HMBPA's Fotothing

Want it to close around and eat them..

maybe this flower smells like meat...

Never saw it before! But the photo is great!

I agree with Pondy - thought it was one of those flesh-eating plants from the thumbnail.

Grenthal, your clue was very good. I chased the flies away and then smelled the flower, and sure enough it smelled horrible - like something rotting.

That's amazing :)

A very good but disgusting photo! :)

Sure wouldn't keep it close to the house!

Nice that you have a rotten smelling flower by your house! Must be pleasant be around! :P

Did you know it was this kind of flower?
In the amazon you can find giant carnivorous flower that smell really bad (I saw it on National Geographic). Just something I remembered... :)

I know what it is! i think.. :D theres a plant museum here, and one of those flowers bloomed and it was in the newspaper because it smelled horrible! It's a star fish flower from Africa :) something i remember reading in the newspaper! :D it was almost the same color too, except just a bit darkers :)))

Very interesting

Misato12k: Thanks for the research.

Searched for 'starfish flower' on google and found several sites with similar pictures. One of the comments was: "Wretchedly disgusting, but so-o-o-o exotic! :-)"

Thank you Serapahel, I checked your Google site and the Starfish Flower is my plant.

http://www.emilycompost.com/starfish.htm

Actually, Misato12k did the research and found out it's a starfish flower :o) One of the things I like about Fotothing, other than the beautiful photo's, is the amount of infomation you can get from it. This is another example. With so many Fotothing'ers out there, it's just great to be able to use their knowledge.

interesting

Unique image!
Great to read all the above comments!