Flickr - brewbooks - Dracunculus vulgaris in our garden

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Description: I missed the stink! Mary Ellen told me that she knew this had bloomed, because she was working in the garden and smelled what she thought was a dead animal. By the time I got home that night, there was almost no door, indicating it was pollinated. "The species is characterised by a large purple spathe and spadix has a very unpleasant smell reminiscent of a carcass. That is because the pollinators of this aroid are flies" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculus_vulgaris 068. Date: 7 July 2010, 16:09. Source: Dracunculus vulgaris in our garden. Author: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA. Camera location47° 45′ 41.7″ N, 122° 18′ 18.61″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 47.761584; -122.305169.