<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0e9becd3-5bda-4a01-9f08-8b832c4c2475/D976CD13-D70B-4F5B-9771-26CAB8614AFA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22167/37205-eight-world-s-most-unusual-plants/2" href="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22167/37205-eight-world-s-most-unusual-plants/2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.divinecaroline.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22167/37205-eight-world-s-most-unusual-plants/2"><P><EM><STRONG>5. Wollemia nobilis</STRONG></EM>: This bizarre-looking tree was known only from 120 million-year-old fossil leaves before 1994; fewer than one hundred exist in the wild. They have strange bark that looks like bubbles of chocolate, multiple trunks, and ferny-looking leaves growing in spirals. They can grow up to 125 feet tall.<BR /><BR /><IMG height="266" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2000216505048123259_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /><BR /><BR /><IMG height="294" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2000250933307622506_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22167/37205-eight-world-s-most-unusual-plants/2"><P><EM><STRONG>6. Welwitschia mirabilis</STRONG></EM> consists of only two leaves and a stem with roots. Its two leaves continue to grow until they resemble an alien life form. The stem gets thicker rather than higher, although this plant can grow to be almost six feet high and twenty-four feet wide. Its estimated lifespan is 400 to 1500 years. Mirabilis grows in Namibia, and is thought to be a relic of the Jurassic period.<BR /><BR /><IMG height="272" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2003477129928666092_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /><BR /><BR /><IMG height="300" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2003471812226171781_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22167/37205-eight-world-s-most-unusual-plants/2"><P><EM><STRONG>7. Drakaea glyptodon</STRONG></EM>: an orchid. It is the color of, and smells like, raw meat. Pollinated by male wasps.<BR /><BR /><IMG height="713" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2000528293888622437_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22167/37205-eight-world-s-most-unusual-plants/2"><P><EM><STRONG>8. Wolffia angusta</STRONG></EM>: the world's smallest flower. A dozen plants would easily fit on the head of a pin and two plants in full bloom will fit inside a small printed letter "o."<BR /><BR /><IMG height="327" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2003848861308295262_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /><BR /><BR /><IMG height="400" hspace="0" src="http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images/plants/2003831532295751657_rs.jpg" width="400" vspace="0" /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D976CD13-D70B-4F5B-9771-26CAB8614AFA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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