What is the name of the plant in the picture?
Correct answer: The corpse flower
Artie
The corpse flower, just like other flowers, needs a vector for pollination. And since it's vector is flies, it needs to smell like rotting meat.
Buck
To be fair, my bedroom when I was a teenager probably smelled worse.
Lil
Could the terrible odor benefit nature somehow? Plant life is remarkable.
Snance
Good name for such a ugly flower.
J
Really must get a couple for my garden, NOT!! 😆
Rebecca
the corpse flower didn't like the one in the picture.of course I got it wrong.
Troglodyke
Artie, and if it’s a parasite why does it need to be pollinated? Does it produce seeds which are not parasitic?
Troglodyke
Artie, that must be what Democracy smells like to MAGAts.
Almost
We saw them in Borneo from a private garden. It cannot be cultivated as it will grow wherever it wants to and there’s a ‘Rafflesia watch’ phone number (when we were there in 2004) that we called to let us know where they were in bloom.
Terry
yucky 😝
Xtine
Lil, attracts flies, its pollinators.
Becko
Especially if you hate your neighbors!
Cait
Lil, I believe it is to attract insects to enable pollination