Stapelia grandiflora
It’s a good thing I allow Katie to access and bother my ‘blog, because I have important things blooming at home, and I am on the east coast, blissfully unaware of said goings-on.
I have a Stapelia grandiflora blooming at home. It has a lovely (but very stinky) dark red flower. The flower smells like rotting meat, because in nature, it needs to attract flies to pollinate it. Here are some photos (and luckily they have yet to figure out how to convey smell across the internet):
Yo Sonja, you can’t have everything. It’s a beautiful flower and a little nasty smell doesn’t change that. We had a plant that grew a beautiful white flower and smelled terrible. I think it was a diffenbachia (?). We had it for years before it grew the flower which was a thrill to us because we didn’t even know it had flowers. Same reason, it needed someone to come and polinate it. By the way, where are you on the East Coast? Love, Betty and Bill
Sonnie, how beautiful is that blossom?
Who cares about the “scent”- perhaps you can wear a mask.
Look forward to seeing you in a few days.
Love Les
A smelly but pretty flower is a lot better then no flower at all. My yard this year is a disaster waiting to happen! Joe