Whatever you’re looking for out there in this big world, it must be on the internet. Even if you don’t even know the thing yourself, and in that case, the chances are you end up on Reddit.
It’s basically an online home of detectives who will use their joint effort to come up with a solid explanation for what is an object that you have no clue about. Known as r/Whatisthisthing, this community has 2M members and they help others with not necessarily the “why” but with the “what.” Read our previous posts about it here, here and here.
And then, there’s this similarly awesome corner of Reddit with a botanical twist of hard-to-identify objects. Welcome to r/Whatsthisplant, a community of people created to identify plants that visitors submit. And let me tell you, this is one hell of a floral encyclopedia you never knew you needed. Scroll down through the best posts of mysterious plants explained and be sure to hit upvote on your favorite ones!
#1 Beautiful Picture My Friend Sent Me To Identify
Santa Rita prickly pear
Image credits: mixed-episodes
#2 Found This Growing Voluntarily Over My Dogs Grave.
Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)
Image credits: JoRHawke
#3 Found In Holland, Mi . It’s Adorable Whatever It Is!
Chinese lanterns
Image credits: donja77
#4 Very General White Flowers.. All Help Is Appreciated!
Saxifraga Arendsii
Image credits: distinct–shuffle
#5 What A Beautiful…?? What Is Thissss
Caladium
Image credits: RoseRoss186
#6 My Sister’s Boyfriend Gave Her This Flower
Ornamental cabbage
Image credits: Saturnoz87
#7 What’s This Curly Cactus?
Cereus forbesii cv Spiralis
Image credits: black_rose_
#8 What Flower Is This? Found On Facebook With No Context.
Geum Reptans rose
Image credits: Raz1230
#9 What’s This Trippy Fella Called?
Cercis canadensis The Rising Sun Eastern Redbud
Image credits: Release1975
#10 What Is This Fruit/Vegetable?
Perfume Wax Apple
Image credits: gangoat
#11 So I Found These Little Fluffballs.. Not Sure What They’re Called! Location: Somewhere In Nunavut
Cotton grass, aka tundra cotton
Image credits: clarifrench
#12 Twisty Trees In Golden Gate Park
Leptospermum laevigatum, the coastal tea tree
Image credits: Erd319
#13 What Is This Plant Object Found In Commercial Chickpea Can?
Cocklebur (Xanthium), which is toxic.
Image credits: goodgollymsdolly
#14 What Is This Alien Looking Flower?
Puya bromeliad
Image credits: Luckydog12
#15 Central Florida
Manihot grahamii (Hardy Tapioca)
Image credits: The_karma4ya
#16 What Plant Is This, Street In Jerez, Spain
Those are common grape vines, Vitis vinifera.
Image credits: krup_z
#17 This Is Robert, My Dad’s Other Pride And Joy. He Was Grown From A Cutting My Dad Made When He Moved In About 3 Years Ago.
Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia
Image credits: defiantoptimist
#18 I Guess I Don’t Really Care What It Is Just Saw This On My Hike And Thought It Looked Cool!
Wild yam (Dioscorea villosa)
Image credits: MeganopolisOkayCool
#19 What Are These Beach Flowers? Ignore The Elephant Seal
Ice plant
Image credits: VacuousVoid
#20 Found In Ventura, Ca. Anyone Know What This Is?
Geraldton Carnationweed, Carnation Spurge (Euphorbia terracina)
Image credits: Wilmoire
#21 Seen At Huntington Botanical Gardens And I Was Sort Of Hypnotized By The Geometry. Couldn’t Find A Sign/Label.
Colletia paradoxa, The Anchor Plant
Image credits: pigdoglogger
#22 Saw This Beauty Dropping My Kid Off On The First Day Is School. What Is This Tree Called. She’s Stunning.
Golden dewdrop, Duranta erecta
Image credits: hp5al
#23 Found In Florida, Appears To Be From Whoville, What Is This Tree?
Ponytail palm, Beaucarnea recurvata
Image credits: runningfox3
#24 Seen In Santa Monica, Ca. I Couldn’t Get Any Closer But It Looks Gorgeous!!
