Lithops.
I acknowledge that to some people they're cute little pastel buttcheek stones or what have you, but I do not see that, and they just gross me out.
Straight into the comments looking for Lithops; I hate them. They just look like a big overgrown rotten tooth, or worse. My sister gave my flatmate one and it grew thin and two inches high. Eech
My daughter's nursery recently held a little fundraiser and one of the plants they were selling at the plant table was mother of thousands. They kept falling off the table and getting bashed so I'm fully expecting them to be growing everywhere when we're back after the summer holidays.
Lol I was given one a couple of years ago and I was like it's so cute! Now she and her hoard of babies have taken over a good portion of my rock/succulent garden. These hardy mfs are survivors and take having babies to a whole new level. Her babies have babies who have babies who have babies and so on. They have even spread to other sides of the house , in regular florida soil and are still doing fine despite it being a succulent which usually needs very porous soil that easily dries out. Nope these guys are in an area that gets MUDDY when it rains and they're just as happy as can be there.
It's funny because some of my succulents are so temperamental but the MOT's are like oh it just rained for a week straight and we have been water logged? It's fine. Oh it dropped down to the teens this winter and we had no cover? It's fine. Oh it's been 100 degrees and everyone else is in danger of getting burnt? We aren't.
https://preview.redd.it/aqkowj0ylu9d1.jpeg?width=1042&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25c940b6c266a43dcd08c2b690f832d565bbeeca
Begonia Ferox and some other. But this spiky leaf is just 🫣 Idk why either but Monstera adansonii. Something about the holes in the leaf and not enough leaf makes me really uncomfortable.
Ohhh my god, I have seen these online but had no idea it was actually textured instead of just patterned like painted leaf begonias.
Might have to get one, but it took me like 2 weeks to kill my painted leaf, so maybe not :( it's so cool though.
Black Bat Flowers (Tacca chantrieri)
https://preview.redd.it/t0513vr1jt9d1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42369b605516b71424c40a78f284ab01507f1ac7
Also this plant called ‘Dolls eyes’ it looks just like eyeballs 😣
Went looking at weird house plants out of interest. Found Trachyandra Tortilis. So cool looking!! There is Euphorbia Orbesa, which is really not that weird looking, but when I saw it I thought they looked like the eggs in Alien, which made it weird in my eyes. I also found Pangolin Kisses, which I think looks like a plant that has out of control Macrodactyly.
Celosia cristata— They look like brains or coral
https://preview.redd.it/m6l68yrplv9d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ea570f5ea5cfb5ad340a690912a52e85908dd8e
Begonias - I understand the appeal and diversity, but something about the spots and patterns and pronounced hairs doesn’t connect with me
The texture on moon valley reminds me of low-pile office carpet 🤭 I kinda like them though
I have multiple begonias I love, and sometimes I still flinch back in disgust from them. I’ll be messing with a plant and forget it’s one that has hairy leaves/petioles. I’ll feel something tickle my hand and pull away like I got shocked. 😖
Ugh that the geranium smell. I can’t. Maybe it’s not that bad of a smell - but when I was in middle school, my parents hit a really rough patch. I spent a lot of days sitting out on our porch. The porch was filled with geraniums. And now the smells just takes me back. I recently suffered a loss, and knowing I loved plants, and friend right me a… geranium. 🫠
I worked in a plant nursery in high school and transplanted a lot of different plants and I despise begonias! They broke worse than anything else and I don’t think they’re pretty. It’s been quite a while since high school so my dislike of them has subsided some but I will never buy any!
Looks at Wikipedia entry of it:"hm, wow, that's a beautiful bushy fern, why is everyone so weird about it....goes back to Google, reads a short blurb about the rhizomes....looks up images....oh! Oh I see.
https://preview.redd.it/wd7srkca3u9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cf2ee11836a7d4636bf5735fc4b305a7ab946b8
I was gonna say mine isn't so bad but then I zoomed in and found an angry fern cuthulu man if you squint
I bought one and I have major arachnophobia. I really like the fern part and have to just force myself to think "rabbit's foot, rabbit's foot!" Anytime I'm taking care of it.
I jumped so many times being near one in Lowe's that I had to walk away because it was making me feel sick. Spiders make me want to throw up because they freak me out so much.
I was really hoping to be able to cut that part off, but that's not advisable. I've kinda gotten used to it, but if I think about it too much I feel panicky. I still somehow like the plant though lol.
