Albert's Greenhouse

Ah - the smell of spring.

Typhonium venosum - probably the most common "voodoo lily". The leaf comes later and is a story on its own.

The main point right now is that this thing tends to multiply like crazy, and despite giving away a ton of them, I have three or four pots of that stuff right by the front door.

I guess my friends don't come over that often, and my wife goes out the garage.

Aside from the smell, it's a beautiful tuberous aroid, and amazingly easy to grow to the extent that it can become a weed. It goes dorman for the winter, and in the spring the mature plants push up this strange flower, followed eventually by a single leaf on a mottled stalk.