So my husband walked in and sat down to watch this with me (streaming on the tv) and says about the Birkin “oh that’s a pretty plant,” and then on the Godzilla “oh that’s cool.” So I filled him in, “babe, it’s an ugly plant video.” He thought it was hilarious. 😂
I really don't get why Alocasia Jacklyn is on the list tbh 😂 but to each their own. I've added a baby Jacklyn to my collection maybe 1-2 months ago. I really love it. The stems look very mushroom-y to me and the shape of the leaves is so unique. It opened its first true-to-form leaf about 2 weeks ago and it's currently unfurling the second, the ones it had when it arrived are still baby leaves. Is it a bit weird? Yea. Okay, a lot. The texture is really odd. But it's lovely in its own way. I have a few plants I got just because of how odd and out-of-this-world they are, and I know this one would fit, but no, I got the Jacklyn because I saw pictures and I fell in love ❤ EDIT: I sent this vid to a friend who is not into plants. For Mint Adansonii he said "it looks zombie" and I can't unsee it now 😂😂😂
@@irinad.7802 right? And the more I look at it, the more it looks like something out of a movie. Like a plant you don't even expect to be real. It's giving LOTR vibes 😂 or Jurassic Park.
I actually think the Philo Birkin looks very striking! Those stripes are so clear and clean along the leaves. I only just got one a few months ago and it looks so nice on my kitchen table. It did have a bit of transition shock and a couple leaves turned to goo but it's looking very healthy now. We'll see how it does in the future.
I really like my Birkin. The stripes are different and my OCD loves them. Lol It’s loving it at my house and I couldn’t ask for an easier plant to care for.
Totally agree. It’s such a unique and pretty plant. There’s nothing else like it. Rare plant collectors don’t like it because it became “common” almost immediately.
Lol, your emojis make me think you like them; ‘sickening’ can mean good or bad, of course, too. Haha. I agreed though, variegated Anthuriums are bizarre, and VELVET variegated Alocasias, like ‘Frydek’, or even ‘Polly’, are just odd to me. Like, nature is just “doing the most” visually and texturally. Something about variegated Alocasias really DOES (literally) look sick… like, you wouldn’t want to to touch them kind-of sick.
I get why stores/shops sell plants like this...but it annoys me to pay more for a pot I really don't want just because they're selling the plant in it.😑
@LimeyKat.....I, too like the looks of them but didn't know if the variegation will keep on them as they get older. Please comment your care and the amount of light for them if you will......thanks!
I have had birkin for like a year. It doesn't get a lot of light and often gets underwatered but it doesn't seem to mind. Now that I look at it closely, the bottom leaves may be starting to fade. I actually had the opposite issue as on of the plants in the pot kept growing too much variagation. I had to cut it several times. The new leaves are still gorgeous, the growth pattern is very compact and over all the plant looks still amazing.
I used to agree on the Strawberry Shake. The leaves just look so muddy. But then I saw a really big one one. Taken as a whole, the plant was stunning. So, now I have a small one, and I’m on that long, slow road to having a big one and making it all worth it. 😂
I feel the same way about baby pink princess. Not very pretty young, but kind of impressive in the right spot in the right house. I still don’t have one because I can’t get past the ugly stage.
Bought a P. Bob Cee in 2021. It was 100 Euro and until today I sold 6 cuttings. When it grows bigger it is a really nice plant and it is indestructible. I do love it.
It's interesting to me how most of the time I'm on the same page with you on plants that look sickly, but I absolutely LOVE the Jacklyn (Reticulata too tho). Also, I don't think it's hypocritical at all. How you feel about the way a plant looks (or how anything looks for that matter) is a very personal experience that just doesn't always seem to make sense. And I don't think it has to.
For whatever reason, I kind of like the color palette on the variegated black cardinals 🤷🏻♀️ It’s definitely not what I’m typically drawn to, but that one catches my eye for some reason. I don’t have one, and I’m not searching for one, but I’m thinking I’d probably buy one if I stumbled across it, lol. I enjoy hearing your planty opinions, thank you!
For me its the stingray alocasia and alike, they just kinda look like they didnt develop properly before unfurling and like theyll break off any second xD
I agree with all of them except the Alocasia tandurusa (Jacklyn). I love my Jacklyn that it’s actually one of my top 5 favourite plants in my collection. It’s so big and is currently able to hold on to 8 big leaves . The pattern is beautiful and it’s texture is so unique. And the mama plant is consistently producing corms that I have been gifting to my friends.
From the top of my head before watching the video: -Alocasia plumbae 'Flying Squid' (still a cool plant) -Alocasia macrorrhiza 'Stingray' (kinda awkward) -Pilea peperomioides 'Mojito' (I try not to introduce any viruses into my plant collection and this plant is just rustling my jimmies) -Philodendron Birkin when it's unhappy -your aunt's crusty old Phalaenopsis that just survived the last decade on a table -that grey, dusty "public office" Aglaonema Edit: The last two obviously haven't been rare for decades.
