Love (and FEAR) the black flowered Dead Rat Lily!

By Mark Hooten, the Garden Doc

I acquired this rare and freaky aroid, (Typhonium roxburghii) when my wife Suzie and I were living in So. California in the early 1990's... When I first saw this plant (growing in a few pots of bamboo, along with other weeds), it had perhaps the most unusual flowers of anything I had ever seen...

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