28 Houseplants with Most Weird and Unusual Leaves

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If you want to grow plants that stand out from the rest in the most unique ways, then try growing these Houseplants with Most Weird and Unusual Leaves!

1. Butterfly Begonia

This rare tropical plant offers butterfly wing-like shiny green foliage with rippled margins and crimson-red spots on the leaf surface.
2. Jellyfish Air Plant

You can make air plants look like jellyfish by hanging them upside down in sea urchins’ shells.
3. Butterfly Wing Plant

The triangular-shaped green leaves resemble a fluttering butterfly with burgundy patterns.
4. Jewel Orchid

The unusual green foliage has gold venation that penetrates the leaf; it truly looks like a lightning beat in action.
5. Hardy Tapioca

The plant’s foliage looks a lot like Schefflera but with a twist as it fans out, giving it a unique look.
Avoid overwatering the plant and do not expose it to the harsh afternoon sun for long hours.
6. Heart Leaf Fern

As the name suggests, the leaves of this fern look like the shape of a heart that’s been stretched a little!
7. Leopard Plant

The large and round leaves of this plant are curved downwards, giving it an unusual look. They also have beautiful speckles!
Exposing the plant to direct morning sunlight will do wonders for its growth.
8. Striped Begonia

The plant’s leaves have beautiful stripes of green-cream color, which gives it a jewel-like look!
Do not expose the plant to direct sunlight. Keep it on a pebble tray with water.
9. Seersucker Plant

It is one of the best plants to grow if you like weird foliage specimens. Its leaves have an undulating or puckered surface.
10. Wine Cup

This distinct-looking succulent has unbranched stems and round bright green leaves with raised coiled edges that look like a wine cup!
11. Trachyandra

The fleshy, small, shrub-like spiral leaves are springy and often hairy.
Use well-draining soil and avoid overwatering.
12. Cooperi Haworthia

The plumped, transparent, fleshy green leaves look like a group of bubbles.
It grows well in 4-5 hours of daily bright morning sunlight. Keep it at the south or west-facing window.
13. Starfish Cactus

The plated layered foliage of this plant matches well with the star-shaped flowers.
Grow this succulent in gritty, well-draining soil blended with perlite or vermiculite.
14. Corkscrew Rush

The interesting or weird feature of this plant is the coiled, spiral shape sprawling in different directions.
15. Venus Flytrap

This insect-eating carnivorous plant has bristly leaves that fold into two hinged lobes with thorny edges. The nectar tempts insects into the trap.
16. Crinkle Leaf Plant

The triangle-shaped fleshy leaves are covered in hairs and have wavy, crinkled edges.
Grow this plant in full sun to partial shade.
17. Barbillion Echeveria

It changes color and shape throughout the year. The leaves are densely carunculated.
Grow it in part sun and never allow this easy-to-grow plant to sit in water.
18. Chinese Jade

This weird crested form of Sinocrassula yunnanensis shows off a distinct, fan-shaped shape.
Overwatering can kill the plant, so keep the plant on the dry side.
19. Pangolin

This strange-looking succulent got its name because of the leaves that resemble distinct animal ‘pangolin’ that eats termites, ants and stay covered in robust, overlapping scales.
20. Marimo Moss Ball

It is not an actual moss but a rare, velvet-like, spherical, non-invasive algae, with a bizarre yet unique shape. It is one of the Houseplants with Most Weird and Unusual Leaves!
Use tap or RO water, add a bit of ocean salt if brown spots develop.
21. Spiralis Cactus

The trunkless cactus has columnar blue-green spiral stems branched at the base in an arrangement like candelabra.
22. Alocasia Stingray

The weird thing about its leaves is the tail paired with the wings that resemble stingrays.
23. Parachute Plant

The twining stems carry weird-looking light green perforated leaves patterned in dots.
Grow this succulent using gritty compost in clay pots with drainage holes.
24. Baby’s Necklace

The round gray-green leaves with red edges stacked on each other resemble a beaded necklace.
Use gritty, well-draining soil and water deeply when soil becomes dry.
25. Ant Plant


What makes this plant stand out from the other trailing varieties is its swollen pocket foliage. They are hollow from the inside and are termed bullate leaves.
26. Hurricane Cactus

The fleshy, long, segmented green stems have small white clumps of hairs without any spines. It turns solid pink to maroon in full sun.
27. Vietnam Ferox

The interesting feature of this begonia is its leaves which are a weird mix of raised black cones that look-like teeth. The leaf edges are wavy and hairy.
28. Philodendron Fun Bun

The large impressive spiraling stems carry glossy green leaves in an interesting circular arrangement.

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