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Aristolochia macrophylla
These amazingly strange flowers belong to a vine with heart-shaped leaves. Flowers are about 2 in (5 cm). Some say they have a bad smell, but I think they smelled like a fresh-cut mushroom... not bad!
Forests, often on dissected uplands and rugged, rocky slopes; Cumberland and Blue Ridge mountains. These were spotted in the Great Smoky Mountains.
The leaves of are eaten by larvae of the eastern pipe-vine swallowtail butterfly.
Spotted on May 27, 2016
Submitted on Jun 4, 2016
2 Comments
Thanks, cis! I was amazed by this flower... no idea such a thing existed!
This is really cool. I learned a lot from this. Thanks!