowing a 15cm pot in one season.

I've grown the solanum pyracanthum as an outdoor annual for two summers in Portland, Oregon, USA. I just bought another one last week at a local nursery. It was about $6.00. I grow it as a hanging plant to avoid anyone getting poked. It's not difficult to grow at all. I love the purple flowers!

Hi Claire ! I have my ceropegia sandersonii for 2 years. She gave me from September 2022 to August 2023 a lots of amazing flowers none stop. I had to cut the entire plant because of the thrips but she came back with new leaves very quickly. It’s a very resilient plant, can be without watering during 10 days or more. And I have her near a south facing window. I think that’s why she’s thriving. To wrap up, don’t need to fear the period without the flowering, because if you give this plant the right conditions, she will flower whole year long ( or almost) 💚

14:16 Hello I got a Ulearum donburnsii a few months ago from Ecuagenera. It’s a easy plant, I grow it with PON, in my living room. 50 - 70% humidity.

A weird wishlist plant I love right now is Albuca Concordiana. It’s so curly and sweet!

Oooh those lip plants remind me of lithops..... Which I've recently gotten into, speaking of weird plants. Lithops might be an interesting way of bringing some color to your collection.

This was a fun video. I just recently purchased a conophytum pageae (red lips) and a corpse plant. I purchased the corpse plant for its beautiful and unique flowers, but plan to put it outside when it's in bloom in the summer and cut the flower buds before they open in the winter. You were wondering about the purpose of the lips for the conophytum. The answer is that they behave much like a lithops where when they grow a new pair of leaves inside, the older/outer leaves split down the middle (the "lips") and the fully formed new leaves emerge from the center.

I’m loving these videos! A couple of other weird plants worth checking out are: 1. Polypodium formasanus, aka the caterpillar fern; its rhizomes look like spikey little caterpillars 2. Senecio articulatus, aka the poop cactus, candle plant or hotdog plant; it apparently produces flowers that smell like manure and its stems look similar in shape to a hotdog 😂

The very first plant reminds me of how an octopus is able to perfectly match colors with its surroundings despite being colorblind. Fascinating that a plant can do something similarly weird.

Hey Claire! I loved the video :) The microsorum thailandicum is also on my wishlist! I am quite into colorful plants and weird ones as well. Here are some that are weird and wonderful for me: Euphorbia abdelkuri cv. Damask: a variegated version of the abdelkuri which is fully pink. This whole species is remarkable -Myrtillocalycium: a chimera of a myrtillocactus and gymnocalycium -Phalaenopsis schilleriana/stuartiana/philippinensis: the most amazing orchids with mottled leaves, so they are never boring to look at. Their flowers are fragrant, too!

Love you Claire! I wanna be like you when I grow up! (I am an adult lmao)

@kristinperdue6392

2 ай бұрын

Word from the wise: “Never ever admit to being an adult.” - Wise One 😂

You should check out the Adenium also called The Desert Rose and Sabi Star. They are from Africa and they hold their water in the trunk. They like to be stressed and shallow pots. Terracotta pots are best. I love them. I have five.

I'm in Alaska and our only frog is a wood frog and it's frozen in the winter, I think it has anti freeze blood. It's very cool 🎉

Thanks for the interesting video Claire! It's always a treat to watch your videos ☺️💚 In my experience, the dischidia nummularifolia is in fact extremely hard to care for and propagate. They rot very very easily and goes downhill really fast unfortunately. I had imported the plant twice, once from Thailand and once from the Netherlands and bought locally once but failed miserably on two of these attempts. The third attempt isn't going so well either. I am quite comfortable with rare and common philos, epipremnums, alocasias, geoppertheas and marantas, hoyas, begonias (some of the more challenging terrarium ones too), anthuriums and most other common genus of plants found here in the UK, but I just can't seem to get my head around this particular one for some reason. I did ask around a little from the dischidia experts for advice and it seems like it is a common issue to get the perfect balance for its care. However, I find it extremely fascinating so I am determined to crack the code with this one! Fingers crossed!

I love plants that look unreal and otherworldly and these videos are hitting the spot! A couple to add to your list: Dracula Simia Orchid & Dracula gigas Orchid.

