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    Our plant world’s Weird wonders

    Dec 17, 2019 3 minutes

    EVOLUTION has produced some weird and wonderful plants, many of which often resemble something else – be it an insect, a mouse or a pair of lips! Here we look at some of the fascinating plants that can be found around the world.

    In Britain, a perennial that flowers in late summer and is fascinating is the obedient plant, . Its obedience is demonstrated when you touch the flowers, which can be moved up, down or sideways, and will stay where they are put. The flowers are carried in spires rather than spikes, and it increases reasonably well and‘Summer Snow’ (AGM) grows to around 2½ft (76cm) and has pure-white flowers; ‘Vivid’, 1½ft (50cm) is bright rosy-crimson; and var. ‘Bouquet Rose’, 2ft (60cm), is rose-pink.

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