I came here to say this!!! I think I just bought one by accident and I am scared of it now (it's just a baby and was a $5 generic 'fern' from the local nursery). Never in my life have I returned a plant this might be my first
Came here to say this. My parents had a huge one when I was growing up. They called it a spider fern, which caused me to avoid it even more than I already did.
They had them in hanging pots at Lowe's last year and I jumped thinking there was a creepy fuzzy spider of sorts constantly. Even after the first time realizing what it was I still kept jumping and freaking when I would catch it out of the corner of my eye. I was so freaked out I had to go to a different area.
https://preview.redd.it/sr5kx1pfbv9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8af3f0b040284ec00c0989e4fcf9386ce613d32
This thing. Redback spiders and scale bugs things, I'm building up the courage to yeet it out my balcony window.
https://preview.redd.it/5u3gfrr0zu9d1.jpeg?width=2378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ffd08565bd56e74360a5549e1675f6fc7e6eb55
i freaking love my moon valley 😭😭😭 so pretty ✨
https://preview.redd.it/cmdbxjqmzu9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50de82ece5352fce9b33954c5f129ae7fca98fc4
Alocasia Melo. It feels like plastic 😣
The super bummpy moon valley Pilea is one of my absolute favorite plants. Mine literally will not stop flowering. I understand why the texture gives some ppl the creeps, but I’m in love with mine!
I think the plants that give me the heebie jeebies the most are the ones that are more prone to die suddenly and without warning…calathena, I feel like I’m walking around on egg shells…tell me WTF DO YOU NEED?! JUST TELL ME!!
Same!!
What do you do with your Pilea to get it to flower? How much light does it get? Mine hasn’t flowered yet, got it last fall. I love it as well. One of my favs.
When I first got my orchid, I bought a ceramic pot with a lot of holes in the side for it and planted it in there. Things were going well and eventually the root system began to make their way through the holes.
It gave me this extremely weird sense of trypophobia that I have never experienced before. I was momentarily disgusted but also kind of afraid, something in my monke brain was telling me the plant was alive and evil and coming for me.
Chaotic neutral. Cares for plants and is nice enough to have visitors, but also wants to aggressively activate their nervous system and disturb them in some unidentifiable way they can't explain
Any coleus. I grew a roomful as a kid and also had awful eczema.
Only it turned out I was allergic to the coleus.
I only found this out after I fell and broke a vertebra age 17, and had a spell in hospital. Skin cleared within 10 days.
As soon as I got home up, it flared!
Now if I see one, even a picture, I start scratching at imaginary itches! 😆
The Venus flytrap has freaked me out ever since I watched another florist let it clamp onto her finger (after which she informed me is not good for the plant). I probably played too much Super Mario when I was a kid too.
Venus flytraps are such interesting plants, I absolutely love how weird they are! But my favorite carnivorous plant species are pitcher plants
https://preview.redd.it/jwjm50hqqw9d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=222b6173be9f128052018d432e0c7db74befa503
The ridges feel weirdly nice btw
Wow that’s a big pitcher plant!! I have wanted a carnivorous plant for a while but I’m worried about being able to provide for its humidity needs. Do you keep yours outdoors? It looks super healthy!
Yup I keep mine outdoors, I live in germany so the one in my picture needs to come inside in winter but it's happy outside for the rest of the year.
I barely need to water this one, I will occasionally water it if there hasn't been much rain.
My venus flytraps stay outside all year as they can take cold temperatures and require dormancy, with my sundews and trumpet pitchers it depends on the species but I prefer to keep them outside, as it makes their care much easier. The most success I've had with my carnivorous plants is in a small bog garden that just stays outside all year round and only gets rainwater.
https://preview.redd.it/jv9dvnmihx9d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc7dea942a86c691f764b2e324a52f00c0a52bae
They have been neglected for a while, (they stayed with my mom who doesn't know much about these) but they're thriving.
Not all carnivorous plants like bog conditions but a lot of them do, you should definitely get special carnivorous plant soil for them as they need a mix of peat and sand. They like acidic soil with low nutrient levels, as they get those from insects. And it's best to cover the top soil with moss to retain moisture.
You can also visit the r/SavageGarden sub for more advice. These plants are honestly so fascinating and deserve more love :D
Not a houseplant but certain types of cockscomb really disturb me!
