4.3LXJ
06-26-2013, 02:20 PM
For about a half hour anyway. CSUC has a really neat greenhouse that has some real gems botanically speaking including a Corpse Flower.
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu215/warriorsuspension/Cool%20Stuff/ceaff7c6-1de7-437e-9ac1-b1e6351188dc_zps5dc5d62d.jpg
I missed it in full bloom due to bad reporting in the local newspaper, but every tow or three years it blooms. Amazing for a potted plant.
I can't grow one outside or I would. But I do have over a dozen of these guys, which are kissing cousins
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu215/warriorsuspension/Cool%20Stuff/2011-05-11_14-14-14_565.jpg
These get about four feet tall for me, but can get up to six feet. They are all part of the genus Amorphophallus, which means misshapen penis. Some of them look quite human. Another one I have is a Dragons Tongue.
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu215/warriorsuspension/Cool%20Stuff/2011-06-13_12-36-52_492.jpg
Lots of these too, this one getting about 28" long. All these guys are kind of stinky though, smelling for a couple of days like rotten meat. They use flies instead of bees as pollinators. I just tell unwanted visitors I will feed them to the flowers. :D
Other common Aroids include Calla Lilies and Peace Lilies, which are not really lilies at all :p
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu215/warriorsuspension/Cool%20Stuff/ceaff7c6-1de7-437e-9ac1-b1e6351188dc_zps5dc5d62d.jpg
I missed it in full bloom due to bad reporting in the local newspaper, but every tow or three years it blooms. Amazing for a potted plant.
I can't grow one outside or I would. But I do have over a dozen of these guys, which are kissing cousins
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu215/warriorsuspension/Cool%20Stuff/2011-05-11_14-14-14_565.jpg
These get about four feet tall for me, but can get up to six feet. They are all part of the genus Amorphophallus, which means misshapen penis. Some of them look quite human. Another one I have is a Dragons Tongue.
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu215/warriorsuspension/Cool%20Stuff/2011-06-13_12-36-52_492.jpg
Lots of these too, this one getting about 28" long. All these guys are kind of stinky though, smelling for a couple of days like rotten meat. They use flies instead of bees as pollinators. I just tell unwanted visitors I will feed them to the flowers. :D
Other common Aroids include Calla Lilies and Peace Lilies, which are not really lilies at all :p