rotting flesh

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Stapelia_gigantea
... species. The flowers have a leathery texture mimic the rotting flesh of a dead animal and vary from pale yellow ... rotting flesh and putrid smell of a dead animal. Sun-bleached hairs. Leathery surfaces. Soft and pulpy to the touch. Red, orange, and yellow tissue, like meat and fat rotting in the hot sun. Striped like drying flesh peeling back from the bone. And ...
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Flowering Plants
... emit the putrid aroma of rotting flesh and are appropriately called "carrion flowers." They attract the same insects that visit rotting carcasses to lay their eggs, such as flesh flies, blow flies and various beetles. In this case, the insects are tricked because the flower supplies no rotting flesh for ...
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Stinking Flowers
... the stench of rotting flesh. Like the putrid, spore-laden fruiting bodies of phallus-like stinkhorn fungi that appear almost overnight in your backyard, carrion flowers also entice flesh and fecal- ... more like a hairy, star-shaped piece of rotting flesh than an actual flower. The large, flesh-colored, hairy blossom of Stapelia gigantea smells like a rotting carcass and attracts green bottle flies ( ...
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Devil's Tongue
... accounts do affirm, however, that the flower of Amorphophallus titanum does indeed smell just like rotting flesh. This is nature’s way of attracting a pollinator—thought to be a carrion beetle ...
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Titan Arum -Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
... in Cambridge. The giant flower which grew to 1.6 m tall and smells or rotting flesh only flowers for two nights before starting to die back. The Garden welcomed over 10 ...
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Floridata: A Gardener's Journal - November 2004
... As I stood there wheezing trying to catch my breath I got a whiff of rotting flesh - so that's what the buzzards came to picnic on! Then I realized why they ... leaves are very long and lash out in all directions easily slicing human flesh (but apparently not deer flesh) into painful gashes that often become infected. Safely outfitted in protective clothing, I ...
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Genus of the Week
... . titanum, which produces the largest flower of any plant species. Unfortunately, that flower smells like rotting flesh when it blooms. Luckily for everyone, the plants flower infrequently, and it is usually a ...
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Wind Dancer Orchids
... are fragrant only at night or only early in the morning. One type smells like rotting flesh, so it will attract flies as pollinators, but obviously itUs not popular as a houseplant ...
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Orchid Societies Council of Victoria Inc
... fly-pollinated orchid flowers, mostly red or brown in colour, whose scent resembles that of rotting flesh. Many bulbophyllums, especially those in the section Cirrhopetalum, are of this type. The prime example ...
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Plant Delights Nursery -- Bizarre Plants Only a Mother Could Love
... cup. While the odor is the stuff great stories are made of, the smell of rotting flesh is quite evident for at least one day during the bloom cycle. Since the bulb ...
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