30 Plants That Look Like They Were Designed by an Alien Who Just Discovered Photoshop

John Summers • Contributor

Jul 8, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Look, I've seen a lot of weird stuff online. I've seen a dog that looks like a fried chicken drumstick and a potato chip shaped like Abraham Lincoln. But nothing prepared me for the absolute fever dream that is this collection of weird-looking plants. These aren't your basic houseplants or backyard weeds. These are nature's glitch moments - plants that look like eyes, birds, stone carvings, or even something that fell off a Final Fantasy boss.

And yet, they're very real, very alive, and probably judging us. So the next time you think Earth is getting boring, scroll through these botanical oddballs and prepare to have your sense of reality photosynthesized into oblivion.

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Succulent Plants Look like tiny rocks

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This Xenomorph-looking leaf

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Trachyandra Tortilis

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It's looking at me

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This Ponga Plant has an easter egg hidden inside it

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Succulents are so weird

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SO weird!

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It looks like someone didn't finish painting it

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This plant looks like it has a QR code inside it

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Me too, buddy

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Weird plant, cute cat

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Cactus with flower

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Shai-hulud

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It's like an alien planet

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Psychotria Pepiguiana

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Awww, I love you too weird plant

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I love the color scheme

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Zingiber Spectabile (Beehive Ginger)

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Very symmetrical plant

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I kind of want to eat it

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Crotalaria Cunninghamii looks like tiny birds

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Trippy

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Oh great, a Demogorgon plant

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ok... so... I don't thing it's from earth

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Same

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The Black Velvet, because Goths need flowers too

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Venus Fly Traps

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They Put Their Flowers Really Far Away From Their Traps So They Don't Accidentally Kill Their Pollinators
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These flowers appear Once A Year, For One Night Only

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This flower is called Dracula Simia

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Brassia Rex has flowers that look like spiders

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