#araceae

[herpsandbirds]

White-spot Giant Arum aka Elephant Foot Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), family Araceae, Sumatra, Indonesia

One of the "corpse flowers", the flower (actually an inflorescence) has a stinky corpse-like smell that attracts flies (which are its pollinators).

In the same genus as the gigantic Titan Arum.

The plant produces a large edible tuber.

photograph by Pungky Nanda Pratama

[spatheandspadix]

Smash that like for the EASTERN SKUNK CABBAGE 🚨🚨🚨

[slutge]

I put a lot of time into this 👉🏼👈🏼

[alleghenyfeverdreams]

Refreshing day at the pond, anyone? Wetland plants are some of my favorite parts of Summer. Golden club, cattail, pickerelweed.

[syngoniums]

Amorphophallus impressus. I feel this is probably the most rewarding mid-sized amorphophallus for hot climates; it's undaunted by extreme heat, not as thirsty as paeoniifolius (which has great heat tolerance, but tends to shrink if kept too dry), creates lots of offsets (on stolons), blooms at a relatively compact diameter, and is fairly easy to find. And yes, these do make the immediate area smell like something died, but it's only for a little while.

[faguscarolinensis]

Orontium aquaticum / Golden Club at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[thebashfulbotanist]

This weird plant is the recently described Bolivian endemic Gorgonidium striatum. Endemic means it's native to only one place and nowhere else - in this case, tropical rainforests on the eastern Andean slopes in Bolivia. As a member of the family Araceae, it has a spadix and spathe inflorescence, which means it has a spike of many tiny flowers (here they're dark purple-brown) surrounded by a big bract (modified leaf), which here is both mottled and striped with green, cream, and a bit of purple. It's an interesting one!

[87proofx]

Big Black Block X BBBxNapo

She's a stunner!!!

From #Swamptrash