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Stapelia_gigantea
... . Flowers are extremely large, fleshy, star-shaped and give off a pestilent smell that attracts flies that ensure the successful pollination of this species. The flowers have a leathery texture ... drying flesh peeling back from the bone. And give off a pestilent disgusting smell that attracts pollinating flies. The gymostegium Home | E-mail | Photo gallery | Mail Sale Catalogue | Grafting | Guestbook ...
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Field Guide: Tofino, BC
... The European species, Symplocarpus, evolved a putrid smell to attract caprophagal flies and beetles (dung eaters). The true callas have a sweet smell that attracts sugar-loving pollinators such as bees. Lysichitum seeks out the middle way with its complexly rich odors that attract both bees and beetles ...
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Stinking Flowers
... when their floral stench attracts carrion insects and maggots. [W.P. Armstrong, 1 June 1996] A typical flower may be stereotyped as a colorful, sweet-smelling structure that attracts insects. A variety of ... S. Morris (The Sex Life Of Flowers, 1984), the enormous blossom generates such an overwhelming smell that people have been known to pass out from taking too close a whiff. Although the ...
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Sarracenia, Carnivorous Plants Online - Botanical Society of America
... trait that fools both insects and humans. Although humans have nothing to fear if they try to smell ... Sarracenia in the southeastern United States, it appears that mineral nitrogen and phosphorus are not important limiting nutrients (Eleutarius ... that attracts flies by looking like raw meat. But that is where its similarity to normal flowers seems to end. The sepals, usually green structures that ...
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Floridata: A Gardener's Journal - November 2004
... turkey buzzard that landed at the top of a tall baldcypress. I wondered what he was up to because I didn't smell anything dead ... fingers. This member of the mushroom clan produces a malodorous stench that attracts flies as part of a strategy to disperse their spores. I ... Eriobotrya japonica) and they're each doing their part for making winter smell better around here. I keep intending to go down to the ...
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Perennial Herbs
... the Daisy family has a very bitter taste and a smell that bees hate, making it a good plant for areas ... easy to grow, attractive herb that makes a useful border or edging plant. It attracts hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies, and as such is a valuable addition to a habitat-type situation. It has a minty-licorice taste and a strong camphor-like smell ...
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CSSA Newsletters #12
... smelling. The reddish brown color and smell of rotting meat of the flower ... that attracts blue bottle flies for pollination. O. ciliata grow into a 2 inch high mat of erect 4 angled toothed stems that are green with red tips. Bowl shaped yellow, purple spotted flowers, 3 inches across develop in summer. O. varigata, Syn. Stapelia variegata, is commonly called starfish cactus and they do smell ...
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... and has lots of 2 to 4 inch flowers. It attracts butterflies and can be used as a cut flower. Jerusalem ... darker the vegetable the more vitamins it has (not to mention that it is prettier, too). This dark purple, green-ribbed leaf ... directly planted outside after frost. Sweet Marjoram has a distinctive "soapy" smell that translates to a delicious, distinctive taste. Dill (Antheum graveolens): A warm ...
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Wallace W Hansen Native Plant Nursery and Gardens Perennial Section of Northwest Native Plant Catalog
... flowers form on the on thin, erect stalks. Dried leaves smell heavenly, like vanilla, and are said to repel insects. ... weak soils. Besides these attributes, it is a beautiful wildflower that attracts butterflies. The foliage is distinct, with its soft, downy ... . Sedum spathulofolium (Broadleaf Stonecrop) A beautiful broad-leafed sedum that decorates the rock face from Northwest Washington State to ...
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Wallace W Hansen Native Plants of the Northwest Hawthorn Douglasii Douglas Hawthorn Catalog
... 10 to 20 attractive pink stamens. It should be mentioned that the flowers sometimes emit a somewhat “fishy” odor, a smell which attracts its natural pollinators including butterflies and midges. Another of its ... well as small mammals. Butterfly larvae feed on the leaves and the flower’s nectar attracts both hummingbirds and adult butterflies. In the chill of winter the berries supply nourishment for ...
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