Kayleeeeeeeeee, pleaseeee...😭The secret to Paraiso... It's *L I G H T* -- not heat! When people with as big a following as yours, spread that bunk temperature theory, you set folks up for *FAILURE* (especially the less-experienced portions of the community, who are still trying to build a knowledge base and practical understanding, and who look to your word as gospel guidance) which means every time you say this, you're proliferating frustrations and reinforcing needless resentment for what is actually a *super* easy plant... When it can just get what it needs... (Which just so happens to be *LOTS* of light!🌞) Edit: Now... As far as it being an "ugly" plant, that's fine -- I totally respect y'all's opinions... But *at least* give folks the proper info to grow the poor plant, so it can be judged it at its best!!! 😂
Oh poor Birkin! I bought it maybe a year ago for cheap in a garden centre and I love it. The stripes actually scratch my calathea itch pretty well, which is awesome because calatheas keep dying on me. There is something about it that reminds me of calathea ornata or white star... I haven't seen any leaves fading so far, may it be maturity thing maybe? Or alternatively it takes a very, very, very long time..
I'm not a fan of the whipple way. The way its leaves look dont jive with me - too pale and sickly and inconsistent. Its a bummer, because on paper it's everything I should want. Meanwhile, I have an ugly ass lithops. I know it's ugly. It knows it's ugly. And somehow, I'm all about him.
I didn't like philodendron brandtianum then I was given one. Still didn't like it and gave it away lol. I don't like any maroon with pink plants. Shake, PPP are both ugly. I don't like sick looking plants either.
Can’t stand Brandtianum but not really because of the silver leaves. I don’t understand how it’s made it to garden centers as it’s so difficult to grow! It looks so ugly trailing, but if put on a pole it doesn’t want to behave either. New leaves constantly came out misshapen or stuck for me even though it’s not an erubescens. I’ve only ever owned 1 but I’ll never do it again. So many nicer silver plants out there.
10:09 oh I adore my Bob Cee! He’s huge and the anchor plant for my variegated monsteras. I’m obsessed with philodendrons with fingers like tortum and polypoidiodies 💚
I agree about all of these especially the Jacklyn. The Zebrina is by far superior in that kind of pattern. However, my paraiso is grown in normal house conditions and he’s pretty damn nice.😉
I agree so far except the Jacklyn is one of my favs, I love the funk it gives, just got a Paraiso Verde in a trade, wasn’t sure about it, thin leaves, looks a bit sickly, but it’s “growing on me” I’m not a fan of very many syngoniums at all, they all look frail and sickly to me. I have a Philo birkin though, it’s just different, strawberry shake looks unwell to me, not for me, nor any begonias, not attractive with those hairy leaves,
I find this video hysterical . Loves silver hates Brandtianum, loves reticulated, hates the Jacklyn. Laughing so hard. I love this channel, but this gave me huge laughs
The weirdest-looking & also TEXTURALLY-odd (i.e., “nature doing the most”) plants, in my eyes, include the aforementioned ‘Black Cardinal’, because it’s no longer black! It’s not even pink either. It is that dishwater swirled effect. Looks a bit like it’s struggling to find the right lighting, feeding, and overall it appears as a “lost” plant. Like it would be at-risk of dying if I bought one. I also find anthuriums, especially velvet leaves ones, that are marbled to be scary looking at times. It just doesn’t work to me… as well as Alocasias ‘Frydek’, ‘Polly’, both just don’t work with that marbled variegation. Velvet marble is overkill I think. I’m not spending hundreds on something like that, as I see on Etsy! Also there are numerous cultivars available of _Colocasia esculenta_ (edible taro root) which also look rather bizarre variegated. As you said about Philo. ‘Paraíso Verde’ being flaccid, Taro plants are very loose and floppy, despite their massive size potential, and they blow around in the breeze a lot. They’re also soft, and soft leaves to me don’t work with variegation. It’s similar to the velvety thing. I do love the _Colocasia_ ‘Mojito’, on the other hand. Variegated Calla “lily” (aka _Zantedeschia_ I think) aren’t the most common things, but you’d expect them to be stunning… nope, they’re bizarre too. Lol. The commonly sold cultivars with spotted or “starry” leaves are nice, especially with darker purple or maroon flowers, but if the variegation is marbled… not so much. Good thing they’re an anomaly. I also find philodendrons ‘Caramel Marble’, ‘Jungle Boogie’, _P. billietiae_ and _atabapoense_ to be too much when variegated. But ironically I do like Alocasia ‘Jaclyn’, both in shape and color. _A. zebrina_ is cute, too. And there’s more! I personally find variegated fiddle leaf fig to be overkill. And variegated whale fin snake plant. A plant that’s already uniquely colored, has striping, edging, spots, and now variegated is too much… and too expensive. For what it is. Lol.
I have the Shangrila at home for 3 years now and it's just unfolding and awful. Hate it. But my most favorite ugly plant is the alocasia frydek variegata. The varigation looks like bird sh*t. 😀
Most variegated anthuriums are worthy of this list! They just look diseased and as though they’re on deaths door Although Anthurium pterodactyl is a decent variegated plant
I loved this video! Who else but you will put out an ugly (rare) plant video. I agree with all except...phil strawberry shake. Once they mature, 😱... gorgeous, you just need the right environment...heat humidity and light. But please do make another.
