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Originally Posted by Zac in NC
This one actually has no fragrance. And they don't all smell bad. Some are known to smell of grated carrot, but the vast majority are known to be smelly.
I'm kind of surprised that more people on here don't grow them, Some have fabulously colored foliage, especially in the Thai species allied to atroviridids, which are velvety reddish when the leaves emerge, and have a bronzy green mature leaf, with a pink petiole with scattered lighter flecks.
Zac
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Indeed they are very pretty. But smelly??????? How about a dead rat!? A member of the VFW club my daughter manages, gave her a bouquet of flowers with the Amorphophallus as the centerpiece. It was beautiful. Except after a few hours, people at the bar were kind of looking at each other suspiciously, then started to move away from the bar. When my daughter called me over to ask me what kind of flower it was, I retorted, "Smell it!"
She just pouted, wrinkled and pinched her nose. Eeeeek! Up close it was stronger, I guess.