carrion flower
Stapelia variegata latin

Plants that exhibit this behavior are known as carrion flowers.

Plants in the genus Stapelia are also called "carrion flowers".

Carrion flowers attract mostly scavenging flies and beetles as pollinators.

Species of this genus bear similarities to the carrion flowers or Stapelias.

Plants known as "carrion flower"

In North America, the herbaceous vines of the genus Smilax are known as carrion flowers.

Many plants in the genus Amorphophallus (family Araceae) are known as carrion flowers.

Many of the flowers also bear some physical resemblance to rotting animal carcasses, leading to their popular name of Carrion Flowers.

Carrion flowers or stinking flowers are flowers that emit an odor that smells like rotting flesh.

Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), which has the world's largest flower head, is also called "carrion flower".

Bunga Bangkai, a common name in Indonesia for Rafflesia arnoldii, the so-called "carrion flower"

Smilax herbacea (Sooth Herbaceous Greenbrier or "carrion flower") is a plant in the catbrier family, Smilacaceae.

Smilax herbacea - Smooth Herbaceous Greenbrier, "carrion flower" (southern Quebec in Canada, Eastern United States)

The plants in Smilax, are called carrion flowers for their malodorous flowers and those plants included in section Nemexia also have flowers that smell like rotten meat.

Section Coprosmanthus includes unarmed herbaceous plants of temperate North America, for example "carrion flowers" like the Smooth Herbaceous Greenbrier (S. herbacea).

Occasionally, the non-woody species such as the Smooth Herbaceous Greenbrier (S. herbacea) are separated as genus Nemexia; they are commonly known by the rather ambiguous name "carrion flowers".

A smooth, double-ended, bulbous form clad in tight red pigskin, a darkly stained wooden breast shape with a carrion flower blossom for a nipple: such things give sensuous embodiment to feelings of free-floating, polymorphous desire (Johnson).

The spotters ran out of time before reaching a site recommended as a source for carrion flowers, but they definitely planned to have one of those - named and famed for smelling like dead flesh - at the festival today.

The carrion flower (Amorphophallus titanum) also uses thermogenically created water vapor to disperse its scent - that of rotting meat - above the cold air that settles over it at night in its natural habitat.

The hairy, oddly textured and coloured appearance of many Stapelia flowers has been claimed to resemble that of rotting meat, and this, coupled with their odour, has earned the most commonly grown members of the Stapelia genus the common name of "carrion flowers".

Not all flower scents are appealing to humans; a number of flowers are pollinated by insects that are attracted to rotten flesh and have flowers that smell like dead animals, often called Carrion flowers, including Rafflesia, the titan arum, and the North American pawpaw (Asimina triloba).