I've seen that lips plant everywhere on social media, but assumed it was photoshopped. I'm suitably horrified 😂

The mouth plant is freaky! Love it

OMG!! The first plant you talked about is scary/ freaky😲 lol a plant that can transform to look like another one or a plastic one!!!! And the lip succulent I can't look at them🤢 Thanks Claire for the great part 2😊

I'm looking forward to the third installment of this weird plant series! And I hope it includes tylecodon schaeferianus, aka "fairy tale plant". It lives up to its name and looks like it came straight out of a fairy tale!

Ooo some funky plants I really like the dischidia very cool looking may have to add to my list x

You have my favorite planty content!! 🫶🏾

I just found out about pinguiculas recently. They’re carnivorous, flowering plants that look like wacky Dr. Seuss violets. They’re high on my wish list.

Absolutely loved this video! Always love seeing unique plants and learning more about them :)

I love these "weird plants" videos!! They are so fascinating!! And I love hearing how you feel about them. Thanks for being so real!

I really enjoyed this vid! Those plants looked so weird, cool, dangerous & beautiful all in one. Thank you so much for sharing Claire!

I’d love to see this as a series, although I think your audience would watch literally anything you upload 😊❤

I live these weird plant collections. Blue oil fern is on my list

Ceropegia bosseri is a really cool looking succulent. It basically looks like a spiky dragon's tail and it's a very dark almost black color. It has these really cool flowers too.

I briefly had a Ceropegia Sandersonii. The leaves are very similar to those of a Peperomia Hope and a Hoya Mathilde. Mine didn’t last long, it crossed the plant rainbow bridge. I was a beginner plant carer. It was sold to me without any roots (it was literally stems placed into soil, no nodes). This was not disclosed to me. When I realized it, I tried to root it, but wasn’t successful. I’d like to get another one day, an established plant WITH roots.

i own a blue oil fern - price in switzerland was nice, just 30.- CHF. Its slow, but it is living quite happy in my bathroom with 50-60% humidity. If its living in a brighter spot its growing faster, but then looses some of the blue. i love it!

This was SO COOL! I love these videos. Hope to see more. I wish you lived in the USA too. We all do. But, i will tell you we don't have lots of plant shows here in Texas. But, maybe YOU could start some! Please😍😍💚💚💚

Make sure you get pictures of actual Microsorum Thailandicum if you get a larger one they can be quite beat up looking. I have spores propagating now been months and month like 13 and I’m just now seeing some bits starting. They are one of my favorites! So many spores always going so there is always orange dust surrounding your plant.

I love this series! Two plants I would suggest to look at are drosera binata (forked sundew) and codariocaylix motorius (telegraph plant, known for its rapid movements).

Brilliant video as always claire ❤

The Zippy isn’t any easier than the Amydrium. That said I love it so much I bought the variegated version.

I sent my son some pictures of the Conophytum Pageae. He said the flowering ones look like they are blowing party Kazoos! It's true😆

Love the lips succulent, it’s giving very ‘science fiction double feature’ from rocky horror I LIVE

I have the one with the orange spiky one, It was a gift a few years ago but it has not flowered yet.

I often give Roses of Jerichos as a gift. Prior to offering it, I make it open with water (take few hours to a day, depending on when was the last time it had water), I hide a very small gift inside, like a small origami, earings, or something like that, and then I wait for it to dry and curl back on itself. The person that receives it has to put it in water to discover the mini gift. (But the real gift is the plant.) The most beautiful part is that it smells like fresh forest when it opens.

Loved this plant selection! Definitely adding some of these to my wishlist! ❤ But I do have a dilemma… I was repotting and trellising a Hoya the other day and I absolutely wound it anti clockwise. However, I turned the plant around to just make sure I had enough soil and I realized it now looks like I wound it clockwise. How do you really know which way is which at the end of the day? Please help! 😂😂

Talking about unusual ceropegia. You can look at ceropegia bosseri. It looks like a lizard tail or a little dragon. There are also other species of lizard-like ceropegia out there. I recently got a green one ceropegia semota. I'm not sure about the id, because google pictures look nothing like mine. Mine looks exactly like bosseri but green with some black specks. Otherwise it's a delight. I have had it for less than 2 weeks and it has already made 2 pairs of new leaves already.

