10 Strange Houseplants to Grow

Houseplants help to add aesthetic value to your home. As a result, you may be interested in learning more about how to improve your indoor.
There are different plants that you can incorporate into your indoor garden. Below are 10 strange houseplants that you can grow as house plants:


1. Pitcher Plant

The plant is carnivorous, and it is common in the Philippines. It usually consumes crawling and flying insects using pitfall traps that usually hang from the tendrils attached to the green leaves.

The pitcher plants usually attract creepy insects using the nectar they secrete on the lower side of the trap’s lid. The insects will slip into the plant, and they will drown in the liquid present within.

The insects will then be digested by the enzymes that usually supply nutrients to the pitcher plant.

The pitcher plant usually thrives in an environment with plenty of warmth, sunlight, and humidity. Since the pitcher plant usually catches its own nutrients, you should use light soil comprising half perlite and half sphagnum moss. These plants aren’t particularly known for getting common plant diseases, but they still need to be handled with care.

The soil should be kept moist consistently. During summer, the plant can easily feed itself. During winter, provide the plant with dried blood worms and live crickets until spring.


2. Goldfish Plant

The orange blooms of this plant usually resemble a small goldfish. The plant usually produces flowers throughout the year as long as it is exposed to the right conditions.

The goldfish plant hails from Central and South America. It loves indirect but bright light; the plant also prefers humid conditions.

Since the goldfish plants are epiphytes, they prefer to grow in airy and coarse soil. They should be well watered during summer while ensuring the soil will get slightly dry to ensure the flowers will bloom throughout regardless of the season.


3. Lavender Scallops


Lavender scallops have fleshy and upright green leaves that turn into pinkish-red when exposed to regular sunlight. Since the plant hails from Madagascar, it can only thrive in areas with little water and ample sunlight.

Generally, it is easy to care for this plant.


4. Desert Rose

The succulent shrub hails from Africa. It is evergreen and appealing.

The trunk is swollen, and the branches are woody. The plant has tubular flowers and leathery green leaves. The flower’s colors range from pink to red.

The plant can be pruned, or it can be allowed to grow naturally, and it will attain a height of 10 feet. Although the desert rose has an intricate appearance, people can easily care for it. It needs little amounts of water for it to thrive.

It also requires plenty of warmth and sunlight. It usually drops its leaves if the temperatures go below 50°F.

You can place the plant in a pot and make sure it is placed near a window facing south to ensure the rises are blooming.


5. Madagascar Palm

The plant looks like a cross between a cactus and a palm tree. The plant is succulent, and it hails from the dogbane family.

The plant has a prickly and silvery trunk. The crown is then clustered with green leaves. It can also grow to 20 feet while in the wild. When grown indoors, it cannot exceed 6 feet.

It also grows slowly, and that means you will watch it mature for many years.

Make sure the plant has been placed in an area that has adequate sunlight and enough water. The soil should have good draining capabilities. You can use cactus soil and use a fertilizer that has low-nitrogen levels. During summer and spring, apply the fertilizer every five weeks.


6. Echinopsis


The plant is relatively small, and it may have a 4-inch diameter. It also has numerous thorny ribs. It can bloom, and it may even produce 6-inch white flowers.

The plant usually grows in South America along with the rocky soils. It should be planted using loamy soils that have been topped with crushed seashells and topped using pebbles.


Like other types of cactus, this one needs little water and more sunlight, especially during winter.


7. Corkscrew Albuca

The plant usually adds to the visual appeal in your house plant collection or indoor garden. The plant is also known as the frizzle sizzle. It usually produces shoots that are distinctive. They usually curl up into spirals on each end.

The slender and long leaves usually emerge from the underground bulb. As the flowers bloom, the plant will produce a central flower that is vanilla scented. The flowers usually are yellow in color.

The sustain the curls, the plant should have access to enough sunlight. The soil should also be well-draining. Keep in mind that when you apply too much water, the roots and bulb will rot.


8. Purple Shamrock


The purple shamrock adds some color to your indoor garden throughout the year. It is also not a part of the real shamrock; however, it is part of the wood sorrel family. 
Every day the plant will turn and move towards the light in the afternoon and morning hours. The plant will then close the leaves at night.


9. String of Dolphins

You may have heard of the string of beads or pearls. The string of dolphins comes from the same family—the succulent looks like dolphins leaping from the stems.

The plant produces curved leaves that usually have two points resembling fins. The plant can be placed in a hanging basket to ensure it has access to enough light while allowing the soil to dry out after the watering takes place.


10. Paddle Plant

The succulent is stalkless. It usually forms a cluster of fleshy leaves that emerge from the central rosette.


The paddle plant can only attain a height of 6 inches maximum. Every leaf will overlap with the neighboring leaves, like pancakes that have been stacked together.