These 16 Flowers Look Like Something Else

These flowers, as a reproductive organ, evolved with one primary purpose in mind – to attract pollinators like insects or birds. This function has driven their astounding evolutionary explosion of distinct colors and shapes, some of which have even come to resemble various recognizable figures, plants or animals.

Dove Orchid Or Holy Ghost Orchid (Peristeria Elata): The Holy Ghost or Dove Orchid (Peristeria elata) is the most widely known member of this small genus. The first plants of Peristeria were sent to England in 1826 and were flowered in 1831. William J. Hooker, when describing the genus, named it Peristeria after the Greek word meaning dove, due to the likeness of a dove that appears in the flowers. Peristeria elata is the national flower of Panama.