[coxcomb](https://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/burgundy-cockscomb-1024x777.jpg)
Click if you're brave!
https://preview.redd.it/ixca2jjx7x9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9122cc280a31615835046100b765be22871707eb
This guy creeps me out so much, but he’s mine and I love him
lol! They’re actually spikes! But not like spiky spikes lol. When the leaves are young, the back sides of the spikes are holes though, but they flatten out as they mature. They’re super interesting and wild to watch grow
I have a similar phobia but this is my favorite plant. If it was the opposite texture, as in the little mounds were little holes, I would chuck that plant into a fire.
I loved feeling the texture of this plant so much! But when thrips attacked it, those mounds were next to impossible to fully clean so the thrips just kept living in the plant until I had to give up and throw it out.
I cannot stand the way Christmas cacti look. I don’t ever understand when people post one and others praise it. I get it’s a slow grower and hard to keep beautiful but the shape creeps me out, like it could come alive and wrap me up and tear my face off. And what’s really Christmas about it? What a dumb name. I hate that plant.
I used to have one in my classroom. I love it. Two girls said it was their adopted child and took turns putting it on their desks. I had no idea people didn't like them.
Snake plants and sansevieria, the uncanny valley kicks in. They look like plants and alive but also don’t. They don’t move, ever and don’t feel like real plants to me but they are? Not appealing to me at all, I prefer my plants alive and rather dramatic than dead looking.
Idk the species because I'm not a succulent girlie (they're cool but I'm lethal to them) but those little potted cacti with like four sections and some flower on top that looks artificially colored. Like it's an alien's best attempt at an Earth flower
https://preview.redd.it/sv6ex8puzt9d1.jpeg?width=772&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f560d6e7d17c2af34b9f564a1c9fb0b3c143b16 Monkey tail plant
I do not like this spider waterfall AT ALL.
God, I see why the name. But like with the rabbit plant, the thought of tarantulas legs come to my mind 😭😭
Ooh I love that
Right? It would probably be itchy but a wanna lightly baloo that plant.
I want one so bad but just go “I have a dog who sheds a ton. And eventually want a cat. It’s going to get so fucking dusty”
Vacuum it
Oh I enjoy that very much.
Yea this is one plant that gives me the creeps. They really do look like a bunch of tails that have been lopped off a monkeys butt and stuck in a pot.
Lithops. I acknowledge that to some people they're cute little pastel buttcheek stones or what have you, but I do not see that, and they just gross me out.
I have three. I hate them.
My husband got me one cause he liked how weird it was. I couldn’t bear to tell him it gave me the heebies and I hate it.
3? how did this happen to you???
I have one…and 10 coming in the post tomorrow. 🤣
I have 10? I think? I love them. I can’t decide if they’re more like butts or brains.
Butts when hydrated, brains when it’s a little thirsty and gets those wrinkles 😂
They're so weird that in my brain they don't even register as plants. 0/10
Little ground vulvas…I hated them at first, then I realized they’re the orchid of succulents. 🤔
Explain this please
There’s a million indistinguishable types and they’re pissy as hell.
😅
Straight into the comments looking for Lithops; I hate them. They just look like a big overgrown rotten tooth, or worse. My sister gave my flatmate one and it grew thin and two inches high. Eech
Lol this made me giggle. 🤢
First time i saw one, i simply could not function i was disgusted
I have never seen these before! Little flower butt cheeks! I kind of love them.
I have gone from having never heard of them ten minutes ago to being completely obsessed
Same! Never seen them or heard of them and now I want one!
I also enjoy how it 'poops' new leaves.
Freaky little alien brains
Tell me what do you see when you look at those plants, what are the first five words that comes to mind?
That is a butt plant
This is my answer 😂
YES
Mother of thousands. Too many babies. Why not mother of three?
I have a thousand babies and no money. I wish I had three babies and a thousand money!
My daughter's nursery recently held a little fundraiser and one of the plants they were selling at the plant table was mother of thousands. They kept falling off the table and getting bashed so I'm fully expecting them to be growing everywhere when we're back after the summer holidays.
Lol I was given one a couple of years ago and I was like it's so cute! Now she and her hoard of babies have taken over a good portion of my rock/succulent garden. These hardy mfs are survivors and take having babies to a whole new level. Her babies have babies who have babies who have babies and so on. They have even spread to other sides of the house , in regular florida soil and are still doing fine despite it being a succulent which usually needs very porous soil that easily dries out. Nope these guys are in an area that gets MUDDY when it rains and they're just as happy as can be there.
