This shape looks like a naked man wearing a straw hat.

Anacamptis italica, also known as the naked man orchid or Italian man orchid, is a species in the genus Anacamptis in the orchid family Orchidaceae. The plant is 20-50 cm tall, with terminal flowers that are whitish pink or purple. The tepals are helmet-shaped with dark stripes, and the entire flower resembles a naked man wearing a straw hat. The capsule is upright. The flowering period is April to May. Its growing environment includes grasslands, limestone areas, abandoned farmland, and woodland areas. It is native to the Mediterranean region.

Anacamptis italica

Anacamptis italica is a terrestrial herbaceous plant, 20-50 cm tall, with a fleshy rhizome at the base. The stem is upright and cylindrical, with 1-3 tubular sheaths near the base, and leaves above the sheaths. The leaves are basal, 1-5 in number, slightly thick and fleshy, narrowed at the base into a sheath that clasps the stem. The leaf blades have distinct wavy patterns, and the leaf surface sometimes bears brown spots. There also remain 3 or 4 dried small leaf sheaths.

Anacamptis italica

The inflorescence is terminal, with a spherical spike about 5 to 15 cm long, bearing numerous flowers. The inflorescence is cylindrical, and the inflorescence axis is hairless. The floral bracts are usually upright and spreading, lanceolate, shorter than the flowers. The ovary is twisted, hairless, and has a pedicel. The flowers are densely arranged on the inflorescence. The flowers are relatively small, generally pink or purple, rarely pure white. The flower is inverted (the lip is positioned below); the tepals are helmet-shaped with dark stripes, and the entire flower resembles a naked man wearing a straw hat. The calyx is straw-hat-shaped, and the lateral sepals spread outward. The petals often lean against the median sepal to form a hood, with no eyelashes on the margins. The lip often extends forward, as if it were a person's hands and feet. It is clearly different in shape from the petals, 3-lobed to 4-lobed, with no eyelashes on the margins, narrowed at the base into a claw, and with a spur at the base. The column is upright, the stamens are pale pink and purple, the anther is located at the top of the column, the connective is slightly broad, and there are 2 anther locules arranged in parallel. There are 2 pollinia, granular-mealy with small masses, with caudicles and viscidia. There are 2 viscidia, each buried in 1 viscous ball, and the two viscous balls are together enclosed in 1 bursicle of the rostellum. The bursicle is usually nearly spherical and protrudes above the mouth of the spur in front of the column. There is 1 stigma, concave, located in the cavity below the rostellum. The rostellum is located between the two anther locules below the anther. There are 2 staminodes, located on both sides of the base of the anther. The capsule is upright. The flowering period is April to May.

Anacamptis italica

Plant culture:

Anacamptis italica is a blush-inducing flower, and many netizens exclaim upon seeing it: "Too brilliant!" "There is actually such a flower in the world?" "I have learned so much!" "So amazing!" Some netizens cannot believe that such a flower exists in the world, and opinions vary widely.

In the West there is also a legend that if a man is very fickle, toys with women, and is irresponsible, in the next life he will become this naked man flower, exposing his ugliness and finally withering away.