Sending roses on Hallmark Valentine's Day is so over done. Instead, I propose sending your sweetheart an Orbea macloughlini. True, you will have to collect it yourself in South Africa, but who could say no to a succulent flower shaped like a seastar (it even has tubercles!), and colored a deep cardiac red, complete with veins of fatty plaque? That is true love.
Thanks for the link, Ida.
Photo source: Martin Heigan [Image]
posted by Raging Wombat at 12:58 PM on Feb 14, 2008
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Close this window Jump to comment formIt's so hard to find good, ugly plants, isn't it? I commend you on your discovery. (Alas, it doesn't seem to be endangered.)
February 15, 2008
Thanks, Garfman. You've done admirable work in this field yourself!
February 15, 2008
I heart that plant. I wonder how it smells. I imagine it would smell rotten like those giant Amorphophallus titanum.
February 17, 2008
That's what i want for Valentine's Day. Veins of fatty plaque. Right on.
February 18, 2008
It's gorgeous!!!!
February 20, 2008
Neato! I wonder how this strategy evolved?
September 25, 2008