Sauromatum venosum

Sauromatum venosum
Voodoo lily
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Sauromatum
Species: S. venosum
Binomial name
Sauromatum venosum
(Aiton) Kunth

Sauromatum venosum (Voodoo lily, Arum cornutum) syn. Sauromatum guttatum Schott, Arum cornutum (traders' name), is an ornamental plant in the Araceae family.

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.

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