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Botanical Forteana / Fortean Plants (Non-Carnivorous)

My inner toddler made me do this:
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Are they really non-carnivorous? They look too much like Triffids.

Five massive tree ferns have made an "epic journey" from Edinburgh to the south-west tip of Scotland.

The heaviest of the 20ft (7m) tall plants weighed in at 350kg (770lbs).

The Dicksonia antartica tree ferns have been growing for nearly 150 years in glasshouses at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).
Due to refurbishment work, they have been moved to a new outdoor home 145 miles away at Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer.

Tree fern in Edinburgh
IMAGE SOURCE,LYNSEY WILSON RBGE Image caption, Months of planning went into the operation to move the tree ferns from Edinburgh

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-63088278
 

Growing success for Frenchman, the world's only breeder of four-leaf clovers​

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/202205...ur-leaf-clovers-friday-13th-superstition-luck

Clovers bearing more than three leaves are the recipients of a genetic mutation in the genome of the common white clover Trifolium repens.

Some studies show as few as 1 in 10,000 have four leaves, though a 2017 Swiss survey said the figure was half that.

However in the Nièvre region of central France, hundreds of four-leaf clovers grow in cool greenhouses under Guillouard's watchful eye.

He began in 1998, under a licence from INRAE – France’s Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment – the only one of its kind in the world.
 
Though this is not a Fortean plant in its characteristics, I had to post this here. It is daylily "Bela Lugosi". Of course I had to have it for my garden.
 

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