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Sauromatum venosum
Sauromatum venosum
Price: $8.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
This beguiling stinker could be called Beauty and the Beast. If it was a dead beast. The fascinating flower appears before the leaves with the flower bud unzipping in minutes and it then heats up a couple degrees above the ambient air temperature and wafts quite an aroma to lure the carrion flies. This doesn't last very long as the flies quickly pollinate the flower and the smell switch gets flipped off. Tropical leaves and the best petiole or leaf stem around being beautifully mottled in prominent rusty maroon spots.. Moist and good drainage and best mulched over winter as the bulbs are typically not very deep. A good increaser by offsets, this does fine in our shade garden and would be just as happy in the sun. In cold zones, the bulbs can be lifted and stored inside and will actually bloom with the bulb just sitting in your living room although it begs the question "Why?". These bulbs likely won't bloom this year but you'll get great foliage.