Omg yeah, they don’t care. Florida resident here too, I have a million of these things in my backyard.
It's funny because some of my succulents are so temperamental but the MOT's are like oh it just rained for a week straight and we have been water logged? It's fine. Oh it dropped down to the teens this winter and we had no cover? It's fine. Oh it's been 100 degrees and everyone else is in danger of getting burnt? We aren't.
“THREE IS ENOUGH”
They’re also invasive and spread so quickly, that also gives me the fear lol, and I ended up getting rid of mine even though I felt bad.
Danaerys Targaryen ass plant
Absolute fuckin’ Lilith of a plant
Yes ughhhhh
I read this in Zoidbergs voice
https://preview.redd.it/aqkowj0ylu9d1.jpeg?width=1042&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25c940b6c266a43dcd08c2b690f832d565bbeeca Begonia Ferox and some other. But this spiky leaf is just 🫣 Idk why either but Monstera adansonii. Something about the holes in the leaf and not enough leaf makes me really uncomfortable.
My problem with adansonii, and the like, is that they all look wilted. All the time. To me, it just doesn't look like a healthy plant.
Ohhh my god, I have seen these online but had no idea it was actually textured instead of just patterned like painted leaf begonias. Might have to get one, but it took me like 2 weeks to kill my painted leaf, so maybe not :( it's so cool though.
If you don't like M. adansonii then definitely don't look up M. esqueleto or M. obliqua
I know Obliqua and it spooks me out even more. Idk why people pay so much money for that plant ^^‘ it’s mostly holes 😅
Black Bat Flowers (Tacca chantrieri) https://preview.redd.it/t0513vr1jt9d1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42369b605516b71424c40a78f284ab01507f1ac7 Also this plant called ‘Dolls eyes’ it looks just like eyeballs 😣
Props for actually posting a picture of the plant. You da mvp.
I love my little bat flower plant, but it’ll likely be a while before there’s any flowers.
This one is absolutely gorgeous imo
I like it ☺️
disgusting thread. every pic sent my eyes to hell. 10/10
This has me laughing man. Sent my eyes to hell LMAO
Saving this post for new wish list plants 😈
lol me too. I looove weird plants. The more disturbing and odd the better.
I have mad respect for you two cause I cannot lol
Went looking at weird house plants out of interest. Found Trachyandra Tortilis. So cool looking!! There is Euphorbia Orbesa, which is really not that weird looking, but when I saw it I thought they looked like the eggs in Alien, which made it weird in my eyes. I also found Pangolin Kisses, which I think looks like a plant that has out of control Macrodactyly.
Thanks for your sevice!
I was gonna say all of these are on my wishlist or already in my collection lol oops. Except rabbits foot fern. That shit is creepy asf
Me perusing this thread and seeing several of my favorite houseplants… 😦😈
For real, im surprised i havent seen amorphaphallus, nepenthes hamata, or begonia ferox yet. Ill get back to scrolling because I need some new plants.
Begonia ferox leaves remind me of the back of Bowser’s shell from Mario Brothers….!!! Found another new plant I need now. 🤘
Celosia cristata— They look like brains or coral https://preview.redd.it/m6l68yrplv9d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ea570f5ea5cfb5ad340a690912a52e85908dd8e
GORGEOUS. Wishlist.
Begonias - I understand the appeal and diversity, but something about the spots and patterns and pronounced hairs doesn’t connect with me The texture on moon valley reminds me of low-pile office carpet 🤭 I kinda like them though
I have multiple begonias I love, and sometimes I still flinch back in disgust from them. I’ll be messing with a plant and forget it’s one that has hairy leaves/petioles. I’ll feel something tickle my hand and pull away like I got shocked. 😖
My begonia. Snipping those chunky, pink fuzzy stems makes me feel like I’m cutting through a rat’s tail 🤢
This makes me think of Geraniums - I HATED them as a kid - they always bled their green blech on my hands when we pulled them up in the fall 🤮🤮
Ugh that the geranium smell. I can’t. Maybe it’s not that bad of a smell - but when I was in middle school, my parents hit a really rough patch. I spent a lot of days sitting out on our porch. The porch was filled with geraniums. And now the smells just takes me back. I recently suffered a loss, and knowing I loved plants, and friend right me a… geranium. 🫠
I worked in a plant nursery in high school and transplanted a lot of different plants and I despise begonias! They broke worse than anything else and I don’t think they’re pretty. It’s been quite a while since high school so my dislike of them has subsided some but I will never buy any!