You should include the albuca spiralis in the next video!! Such a unique and cool plant

16:02 😂i thought you photo shopped the mouths on there in the thumbnail and were going to do funny voices again hahaha🤣

For the last one, you can buy a Solanum quitoense instead. It also has thorns on its leaves, but it produces an edible and delicious fruit called lulo.

Why do I never see a gryphen begonia? Loved the strange plants !!

Oh, that Conophytum is really cool! A bit like lithops - living stones. One of weirdest plants I know is Amorphophallus titanum, which is not a houseplant but it is more and more common in botanic gardens all around the world. The most amazing is of course when in bloom.

I have wanted the Microsorum thialandicum for a couple of years now. I love it so much, but its been a pretty spendy plant for some time. Like you, I am not willing to spend big money on a teeny tiny thing, which would probably die as soon as I unboxed it! I'll wait a little while longer to see if they come down in price.

Hey Claire, I`ve just enjoyed watching the video and was amazed to find I have one of the plants. I bought an Amydrium zippelianum last year on the cheap as a rehab project because it had been bashed around. It`s not the fastest and I`m still waiting for it to grow enough new leaves to look "nice" but I have a cutting rooting well in water so hopefully that will help

I had a big collection of indoor plants before I moved to Switzerland, living in Zürich , which itself is quite pricy 😅, of course I explored all plant shops and the other day I saw a Microsorum Thailandicum , directly my eye went there, gorgeous color indeed and of course went home with me 😅 but wasn’t that pricy 50 CHF which is 43 GBP. And quite mature plant 🎉

Kaylee Allen her channel showed her blue oil fern is gorgeous is where i first saw it being introduced. Is a nice one the colours. The Decarya one unplantparenthood showed it in her channel. Is a very unique one and she mentioned hers got attack by mealybugs which is strange cause is just a stick plant. A small trailing piece is nicer than a bush version. The Sophora prostrata is another one that is simpler which has tiny leaves you might like too.

One of my favorite thing about owning plants it's to confuse my non-planty friends and family: "this one can't be a real one, right ?????" 😂 I guess I could find news idees

The way you feel about your dead stick plant is how I feel about my white hosta I bought bare root! I was so excited but I keep thinking it looks unhealthy now it's growing with all yellow leaves because I compare it to my houseplants 😅

I have a Selaginella. It's spent the last six months in a dark closet. It gets to go outside and do it's thing every Christmas haha

Not necessarily a house plant but “the corpse flower. “Our local botanical garden (Cincinnati OH) had a bloom watch a couple of years ago on theirs. It only blooms every few years and for a day or two. The blooms are massive (several feet tall). And smell like decomposing flesh which is how it got its name. I looked it up at the time and it’s apparently to attract insects that generally gravitate towards decomposing animals.

Some of them are too weird for me... even gave me goosebumps lol The flowers of ceropegia sandersonii & monanthes polyphylla are beautiful though I'm intrigued by the selaginella lepidophylla! but I don't think they are imported to Australia XD

I bought that first plant three years ago, it died with in a week.blue oil plant keylee Ellen has this on her channel beautiful.

I know you aren't an orchid person, but what about grammatophylums? Their roots grow up from the ground. They are known as trash collectors because the roots collect debris--thats how the plant gets its nutrients.

Amazing plants! I have the parachuteplant and it grows like a weed. I treat it the same as all of my hoya's. I don't find its foliage particalary beautiful but I do like the little parachutes 😊. If it dies I don't think I buy a new one

Because of part one I bought me some drosanthemum globosum seeds to grow them from Scratch 😂 I wonder if I will be influenced again, haven't watched the full Video yet

You’re a beautiful soul ❤😊

Little Shop of Horrors had to be about the Conophytum Pageae. Theres no other way to explain it. It looks just like Audrey 3000

I was so underwhelmed with the rose of Jericho plant. We got it from the plant shop down the road after the last Bristol plant swap. Did it at home with my nephew and it was honestly rubbish! We had it in water for 3 days and it unfurled a bit but was nowhere as green or lush as the videos portray. We may have just got a dud 🤷‍♀️