Plants like the strawberry ice, black cardinal & the one with patina looking leaves. I didn't care for them because the leaves (at least in the examples) looked like the plants were really dry or shriveling up. Your video set up looked cool. Background, top, hair & makeup all a similar palette. 😎
i remember being super excited when i heard black cardinal was variegated bc i thought “oh my god a black and white plant, what could be more perfect. but any variegation that’s brown is so ugly. people dodge yellow bc it can look sickly? no BROWN IS LITERALLY A DYING PLANT. the only plant i can slightly handle with brown is caramel marble and that’s bc it has a nice leaf shape. my personal thing with variegated plants is if the base plant already isn’t that interesting *to me personally* ahem philodendron erubecens, any self heading philo, or just anything with a simple leaf or leaf pattern, variegation doesn’t add anything worthwhile or can make the plant look even worse. i personally have zero interest in jose buono bc i find the leaf boring and the variegation doesn’t add much. id rather put up with the difficulty of a florida beauty bc i love the shape. does any of this make sense???
I noticed Kaylee say something really stupid in this video 19:00. This surprised me. She is usually much smarter than this. She said no plant can completely new, they are all "hundreds of years old". No Kaylee, some ciltivars can be literally less than a year old. They are the result of random gene mutations and such mutations are happening all the time and always will. Epipremnum aureum Gold must be the most common house plant in the world today, and the yellow variegation (and hardiness) that made it so common was unknown until 1960! And there are thousands of such examples. Species can be very old of course, but NOT all ciltivars.
But I understand your point with the hypocrite. Eventhough I don't like variegated Velvety plants, I got myself a variegated frydek which I absolutely love 😂. Tastes can be so weird sometimes 🤷♀️
I’m always lost for words. I personally love the normal black cardinal for his dark leafs. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU MAKE THEM DIRTY GREEN WITH DIARRHEA BROWN. Just no. Splashes if orange. Ok. Maybe a nice bright red, ok. But no. It just looks like you’ve left it out for too long on the sun.
I totally agree about the Syngonium strawberry ice, Adansonii mint, black cardinal vargata (absolutely HATE the look of this one), philodendron bob cee, philodendron Brandtianum, syngonium Godzilla, philodendron strawberry shake, Amydrium medium variegated.
One that I really dislike and if it was given to me, I would immediately pass it on is the P. Orange Princess, yuck. And I would never purchase the A. Jacklyn and the P. Birken. I agree with everything on your list being ugly/not for me.
While watching the video, I was ready to jump into the comments with What about a Birkin? :D :D :D Glad you mentioned that eventually :) it is ugly... D :D Personally, I dont mind the Mint Adansonii, I think much uglier is the white variegated Adansonii.... Most of them look pretty bad
I don't really like the S. Strawberry Ice at all - to me it looks like somebody projectilve vomited strawberries and cream on the leaves. LOL!! I do like the Jacklyn, though. And I like the Birkin as well, personally.
I have a Strawberrry Ice 😂🍓 I did pay a fair whack for it and definitely won't make the investment back, but I do kinda love it all the same, when it puts out growth with really high variegation I love the cream and pink. But I get the dislike for the darker leaves it can look muddy.
LOL I love my Paraiso Verde -- but I had to park it directly under a grow light to get the variegation back (and I don't disagree with a single thing you say about it, either!) I don't quite love my Birkin, but I don't hate it, either. It's almost the opposite of the Paraiso Verde, too much light and the leaves turn all white and die and it just gets ugly fast. I've had to chop off all the top twice because it was all white and sickly. I picked a plant (from the garden center) that was one Birkin and a pair of Congo Reds in the same pot. Reds are enormous and healthy and look so much better than the Birkin ever will.
If you don't like the M. adasonii 'mint' then please never look at the M. adansonii 'Frozen Freckles'. It looks so unwell and deformed 🤮 Also I find Syngoniums quite ugly in generall. I know they have a lot of fans, but there is something about the way they look and grow like that I just can't get behind
I got the birken in 2020 I think and I think I spent mayyybbbeee $20. I wouldn't have spent much more than that. It's still thriving. The older leaves do fade a bit with the striping. I don't know. I wouldn't buy it again, but I don't hate it.
Hoya undulata Red, maybe it’s too OBVIOUS lol it looks like a dead plant with ash sprinkled on it. I’d still add it to my collection because of just how unique it is. Also Hoya umbricata.
To each her own. It's awesome that there are so many varieties of plants so people can get what speaks to them. IMO, the Birkin depends on the variegation. I love mine, but it's quite light colored. I love my Jacklyn and Godzilla. I think my Brandi is stunning. Strawberry Ice is on my wishlist. I love the mix of colors.
I think, scientifically, we are attracted to symmetry. The farther we get from that, the more ugly they are, like the Adansonii Mint and the Jacklyn. I would add Alocasia Flying Squid, I literally don't get the draw. And the "attitude " of plants make them ugly to me, the more dramatic and needy, the less I like it.
One plant I learned that I can’t stand cuz I fought so hard to keep alive and now I’m trying to propagate is a Cordyline 😅 I hope it propagates so I can give it tf away I do not want to be a plant killer but that will def make the list of plants I do not like !