Bougainvillea
Image credits: arkwl
#25 My So’s Mother Has This Magnificent Plant, But She Couldn’t Identify It. Can Anyone Help?houseplant Is Located In North Carolina.
Fiddle Leaf Fig
Image credits: glowphotosglow
#26 This Albino Plant In My Backyard. What Is It? And Have You Ever Seen An Albino Plant Before?
Nandina
Image credits: DarkShadowGirl
#27 What Is This Whimsical Little Vine In Atlanta?
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata, “porcelain berry” or “Amur peppervine”
Image credits: moops04
#28 What Is This Plant? My Friend Ate One Of The Red Pods And I’m Concerned.
Possibly cycad seed pod. I think your friend should go see a doctor.
Image credits: dldaniel123
#29 My Friends Parents Have A Red Rose Bush Where On One Particular Branch It Blooms These Beauties.
Chimera Rose
Image credits: dishsoapalmighty
#30 What’s This Bush?
Cotinus, aka smoke bush
Image credits: ColourMeCrazyDoctor
#31 This Flower In South Australia?? Please And Thanks!
Gazania
Image credits: sunlightbaby
#32 Translucent Blue And Green Succulent (That I Have Never Seen Before)
Haworthia cooperi, Cooper’s Haworthia
Image credits: devi1duck
#33 Found Online But I’m Curious To Know Which Plant Makes These Leaves.
Jack’s Giant or Thailand Giant
Image credits: Contrenox
#34 Would Like Know What Plant Makes These Flowers 🙂
Camellia japonica ‘pink perfection’
Image credits: Magporca
#35 Can Someone Identify This Tree From The Biome At The Eden Project?? (Glasshouse UK)
African Corkwood Tree
Image credits: ANP92
#36 Random Plant That Has Shown Up In My Garden For The First Time.
Crocus
Image credits: L4N3Y
#37 6’ + Gorgeous Mystery Flower!
Double hollyhock
Image credits: ithappenedsofapp
#38 From The Japanese Garden In Singapore
Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
Image credits: blabgasm
#39 What Are These? The Devils Testicles? I Stepped On One With My Bare Heel And My Life Flashed Before My Eyes.
Sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua seed pods.
Image credits: cookiemonstrosity54
#40 Found A Squash(?) Growing In Our Apartment Garden Area. Husband For Scale.
It’s known as various names such as Opo, Bottle Gourd and Calabash, Lagenaria siceraria.
Image credits: lanapocalypse
#41 Left On Our Balcony By Previous Tenants – I Love The Colours! Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Desert rose. Adenium obesum
Image credits: totoropengyou
#42 What’s This Majestic Tree? (Must Be A Zillion Years Old?!)
Sterculia apetala
Image credits: canihavesome
#43 What Are These Small White Flowers?
Avalanche Lilies
Image credits: NautySan
#44 Bright Purple Berries I Saw In Someone’s Front Yard. Se Pennsylvania 7a.
Beautyberry, Callicarpa.
Image credits: Nuzzorama
#45 I Don’t Know The Name Of This Plant But I Absolutely Love It
Monstera Standleyana
Image credits: plantlove101
#46 Tree In India
Fishtail Palm
Image credits: indicamon
#47 Unusual Cacti(?)
Crested Mexican Fencepost Cactus, Pachycereus marginatus f. cristata
Image credits: Roughneck16
#48 Can Anyone Tell Me What Is The Name Of This Beautiful Birdlike Plant?
Cyanotis tuberosa, Greater Cat Ears or Dew Grass
Image credits: palatino007
#49 What Is This Satisfying Succulent?
Ice plant (Corpuscularia lehmannii)
Image credits: EffectiveEggplant1
#50 Moved To A New House This Winter And This Beauty Is Welcoming The Spring. Portland, Oregon.
Pink Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida var. rubra
Image credits: serafino23
#51 Apparently It’s A Fern!
Cyrtomium falcatum rochefordianum
Image credits: thestrible
#52 This Beautiful Two Toned Rose In My Garden. I Have Never Seen This Before.
