Any ideas as to what this is?

by **TicToc** » January 11, 2011, 12:57 pm

Came across this in the woods near me. Anybody have any idea what this plant is? Can't find it on the web.
This one looks past it's sell by date,but very unusual (to me anyway) and quite spectacular i should imagine when in it's prime.

by **Philrjones** » January 11, 2011, 2:18 pm

Looks like a type of red hot poker, could be wrong though! Google red hot poker varieties.

by **Nick@AUA** » January 11, 2011, 3:19 pm

It looks like a 'Torch Flower'

by **Jed** » January 11, 2011, 3:25 pm

Thais call it dork duk dua or duk dua flower; apparently, birds love it, and it's a fern-like plant that likes jungly-type places.

by **parrot** » January 11, 2011, 4:35 pm

It's a family of the corpse flower......supposedly grows where the ground is fertile. That's actually the fruit of the flower in the photo.
Every few years we have a smaller version of the stinky corpse flower bloom in a corner of our yard. It smells like a dead rat....attracts flies.....thus the name, I guess. I have a photo somewhere in the depths of Picasa....if I find it, I'll post it here.

More info and photos (mostly of the humongous Indonesian version) at
http://www.siamsouth.com/smf/index.php?topic=11070.0

and
http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2001/ ... ruit01.jpg
http://www.news.wisc.edu/7232

by **old-timer** » January 11, 2011, 9:04 pm

OT would set it on fire and see what happens. Or use it as a target for catapult practice. Other than that it looks like a flower to OT, no good for anything else.

OT................ $\:D/$

by **TicToc** » January 12, 2011, 10:41 am

Thanks everyone,a big help as usual.

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