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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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The World of Gourds
... native New Word herbivores can crack them open, and the rotting gourds litter the ground beneath old calabash trees. It is ... a spherical, striped fruit, and white, slightly bitter or bland flesh. The pale flesh tastes like the rind of a typical watermelon. ... watermelons are red. This triploid, seedless variety has sweet, yellow flesh. Although the bitter gourd or bitter melon (Momordica charantia) ...
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