It was with great excitement that I invited a neighbor over to see the magnificent foot-wide flower that my small, potted Stapelia gigantea had produced. He was suitably impressed by its size and ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...

I have a plant that I grew from a cutting a friend gave me. It produces a beautiful flower that looks like a large, slightly hairy starfish. Unfortunately, the flower smells like rotten meat and ...

I have a plant that I grew from a cutting a friend gave me. It produces a beautiful flower that looks like a large, slightly hairy starfish. Unfortunately, the flower smells like rotten meat and ...

This time of year the Stapeliads, a rare group African succulents, come into full bloom amidst desert gardens. With enormous flowers the size of a large opened hand, borne profusely on low growing ...

A Mediterranean flower so accurately mimics the stench of rotting flesh that it lures flies to lay their eggs on it, thereby tricking them into acting as pollinators, Swedish scientists have ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 48, No. 9 (Oct., 1961), pp. 833-842 (10 pages) Wounded single-celled hairs of the corolla of Stapelia grandiflora were used to investigate: (1) the closure of the ...