Question! I know that there is like s black market for rare plants from the wild, but is there like a list of which plants are like " not done" to buy because it is promoting stealing plants from the wild?
Right now a lot of higher end anthurium are being poached in South America. Most recently, it's been papillilaminum, dressleri, and kunayalense. We are talking, every single plant being ripped from their environment 😢
Idk if it's just me, but I wouldn't ever want to buy philodendron prince of orange. I just feel like everytime I'd see a yellow-orange leaf I'd be worried it's dying. Maybe if it were a very bright orange or deeper like a red based orange, but it just looks sickley to me.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion but I really think the Monstera Thai Con and Philodendron Pink Princess are ugly, ugly, ugly. I really don't get the hype, the Thai Con looks to me as if birds have pooped on it.
The black cardinal variegated fits well with the color of your shirt and eyeshadow 🤣 you said looks a bit dirty..... I don't think so. It's just a color that makes plants look sick, close to dying. Maybe the reason we don't like it.
the strawberry shake is my number 1 on this list! I don't know why this plant is so popular! I hate the growth pattern and the coloring....everything about it. Yuck!
I truly, honestly dont get why people like variegated plants so much. I would take a plain green version over the variegated version most of the time. BUT when I do like the variegated one more its always marbled variegation, I hate the blocky variegation especially the half moons
Birkins give me house that’s been staged for listing pictures vibes. If that makes sense? I’ve also never understood the hype around strawberry shake philos because they look gross to me. If you do another, I think some of the variegated alocasia should be on the list. When you have to post in a plant group asking if it’s unwell or sport var. that says a lot imo.😅
If I don't like the ugliest variegated version of a plant out there, I'm never going to buy it. I never plan on owning the most amazing variegated anything. I simply don't have the means to. Almost every plant has an amazing picture out there. That's not what you're going to get.
So my husband walked in and sat down to watch this with me (streaming on the tv) and says about the Birkin “oh that’s a pretty plant,” and then on the Godzilla “oh that’s cool.”
So I filled him in, “babe, it’s an ugly plant video.”
He thought it was hilarious. 😂
Guess beauty is dependent on the eye of the beholder lol
That being said I don’t think the Birkin is ugly
Some of these are on the wishlist now 😭
I really don't get why Alocasia Jacklyn is on the list tbh 😂 but to each their own. I've added a baby Jacklyn to my collection maybe 1-2 months ago. I really love it. The stems look very mushroom-y to me and the shape of the leaves is so unique. It opened its first true-to-form leaf about 2 weeks ago and it's currently unfurling the second, the ones it had when it arrived are still baby leaves. Is it a bit weird? Yea. Okay, a lot. The texture is really odd. But it's lovely in its own way. I have a few plants I got just because of how odd and out-of-this-world they are, and I know this one would fit, but no, I got the Jacklyn because I saw pictures and I fell in love ❤
EDIT: I sent this vid to a friend who is not into plants. For Mint Adansonii he said "it looks zombie" and I can't unsee it now 😂😂😂
Same! I love Jacklyn!
@@irinad.7802 right? And the more I look at it, the more it looks like something out of a movie. Like a plant you don't even expect to be real. It's giving LOTR vibes 😂 or Jurassic Park.
I love the Alocasia Jacklyn myself , they remind me of reindeer
I love jacklyn too
I never get the appeal of adonsonii ever since its launch. The latest version is more holes than leaves lol...
I actually think the Philo Birkin looks very striking! Those stripes are so clear and clean along the leaves. I only just got one a few months ago and it looks so nice on my kitchen table. It did have a bit of transition shock and a couple leaves turned to goo but it's looking very healthy now. We'll see how it does in the future.
I really like my Birkin. The stripes are different and my OCD loves them. Lol
It’s loving it at my house and I couldn’t ask for an easier plant to care for.
I saved a smashed Birkin two years ago and now she is is so big and pretty!! Agreed!@@Lela-plants
Totally agree. It’s such a unique and pretty plant. There’s nothing else like it. Rare plant collectors don’t like it because it became “common” almost immediately.
I like Birkin too and agree to the rest including Jacklyn. 😅
i feel like we missed an opportunity to call out variegated anthuriums/ those really marbley alocasia because they look sickening 😍😍🤩🤩
Lol, your emojis make me think you like them; ‘sickening’ can mean good or bad, of course, too. Haha. I agreed though, variegated Anthuriums are bizarre, and VELVET variegated Alocasias, like ‘Frydek’, or even ‘Polly’, are just odd to me. Like, nature is just “doing the most” visually and texturally. Something about variegated Alocasias really DOES (literally) look sick… like, you wouldn’t want to to touch them kind-of sick.
Yes and verigated watermelon Peperomia!
@@lucyloo8965 omg YES its too much omg i just looked it up 🤢🤢
I think we need to come up with a playlist called plantroversy and start with this vid lol
I’d say one you forgot to include is literally ANY croton! They’re awful lol.
I spent $30 for my Birkin, and that was because it came in a decorative terra cotta pot. Now I have 12 from that one, and I love them.