Rose Joseph’s Coat
Image credits: trieuvanvccvv
#53 Found In Rockville Md, Deep Orange Color,
Cytisus ‘Lena’ (Broom)
Image credits: RANFF_R100
#54 What Kind Of Tree Is This?
Wisteria
Image credits: thephatangel
#55 This Cactus I Have That Bloomed Last Year And Now This Year.
Easter Lily Cactus – Echinopsis oxygona
Image credits: bikersquid
#56 This Dude At A Calloway’s
Air plant, part of a group of plants called epiphytes
Image credits: bugplague
#57 What Are These Flowers?
They are salvia but the cat is wildly distracting
Image credits: sadrice
#58 I’m Obsessed With The Color Of This Tree. Would Love To Know What It Is For When I Become A Homeowner!
Orange Azalea cultivar
Image credits: mayococo
#59 What’s The Name Of This Unusual Cactus?
Crusted Mammilaria mystax
Image credits: HorseRaper
#60 My Grandson Wants To Know What This Plant Is – Hope You Can Help, Thanks
Echium candicans, Pride of Maderia
Image credits: LawrenceLawler
#61 Brought This Cactus A Couple Of Months Ago… Is This Normal? The Flower Is Hairy And Is Killing It By Its Size…
Stapelia grandiflora
Image credits: Altruistic_Fox_1448
#62 First Time Seeing This, Any Ideas?
Boophone haemanthoides, Namaqua Century Plant
Image credits: lifeonpluto
#63 My School’s Greenhouse Is A Goldmine.
Tillandsia Duratii
Image credits: boobsaget_27
#64 Found In A Park In Qatar (Image From Google Street View)
Toborochi Tree
Image credits: CelestialChicken
#65 Help
Spiral Aloe, Aloe polyphylla
Image credits: Pretty-Initiative630
#66 No Idea What It Is, Vietnam
Ghost’s foot (Trevesia burckii)
Image credits: Devenery
#67 Biggest Leaf I’ve Ever Seen! Lancaster, Pa, USA
Princess Tree – Paulownia tomentosa
Image credits: TacoFlacaFlame
#68 What Is This Beautiful Tree?
Rainbow Eucalyptus
Image credits: crispychickenadhd
#69 Didn’t Know My San Pedro Cactus Had Flowers.
That’s a Cereus Peruvianus, Peruvian Apple cactus, not a San Pedro
Image credits: ElBob31
#70 A Flower I Took From My Great Grandpas House After He Died, Just Started Flowering Again.
Gladiolus
Image credits: RadioPengin
#71 These Guys Pop Up Once A Year Under My Garden Hose (Pnw)
Columbine
Image credits: neverseenstarwars1
#72 Had This Little Cactus Since He Was Just One Arm. He’s So Happy Now He Has The Most Beautiful Flower I’ve Ever Seen! What Is He?
Life Saver plant, Huernia zebrina
Image credits: eatchurgreens
#73 Wild Flower Found In The Mountain Area Of Central Chile
Chilean nasturtium
Image credits: lucasglas
#74 Anyone Know This One?
Echeveria bloom
Image credits: harleylover2106
#75 My Aunt Sent Me This Picture, Any Clue What It Is?
Anelsonia eurycarpa, Daggerpod
Image credits: Lofocerealis
#76 Who Is She???
Sedum Cherry Tart
Image credits: ozbo0712
#77 Found This Beautifully Designed Plant In My University In Malaysia. Would Like To Know What Is It And What’s The Process Used To Make It This Way.
Ficus benjamima
Image credits: palatino007
#78 Mandala Looking Plant, Found The Picture Online, No Results With Tineye
Oxalis palmifrons
Image credits: applesauceplatypuss
#79 Found In A Walk In Keystone Colorado
Sugar pine cone
Image credits: impeesa75
#80 Purple And Blue, Six Petals
Crocus
Image credits: Palana
#81 Wildflower On A Countryside Trail In Daylesford, Australia.
Forget me nots
Image credits: manlikerealities
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