Shared at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads … challenge: The Language of Flowers.
This outrageous plant known as the Corpse Flower is rare, large and smells horrific, like a corpse. The Missouri Botanical Garden of world renown, due primarily to their research around the globe, is a treasure here in my city of St Louis. Although I did not see the actual blooming of this plant just recently – it surely does inspire! None of the photos were taken by me, they belong to The Missouri Botanical Garden website. But permissions appear to allow for private use. So with difficulty I downloaded them – the difficulty being that they kept changing. PLEASE go to their site and see this extraordinary plant. Here is the link:
scintillating bloom
you reek your way thru our lives
at once so lovely
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it is a very cool flower….i do hear it has a rather pungent aroma…a blogger friend saw the one in DC this year…i never have….will have to check it out my next visit up….
This plant looks almost intimidating enough to send in with the armed guard! Wow. No ads are showing up in here right now, kiddo – maybe you have fixed the problem.
OH I have smelled this flower’s ‘fragrance’ and I use that term loosely.
Sometimes beauty is deceiving!
Beauty doth have an odor that scars its appeal..
I find large flowers frightful.
The large ones tend to smell not-so-wonderful. There’s a flower in our part of the world — Rafflesia — reeks of something awful too.
“you reek your way through our lives” is a very vivid line.
K
Oh my is this the one that smell of rotting flesh? Bold n’ vibrant is your verse!
this flower looks just awesome….ha…i’m glad you didn’t download the smell…but well – sometimes the beautiful and ugly lies close together – and it’s good that way..
What an amazing sight that flower is! You have combined the beauty and stench with a keen choice of words in your haiku.
yes! i love me the corpse flower. there’s one in a conservatory near me and i’ve seen (and smelled) it bloom a couple times. crazy!
I have visited a corpse flower or two in my day. They simultaneously compel and repel with their beauty, uniqueness and stench!
Makes me think of the plant in “Little Shop of Horrors”. It is rather strangely beautiful and the size of it is astounding!
I have never seen nor smelled such a flower ~ I would love to see one though ~
Grace
You know, I’d forgotten that I spent about five days in St. Louis a long time ago and enjoyed myself very much. A lovely city.
I’ve read about this plant before, though I can’t remember where. So many interesting things in this wide world of ours, eh?
Thanks for posting, Liz.
The website is under maintanence, which may be why you had trouble downloading photographs. 🙂