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Rare Plants: Growing and caring for the rarest plants around

The best place for trading tips and advice for sourcing and cultivating rare plants. Everything from succulents to tropicals and flowers to trees, are welcome. Pull up a keyboard and share your absolute units and wish list plants while we build out this community of discerning botany enthusiasts.

23k subscribers112 posts / mo in Sep 202665 authors / mosince 2016

r/rareplants has 23k members (+47% over the last 12 months). It gets about 112 posts a month from 65 people. Top topics: Variegated Leaves, Buy House Plants Online and Philodendrons.

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Size and growth

How r/rareplants has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+47%in 12 months · +13% in 3 months
Oct 202623k
Growing23k subscribers
Data since Dec 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+155%vs Sep 2025 · +105% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026112
BusierPeaked at 125 in Aug 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/rareplants

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Variegated Leaves3.6%
  2. Buy House Plants Online2.4%
  3. Philodendrons2.3%
  4. Variegated Monsteras2.2%
  5. Monstera Albo1.9%

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research