Stapelia, Stapelia, your beauty makes me sigh,
yet I fear precipitation might be drawing nigh.
Stapelia, Stapelia, how marvellous your bloom,
but a sickly stench of carrion invades my living room.
Stapelia, Stapelia, do you have no shame?
I sense I’m going to vomit, and your flower must take the blame.
Stapelia Variegata bears lovely blooms – but they stink like rotting meat. My plant has lots of buds. I can’t help admiring her… from a distance.
©Jane Paterson Basil
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Well Jane what a rotten, beautiful plant you have there, maybe you try some spray on deodorant 🌿😉😂🌱
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Haha. I have a feeling the plant would fight back. Those are pretty tough looking blooms. I can picture the plant sending out tendrils and strangling me while my back is turned 😀 😀
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Oh wow, a flesh eating plant as well !!
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Anything is possible from a plant that smells that bad 🙂
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Haha, if she smells that bad, she must be bad to the core, despite her outer beauty 🙄😁
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Yow!
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Ow. I have heard of these dastardly plants. I’m not sure I would have one at our place.
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The plant came from a cutting of one that someone had thrown away. I felt sorry for it… now I think I understand what it had done to offend it’s owner 😀 😀
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You’re a brave woman, is all I can say 🤑
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Brave… or foolish… 🙂
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Brave. Never foolish!
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Speaking as one who is merely subjected to the photo and not the reality: what a beautiful flower!
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The novelty wears off – believe me…
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