281/365 Lots of Stinky Flowers

These flowers grow on a hoya plant, the family hoya.

Ages ago, my great grandmother smuggled a start from a two-story hoya plant in a restaurant in Mexico into the US. At the time there was a complete embargo on plants. She did it by putting a sprig of it in her corsage. She gave a start to my grandmother, who gave one to my mother, who gave one to me. Being the kind of casually paranoid individual I am, I took starts off of my plant and got them going so that I now have five of them! And they flower at the same time! And produce several bunches of flowers at a time! And and the flowers were designed to attract flies rather than bees! Poor me.

Share

10 Responses to 281/365 Lots of Stinky Flowers

Leave a Reply