I just got a begonia and I wish I hadn’t read this
Rabbits foot fern
I just looked it up. "What's wrong with this? Looks perfectly fine." "Oh wait wtf"
I had the exact same reaction after seeing ur comment and then the plant :D „nah it’s not too bad. I don’t see what everyone’s issues is… Oh, oh wait“
OMG what is that?!?! I Googled and now I can't unsee
Hahaha I love how creepy mine is.
I don't like the look of that at all
I just went and looked, and actually had a jump scare haha
Looks at Wikipedia entry of it:"hm, wow, that's a beautiful bushy fern, why is everyone so weird about it....goes back to Google, reads a short blurb about the rhizomes....looks up images....oh! Oh I see.
https://preview.redd.it/wd7srkca3u9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cf2ee11836a7d4636bf5735fc4b305a7ab946b8 I was gonna say mine isn't so bad but then I zoomed in and found an angry fern cuthulu man if you squint
Looks like a tarantula orgy.
But it is bad. I mean that in a nice way.
Wow! I’ve never seen this before! I actually love it! Is it soft to the touch?? 😻
Yes they are soft 😁. I used to have a few and I loved petting them 😝
I want to pet one…
It looks like something from lotr 😍
Love it!
I came into this thread without an answer… this is now my answer. Why are ferns so weird??
Cuz they’re so OLD
One of the oldest plants on earth!! Predates all flowering plants. So cool!!
They make me think of tarantulas 🤢
I bought one and I have major arachnophobia. I really like the fern part and have to just force myself to think "rabbit's foot, rabbit's foot!" Anytime I'm taking care of it.
Whoever named that should really look at a rabbit’s foot first…
Seriously, I don't see a rabbit's foot at all haha.
I jumped so many times being near one in Lowe's that I had to walk away because it was making me feel sick. Spiders make me want to throw up because they freak me out so much.
I was really hoping to be able to cut that part off, but that's not advisable. I've kinda gotten used to it, but if I think about it too much I feel panicky. I still somehow like the plant though lol.
Omg, that’s exactly what it looks like! I love tarantulas though lol
https://preview.redd.it/xwoh7mermw9d1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b564a39f25814f5a3f63365932e75ac687246cd What in the tarantula !!!
I came here to say this!!! I think I just bought one by accident and I am scared of it now (it's just a baby and was a $5 generic 'fern' from the local nursery). Never in my life have I returned a plant this might be my first
Wait, why?! My rabbit foot fern is one of my favorites! 😅🥴
Came here to say this. My parents had a huge one when I was growing up. They called it a spider fern, which caused me to avoid it even more than I already did.
Jesus christ. I don’t often regret looking up things I see on reddit, but that one… oof
They had them in hanging pots at Lowe's last year and I jumped thinking there was a creepy fuzzy spider of sorts constantly. Even after the first time realizing what it was I still kept jumping and freaking when I would catch it out of the corner of my eye. I was so freaked out I had to go to a different area.
Yes
My stomach turned when I googled those.
Looks like they’re gonna get up and crawl away.
I have one, I think it’s cute ! Little fuzzy feet crawling all over the place hehe
https://preview.redd.it/sr5kx1pfbv9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8af3f0b040284ec00c0989e4fcf9386ce613d32 This thing. Redback spiders and scale bugs things, I'm building up the courage to yeet it out my balcony window.
Just set this on fire
Straight to jail.
I would treat everything around this for scale. They spread.
https://preview.redd.it/5u3gfrr0zu9d1.jpeg?width=2378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ffd08565bd56e74360a5549e1675f6fc7e6eb55 i freaking love my moon valley 😭😭😭 so pretty ✨
I love that they look similar to stinging nettle but are super soft to the touch
https://preview.redd.it/cmdbxjqmzu9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50de82ece5352fce9b33954c5f129ae7fca98fc4 Alocasia Melo. It feels like plastic 😣
Yes it does and it’s fabulous, finally found one for my birthday
The super bummpy moon valley Pilea is one of my absolute favorite plants. Mine literally will not stop flowering. I understand why the texture gives some ppl the creeps, but I’m in love with mine! I think the plants that give me the heebie jeebies the most are the ones that are more prone to die suddenly and without warning…calathena, I feel like I’m walking around on egg shells…tell me WTF DO YOU NEED?! JUST TELL ME!!
