Orchids: What's In Your Garden?, 1 by hawkarica

hawkarica wrote:
I have Amorphophallus paeoniifolius 'Jungle Night'. It did not bloom this year but here is the bloom from last year. It looks like a huge head of red cabbage and when the leaves opened into a bowl shape, it put out a smell that would drop neighbors to their knees at 100 yards. It was covered with flies, which I guess is the point. After the bloom, a spike grew quickly out of the ground and produced beautiful foilage, as seen in the next photo.

Jim