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Sibachiandelivery of my new trial hobby just arrived!
going to try get into rare #aroids, particularly #syngonium with a bit of #monstera and #tradescantia on the side!
My camera shoots fascistsThese Dracunculus vulgaris started blooming in my garden today. Ask me how I knew.
IYKYK
#BloomScrolling #aroids
IYKYK
#BloomScrolling #aroids
Mika TkauzArisaema Sikokianum 👽
#ArisaemaSikokianum #Arisaema #JackInThePulpit #Alien #Araceae #Aroids #plant #flower #bloomscrolling #plantscrolling #nature
#ArisaemaSikokianum #Arisaema #JackInThePulpit #Alien #Araceae #Aroids #plant #flower #bloomscrolling #plantscrolling #nature
Wolfie RankinThis is Dracunculus vulgaris, one of the many aroids that use flies as pollinators. To attract them, the flowers smell like rotting roadkill. Its scent mimicry is so accurate, that when this one blooms in the next day or two, vultures will land in the trees above looking for a carcass.
I will try to remember to post a photo when it opens. The single "spathe" will probably be close to a foot long, though they can get twice that.
The smell is genuinely stomach turning. I will confess to at times having been a plant-nerd asshole and bringing people to the flower upwind, telling them "stick your face right in it. It has the most amazing smell!" I mean, I wasn't lying 🤷♂️😂🤮
thegreenmanOne of the more interesting plants in my own garden, the Elephant Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) is flowering now. Pollinated by flies, it exudes a putrid aroma when the flower is open.
StarFlowerStudioNYA few small patches of snow left in the woods and some Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus).
#skunkcabbage #symplocarpus #aroids
#skunkcabbage #symplocarpus #aroids
CetrariaI got sucked in by a social media post on another site from a plant shop that has two locations - one near us, and one in a very upper crusty town across the Metro from us. I'd been to the fancy location once, and was blown away how the ludicrously expensive plants were mixed in with the cheap ones, instead of gated away like in every other plant shop in town. It does make me super cautious about what plants I pick up!!
Anyway, they had a new shipment of plants, including an absolutely massive Alocasia I just wanted to look at in person. I assumed I'd just walk in, admire the giant plant and choke on the price tag for entertainment purposes. I ended up walking out with a few gorgeous, 4" #aroids that were in my price range, and a beautiful calathea of a type that I've never seen before that wasn't properly labeled, which I found at a grocery store we stopped at on the way. I fully expect that calathea to bring me nothing but heartache, but hope springs eternal. #HousePlants
Anyway, they had a new shipment of plants, including an absolutely massive Alocasia I just wanted to look at in person. I assumed I'd just walk in, admire the giant plant and choke on the price tag for entertainment purposes. I ended up walking out with a few gorgeous, 4" #aroids that were in my price range, and a beautiful calathea of a type that I've never seen before that wasn't properly labeled, which I found at a grocery store we stopped at on the way. I fully expect that calathea to bring me nothing but heartache, but hope springs eternal. #HousePlants
LuccusI'm slowly warming up to the hunch that I may like overengeneering dead simple things just as much as keeping plants.
