August 14th, 2006, 11:28 PM
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Orbea Variegata bloom
Pics of my recent blooming orbea variegata.....If you put your nose to the bloom, it will smell like rotting meat....lovely to look at though...
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August 14th, 2006, 11:55 PM
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Re: Orbea Variegata bloom
Maybe my nose already smells like rotting meat. Not sure it's lovely to look at, though. Anyway, this plant must have been moved out of Stapelia .
August 15th, 2006, 07:44 AM
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Re: Orbea Variegata bloom
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder....
August 15th, 2006, 09:13 AM
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Re: Orbea Variegata bloom
Wow, such detail for a flower. I think its so neat!
August 15th, 2006, 09:26 AM
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Re: Orbea Variegata bloom
The comparatively large flower popping out of the modest clump of stems is fun as well. Appears to mimic a wound or carcass, as do many aroids such as Dracunculus vulgaris and Amorphophallus titanum .
August 15th, 2006, 09:27 AM
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Re: Orbea Variegata bloom
Yes i think its so neat too and being that it was just a cutting when i received it this spring, its even more special....Stapelias are such interesting succulents....its very cool how nature works....
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