Dwarf Voodoo Lily is a small-growing aroid with
diminutive triangular-shaped glossy green leaves with extraordinary
velvety inflorescences borne throughout the summer. It has elongated
spathes, rich purple in colour but more reddish as the sun reaches
them, usually twisted at the end with a long thin spadix appendix that
extends beyond the spathe giving the appearance of a miniature
Amorphophallus or Dracunculus. Like those species, it gives off a
charmingly malodorous scent that is best likened to a bad case of
halitosis.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
Photographed near Vengurla, Konkan, Karnataka.
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