Corpse Flower Cactus. Also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant this Asian looker uses its dead-body perfume to attract flesh eating beetles and flies for pollination-purposes. Stapelia scitula a very small cactus with small fuchsia-colored flowers.
They are soft stemmed plants without spines spreading out from a central point. 22032021 These plants arent exactly cactus but are members of the succulent group of plants. It is the first bloom for the plant which was propogated by a leaf cutting from another USBG A.
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A corpse flower Amorphophallus titanum plant also known as titan arum has bloomed at the US. Serving the entire San Francisco Bay Area. The plant is endemic to the steep hillsides of rainforests in western Sumatra but is cultivated in botanic gardens worldwide. Very intense sharp nasty and yet intriguing considering it comes from a healthy plant not a pile of rotting organic matter.