Do you think orchids are beautiful? Meet Gastrodia agnicellus, World’s Ugliest Orchid. And that is what the Scientists at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, think about it.
The plant is far from attractive and basically looks like an eyeless worm.
Discovered in the forests of Madagascar, the orchid has “small, brown and rather ugly” flowers. It depends on fungi for nutrition and doesn’t have any leaves or other photosynthetic tissue, say the scientists.
