The Stapelia Star

far from a flowering, fluorescent, flourishing, & pleasantly fragrant facsimile of flora herself, the stapelia star & the s. pulchella, the s. hirsute & no one can forget the s. variegate (that special phosphorescent “beauty’)--- all have gained the nickname “the rotten- egg plant” for a reason. avec a coriaceous constitution, the stapelia spits out a rancid stench reminding one of rotten & decaying animal flesh, or decomposing fruit left too long in the sun--- mephitic & aesthetically shite to the close observer. staring at you like a zebra starfish out for the kill--- professed through a fantastically fetid fart--- the stapelia remains one of south africa’s sparkling & sensational crosses to bear--- boisterously blossoming in the autumn & summer months--- for our “enjoyment.”