Plants That Look Like Animals. The coral animal species that look exactly like plants include the plate corals, bamboo corals, primnoid corals, hydrocorals, tube sponge corals, lettuce corals, ivory bush corals, elkhorn corals, and staghorn corals. Sea anemones are technically animals, but they look so much like plants that they are named after a group of flowers.
Hymenopus coronatus, better known as the orchid mantis, has evolved to blend in perfectly with a specific variety of pink orchids in south asian rain forests. They came from dead plankton, plants and animals like the reptiles that preceded the dinosaurs. They also use the photosynthesis process.
Plants can pick up volatile chemicals in the air just like us.
The interesting feature of this orchid is it looks like a monkey’s face. Plants or flowers that look like things. We have already established that these plants look like cups, so these cups contains syrup and fluids which are. It’s a far cry from a human nose, but plants definitely have some kind of keen ability to smell just like animals do.