Unusual indoor plants and tropical flowers

At the mention of the phrase "indoor plants" all at once represent the usual geraniums and figs. However, there are many colors of unusual, sometimes even bizarre, shapes. Unusual, rare and exotic indoor flowers will be listed below.

Unusual indoor plants

Unusual indoor plants can surprise guests and dilute the boring everyday interior of any room. Many of them quickly adapt to unfavorable climatic conditions at latitudes unusual for them.

Unusual indoor plants (pictured by Calathea)

Tillandsia blue (Tillandsia cyanea)

Tillandsia blue is an unusual home color.

Its grass-like leaves are reddish at the base and dark brown at the ends. In the summer, the plant has a purple ear, along the edges of which blue flowers with curved petals appear.

In the photo Tillandsia cyanea

Euphorbia tirucalli (Euphоrbia tirucаlli)

The one and a half meter unusual house plant, the euphorbia tirucalli, has practically no leaf plates. But on the other hand, it has rather fleshy stems and shoots of pink and orange color.

The few small bright leaves of milkweed are located at the very top of the branches.

A very unusual plant euphorbia tirucalli

Hypocyrta glabra

Hypocitra has not only an original appearance, but also an unusual name.

The short plant has creeping shoots, on which glossy dark green leafy plates in the shape of an ellipse are rarely located. Near the base of the leaves grow small orange flowers, cup-shaped.

Hypocyrta is distinguished by unusually beautiful flowers

Lachenalia aloides

Lashanelia is an unusual exotic houseplant that resembles aloe with leafy plates. The moisture-loving bush has long lance-shaped green leaves with purple dots.

The plant can bloom in winter, with tubular striped flowers of orange, light green and purple-red color.

In the photo flowers Lachenalia aloides

Calathea

Almost every variety of calathea has its own special pattern of leaf plates, the color palette is also different.

The plant usually has two leaf colors. Leaves can have herringbone, striped, spotted patterns.

Calathea, depending on the species, has different patterns on the leaves.

Exotic tropical indoor flowers

In modern interiors, exotic indoor plants are most appreciated. Now it is not necessary to grow only compact bushes, the main thing is that they are unusual with an unusual shape of flowers and leaves. Almost all tropical plants meet these criteria. Exotic indoor flowers are not always capricious and demanding to care for, some can grow well and bloom profusely without close attention.

Orchids

Exotic indoor orchids come in many different types and varieties. Some of them have very unusual bud shapes.

• The orchid bud of the Flying Duck is very similar to a bird that has spread its wings and is ready to take off.
• The orchid has a Happy Alien, orange buds look like strange people with strange ears.
• The bud of the Ballerina variety resembles a dancer with her hands up.

Extremely Unusual Orchid Flowers Happy Alien

Dope

It may seem unusual to grow dope at home in pots. However, it has a very exotic appearance. The leaves of the plant are beautiful dark green in color, and the large pinkish-white buds are shaped like a curved bell.

Datura flower close up

Passionflower

Passionflower is perhaps the most interesting of the exotic home flowers from the above list.

In the plant, the upper part of the leaf plate is colored green, and the lower one is gray. A curly smooth stem in natural conditions can grow up to 10 meters.

Large buds have a different color palette: from cream to purple shades. The shape of the flowers is a star, they are located on high pedicels.

Gusmania

Speaking of exotic, it is worth mentioning the tropical flower gusmania.

The plant is a "relative" of the pineapple and its flower has an external resemblance to this fruit. The bush has long xiphoid green leaves and inflorescences in the form of an ear, which are painted in white, purple, red shades. Gusmania begins to bloom only in the third year of life.

The rarest indoor flowers

Many unusual plants have not yet reached all corners of the earth and have just begun to gain popularity, which makes them very rare in home floriculture.

Pseudolithos

Pseudolithos, upon first acquaintance, cannot be immediately called a plant. It looks more like an unusual species of sea animal. The plant belongs to succulents and looks like a green stone.

On the surface of pseudolithos, stems of a dull green color rarely grow, the length of which is about 5-10 centimeters.

Rare pseudolithos flower

Dischidia rafflesiana

Rafflesa dyschidia looks like several different types of mixed shrubs. Shoots grow up to 5 meters in length. They are covered along their entire length with dense, fleshy leaves of an oval shape and of different sizes.

Dyschidia of the raffleza species blooms with small yellow buds.

Indoor flower with an unusual structure (pictured Raffleza Dyschidia)

Trichocaulon (Trichocaulon)

The succulent trichocoulon has a spherical shape. The entire surface of the plant seems to be strewn with small dull green warts.

There are several 10 cm egg-shaped petals at the base of the trunk. On the surface of these petals there are specks of dark red, greenish gray, yellow and black color.

Large triangular buds are located on a yellow-red corolla and are painted in a burgundy shade.

Unusual flowers on a succulent called trichocoulon

Trachyandra or Trachyandra

Trachyandra is considered a rare domestic flower, primarily due to poor adaptation to a climate different from its native southern climate.

The plant is a distant "relative" of aloe, but is significantly smaller in size. It has twisted green leaves 25 centimeters long. From a distance, leaf plates look like rubber or plastic toys.

Unusual trachyandra leaves

Trachyandra has long, tall, pink-white, star-shaped peduncles.

In the world there are countless unusual and rare exotic flowers of amazing shapes that can be grown indoors. There are more and more of them every year, so you may have to sort them into a special category alphabetically. Every year in large cities of the world there are presentations of new species and varieties of rare exotic flowers bred by breeders.The event also reached the countries of the post-Soviet space. The exhibition has already visited Moscow, Riga, Minsk and Kiev.