Photograph: looking down on a large star-shaped flower containing four small watchful frogs.
Just grabbed this pic from an email sent by #FloraGrubbGardens (San Francisco & Marina Del Rey), taken at their wholesale nursery. #Stapelia plants are pollinated by flies, so these clever froggies are making this large flower their home. #nature #frogs #plants #flowers
These Stapelia are so beautiful in their shape and symmetry and also very curious! #succulents #stapelia #plantsky
The interior of a purple Stapelia leendertziae flower, also known as a carrion flower. The yellow and black star-shaped center of the flower is on the upper left. The greenish-yellow fly who was pollinating it is in the lower right
Who's visiting my Carrion Plant?
#Stapelia & other species have stunning flowers that emit the odor of rotting meat. This attracts flies, instead of bees, as pollinators.
This fly was quick & hard to capture with a phone
#phonephotography #inside #BlueSkyArtShow #patience #Stapelialeendertziae
A close up of one flower showing red hairs and petal with yellow strips
Another close up from a slightly diff angle
How the plant looked like
Ran into these AMAZING Stapelia grandiflora in our conservatory today. The patterns, colors, hairs, and the smell - carrion mimic to perfection. #Stapelia #plantjoy #iamabotanist
Incredible flower of my Stapelia hybrid carrion plant. Yes she stinks, but it is all woth it. #carrionflower #Stapelia #plant
12" flower of Stapelia gigantea resembles a starfish. Has a dead animal scent.
🌱 tropical succulent #Stapelia gigantea. Carrion flower with a strong dead animal scent.
Cool hairy flower from my garden. A friend gave me a cutting of this plant about 3 years ago and this is the first time it's bloomed!
#stapeliahirsuta #stapelia #flower
Some more very cool euphorbias, a field of stapelias, and a very common aloe that nonetheless looked very wild and healthy
#succulents #多肉植物 #euphorbia #stapelia #aloe #plants