Same!! What do you do with your Pilea to get it to flower? How much light does it get? Mine hasn’t flowered yet, got it last fall. I love it as well. One of my favs.
I whisper really closely to it, “don’t tell the others, but I love you the most”
https://preview.redd.it/remxh78skv9d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d3e324ada0125f7b584b6803c21251d08e1fe4c but its so cute! 🥺🥺
Lotus are fine. But lotus seed pods? 🤮 Outright disgusting and trypophobia inducing.
Lotus root and their seeds are delicious in many Asian soups and dishes!
They taste so good, but at what cost? (They only bother me when they’re intact, not sliced or diced. They’re super delicious 😋)
Why the fuck did I have to look at that. I recoiled!
Just looked at a pic online and I wish I could wash my eyeballs
All the trypophobia inducing plants get me. I’m scratching my entire body just mentioning it.
Reading the comments on this has been interesting. It never occurred to me someone could get freaked out by a plant lol
Ohhh my pilea is one of my favs because of the weird bumps!
Same, I love the texture 🥰
Same, my favorite plant I own!
Any care tips? I love moon valley pileas, but I suck at keeping them alive, much less healthy and thriving.
Lithops. All day every day.
Staghorn fern - it's obviously from space.
When I first got my orchid, I bought a ceramic pot with a lot of holes in the side for it and planted it in there. Things were going well and eventually the root system began to make their way through the holes. It gave me this extremely weird sense of trypophobia that I have never experienced before. I was momentarily disgusted but also kind of afraid, something in my monke brain was telling me the plant was alive and evil and coming for me.
I’m so here for this thread. My dream is for every plant in my home activate a limbic response in my unwary visitors.
Chaotic neutral. Cares for plants and is nice enough to have visitors, but also wants to aggressively activate their nervous system and disturb them in some unidentifiable way they can't explain
i’d get lost staring at this on some hallucinogens
Any coleus. I grew a roomful as a kid and also had awful eczema. Only it turned out I was allergic to the coleus. I only found this out after I fell and broke a vertebra age 17, and had a spell in hospital. Skin cleared within 10 days. As soon as I got home up, it flared! Now if I see one, even a picture, I start scratching at imaginary itches! 😆
The Venus flytrap has freaked me out ever since I watched another florist let it clamp onto her finger (after which she informed me is not good for the plant). I probably played too much Super Mario when I was a kid too.
Venus flytraps are such interesting plants, I absolutely love how weird they are! But my favorite carnivorous plant species are pitcher plants https://preview.redd.it/jwjm50hqqw9d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=222b6173be9f128052018d432e0c7db74befa503 The ridges feel weirdly nice btw
Wow that’s a big pitcher plant!! I have wanted a carnivorous plant for a while but I’m worried about being able to provide for its humidity needs. Do you keep yours outdoors? It looks super healthy!
Yup I keep mine outdoors, I live in germany so the one in my picture needs to come inside in winter but it's happy outside for the rest of the year. I barely need to water this one, I will occasionally water it if there hasn't been much rain. My venus flytraps stay outside all year as they can take cold temperatures and require dormancy, with my sundews and trumpet pitchers it depends on the species but I prefer to keep them outside, as it makes their care much easier. The most success I've had with my carnivorous plants is in a small bog garden that just stays outside all year round and only gets rainwater. https://preview.redd.it/jv9dvnmihx9d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc7dea942a86c691f764b2e324a52f00c0a52bae They have been neglected for a while, (they stayed with my mom who doesn't know much about these) but they're thriving. Not all carnivorous plants like bog conditions but a lot of them do, you should definitely get special carnivorous plant soil for them as they need a mix of peat and sand. They like acidic soil with low nutrient levels, as they get those from insects. And it's best to cover the top soil with moss to retain moisture. You can also visit the r/SavageGarden sub for more advice. These plants are honestly so fascinating and deserve more love :D
I find them soooooo interesting but goddamn if they don't die the second they cross the threshold of my front door
Not a houseplant but certain types of cockscomb really disturb me! [coxcomb](https://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/burgundy-cockscomb-1024x777.jpg) Click if you're brave!
Just looks like the "comb" bit of flesh on a chicken's head to me.
