✔️The Stink Plant That Kept on Giving!

Claim your FREE story collection right now! [GreenPrints]( January 24, 2024  [READ THIS STORY NOW: ALL ABOUT THE STINKIEST PLANT ON THE PLANET!]( When you read this story from the GreenPrints Story Collection, 27 Funniest Gardening Stories of All Time, you get a good dose of humor that will lift your spirits, keep you smiling, and boost your physical and mental health. Start reading—and laughing—right now! Dear Gardener, Thank you for reading content from GreenPrints—we appreciate your loyalty, and we share with you below a premium story that should give you a good chuckle. Because laughter matters. [The Stink Plant]( A gift that really kept on giving. By Lisa Hayes-Minney [IMAGE]( One Summer, when I worked for a small-town newspaper here in West Virginia, Don and Willalea Kelley invited me to their home to cover what Don calls his “stinking plant.” Don, a board member at the local senior center, is especially proud of his blueberry bushes and also, apparently, of his exotic lilies. His stinking plant, he told me, is commonly called “The Sacred Lily of India,” but it is also known as “Rattlesnake Plant,” “Devil’s Tongue,” “Corpse Flower,” “VooDoo Lily” or “Stink Plant.” The actual scientific name is Amorphophallus rivieri. Before arriving to report on it, I did some research. Amorphophallus rivieri is a tropical perennial, which typically grows two- to three-feet tall into a top spurt of leafy branches that make it look like a small palm tree. Every now and then, it blooms a single flower. This fleshy flower has splotches similar to age spots on its stem, which rises into a huge cowl (called a spathe) that looks like an upright funnel. Then a phallic columnar pillar (the spadix) pokes out of the spathe and extends embarrassingly skywards for one to three feet. It has a reputation for smelling foul, thus the nicknames. I visited the Kelleys’ home in early June. Don was proudly waiting in his front yard. In a brick-lined flowerbed outside their picture window stood a two-foot-tall, blood-purple stem that opened into a large, thick, waxy funnel with an eight-inch, ahem, protrusion emerging from its center. It was both beautiful and haunting, blatantly out of place in this quaint front yard. But there it was: an exotic, erotic monument, a phallic point of pride I was now assigned to share with our entire community. There were several smaller samples of the plant in the front flowerbed, most of them in their leafy palm-like stage. A slight breeze occasionally wafted a rank sniff—like passed gas—across the yard to where I stood. It seemed of little consequence at the time. When I zoomed in on the plant with my camera, I saw a fly land upon the skin-like edge of the funnel and took the photo. I thought the name “Sacred Lily of India” was most poetic, and in my mind assigned that name to the title of my story. 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