~ jan jjspond wrote:
After I saw this photo of an enormous flower (
http://www.igman.com/misc/fertilizer...our-front-lawn )I had to ask
myself if this plant was for real?


My understanding is it is real, but rare, as in exotic. I'm sure they
fertilize it with something, but it is all contained. A plant may grow
bigger, be bushier because of fertilizer, but rarely does it affect the
flower size by much. ~ jan


Jan looks like that same person hit rec.gardens. I suspect they're
probably a troll.

A google search of the original poster's email address seem to suggest
they like to spam igman.com pages. None of the captions associated with
the pictures on igman.com have even a shred of truth associated with
them. As seen here.


Like I said in rec.gardens:

It's a corpse plant it's found in the jungles of Indoneasia, and in
university greenhouses or research gardens. It's a rare flowering plant,
blooms about once a decade, and a fragrance of rotting meat.

It gets the name corpse plant because when it blooms it smells like a
rotting corpse. You can read more about the plant here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_arum

-S