The most attention grabbing plant at the show was this Stapelia hirsuta. It was not the most attractive plant but this one bloom simply stank and in Billing near the sewage treatment works this was some achievement. The Ed's boys used to call them 'doggy-pooh' flowers. The Stapelia game-plan is to have flowers which look like and smell like a dead animal. Long hairs waft the stench on the breeze and are a magnet for flies which pollinate the flowers while laying their eggs. Life in the raw! Meanwhile at the show the Ed was greeting visitors from a station nearby until he noticed he was getting funny looks and wrinkled noses.

By Sunday the weather was cooler and the scent had largely faded. I put the plant in a sunny place outside for a better picture but it failed to attract any flies.

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