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Blood Rose

Flower type: Perennial (Stores water in its leaves)

This giant flower grows up to 8.8 feet (2.7 meters) tall. Its gray-green stem is thin and straight with a curved tip, and the huge, hazel leaves are asymmetrical with smooth edges. Many leaves grow along the entire length of the stem.

4 to 7 tiny flowers grow on alternate sides up the length of the stem. The flowers are 34 cm (13.4 inches) wide, with blood red petals and a lilac central disk. The flower head is an uncoordinated mess of 15 curved petals. They fall easily.

It has a strong scent that smells like cigarette smoke, and it has copious amounts of pollen; it can cause severe allergic reactions. It is pollinated by insects , but is also visited by a small species of bird.

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All of it is said to be part of one single, massive plant.
It aggressively steals nutrients from other large plants (but not each other).
It is almost impossible to grow indoors.