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Bird's Botanicals

Kansas City, Missouri

Bird's Botanicals

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

The Pygmy Forest.

Little River, California

Pygmy Forest Trail

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The ackee's yellow portion is edible, but the black seeds are toxic.

Ackee

Jamaica's national fruit is poisonous and resembles scrambled eggs.

Kingsland Wildflowers.

Brooklyn, New York

Kingsland Wildflowers

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

The mulberry tree.

London, England

Charlton House

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

The Verbena cocktail at the Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan.

Szechuan Button

This herb gives cocktails another kind of buzz.

A bridal veil stinkhorn in the wild.

Bridal Veil Stinkhorn

This pretty mushroom smells like rotting flesh.

A fukugi-lined road in Bise Village.

Bise Village

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

Fingered citrons symbolize luck, long life, and happiness.

Buddha's Hand

Smells like lavender, tastes like lemon rind, looks like a gnarled claw fresh from your nightmares.

Rich, creamy black sapote.

Chocolate Pudding Fruit

This fruit can also count as dessert.

Syracuse, New York

Tree of 40 Fruit

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Ice cream beans really do taste like vanilla ice cream.

Ice Cream Bean

The South American bean that looks like cotton candy and tastes like ice cream.

The grub is also edible.

Bush Coconut

All bush coconuts come with a free, juicy worm inside.

Kava

The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.

Tonomine Highlands.

Kamikawa-chō, Japan

Tonomine Highlands

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

Symbols of New Orleans carved into the trunk of the tree

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Music Tree

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

Šalinac Grove.

Šalinac, Serbia

Šalinac Grove

An eerie, protected forest of old-growth oak trees, many of which are now dead.

Whole, organic iboga root bark.

Iboga

The psychedelic root used in a sacred Bwiti ritual may also treat heroin withdrawal.