I get why stores/shops sell plants like this...but it annoys me to pay more for a pot I really don't want just because they're selling the plant in it.😑
I got mine for like £8 ish and it was like four plants 🧍
@LimeyKat.....I, too like the looks of them but didn't know if the variegation will keep on them as they get older. Please comment your care and the amount of light for them if you will......thanks!
I got my Birkin at Trader Joe’s and promptly and irrevocably murdered it
I have had birkin for like a year. It doesn't get a lot of light and often gets underwatered but it doesn't seem to mind. Now that I look at it closely, the bottom leaves may be starting to fade. I actually had the opposite issue as on of the plants in the pot kept growing too much variagation. I had to cut it several times. The new leaves are still gorgeous, the growth pattern is very compact and over all the plant looks still amazing.
Unpopular opinion: 90% of syngoniums are crap and no amount of variegation can make me like them
I used to agree on the Strawberry Shake. The leaves just look so muddy. But then I saw a really big one one. Taken as a whole, the plant was stunning. So, now I have a small one, and I’m on that long, slow road to having a big one and making it all worth it. 😂
I am the exact same!! I used to think it looked crap, but then I started to think otherwise so bought one, but then it reverted 😭
@@Screamsinlowpoly boooo!
They are incredible and they grow fairly quick.
I feel the same way about baby pink princess. Not very pretty young, but kind of impressive in the right spot in the right house. I still don’t have one because I can’t get past the ugly stage.
11:51 Actually in my experience the brandtianum needs so much humidity in order to put out a decent leaf... They always come out half formed or ripped
thats kinda why i say they're the mermaid humidity plants lmao
Agreed mine took well over a year before I got any size up from leaves it took a full 4ft pole before it started behaving
I agree! I have mine in a small terrarium and it grows really well. I just propagated it and it seems to be doing well too. 😊
@@jenvee9110 I'd imagine the humidity would help
I am giving mine away. Even after putting it on a moss pole in fairly high humidity ( >60) it still has deformed leaves that are very flimsey.
Strawberry Ice kind of looks like a bunch or random organs that were just removed from someone in an emergency operation.
Bought a P. Bob Cee in 2021. It was 100 Euro and until today I sold 6 cuttings. When it grows bigger it is a really nice plant and it is indestructible. I do love it.
What! The Birkin is one of our most sold plants at our shop!!! People LOVE it
I think you should do ‘conventionally ugly plants’ that you actually like. For example: Joepii (even tho I’m absolutely obsessed with it as well).
I love the birkin!
This was entertaining I’d enjoy another video like this
It's interesting to me how most of the time I'm on the same page with you on plants that look sickly, but I absolutely LOVE the Jacklyn (Reticulata too tho).
Also, I don't think it's hypocritical at all. How you feel about the way a plant looks (or how anything looks for that matter) is a very personal experience that just doesn't always seem to make sense. And I don't think it has to.
For whatever reason, I kind of like the color palette on the variegated black cardinals 🤷🏻♀️ It’s definitely not what I’m typically drawn to, but that one catches my eye for some reason. I don’t have one, and I’m not searching for one, but I’m thinking I’d probably buy one if I stumbled across it, lol. I enjoy hearing your planty opinions, thank you!
I could listen to you talk shit about ugly plants all day 😭😂😂😂
Every single variegated Anthurium
I don't think I've ever disagreed with the British lady as much as I do in this video.
curious to see what other plants she dislikes 😂
For me its the stingray alocasia and alike, they just kinda look like they didnt develop properly before unfurling and like theyll break off any second xD
I agree with all of them except the Alocasia tandurusa (Jacklyn). I love my Jacklyn that it’s actually one of my top 5 favourite plants in my collection. It’s so big and is currently able to hold on to 8 big leaves . The pattern is beautiful and it’s texture is so unique. And the mama plant is consistently producing corms that I have been gifting to my friends.
Yeah I was so surprised, one of the most cool looking plants ever, not ugly at all
How does it hold so many leaves? Mines huge but can only sustain two leaves. How much light do you provide and do you water/fertilize it a lot?
From the top of my head before watching the video:
-Alocasia plumbae 'Flying Squid' (still a cool plant)
-Alocasia macrorrhiza 'Stingray' (kinda awkward)
-Pilea peperomioides 'Mojito' (I try not to introduce any viruses into my plant collection and this plant is just rustling my jimmies)
-Philodendron Birkin when it's unhappy
-your aunt's crusty old Phalaenopsis that just survived the last decade on a table
-that grey, dusty "public office" Aglaonema
Edit: The last two obviously haven't been rare for decades.
Kayleeeeeeeeee, pleaseeee...😭The secret to Paraiso... It's *L I G H T* -- not heat!
When people with as big a following as yours, spread that bunk temperature theory, you set folks up for *FAILURE* (especially the less-experienced portions of the community, who are still trying to build a knowledge base and practical understanding, and who look to your word as gospel guidance) which means every time you say this, you're proliferating frustrations and reinforcing needless resentment for what is actually a *super* easy plant... When it can just get what it needs... (Which just so happens to be *LOTS* of light!🌞)
Edit: Now... As far as it being an "ugly" plant, that's fine -- I totally respect y'all's opinions... But *at least* give folks the proper info to grow the poor plant, so it can be judged it at its best!!! 😂
Yeah matches my icks. I don't hate Jacklyn because it reminds me of Jurassic Park lol. I DESPISED Godzilla. Gave it away.
