Rotting flesh

Gruntfuttock · Post by **Gruntfuttock** » Jul 05, 2005 7:28 pm

*Edit* Oops wrong forum sorry. Should have put this in lily forum.

This is my dragon arum in bloom last month. It is setting seed nicely now.

It really does smell of rotting flesh, so I planted it beside my idiot neighbour's fence.

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Jul 07, 2005 1:59 pm

Is that the same plant they call the "Corpse Flower"?

OK Myriad Botanical Garden has a corpse flower that just bloomed and they showed it on the news the other nite.
They said the smell only lasts the one day the flower bloomed.
Why do they have to smell so bad?

Ginger

Gruntfuttock · Post by **Gruntfuttock** » Jul 07, 2005 7:31 pm

They smell so bad to attract pollinating flies.

The corpse flower is the Titan Arum from South America.

My son took this photo last month in Borneo of a Rafflesia

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Jul 08, 2005 10:09 am

Oh

So fly's really do have a purpose in life

Thanks for educating me.

Ginger