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.

White Egret Orchid (Habenaria Radiata): The White Egret Orchid is named for its beautiful flowers, which have a striking resemblance to a graceful white egret in flight. Sometimes called the fringed orchid, this hardy terrestrial orchid, which is native to Japan, needs well-drained, moderate to constant moisture soil, and full to partial sunlight. Growing from pea-like tubers, the small, fleshy strap-like foliage comes up in the spring but doesn't bloom until late summer. However, once in bloom, there can be more than twelve white blossoms on one flower spike that will bloom for weeks.