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Stapelia gigantea is a species of flowering plant in the genus Stapelia of the family Apocynaceae. [1] Common names include Zulu giant, [2] carrion plant and toad plant (although the nickname "carrion plant" can also refer to Stapelia grandiflora). The plant is native to the desert regions of South Africa to Tanzania. [3]
Stapelia is a genus of low-growing, spineless, stem succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa with a few from other parts of Africa. Several Asian and Latin American species were formerly included but they have all now been transferred to other genera.
Plants in the genus Stapelia are also called "carrion flowers". They are small, spineless, cactus-like succulent plants. Most species are native to South Africa, and are grown as potted plants elsewhere. The flowers of all species are hairy to varying degrees and generate the odor of rotten flesh.
Stapeliad flowers range in size from mere millimetres in species of Echidnopsis and Pseudolithos to those of Stapelia gigantea that can reach 40 cm/16" in diameter, and are some the largest of flowers to be found on any species of succulent. Flowers are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical) with 5 free or fused sepals and petals.
Stapelia grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the genus Stapelia of the family Apocynaceae. [1] It is commonly referred to as the carrion plant , starfish flower , giant toad plant, or starfish cactus , although it is not related to cacti at all. [ 3 ]
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Carrion flower type flowers that smell like rotting meat have independently came about in: pawpaw (family Annonaceae), the giant Indonesian parasitic flower Rafflesia, and African milkweed (Stapelia gigantea). [237]
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