Dead Horse Arum
James Waddick (Thu, 12 May 2011 08:26:06 PDT)

Dear Susan and all,

I now have a half dozen plants on a west facing slope so it
gets the hottest sun of the day. It has some small trees to the east
so it doesn't get full sun until late morning. Then it is full hot
sun.

what do muscivores eat? flies? or am i totally misunderstanding the
specific epithet?

On the PBS wiki, it explains how Helicodiceros 'eats' flies:

as part of it's pollination behavior.

On the first day of bloom the flower attracts more flies than
anyone would imagine are 'out' this time of year. The tail like
spadix is covered in all manner of flies and they eagerly crawl into
the hole to get trapped (eaten?) in the bulbous spathe base. Of
course it doesn't really 'eat' them, but some do perish in the
enclosed space.

I'll probably offer some tubers to the BX later in the year.
Try it..... if yo dare. best Jim
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Dr. James W. Waddick
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Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711
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