Oh poor Birkin! I bought it maybe a year ago for cheap in a garden centre and I love it. The stripes actually scratch my calathea itch pretty well, which is awesome because calatheas keep dying on me. There is something about it that reminds me of calathea ornata or white star... I haven't seen any leaves fading so far, may it be maturity thing maybe? Or alternatively it takes a very, very, very long time..
I'm not a fan of the whipple way. The way its leaves look dont jive with me - too pale and sickly and inconsistent. Its a bummer, because on paper it's everything I should want.
Meanwhile, I have an ugly ass lithops. I know it's ugly. It knows it's ugly. And somehow, I'm all about him.
LMAO.. THIS WAS GREAT!! Watching you shit talk plants made me laugh!!
I didn't like philodendron brandtianum then I was given one. Still didn't like it and gave it away lol. I don't like any maroon with pink plants. Shake, PPP are both ugly. I don't like sick looking plants either.
I totally agree on Monstera Oceana. It looks like there is something wrong with it. I also have problems with Birkin - it is green .. totally green
Agree, the Oceana looks like it has Leaf Miner damage.
I have a Birkin and I personally like them
Can’t stand Brandtianum but not really because of the silver leaves. I don’t understand how it’s made it to garden centers as it’s so difficult to grow! It looks so ugly trailing, but if put on a pole it doesn’t want to behave either. New leaves constantly came out misshapen or stuck for me even though it’s not an erubescens. I’ve only ever owned 1 but I’ll never do it again. So many nicer silver plants out there.
i actually like syngonium Godzilla, but can't stand the syngonium rolli 😂
10:09 oh I adore my Bob Cee! He’s huge and the anchor plant for my variegated monsteras.
I’m obsessed with philodendrons with fingers like tortum and polypoidiodies 💚
I agree about all of these especially the Jacklyn. The Zebrina is by far superior in that kind of pattern. However, my paraiso is grown in normal house conditions and he’s pretty damn nice.😉
Birkin is a good-looking plant, looks healthy, it's a sporty girl with a good figure, no flab, no flops
They are fated to be the one plant that go all white and die or the one who reverted to the imperial red genetics.
I agree so far except the Jacklyn is one of my favs, I love the funk it gives, just got a Paraiso Verde in a trade, wasn’t sure about it, thin leaves, looks a bit sickly, but it’s “growing on me” I’m not a fan of very many syngoniums at all, they all look frail and sickly to me. I have a Philo birkin though, it’s just different, strawberry shake looks unwell to me, not for me, nor any begonias, not attractive with those hairy leaves,
I find this video hysterical . Loves silver hates Brandtianum, loves reticulated, hates the Jacklyn. Laughing so hard. I love this channel, but this gave me huge laughs
Shangri-la pothos is one of my favorites because its hideous lol
Hope you make a video of mint var plants and compare which one looks good in mint
Monstera oceana looks like something is on the leaves that I want to wipe off and clean!
Do not like strawberry ice, yes I have it got it for free from my best friend!!!
The weirdest-looking & also TEXTURALLY-odd (i.e., “nature doing the most”) plants, in my eyes, include the aforementioned ‘Black Cardinal’, because it’s no longer black! It’s not even pink either. It is that dishwater swirled effect. Looks a bit like it’s struggling to find the right lighting, feeding, and overall it appears as a “lost” plant. Like it would be at-risk of dying if I bought one. I also find anthuriums, especially velvet leaves ones, that are marbled to be scary looking at times. It just doesn’t work to me… as well as Alocasias ‘Frydek’, ‘Polly’, both just don’t work with that marbled variegation. Velvet marble is overkill I think. I’m not spending hundreds on something like that, as I see on Etsy! Also there are numerous cultivars available of _Colocasia esculenta_ (edible taro root) which also look rather bizarre variegated. As you said about Philo. ‘Paraíso Verde’ being flaccid, Taro plants are very loose and floppy, despite their massive size potential, and they blow around in the breeze a lot. They’re also soft, and soft leaves to me don’t work with variegation. It’s similar to the velvety thing. I do love the _Colocasia_ ‘Mojito’, on the other hand.
Variegated Calla “lily” (aka _Zantedeschia_ I think) aren’t the most common things, but you’d expect them to be stunning… nope, they’re bizarre too. Lol. The commonly sold cultivars with spotted or “starry” leaves are nice, especially with darker purple or maroon flowers, but if the variegation is marbled… not so much. Good thing they’re an anomaly. I also find philodendrons ‘Caramel Marble’, ‘Jungle Boogie’, _P. billietiae_ and _atabapoense_ to be too much when variegated. But ironically I do like Alocasia ‘Jaclyn’, both in shape and color. _A. zebrina_ is cute, too. And there’s more! I personally find variegated fiddle leaf fig to be overkill. And variegated whale fin snake plant. A plant that’s already uniquely colored, has striping, edging, spots, and now variegated is too much… and too expensive. For what it is. Lol.