Make a vlog with you and Ross💖

I have both those Dischidias growing in Seramis and they really are easy :) The big difference is the nummularia is a fast grower that I keep having to chop back in order for it to stay on the same shelf (it even bloomed the last two springs, it makes the most adorable white flowers!), while the dragon jade one is the slowest growing plant possible. Which can be a good thing, if you're looking for something that stays compact for an eternity. I find their needs similar to Hoya, they don't like soggy soil and can rot easily. When propagating, they appreciate high humidity, but don't need it once rooted.

16:42 ahhahaha now they have party 🎉

I have kinda started liking that dischidia nummularifolia. BUT (!!) I'm just thinking it would be a nightmare if it gets mealybugs 😄

I have the monanthes polyphylla....although it's considered a succulent with very short roots, it likes to be moist rather than dried out. The flowers are so small, that some people don't even notice them. One of the "pinecone" shaped piece is smaller than a marble. It's not really slow at growing, UNLESS you forget to keep the soil moist. Then it begins to dry up and die quickly.

The ulearum donburnsii looks like a fennec fox 😆😆😆

@tinapomfrey5412

2 ай бұрын

It sure does!

The mouth plant thing reminds me of that meme, of a pufferfish eating a carrot. Brain rot, I know.

What are your thoughts on using banana skin soaked water as a natural fertilizer???

👽 Check out pseudolithos plants. I especially LOVE the pseudolithos migiurtinus💚! They look like space aliens brought them to earth... or maybe THEY are the aliens themselves!

ceropegia is a genus, not a family. the family is Apocynaceae. 🤓💕

I've had my blue oil fern for half a year now and it's done absolutely nothing, in perfect conditions too...

The conophytum pagae lips do look like Audrey 2's lips in Little Shop of Horrors 😂

The weirdest plant I own is my Adromischus marianae f. herrei. It looks wrinkly and can sun stress

The Donburnsii would be Stitch (Lilo and Stitch) if he was a plant.

My daughter found a blue oil fern about two years ago…it was a sleeper and she purchased it at a really good price. Needless to say she purchased it to gift it to me for Mothers Day, if I remember correctly. With that said, it’s grown just a little bit in the two years I’ve had it. Hardly noticeable. I currently have it in a tree fern soil mix. Look into a Black Tacca Chantrieri Plant…I ran across one at a small nursery I was at in Feb/March but I didn’t purchase it. I went back the following week and they were all gone..😣

@grannyplants1764

2 ай бұрын

Bat Flower…so cool, but it does get really large! 🦇 also comes in white flower

The parachute plant isn’t impressive in person. Extremely long internodal spacing and unimpressive leaves. I just saw one at the local plant shop.

That’s funny how different language cultures say words differently how it makes sense to them, I say DI-SHID-EA, for Dischidia The lips succulent reminds me a bit of my living stones

Please, can someone explain to me why showing google pictures is problematic with copyright and for instagram it’s ok? I always hear her say this and I don’t get it.

That new dead stick plant looks like something Ross would like…😊

I seen the parachute plant in person and I passed it up I really just don't like the way it looked I wanted to take it home because it was something different and I didn't because I couldn't get behind it. It's def differant

The 'Dischidia nummularifolia definitely reminds of the incredible hulk xD

Tephrocactus geometricum

The ulearum donburnsii reminds me of momo from avatar the last airbender

Sinocrassula Yunnanensis is a weird one. They're black, and have a very strange growth habit.

Golden chicken fern. I do not understand this plant. It looks like a ball of gold hair. I don’t understand how it’s alive. I just learned about it

@loganjeffrey4136

2 ай бұрын

The leaves unfurl out of the woolly bit it's a type of tree fern

I love weird plants. I just added a b00bie cactus to my collextion recently.

HEAR ME OUT!!! put a varigated plant next to that one plant😊

The dischidia nummularfolia sort of looks like clumps of green poo 💩👀🪴😂

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With you on that dischidia. Gives me wart or skin tag vibes 🤮