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Married to the lovely Geoffrey, my soulmate. I have two fantastic big kids,both married, whom I love and miss every day I'm not with them, but I know they're living and loving their lives and we make up for time when we get together.I now have three granddaughters too...

Wednesday 4 May 2011

Dragon Arum...again!!

You may know already, if you've been following my blog for a while,
how much I love these plants...

and this year, maybe because of the rain we've had, they are in profusion admidst the olive groves.

so, I thought they deserved a whole post to themselves.....

Yes, I know they are rather phallic

but it's the wonderful, deep, velvety colour, so fabric .

The latin name is Dracunculus Vulgaris

So velvety, and the colour is stunning

and

so

SO.......

smelly!!

(like rotting flesh!!!)
so much for perfection!!

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11 comments:

sea-blue-sky & abstracts said...

Great post Jude - I'm in complete agreement with you and could get lost in the wonderful colour and textures captured in these photos! Beautiful and no bad smell in blogland either! x

Lynn Cohen said...

Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I too saw female features as well as male. Just beautiful. Wow!!!!!!!!!!

menopausalmusing said...

They are truly incredible, aren't they? What a place to live..... and I laughed at the comment re "no smell in blogland "

Twiglet said...

Yes definitely something a bit male/female about them but that's nature for you! I love that purply colour.

do you mind if i knit said...

EXTRAORDINARY flowers!!!!!!!!!!! Everything about them is like a grand tragic opera! I hope you get better soon Jude, take care.
Love Vanessa xxx

andamento said...

Hmm, certainly very dramatic looking and a lovely purple colour, but I think I prefer bluebells myself!

arosebyanyothername said...

Yes. I bought one of these as a bulb in Amsterdam as a bulb and when it flowered I thought it very lovely until I caught the pong!

arosebyanyothername said...

Well, that's what happens when you type after a couple of glasses of vino.

Unknown said...

gorgeous and very unusual plant. glad you shared it! and I guess glad I can't smell in blogland........ :-)

Unknown said...

question...... is the smell so bad it is hard to get close for a photo?

Clicky Needles said...

I've got an Arum in my garden. Known to the family as the stinky plant!

It's just about coming into flower now.
http://clickyneedles.blogspot.com/2010/06/sunday-13th-june-augusta-wrap-ta-dah.html