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Meet the ‘Devil Flower,’ a Creepy New Plant Scientists Just Discovered

The bizarre parasitic plant has black flesh, horn-like structures and fewer than 50 known individuals left in the wild.

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You would hope that any plant with a name like “Devil Flower” would live up to it in some way. Luckily, the devil flower species recently discovered on the forest floor in a national park in Thailand does, as it looks like a disturbing little bug man standing on its tiny hind legs, staring up at you, perhaps the chat, perhaps to fight.

Formally classified as Thismia daemona by botanists in a study published in PhytoKeys, this newly discovered species from the “fairy lantern” is a bit of a goth kid. Found by researchers from Chulalongkorn University and........

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