A while back I got an email from the garden Writer, Penny Carnathan, at The Tampa Tribune. She was putting together an article for Halloween with different “scary” plants. She saw my blog entry, Voodoo Magic, from last June with pictures of the Voodoo Lilies growing near our pond and told me she wanted ”a nice image of a voodoo lily bloom, and you’ve got about the best I’ve seen.” Cool!
The article was published October 26, 2008, in The Tampa Tribune with one of the pictures I took of the Voodoo Lilies here, plus some other really neat pictures of other strange plants.
It was also published in “Tampa Bay Online” in an article titled With Faces Like These, Who Needs Costumes? Unfortunately, they didn’t put the pictures online, which sort of amazes me. Seems like that would be an even better place to have them.
I wish I’d been able to get a copy of that Tampa Tribune with the article, but had to make do with seeing the .pdf file of the article for the paper. Too bad I can’t publish that online, as it has such great pics.
Penny did a great job though. It was an interesting article, and I’m sure the Tampa Tribune is lucky to have her writing for them!
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For some reason I always thought these lilies were from exotic land…..not the exotic USA! Cool flower….too bad they stink so bad!
Interestingly enough, the USDA Plant Database only has it listed as native to three states in the US, and two of those are on the west coast (California and Oregon). The third state, all by itself over in the southeastern part of the US, is Tennessee. Beats me why TN is the only state not on the west coast that has this plant!
Fortunatley, the stink doesn’t last very long. It’s worst on the first day or two.
Congrats to you for such a wild and wonderful photo! And for being published, too. Woot! Woot!
I had no idea there was such a flower in my life. It looks a little bit evil, in a beautiful way.
Is that spikey thing the stamen?
What other scary, but lovely plants do you have growing around there?
~Lisa
New Mexico