Looking like a piece of meat.
Carrion flowers have flies as their pollinators and so are very different to flowers that are evolved to attract bees.
In its surrounds.
Even the textures are very different. This is wet from the drizzle falling.
A carrion flower
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Beautiful. The colors look stunning.
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It looks very strange.
Interesting. I wonder if they smell bad.
Wow
really wow
unique flower shape, thanks for sharing
It looks so cute
yes....and i wish i could have one for my collection
look like a good photo shoot
very good photo, but I beleive that it is not a carrion flower at all, it is in fact a type of mushroom called the anemone stinkhorn (Aseroe rubra) and is naturally found in australia, some parts of north america, south africa and a few other places. I have seen them in south africa and they are very beautiful mushrooms. They are one of the few types of mushrooms that use insects to disperse spores and they smell like the carrion flower or rotting meat in order to attract the insects.
Looks a lot like a starfish. A rather strange flower. Thanks for the image. Where did you take the picture?
The beauty of the color and shape of the flowers is not only preferred by humans, but also by butterflies, bees and insects.
I love the color of the flower it beautiful
really nice photography
That is such an amazing species of "the corpse flower", and one awesome capture! The closeup is so wonderful!
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers!
It has attracted me too.
It is looking like starfish with hole in the middle wow 😯
OMG! I very Like this 😍
hope i can have this as one of my collections...how i wish
she looks like the pitcher plant in the phils
wow nice flower its look like octupas
It actually looks scary :D Thanks for share ^^
That is one ugly flower...interesting though
I just posted some less fearsome looking flowers - appreciated this contrast! Albeit a bit scary, would not want to fall into that flower.
I am curious of the relationships it has with the other plants around it. It looks like in addition to the grasses, there is a dandelion and some moss. Given that it attracts flies rather than bees and the dandelion attracts more bees, I wonder if they have a symbiotic relationship, helping each other in some way underground attract what they need above ground. Food for thought. Speaking of food, is it edible?
Hi @Mandela,
First of, I must say that I enjoy your Steemit feed.
This is the flower that is called "the corpse flower" right?
Cheers, Erlend
Que impresionante...