theartfulgene:Looks can be deceiving…Dracunculus vulgaris (as wikipedia tells me it can also be call
theartfulgene:Looks can be deceiving…Dracunculus vulgaris (as wikipedia tells me it can also be called common dracunculus, dragon arum, the black arum, the voodoo lily, the snake lily, the stink lily, the black dragon, the black lily, dragonwort, or drakondia).The black spadix enclosed by the purple spathe is said to be a dragon which is hiding inside the flower. As the Rafflesia arnoldii from the previous post, dracunculus also smells like rotting meat to attract potential pollinators. From New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus (1807) by Robert John Thornton -- source link
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