Voodoo Lily

Description:

The Sauromatum Venosum, Commonly known as the Voodoo Lily is a common shade loving house or garden plant. It usually grows to around 20 inches and is a tuber. The Voodoo Lily also spawns multiple new bulbs around its original bulb. The plant is also known as the Voodoo Bulb because of its abilities to flower by just placing the bulb on a window sill. The Flower gives off a very bad smell, almost like rotting flesh, during the first few days of flowering, this is to attract flies and other carrion feeding insects that it relies on to pollinate it.

Habitat:

Urban, flower and vegetable garden beds

Notes:

I found these growing in my flower bed a few years ago, thinking they were weeds I had been pulling them up. I finally let one grow last year to see what it would do. Now they are growing in the opposite side of the yard also in the garden. Anxious to let them grow now to see if they will flower in the next year!