Our Voodoo Lily (Dracunculus vulgaris) is starting to bloom. The Voodoo Lily has several unusual characteristics. It has a very large flower, it is only in bloom for a day, and it stinks.
A couple of the flowers as they open and an unopened flower to the left.
Even being next to some blooming roses doesn't mask the smell of this flower. The Voodoo Lily has a smell of rotting meat to attract flies as pollinators. It smelled like week old rotting fish guts to me and could be smelled 10 feet away.
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