The most expensive flowers - a short-lived gift, but remember about it for sure for a long time. Some buds can not be bought at all. They just look.
A beautiful half of humanity loves when they are given flowers, and not necessarily for celebration, but just like a sign of love and respect. And if a bouquet of very rare and expensive specimens? For now just take a look.
1. Orchid "The Gold of Kinabalu"
The name of this rare and truly luxurious orchid comes from the place of its growth. This flower grows only on the island of Borneo on Mount Kinabalu. It is nowhere else in the world to find this variety, so the price of it is equated with precious metal. For one escape this striped beauty will have to shell out about 5000 US dollars. No flower is more expensive than this orchid, so "Gold Kinabalu" deserves the title of the most expensive flower in the world.
2. Medinilla
This is the most beautiful exotic flower that grows in the tropical forests of Madagascar and the Philippine skeletons. The price for one pot of this beautiful tender pink flower can reach seven hundred US dollars.
3. Rose "Pierre de Ronsard"
The most beautiful rose in the world is the "Pierre de Ronsard". The color of the large and heavy buds of this curly rose is creamy pink, very delicate and inimitable. By the way, this flower was the most loved by the famous French actor Louis de Funes. The price for one rose "Pierre de Ronsard" on average reaches 15 euros.
4. Rafflesia
This flower could stand on top of the ranking of the most unusual, exotic, beautiful and expensive flowers. However, it is not sold because of its insufferable aroma of rotting flesh, so its second name is "Cadaverous lily". But this flower tourists want to see as often as no other. The popularity of rafflesia is simply off scale, but it is caused by the impressive size of the flower. The bud opening can weigh about 11 kg and reach a meter in diameter.
5. Middlemist the Red
This flower is incredibly rare and very capricious, and the saddest thing is that today there are only two copies of this beautiful plant. You can see this wonderful flower only in the garden of New Zealand or in the greenhouse of Great Britain. Therefore, it is not necessary to talk about its value, since it is priceless.
6. Hydrangea
The name of this wonderful and rare flower resembles the name of Princess Hortense - the sister of Prince Henry Nassau-Siegen. This beautiful flower, with bright inflorescences grows in Asia, as well as in South and North America. He has two types of flowers: small fertile and infertile, large at the edges. An artisanal or tree-like variety of this plant can reach 3 meters in height. There are about 80 hydrangea species, but despite this, one flower of this plant is quite expensive, about 6.5-7 US dollars.
7. Gloriosa
It is truly an expensive and very rare flower, and it grows in Asia and South Africa. It is often called the "flower of glory", because the word gloriostis, from which the name of the flower went, means "glorified". The leaves of this flower can reach a length of three meters, and the beauty of the buds itself is fascinating, since they are similar to flames. If you want to buy a bouquet from gliroid, then be ready to shell out $ 10 for each flower.
8. The Rainbow Rose
The most unusual sort of roses is iridescent, they are just full of colors and look like painted, but they are quite alive roses that you can buy. These flowers were artificially extracted through breeding experiments in 2004. The trick is that through the channels separated by the breeders, various dyes are absorbed in the white rose stalk, with which the water is colored. The rose is absorbed by this colored water, and its bud becomes not white, but iridescent. The cost of one such unusual rose will cost 10-11 US dollars.
9. Tulip "The Queen of the Night"
This fairly rare variety of tulips has a lilac-black bud color with glossy reflections. The peak of popularity of this flower sank into oblivion together with the period of "tulip fever", when for one bulb of the black handsome could give a herd of sheep, 300 kg of cheese or several tons of butter. But, despite this, today this tulip variety still remains in price by the current standards in flower markets. For the bulb "Queen of the Night" sellers require 15-20 dollars.
10. Rose of Sweet Juliet
This stunningly beautiful variety of roses with apricot-colored petals was brought out by English-breeder David Austin in 2006. To achieve the desired result, Austin worked on breeding a variety of 15 years and spent almost 16 million dollars. Today, one Rose of Sweet Juliet is sold for $ 25, and a small bouquet can be purchased for $ 150.