Inside The New York Botanical Garden

What’s Beautiful Now: Zulu Giant

Posted in What's Beautiful Now on September 6 2019, by Matt Newman

What’s beautiful now? The Zulu Giant (Stapelia gigantea)! Its tremendous, fuzzy flowers open to reveal what’s certainly more of a stench than an aroma, attracting flies to pollinate it with the smell of rotten meat. Maybe it’s best to admire from afar.