Any plant that looks like a bird crapped on it is a “no” for me😊
I like the Jacklyn and the reticulata is on my wishlist
I have the Shangrila at home for 3 years now and it's just unfolding and awful. Hate it. But my most favorite ugly plant is the alocasia frydek variegata. The varigation looks like bird sh*t. 😀
Can you do a video update of your Hoya collection and/or Hoyas you want to get in the near future?
Most variegated anthuriums are worthy of this list! They just look diseased and as though they’re on deaths door
Although Anthurium pterodactyl is a decent variegated plant
I loved this video! Who else but you will put out an ugly (rare) plant video. I agree with all except...phil strawberry shake. Once they mature, 😱... gorgeous, you just need the right environment...heat humidity and light. But please do make another.
Plants like the strawberry ice, black cardinal & the one with patina looking leaves. I didn't care for them because the leaves (at least in the examples) looked like the plants were really dry or shriveling up.
Your video set up looked cool. Background, top, hair & makeup all a similar palette. 😎
i remember being super excited when i heard black cardinal was variegated bc i thought “oh my god a black and white plant, what could be more perfect. but any variegation that’s brown is so ugly. people dodge yellow bc it can look sickly? no BROWN IS LITERALLY A DYING PLANT. the only plant i can slightly handle with brown is caramel marble and that’s bc it has a nice leaf shape. my personal thing with variegated plants is if the base plant already isn’t that interesting *to me personally* ahem philodendron erubecens, any self heading philo, or just anything with a simple leaf or leaf pattern, variegation doesn’t add anything worthwhile or can make the plant look even worse. i personally have zero interest in jose buono bc i find the leaf boring and the variegation doesn’t add much. id rather put up with the difficulty of a florida beauty bc i love the shape. does any of this make sense???
I fell for the Jacklyn because we share the name 😂. And I love it’s weirdness and it’s very unique in my collection
I've seen so many adansonii mint 'frosty freckles' in stores and wow, if you wanted a mint that looked even more sickly, there you go 🤮
I don’t like the brantianum either, I think it looks pixelated. It’s the Minecraft plant lol!
noooo not the S. Godzilla!!! i love that plant i got 3!
The oceana looks like egg drop soup.
Monstera oceana looks like a bird crap on it
I noticed Kaylee say something really stupid in this video 19:00. This surprised me. She is usually much smarter than this. She said no plant can completely new, they are all "hundreds of years old".
No Kaylee, some ciltivars can be literally less than a year old. They are the result of random gene mutations and such mutations are happening all the time and always will. Epipremnum aureum Gold must be the most common house plant in the world today, and the yellow variegation (and hardiness) that made it so common was unknown until 1960!
And there are thousands of such examples. Species can be very old of course, but NOT all ciltivars.
Im for sure writing a mean letter lol
The "ugly" syngoniums actually look good Halloween presents esp. the Strawberry Ice.
Oh no, not the Monstera mint debacle again 😂😂 don't send any letters, haha! Love you
But I understand your point with the hypocrite. Eventhough I don't like variegated Velvety plants, I got myself a variegated frydek which I absolutely love 😂.
Tastes can be so weird sometimes 🤷♀️
colocasia pharaoh mask isn’t my cup of tea
Painted lady and yes please another. Also, I do like that you included ease of care.
Just wanted to stop by and say you look absolutely gorgeous and your hair looks amazing! Have a great day Kaylee! ❤
I know her eye makeup is gorgeous!
She does, she looks so fit and her face is lovely. Good for her!
Shingleing plants make my skin crawl. And I TOTALLY agree about the Brandtianum and Berkin. I do love the Jackolyn tho♡ Great video.
I’m always lost for words. I personally love the normal black cardinal for his dark leafs. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU MAKE THEM DIRTY GREEN WITH DIARRHEA BROWN. Just no.
Splashes if orange. Ok. Maybe a nice bright red, ok. But no. It just looks like you’ve left it out for too long on the sun.
I totally agree about the Syngonium strawberry ice, Adansonii mint, black cardinal vargata (absolutely HATE the look of this one), philodendron bob cee, philodendron Brandtianum, syngonium Godzilla, philodendron strawberry shake, Amydrium medium variegated.
One that I really dislike and if it was given to me, I would immediately pass it on is the P. Orange Princess, yuck. And I would never purchase the A. Jacklyn and the P. Birken. I agree with everything on your list being ugly/not for me.
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While watching the video, I was ready to jump into the comments with What about a Birkin? :D :D :D Glad you mentioned that eventually :) it is ugly... D :D Personally, I dont mind the Mint Adansonii, I think much uglier is the white variegated Adansonii.... Most of them look pretty bad
I also don't care for the brandtianum...but I do like the sodiroi...I can't describe why, but🤷♀️
I don't really like the S. Strawberry Ice at all - to me it looks like somebody projectilve vomited strawberries and cream on the leaves. LOL!!
I do like the Jacklyn, though. And I like the Birkin as well, personally.