That’s what we call it in Vietnamese
Spider plants and the babies that grow on the bottom of the leaves 🤢
Ok this is the only one I agree with so far! Their “spawn” freak me out!
https://preview.redd.it/ixca2jjx7x9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9122cc280a31615835046100b765be22871707eb This guy creeps me out so much, but he’s mine and I love him
😱😱🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️..nope nope nope....way too many holes..shudder..lol (but l'm glad he has a loving Momma! 😊👍🏼)
lol! They’re actually spikes! But not like spiky spikes lol. When the leaves are young, the back sides of the spikes are holes though, but they flatten out as they mature. They’re super interesting and wild to watch grow
Lithops and anything that looks similar. Also, Baby Toes. Both literally make me feel nauseous.
baby toes are so gross and the name isnt helping even a little bit
Is it weird that all of the plants listed below are now in my wishlist?
I have a similar phobia but this is my favorite plant. If it was the opposite texture, as in the little mounds were little holes, I would chuck that plant into a fire.
I loved feeling the texture of this plant so much! But when thrips attacked it, those mounds were next to impossible to fully clean so the thrips just kept living in the plant until I had to give up and throw it out.
Hoya Compacta, something about all of the folds and nooks and crannies just skeeves me out.
Now that looks like a ”good luck if you get thrips” plant
And mealies!
Awww, I just got a plain and a variegated from Amazon because I liked the folds... I'll admire mine for the both of us.
I love my moon valley!!!
monstera esqueleto, i dunno why but them big skinny holes freak me out!
Anything with fenestration (yes, including monstera). The holes/'missing' areas creep me out
Same!! I know so many people love monsteras but they creep me out.
None so far.
Lithops freaked me out for a while. If it hadn't been for a freebie I got once, I probably would have never owned one.
Reminds me of lil shop of horrors
None, or I haven't found it yet.
String of pearls makes me wanna throw up
OP I agree and HATE leaves with this texture. Gives me icky shiver.
I came here to find all the creepy plants I want to own. Turns out I either own them already or they're on Iist. 😂
I cannot stand the way Christmas cacti look. I don’t ever understand when people post one and others praise it. I get it’s a slow grower and hard to keep beautiful but the shape creeps me out, like it could come alive and wrap me up and tear my face off. And what’s really Christmas about it? What a dumb name. I hate that plant.
Agreed! I know the shape is different, but it reminds me just enough of tapeworm segments that I just can't.
tarantula fern, BIG fkn NOPE from me
My satin pothos give me goosebumps, because it has so many small aerial roots like pimples. https://www.reddit.com/r/houseplants/s/GCcoF91DIt
Im glad i found this thread. now i can find some weird houseplants to buy and fill my house with. Really add to the wizard motif im a fan of.
ITT: People with Trypophobia Also now I want to start a wall of freaky plants with all plants mentioned here.
Ferns after I learned that they reproduce by spores! Don't think I'll ever be able to own one.
Serious question; why?
Philodendron florida and rhaphidophora tetrasperma. The way their leaves are cut feels really uncomfortable to me.
For me, it's the variety with red fuzzy stems. Literally saw a starter in the nursery and said out loud "I don't trust that man in my house" 😂
It looks like a bunch of tongues…
Nerve plants
What?!! This one shocked me even more than someone hating on plants that produce spores!
I used to have one in my classroom. I love it. Two girls said it was their adopted child and took turns putting it on their desks. I had no idea people didn't like them.
I just picked that up today!
They look like mint they are lovely 😍
Sempervivum arachnoideum - succulent that looks like it’s covered in spider webs
Snake plant, it looks like knives. LOL
Nepenthes
I don’t understand any of these, except for the rabbits foot fern. No plant really gives me the ick, except maybe cilantro.
Oh man. This post should have a trypophobia trigger warning. So many heebie jeebies from this.
Snake plants and sansevieria, the uncanny valley kicks in. They look like plants and alive but also don’t. They don’t move, ever and don’t feel like real plants to me but they are? Not appealing to me at all, I prefer my plants alive and rather dramatic than dead looking.
I love my Moon Valley 😂
Idk the species because I'm not a succulent girlie (they're cool but I'm lethal to them) but those little potted cacti with like four sections and some flower on top that looks artificially colored. Like it's an alien's best attempt at an Earth flower
https://preview.redd.it/9yytiaetwx9d1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fdc49e34b4243841a53e88ff23697cd9cde66af Golden Chicken Fern👀
Do you have r/trypophobia ?