Home Page | The genus Caralluma is notorious for the worst-smelling flowers. These flowers, coming at the end of the summer, are pollinated by flies. The smell of the flowers attracts them in large quantities.
Caralluma burchardii Caralluma deflersiana Caralluma diffusa Caralluma hesperidum Caralluma socotrana Synonym and obsolete names Caralluma commutata ssp. hesperidum synonym of Caralluma hesperidum Caralluma decaisneana ssp. hesperidum synonym of Caralluma hesperidum Caralluma melanantha synonym of Orbeopsis melanantha Desert Tropicals Home Page List of All the Plants | More in the Apocynaceae family Desert-Tropicals is dedicated to provide gardening advice, gardening ideas, and information about flower of all kind for landscape and collections.We try to check carefully the identification of the plants on the illustrations as well as the other information from the page, but occasionally errors do occur. if you notice anything that needs to be changed please contact us.Thanks. © 1998-2020 Philippe Faucon, All Rights Reserved. |