I have a Strawberrry Ice 😂🍓 I did pay a fair whack for it and definitely won't make the investment back, but I do kinda love it all the same, when it puts out growth with really high variegation I love the cream and pink. But I get the dislike for the darker leaves it can look muddy.
LOL I love my Paraiso Verde -- but I had to park it directly under a grow light to get the variegation back (and I don't disagree with a single thing you say about it, either!)
I don't quite love my Birkin, but I don't hate it, either. It's almost the opposite of the Paraiso Verde, too much light and the leaves turn all white and die and it just gets ugly fast. I've had to chop off all the top twice because it was all white and sickly. I picked a plant (from the garden center) that was one Birkin and a pair of Congo Reds in the same pot. Reds are enormous and healthy and look so much better than the Birkin ever will.
I particularly find the strawberry shake so pathetic, there's nothing strawberry shake about it, it should be renamed philodendron caramel vomit.😂😂
If you don't like the M. adasonii 'mint' then please never look at the M. adansonii 'Frozen Freckles'. It looks so unwell and deformed 🤮
Also I find Syngoniums quite ugly in generall. I know they have a lot of fans, but there is something about the way they look and grow like that I just can't get behind
I got the birken in 2020 I think and I think I spent mayyybbbeee $20. I wouldn't have spent much more than that. It's still thriving. The older leaves do fade a bit with the striping. I don't know. I wouldn't buy it again, but I don't hate it.
Hoya undulata Red, maybe it’s too OBVIOUS lol it looks like a dead plant with ash sprinkled on it. I’d still add it to my collection because of just how unique it is. Also Hoya umbricata.
To each her own. It's awesome that there are so many varieties of plants so people can get what speaks to them.
IMO, the Birkin depends on the variegation. I love mine, but it's quite light colored. I love my Jacklyn and Godzilla. I think my Brandi is stunning. Strawberry Ice is on my wishlist. I love the mix of colors.
I think, scientifically, we are attracted to symmetry. The farther we get from that, the more ugly they are, like the Adansonii Mint and the Jacklyn. I would add Alocasia Flying Squid, I literally don't get the draw. And the "attitude " of plants make them ugly to me, the more dramatic and needy, the less I like it.
One plant I learned that I can’t stand cuz I fought so hard to keep alive and now I’m trying to propagate is a Cordyline 😅 I hope it propagates so I can give it tf away I do not want to be a plant killer but that will def make the list of plants I do not like !
P. Brandi is only liked by masochists 😂
I hate my Brandtianum too little light, Cinderella slippers, not enough humidity, Cinderella slippers. Worst heartleaf philodendron I own.
Syngonium mojito and scrambled eggs, PPP, any Agleonemas or Crotons 🤢
Edit: I forgot to mention Kalanchoes
Question! I know that there is like s black market for rare plants from the wild, but is there like a list of which plants are like " not done" to buy because it is promoting stealing plants from the wild?
Right now a lot of higher end anthurium are being poached in South America. Most recently, it's been papillilaminum, dressleri, and kunayalense. We are talking, every single plant being ripped from their environment 😢
@@kdoxie914 good to know... :(:(
Idk if it's just me, but I wouldn't ever want to buy philodendron prince of orange. I just feel like everytime I'd see a yellow-orange leaf I'd be worried it's dying. Maybe if it were a very bright orange or deeper like a red based orange, but it just looks sickley to me.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion but I really think the Monstera Thai Con and Philodendron Pink Princess are ugly, ugly, ugly. I really don't get the hype, the Thai Con looks to me as if birds have pooped on it.
I just got a strawberry ice. I had been wanting one. Its a starter but i tend to really love splotchy pink plants.
The black cardinal variegated fits well with the color of your shirt and eyeshadow 🤣 you said looks a bit dirty..... I don't think so. It's just a color that makes plants look sick, close to dying. Maybe the reason we don't like it.
the strawberry shake is my number 1 on this list! I don't know why this plant is so popular! I hate the growth pattern and the coloring....everything about it. Yuck!
I agree with all of these. They are HIDEOUS! Another one I can’t stand is any kind of Hoya or “string of” yuck!
The BRANDI has been THE MOST disappointing plant on all my years of collecting plants.
i love paraiso verde
I truly, honestly dont get why people like variegated plants so much. I would take a plain green version over the variegated version most of the time. BUT when I do like the variegated one more its always marbled variegation, I hate the blocky variegation especially the half moons
I love the Syngonium Strawberry Ice and Godzilla!
Birkins give me house that’s been staged for listing pictures vibes. If that makes sense? I’ve also never understood the hype around strawberry shake philos because they look gross to me. If you do another, I think some of the variegated alocasia should be on the list. When you have to post in a plant group asking if it’s unwell or sport var. that says a lot imo.😅
If I don't like the ugliest variegated version of a plant out there, I'm never going to buy it. I never plan on owning the most amazing variegated anything. I simply don't have the means to. Almost every plant has an amazing picture out there. That's not what you're going to get.
I would remove Jacklyn and Birkin from this list, and add Pink Princess instead 😂 it rarely has good genes and just looks scraggly
Personally I would like the strawberry shake, if it would stay in its bronze color. But maybe i think this way because I hate pink in general.. 😂